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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) says it has documented over 100 new instances of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), or what might have once been called…
Insider
Years of delays, cost overruns, and technical glitches with the F-35 have put the Pentagon in a dilemma.
U.S. Army Rangers assigned to 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, fire a 120mm mortar during a tactical training exercise on Camp Roberts, Calif., Jan. 30, 2014. Rangers constantly train to maintain the highest level of tactical proficiency. (US Army photo by Pfc. Nathaniel Newkirk/Released).
Editor’s note: this article by Hope Seck first appeared on Sandboxx.
The Army’s most elite light infantry element is looking to improve its ability to deliver precision indirect fires and clear out before becoming an enemy target.
Seth Cropsey, The Hill
The House of Representatives finally has a Select Committee on China, a sorely-needed instrument to drive China policy debate in Congress and, if its agenda is set…
This week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma features author and public intellectual Walter Russell Mead speaking about his book, The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People. As Mead discusses, the trope that American foreign policy toward Israel can be explained by the outsized influence of […]
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Elbit Systems UK has been awarded a contract to provide its Magni-X micro uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) for the UK Armed Forces.
The contract has been awarded by the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) procurement arm Defence Equipment & Support, under its Future Capability Group.
Procurement of this micro-UAS also falls under the British Army’s Human Machine Teaming framework.
The contract will see the delivery of service-ready Magni-X systems to the British Army.
The French Directorate General of Armaments (DGA) has placed an order with MBDA to procure 200 Akeron MP medium-range missiles for the French Armed Forces.
The order was awarded in compliance with the French Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) military programming law (LPM) 2019-25.
The anti-tank missiles are being procured as part of DGA-MBDA joint efforts to invest in the upstream research and technology studies to modernise the ground forces’ capability.
Defence forces continue to adopt the best-in-class training procedures that enhance the productivity and preparedness of the troops to quickly respond to and counter asymmetric threats in the most challenging warfare scenarios.
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Army Technology has listed leading manufacturers and suppliers of training and simulation products to meet the training needs of customers to ensure operational readiness and deployment of their weaponry, navigation and communication systems, aerial platforms, and military vehicles.
In a recent letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Sen. Josh Hawley argued that the Biden administration’s military aid to Ukraine has compromised more important efforts to strengthen Taiwan’s defenses. As evidence, he pointed to Taiwan’s nearly $19 billion weapons backlog. Hawley is not the first to link military support to Ukraine and Taiwan’s […]
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