A recent flight test of the Air Force’s Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) was “not a success,” and the service is now more committed to developing a different system known as the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM), Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall told lawmakers Tuesday.
The 412th Test Wing at Edwards Air Force Base in California conducted the second “all-up-round” flight test of the full prototype operational ARRW on Mar. 13 by releasing the missile from a B-52H Stratofortress bomber, Air Force Material Command said in a press release last week.
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The Imp and the Scamp had fascinating designs and were well-made. But the two weird Colt weapons were never adopted by the military.
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Two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)
armed military personnel pose for a photograph in front of an Iran flag during a pro-government protest rally in southern Tehran, December 29, 2022. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images).
Iran and its proxy forces have launched 83 attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria since President Joe Biden took office, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told lawmakers on Tuesday.
In response to those attacks, the U.S. military has launched four major operations against Iranian-backed groups, Austin said during a tense exchange with Sen.
According to the state agency Tass, Russia is strengthening its naval operations in the Pacific region, with plans to station more nuclear submarines in the area by 2024.
Tass didn’t say where the sites would be located, but a Russian naval base at Vladivostok has been operational for over a century. On the Kamchatka Peninsula, it also maintains a Pacific Fleet station large enough to host nuclear submarines.
At least three of Russia’s new Borey-class nuclear submarines are destined for the Pacific, where they will remain submerged for months at a time.
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To lay the groundwork for the U.S. Air Force’s Combat Collaborative Aircraft (CCA) program, which will explore tactical human-machine teaming concepts, the service will be giving select F-16 Viper fighter jets the ability to fly themselves.
Dubbed Project Viper Experimentation and Next-Gen Operations Mode (VENOM), the initiative will outfit six F-16s from Eglin Air Force Base in Florida with autonomy agents that a human pilot will experiment with in flight.
Anne Wright Nunn dives the Amtrac located offshore of Agat Beach. (Photo courtesy National Park Service).
Nearly 80 years ago, American forces launched a successful invasion of Guam. The island had fallen into Imperial Japanese control in 1941, just one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and as the United States military worked to take the war to Japan, U.S. troops slowly but surely captured island after island in the Pacific. Eventually, that island-hopping campaign reached Guam.
While the Army has a program designed to address how vehicles will operate in GPS-denied environments, one big prime contractor believes this program only covers a slice of the force and is now proposing a family of systems that it says would close that gap for protecting position, navigation and timing (PNT) capabilities.
The Mounted Assured Position, Navigation and Timing System (MAPS) program provides vehicles with the capability to operate in environments where access to GPS is jammed, spoofed, or otherwise denied.
The “Be All You Can Be” campaign targets Gen Z audiences with very well-made videos showing the opportunities the Army offers and its history.
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Ah, space exploration, the final frontier! Or, more accurately, the final place we haven’t fully ruined yet. But hey, at least we have the Guardians to help us out, right? What could possibly go wrong when we mix space and the military? Don’t answer that. Instead, let’s dive into the military’s role in America’s space programs all the way back to the very beginning.
A brief history of space exploration
Let’s blast off into the wild world of space exploration, where the sky’s the limit and everything’s up for grabs.
The Leopard 2 tank has an incredibly stable gun and will add a very strong punch to the Ukrainian military’s capability.
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