I’m not going to ask you if you have the need for speed. You saw the title and flew into the article faster than MACH 10. Most of us grew up watching “Top Gun,” reciting every line, singing “You’ve Lost that Loving Feeling,” and pretending you were in a dogfight with a MIG while you were probably sitting on the toilet.
And then we were blessed with the sequel, “Top Gun: Maverick,” which showed us that even though the planes got faster and the missions got harder, Maverick was still the apex pilot of the United States Navy.
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Anduril has secured a $159m contract from the US Army to embark on a prototyping an advanced night vision and mixed reality system.
AIRO has signed a non-binding LoI with UAS provider Nord Drone, setting the stage for both companies to potentially form a joint venture (JV).
Air Force Special Operations Command recently wrapped up Emerald Warrior 25.2, a large-scale military exercise meant to test the Air Force’s ability to coordinate conventional and special operations forces in contested areas. The exercise mostly took place in Arizona and California. Mostly.
While airmen were active in the American Southwest, another part of the Emerald Warrior 25.2 exercise was happening, this time far away in the southern Caribbean.
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In early July unconfirmed reports from Russian media indicated that plans were under consideration to retire the the Russian Navy’s sole aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, from service prematurely, and that work to refurbish modernise the warship had been suspended some time ago.
Victory on the battlefield now often comes down to how quickly data can be collected, analyzed, understood and securely distributed.
Two shocking stories signal that the use of drones by Latin American criminal groups is entering new and dangerous territory. Most recently, Intelligence Online reported that a joint investigation by Ukraine and Mexico uncovered several cases of individuals linked to Mexican cartels enlisting in the Ukrainian International Legion to gain experience using weaponized aerial drones. Reportedly, the investigation also found signs that members of Colombian insurgent groups may have done the same with the intention of bringing these skills back to the Western Hemisphere.
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The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy’s fleet of attack submarines are expected to see their missile carrying capacities increased significantly with the integration of the new YJ-19 scramjet powered hypersonic cruise missiles, which has the potential to revolutionise the fleet’s anti-ship capabilities. The YJ-19 has a smaller diameter than the service’s other cruise missiles, including the newly unveiled the YJ-17 and YJ-20, and appears to have been designed to be launched from submarines’ 533 mm diameter torpedo tubes, rather than from vertical launch cells.