Additional Puma unmanned aerial systems will be headed to Ukraine as the United States continues to funnel weapon systems to aid Ukrainian forces in their fight against Russia.
An unspecified number of Puma drones, manufactured by AeroVironment, were included in the latest security assistance package, valued at $2.1 billion, that was announced by the Pentagon on Friday.
The small UAS, which can be hand-launched, are designed to perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
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As we head into Juneteenth we have information about when your loved one’s basic training mailroom will be closed for the holiday, so that you can make sure to get your letters to your recruit before the long weekend. The dates below are subject to change depending on the needs of the Command. If you […]
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In a move that is reminiscent of the Cold War era, China is working with Cuba to establish a spy base on the island in order to gather intelligence about the U.S.
Beijing had been in talks with Havannah about establishing the base, but it was reported on Thursday that the two countries had reached a “secret agreement” to proceed with establishing the Chinese base.
Shook by the humanitarian crisis following the destruction of the Kakhovka dam on the Dneiper river a few days ago, Nato countries have consoled Ukraine by rallying for more support.
On 8 June, the Nato-Ukraine Commission met with Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, to discuss the destruction of the dam and the devastation it has caused.
Secretary General of Nato, Jens Stoltenberg, said the consequences for thousands of people and for the environment are dramatic. He also urged Nato partners to provide support expeditiously.
On June 6, the Australian Army successfully deployed an autonomous truck convoy on a public road in Victoria for the first time in a recent trial supported by the National Transport Research Organisation and Deakin University.
The Army conducted a highway trial simulating an autonomous resupply mission between Mangalore Airfield and Puckapunyal, via the Goulburn Valley Highway and the Hume Highway. A convoy of four autonomous Army trucks successfully followed a crewed ‘leader’ vehicle on the public roadways.
A new US government report cites concerns about installing hypersonic missile equipment on the USS
Zumwalt
.
(Janes/Michael Fabey)
Both US Navy (USN) vessel platforms lined up for the service’s first Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) deployments face issues with scheduling and development, according to a US Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released on 8 June.
The first USN platform lined up for the CPS weapon system is the guided-missile destroyer, USS
Zumwalt
(DDG 1000).
Grievance-based curricula are coming to a military academy near you.
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From late 2017 to 2018, three scholars wrote and submitted to academic journals 20 fake papers focused on gender and sexual identity—what the authors call “grievance studies.” Seven journals published their submissions. The scholars’ stated objective for this experiment was to expose the farcical nature of these “disciplines” and their replacement of scholarly rigor with an overt political agenda devoid of academic seriousness.
Anthony Capaccio, Bloomberg
The Pentagon faces a delay of at least a year in its timetable to deploy the new $96 billion intercontinental ballistic missile that’s central to modernizing the…
Thomas Newdick, The War Zone
Manufacturing issues and uncertainties over production quantities explain why the Air Force has only received two of the jets to date.
Steve Beynon, Military.