Defense strategists have long held that rigorous — if not ruthless — prioritization is the key to success. Frederick the Great captured this sentiment best when saying: “Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows and stand a little hurt if […]
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President Volodymyr Zelensky’s appointment of a new director for the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine is the most recent in a series of actions taken to eradicate the country’s endemic corruption and move closer to the European Union. This move comes on the heels of a government shakeup under a renewed anti-corruption campaign, which saw […]
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On this episode, Ryan sat down with Schuyler Moore, the chief technology officer for U.S. Central Command, to discuss how it is planning to fight and win the next war with new and exciting technology. Image: U.S. Army photo by Specialist Natianna Strachen
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The U.S. Department of Defense has been looking for a replacement for the iconic and battle-tested Blackhawk for over a decade. And it appears it has finally found it, in the form of the Bell V-280 Valor.
This state-of-the-art tilt-rotor aircraft aims to become the first joint multi-role technology demonstrator aircraft of the future vertical lift program. Compared with the Blackhawk, the V-280 helicopter has twice its speed and range, providing a higher fuel efficiency that reduces logistical and security footprints.
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one of six remaining Alkmaar (Tripartite)-class minehunters in RNLN service.
(Michael Nitz – Naval Press Service)
The Ukrainian Navy’s mine countermeasures (MCM) capabilities are set to receive another boost with the donation of Dutch Alkmaar (Tripartite)-class minehunters.
The AH-64E Apache Longbow. (Boeing)
On 17 March, the US Army ordered 115 remanufactured AH-64 Apache attack helicopters and placed options for an additional 15, as well as orders for 54 Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers, for USD1.9 billion.
The US remanufacture will upgrade the AH-64Ds to the AH-64E version 6 (v6) standard. The AH-64 v6 entered US Army service in 2021.
The FMS sales are to Australia and Egypt, according to the US Department of Defense (DoD) contract announcement.
The T901-GE-900 prototype engine installed at General Electric’s test facility. (General Electric)
Delivery of the General Electric T901 engine to the US Army is now scheduled for boreal fall of 2023, General Electric said in a statement, delayed from spring 2023.
The delivery has been delayed several times; the spring 2023 date was a delay from a then-projected November 2022 delivery.
The army intends to test the engines and simultaneously deliver one engine each to Bell Helicopters and Sikorsky in early fiscal year (FY) 2024.
Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Directorate (GUR) claims that Russian Kalibr missiles were destroyed during transport in the town of Dzhankoy, home to a Russian airbase in the occupied Crimean peninsula.
“An explosion in the city of Dzhankoy in the north of the temporarily occupied Crimea destroyed the Russian ‘Kalibr NK’ cruise missiles during their transportation by railway,” the GUR claimed Monday on its Telegram channel. The missiles are “designed for launches from surface ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
U.S. Air Force photo
The U.S. Air Force is already requesting funding for the future modernization of its new B-21 Raider stealth bomber, which is expected to enter service in the mid-2020s. The B-21 has yet to take its first flight, which will now come later than expected.
The request for $241.12 million in funding to modernize the B-21 was included in an Air Force research and development budget justification book for Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24), which begins on Oct. 1, 2023, and ends on Sept. 30, 2024.
Kim Jong-un has ordered the North Korean military to intensify exercises and improve its combat readiness in order to determine and respond to “real war” if necessary, while overseeing a mock fire assault.
The North Korean leader oversaw a frontline artillery exercise simulating an attack on an unspecified South Korean airfield, state media reported on Friday.
His statement comes after the North fired a short-range ballistic missile off its western coastal city of Nampo on Thursday, according to the South Korean military.