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Nato Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) has contracted EKA to support the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) MLRS and RRVs.

The white-winged scoter is a northern migratory waterfowl — a duck — with what the ornithologist at AllAboutBirds.org call “velvety black” feathers, an “upturned comma of white around the eye” and an “orange-tipped bill.” It nests in northern lakes across Canada, where it feeds on freshwater mussels, diving underwater to find them, holding its breath for up to a minute.
Though rarely seen in the lower 48 U.S.

“I have come to talk to you about Europe. ‘Again,’ some might exclaim.” These were the words with which French President Emmanuel Macron, just a few months after taking office, opened his famous Sorbonne speech in September 2017. He called for a stronger role for Europeans in European defense and strategic autonomy. And that has been his message ever since, often sparking irritation and even open outrage among France’s European partners.

With present magazine levels, we won’t even make it past the first line of wire

Reprinted with permission from Commander Salamander
War, at sea, ashore, and in the air, has a tidal action as technology emerges, develops, and finds its niche. The more disruptive it is, the longer it can dominate the other side until new technology, techniques, and procedures are developed to counter it. In and out the tide goes; the defensive is supreme then the offensive is supreme.
WWI saw the machine gun, and barbed wire make the defensive supreme ashore.

The Senate confirmed Dr. Troy Meink to be the 27th Secretary of the Air Force May 13, nearly five months after President Donald Trump picked him to be the top civilian overseeing the Air Force and Space Force. Meink was confirmed 74 to 25.
A career civil servant with extensive high-level experience as a senior executive in various space intelligence roles, Meink was the No. 2 civilian at the National Reconnaissance Office during the last administration. NRO, a Department of Defense intelligence agency, works closely with the Space Force.

Houthi rebels in Yemen fired on a U.S. military F-35 during recent operations, and the missile came close enough to the aircraft for the pilot to take evasive action, a U.S. official confirmed to Task & Purpose.
The incident was first reported in the New York Times as part of a story about why President Donald Trump decided to end air and missile strikes against the Houthis earlier this month. 
No further information was immediately available about just how close the F-35 may have come to being hit by Houthi air defenses. 
It would have been an “absolute disaster” if the U.S.

Estonia’s government is actively tracking the “shadow fleet” of vessels operated covertly by Russia that has been causing problems in the Baltic Sea over the last year and posing serious environmental risks for the region, Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur said Monday.
Pevkur hosted a small group of journalists at the Embassy of Estonia in Washington while he was in town for a two-day visit with his American counterparts and lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

The Army tested and matured its “arsenal” concept for conducting electronic warfare at the service’s major capstone exercise earlier this year, according to officials.
The electromagnetic spectrum arsenal serves as a set of exploits in the radio frequency sense, that can be loaded on platforms for a set of targets. It’s a centralized location where soldiers can find details of each EW technique — including descriptions and implementation parameters or configurations — that can be used in support of electronic warfare mission planning and effects.

Troy Meink is set to become the new civilian leader for the Air and Space Forces after being confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday.
Senators voted 74-25 to approve Meink as the 27th Secretary of the Air Force, making him the third and final of President Donald Trump’s service secretary nominees to be confirmed during his second term.
In his new role, Meink will be the top civilian official for the Department of the Air Force — which also includes the Space Force — as it undertakes a wide range of modernization efforts.

The Marine Corps built its own software to control commercial radar devices that can be purchased at fishing stores, allowing its forces to have greater maritime domain awareness.