While the Trump administration’s recently-issued executive order on “Unleashing American Drone Dominance” places a sharp focus on civilian use of unmanned aircraft, the new policy also includes multiple provisions that could have implications for Pentagon and military personnel.
“The Department of Defense must be able to procure, integrate, and train using low-cost, high-performing drones manufactured in the United States,” President Donald Trump wrote in the directive.
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After nearly three decades of working for the U.S. government, Winston Beauchamp announced on July 4 that he’s departing from his role within the Department of the Air Force and leaving active federal service.
Beauchamp began working for the department in 2015, and most recently served as the director of security, special program oversight and information protection within the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force. In that role, he oversaw the Air and Space Forces’ highly-classified special access programs (SAP) and worked on insider threat mitigation.
The RNLA delivered an update on its Training Data Exploitation (TDX) project at the DSET conference in Bristol on 8 July.
Since the first V-1 flying “buzz bombs” streaked across the English Channel towards London during World War II, the cruise missile has evolved into a family of highly sophisticated munitions which, because of their ability to accurately hit targets at 1,000 kilometers or beyond, have become a mainstay of U.S. military advantage, diplomatic force, and deterrence.
The most recent strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities relied on more than 30 Tomahawk missiles fired from an attack submarine.
The Bundeswehr has received the first Eagle 6×6 Medium Protected Medical Vehicle variant from General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS).
Japan’s move to integrate hypersonic missile will help address security concerns in the Indo-Pacific, according to GlobalData.
When fighter jets are scrambled to intercept enemy or unidentified planes, they have a range of options, from immediate lethal fires to trying to contact the rogue plane via radio, depending on the situation. One of the options is to use their plane to conduct the “headbutt” of the other plane.
The maneuver is sweet but not nearly as metal as it sounds.
A U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet, like the ones that headbutted and then attacked and destroyed Syrian ground attack aircraft in June 2017.(U.S.
Goodbye horses, the Army’s over you.
The Army is drastically scaling back its Military Working Equid program, the Army term for the service’s contingent of horses, donkeys and mules. With a few exceptions for ceremonial horse teams, the equine operations will wind down over the next year at five Army bases, with animals being donated or transferred to private owners, the Army announced last week. Why the drawdown? According to the Army, it’s “to align more resources with warfighting capability and readiness.
The US Army will reduce the number of horses, mules, and donkeys it has and distribute the $2m in savings to more lethal defence programmes.
The United States has heavily depleted its stockpiles of surface-to-air missiles for the MIM-104 Patriot long range air defence system, which have fallen to just 25 percent of the volume deemed necessary by the Pentagon.