The term “Broken Arrow” means different things to different people. If it means the 1950 Jimmy Stewart western, you’d be correct. If it’s the 1996 film starring John Travolta, you would also be accurate, and a bit closer to the topic.
If you’re in the military, it’s the last term you want to hear.
In 1950, America was locked in a cold war with the Soviet Union, ready for nuclear war at any moment. Civilians were building bomb shelters in their backyards, and children were drilled on how to hide under their school desks to shield themselves from a nuclear blast. The U.S.
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The F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter started its life as one of the more controversial programs in Pentagon history. Two decades of delays, blown budgets, software problems, and political fights made it look like the fifth-generation fighter might be remembered more for what it cost than what it could do.
Now, it has become a major part of NATO’s airpower.
Fourteen of the 32 NATO allies — the U.S.
The Israeli Defense Force is a long-time operator of the Humvee, with thousands obtained from the US in the 2010s.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced a review into how officers will be promoted and selected for command that will be led by former Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, who was punished after he criticized senior military leaders for the Afghanistan withdrawal.
“America’s sons and daughters who serve in our military deserve the best leaders commanding them, which is why we need to reform the promotion system at DoD — how we get those leaders,” Hegseth announced on Sunday in a video in which he appeared with Scheller.
Officials in the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office are getting set for one of the hub’s longest-serving leaders — Margie Palmieri — to exit from her post as deputy CDAO, DefenseScoop has learned.
“After more than three years as the inaugural Principal Deputy of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, Ms. Margaret Palmieri will be departing the organization in August. We are immensely grateful for the incredible groundwork she laid while standing up the CDAO,” a defense official told DefenseScoop on Monday.
L Todd Wood talks with former special operations elite unit commander Pete Blaber on Trump envoy LTG Keith Kellogg’s conflict of interest in Ukraine.
Kellogg’s daughter runs an NGO in Ukraine that profits off the continued war.
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A regional flight en route to Minot, North Dakota, was forced to take a sharp and abrupt turn to avoid colliding mid-air with an incoming Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bomber.
The incident, which occurred on the evening of Friday, July 18, happened as the civilian airplane, SkyWest flight 3788, was in its approach to Minot International Airport. While circling the airport ahead of its descent, another plane, identified by the pilot as a B-52, appeared inbound to where the civilian aircraft was.
Anduril has scored a nearly $100 million contract to continue experimentation on the Army’s Next Generation Command and Control program, the service said Friday.
NGC2, one of the Army’s top priorities, is a clean-slate design for how the service communicates on the battlefield and passes data for operations, providing commanders and units a new approach to information sharing and C2 through agile and software-based architectures. The Army plans to spend almost $3 billion on the effort over the next fiscal year across procurement and research and development funds.
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The Australian Government has handover the first batch of M1A1 Abrams tanks to the Ukrainian Armed Forces..
The Iveco – Oto Melara Consortium (CIO) has delivered the first Ariete main battle tank upgraded to the C2 version to the Italian Army.