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.
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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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The highly anticipated report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) released Thursday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is short on new details and doesn’t raise the possibility that any of the sightings examined are otherworldly in nature.
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Germany’s Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck has publicly come out in favor of approving requests from other countries, such as Poland, to send German-made Leopard 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine. The terms of the original sales of those tanks give officials in Berlin the authority to block foreign transfers, but they have been under very active political pressure from allies in recent weeks to allow them to proceed.
Habeck’s comments come a day after Polish President Andrzej Duda publicly declared his government’s intention to transfer Leopard 2s to Ukraine.
The Navy’s three-week Digital Horizon event to experiment with and integrate new unmanned and artificial intelligence platforms last month provided the military with “a visible demonstration of the promise and the power of very rapid tech innovation and discovery in fleet operations,” according to Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of 5th Fleet.
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Dawson Roth
The U.S. Naval Forces Central Command’s Task Force 59 began as an idea in a two-page white paper published 17 months ago, The War Zone learned in an interview with Commander Timothy Hawkins, force public affairs officer for U.S. 5th Fleet located in Bahrain. The command recognized the vast and dynamic nature of the Middle East’s maritime environment, and with that, the ways unmanned systems and artificial intelligence-enabled tech could be leveraged to more persistently monitor the tumultuous region.
Some good ol’ American weapons technology designed to be used against Russia may finally live for its intended purpose. With Ukrainian troops expending weapons to take out Russian soldiers at mind-boggling rate, the United States is delving into its old Cold War stockpiles to keep Ukraine’s armed forces fighting with new old Cold War-era weapons.
The idea behind a human wave attack is to overwhelm defenders with sheer volume of numbers, hopefully overrunning their position before they can be wiped out with superior firepower.
On New Year’s Eve, Russia launched its own kind of Blitz over the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. Swarms of Iranian-built suicide drones, upgraded by Russian engineers for increased accuracy and lethality, slammed into targets across the city and across the country itself. Civilians sought shelter and information from Telegram channels. Ukrainian troops manned their guns.
But which guns could be capable of downing an unmanned vehicle, just 11 feet long, coming at them from high altitudes at more than 115 miles per hour? Germany had the answer, and donated them to Ukraine’s armed forces.
Call of Duty and other first-person shooters like it have dominated the video game market for the better part of the 21st century. Despite common critiques of recycled gameplay, mindless action and 2-dimensional storytelling, Call of Duty remains one of the most popular video game franchises in the world. However, it can trace its roots back to more humble and well-meaning intentions. In fact, Call of Duty can be traced back to the modern cinematic classic Saving Private Ryan.