T. Novelly, Defense One
The defense firm unveiled work on an autonomous tiltrotor just weeks after winning Air Force’s CCA contract.
Author: Michael
Trevithick, TWZ
Issues tied to Zumwalt’s hugely powerful hybrid-electric power plant and other factors have set back its return to the fleet.
Zelensky Fired Ukraine’s Popular Defense Minister. Now Protesters Want His Top General Gone – President Volodymyr Zelensky is trying to contain a military and political crisis after dismissing Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, a popular reformer identified with Ukraine’s drone program and procurement changes. A New York Times report on the dispute said Zelensky was weighing further changes as public anger shifted toward Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander in chief of Ukraine’s armed forces.
Russia Struck a Corn Ship Off Odesa With 3 Cruise Missiles, Killing 10: Russia struck a civilian cargo ship carrying corn off Ukraine’s Odesa coast with three cruise missiles, killing 10 people, Ukrainian officials said on July 20. The death toll was the highest from a recent series of attacks on Black Sea shipping, according to a Reuters report from Odesa.
The Guinea-Bissau-flagged vessel had a 17-member crew from India and Syria. Ukraine’s navy said the missiles caused a fire while the ship was carrying corn near the southern port city.
Canada will expand its fleet of Armoured Combat Support Vehicles (ACSVs) with an order for 190 new units from General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada under a partnership announced by Prime Minister Mark Carney.
The H-20 in One Word: Invisible – China announced a stealth bomber in 2016. Ten years later, no photograph of it has been confirmed, no flight acknowledged, and no airframe shown in public. The word fits, but not for the reason Beijing wanted.
Meet the H-20
Invisible. Not in the way the engineers intended. The Xi’an H-20 is meant to be a low-observable flying-wing bomber, so invisibility is the entire design brief. But a decade after Beijing announced the program, the aircraft is invisible in a much more basic sense. Nobody outside China has ever confirmed seeing one.
David Berger’s father was cramped inside an Austrian phone booth when he learned his son was dead.
Berger’s parents were overseas to watch him compete for Israel at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Originally from Ohio, Berger made the team as a weightlifter. Sharing his Olympic experience with family thrilled Berger until eight Palestinian terrorists took 11 members of the Israeli delegation hostage early on September 5. They killed two Israelis in the Olympic Village and held the remaining nine men, including Berger, as tools for negotiation.
Marines operate in jungle environments, hot deserts, and Arctic expanses. Like with other parts of the military, severe heat and cold pose a real risk to them. And now the Corps wants Marines to do better at tracking extreme temperature conditions to prevent them from ending up as hot or cold weather casualties.
This month, the Marine Corps issued an administrative notice for its Heat and Cold Stress Injury Prevention Program.
North Korea Has Become Critical to Russia’s War, Sending 14,000 Troops and Millions of Shells: North Korea has promised to support Russia until Moscow achieves victory in Ukraine, turning a relationship once denied by both governments into an openly declared military partnership. Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui made the pledge during a July 19 meeting with President Vladimir Putin, according to NK News.
Putin thanked North Korea for supporting Russia’s military operations.
Anduril UK is displaying a baseline model of its new autonomous combat rotorcraft known as Thunder at Farnborough this week.