The Space Force’s budget request for fiscal 2027 includes billions of dollars in funding for the Space Data Network (SDN), which could turn the service’s plan to create a complex web of military and commercial data relay satellites into reality.
The SDN is envisioned as a multi-orbit, hybrid satellite communications architecture comprising both military-owned and commercial systems built by different vendors. Once fully operational, the SDN will serve as a single, unified network that allows the Pentagon to securely move data via multiple pathways to ground stations and weapons platforms.
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Every Marine knows that the “Old Corps” had it worse. The rocks they slept on were harder; the MREs they ate were (somehow) worse; they did it all with iron sights. You get the idea. All Marines have heard some version of how the Corps used to be — including the Marines who are today the Corps’ top senior enlisted leaders.
Sharing a stage Tuesday at the Modern Day Marine conference in Washington, D.C.
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Washington, D.C. — A U.S. appeals court has temporarily reinstated the Pentagon’s requirement that journalists be escorted while inside the building, handing the Department of Defense a key victory as it challenges a lower court ruling.
In a 2-1 decision issued on April 27, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit paused a district judge’s order that had struck down the escort mandate.
“I hate talking about combat drills when the U.S. Navy lost, and many times, lost aircraft carriers in simulations. But, hey, you only learn when you make mistakes.” That’s what a long-retired U.S. Navy surface warship officer told me last week when I asked him about the various times that U.S. Navy aircraft carriers have been sunk in various wargames over the years. And while we talk a lot about the infamous time Gotland-class AIP submarine from Sweden sinking an aircraft carrier back in 2005, Canada also achieved such a submarine ‘victory’ as well. And it was decades before.
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A term called “Darkstar” is stretching the U.S. Air Force’s imagination. No, it is not something from the latest Star Wars movie. This is the nickname for the new SR-72 spy plane. Also known as the “Son of Blackbird,” the new kid on the block has many of the same attributes as the SR-71 Blackbird, and that has aerospace enthusiasts salivating at the new possibilities.
The proposed SR-72 could hit a top speed of MACH 6, or 4,600 miles per hour. This is almost twice as fast as the SR-71 Blackbird.
When considering the music that we’d want to play as we ship out to a combat zone, very few of us would think of choosing a 19th century Australian folk song about a hobo who stole a sheep.
And yet, that’s exactly what the Marines of the 1st Marine Division do every time. It may seem odd that United States Marines choose to deploy using Australia’s unofficial national anthem, but a closer look at the history of the unit (and how the song ends) helps make sense of it all.
Rheinmetall Electronics has received a €1.04bn ($1.2bn) contract to supply and modernise soldier systems for the German Armed Forces.