The US Coast Guard’s fiscal year 2024 proposed budget requests sustainment funding for ships such as the icebreaker USCGC
Healy
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(Michael Fabey)
The US Coast Guard (USCG) is requesting about USD13.5 billion in its fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget proposal, compared with the USD13.9 billion enacted in FY 2023, according to USCG budget documents.
The FY 2024 budget requests USD10.2 billion for Operations and Support (O&S) and USD1.6 billion for procurement, construction, and improvements (PC&I).
Funding requested by PC&I includes USD1.
Author: Michael
Ghost Robotics plans to deliver at least six units of its Vision 60 UGV to the Japanese Self-Defense Forces in 2024, a company official told
Janes
on 15 March. The company has displayed Vision 60 at the DSEI Japan 2023 show being held in Chiba.
(Janes/Oishee Majumdar)
Philadelphia-based Ghost Robotics plans to deliver at least six units of its Vision 60 (V60) quadrupedal unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) to the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) in 2024, a company official told
Janes
at the DSEI Japan 2023 show being held in Chiba.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has displayed a new USV (pictured) at DSEI Japan 2023, which will be able to automatically launch and recover expendable mine disposal systems and smaller unmanned systems. (Janes/Oishee Majumdar)
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) unveiled an unmanned surface vessel (USV) it has developed, named Whale, at DSEI Japan 2023 being held in Chiba from 15 to 17 March.
According to company specifications, the Whale USV has a length of 8.8 m, a beam of 3.05 m, and weighs about 6 tons. The system is equipped with a folding mast. The Whale has a height of 6.
AI-enabled autonomous weapons will surely at some point find themselves pointed at human targets and that’s when things will become terrifying.
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(U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Colton Elliott)
The U.S. Air Force is again looking to retire its fleet of iconic U-2S Dragon Lady spy planes by 2026, according to a new report. The service is also reportedly sticking to its previously announced plan to get rid of its remaining RQ-4 Global Hawk drones, the fate of which has often been intertwined with that of the U-2s, within four years.
Norway announced on Tuesday the purchase of six US-made Seahawk helicopters for more than $1 billion to replace the European NH90s it gave up after a series of delays and setbacks.
Fed up with delivery delays and performance problems, the Norwegian government decided last June to cancel a contract for the supply of 14 NH90s from the European industrial consortium NH Industries (NHI).
Six of those planes were destined for the Norwegian Navy to combat submarines, and the other eight for coast guard rescue and surveillance missions.
War Hippies frontmen, Donnie Reis and Scott “Scooter” Brown, are tearing up country music. And they both credit their time serving America for it all.
Reis never intended to enlist in the Army, though he had a long family history of service. A violinist, he received a full-ride music scholarship to Miami University. Just as his sophomore year was beginning, everything changed. “I was the first person in my family to go to college. The day I watched the towers go down I went right to the dean and told him I was going to enlist,” he shared.
Is your military family assigned to a duty station in the National Capital Region? If you’re at Walter Reed Hospital, Quantico, or any of the other Virginia military installations, then you know there’s a ton to do in the area. But once the dust has settled and you’re staring down another four-day weekend that involves yet another day at a Smithsonian Museum or a national monument, maybe it’s time to look further afield. Fortunately for you, Virginia offers amazing national parks, making it a cinch to escape the city.
After the tank made its first appearance on the battlefield during WWI, tank design in Europe evolved with faster, better armored, and deadlier tanks. However, U.S. tank design and doctrine development stagnated during the interwar period. When WWII broke out, America’s armored corps severely lagged behind Germany’s. Seeing the effectiveness of Panzer IIIs and Panzers IVs in France, the U.S. Army ordered a new medium tank with a 75mm gun: the M4 Sherman. In the meantime, the M3 Medium Tank was the best that America had.
The Lee needed a crew of seven while the Grant needed six (U.S.
When duty calls, many soldiers feel honor bound to answer that call, no matter how old they might be. “Males of military age” is actually a relatively recent concept, because historically, an invader with the goal of slaughtering your people doesn’t really see age as a discriminating factor. When you’re fighting for survival, every age is military age.
There are other reasons old soldiers come out of retirement, or to not retire at all.