Last month’s attention-grabbing saga involving the reported Chinese spy balloon that traversed the continental U.S. before the U.S. military shot it down shed new light on operations the People’s Liberation Army is conducting “globally” to surveil nations outside of China’s territory, senior Pentagon officials said Thursday.
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Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand recently traveled to the US to meet with Boeing officials to discuss military programs. Reports suggest the possible sale of 14 P maritime patrol aircraft was among the topics discussed. -8A valued at about C$9 billion (US$6.6 billion). An Ottawa Citizen report indicated that Anand is pushing for the P-8A deal.
Minister @FP_Champagne and I met with @Boeing today to discuss how we can advance the integration of our continental Defence Industrial Base, and create jobs and growth for Canadians.
The State Department has made the decision to approve a possible military sale to the U.K. Government of FGM-148F Javelin medium-range anti-tank missiles at an estimated cost of $125.5 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this potential sale today.
The U.K. Government has requested the purchase of up to six hundred (600) FGM-148F Javelin missiles (including twelve (12) fly-to-buy missiles). Also included are technical assistance from the U.S. Government and other related logistical and program support elements.
A string of shootdowns of high-flying aerial objects over the United States and Canada last month has called new attention to the value of balloons for intelligence-gathering and other military purposes. This also includes acting as launch platforms for drones, potentially in large numbers, that could be then operated as networked swarms. The ability to deploy uncrewed aircraft from high-altitude balloons is real and is something that researchers around the world, including in China, have been publicly experimenting with for years now.
The US Air Force plans to purchase 26 Boeing Co (BA.N) E-7A airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft to replace its aging fleet of E-3s, the Air Force Department said Tuesday. Air Force, announcing a contract worth up to $1.2 billion.
The E-7A, introduced in 2009, can track and provide air target data in real-time and will be capable of controlling and directing individual aircraft, Boeing said. It is based on the narrow-body 737-700 and has an electronically scanned radar, unlike the E-3’s considerably older 707, which has a less capable mechanically scanned radar.
Footage shared by Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense appears to show Russian tanks being relentlessly pulverized by a single Javelin anti-tank operator.
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Thai and U.S. officials officially opened the annual Cobra Gold multinational military exercises on Tuesday, which are once again among the world’s largest after three years of heavy pandemic cutbacks, bolstering the security alliances of the U.S. and six Asian Countries.
The Royal Thai Armed Forces and the United States Indo-Pacific Command are hosting two weeks of field and planning exercises with full participation from Singapore, Japan, Indonesia, South Korea, and Malaysia.
More than 3,800 US and 3,000 Thai soldiers will participate.
Do you know that scene in a movie where two burglars cut the main power line and break a window to get inside? The protagonist wakes up, realizes what’s going on, picks up his trusty 9mm, and channels his inner John Wick to protect his home.
Although it should be clear that it’s a movie and not real life, some people seem to think that in case of a home invasion, defending your home is easy and something anyone can do.
Unfortunately, I’m here to analyze what movies get wrong about home invasions and I gotta tell you – they couldn’t be further from the truth.
Under the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, Congress established the Naming Commission to rename bases like Fort Bragg that honored the Confederacy. The USS Chancellorsville (CG-62), a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser named for a Civil War battle that resulted in a Confederate victory, was identified by the commission to be renamed. On February 27, 2023, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced that the ship would be renamed for Robert Smalls.
When we last saw our Guardians they were, well, they were trying to cheer up Peter QuillI by kidnapping Kevin Bacon and bringing an Earth Christmas to outer space, but before that they had helped defeat Thanos in the Infinity Wars — but not before losing Gamora (Zoe Saldana) in Thanos’ quest for the Soul Stone.
Still reeling from that deep loss, and joined by a variant of Gamora, the team must rally one more time to defend the universe while protecting one of their own.