The Ajax programme is intended to deliver a six-variant armoured vehicle fleet into British Army service but has faced a number of issues.
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Leonardo Helicopters presented its strategy to win the UK’s New Medium Helicopter (NMH) programme utilising its AW149 aircraft.
As Biden promises to step down, the clouds of Ukraine, Gaza and Afghanistan hang over his foreign policy legacy.
Over the weekend, the Philippines and China, which have been locked in a tense stand-off around the Second Thomas Shoal for months announced an agreement to deescalate tensions. While potentially positive, we believe that the long-term risk of conflict in the South China Sea remains alarmingly high. Our new dataset shows that China’s military coercion is more rampant than previously documented and disproportionately directed at the Philippines, the weakest link in the chain of U.S. alliances in Asia.
The Air Force has dropped a criminal case that could have sent a lieutenant colonel and former Air Force Thunderbird operations officer before a court-martial on charges related to child abuse, a spokesperson for Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada confirmed on Monday.
Air Force Lt. Col. Kevin DiFalco was arrested in Las Vegas in 2022 for allegedly sexually abusing a child. The Air Force said this week DiFalco will not face a court-martial in connection with the arrest.
DiFalco told Task & Purpose he no longer faces criminal charges in the case.
The essay is an opinion piece written and submitted by the authors, who are military medical professionals, and edited by Task & Purpose editors. Task & Purpose welcomes submissions of opinion pieces on military medicine.
The Department of Defense must prioritize development and fielding of dried plasma for the treatment of severe bleeding on the battlefield.
Hemorrhage, or uncontrolled bleeding, is a leading cause of death on the battlefield.
Growing military cooperation between Russia and China threatens Arctic stability, according to the Pentagon’s 2024 Arctic Strategy, released Monday.
In 2024, Russian and Chinese navies held a combined exercise off the state’s coast in 2023. In response, the Department of Defense sent four U.S. Navy destroyers and two combatant commands to monitor 11 Chinese and Russian ships. That joint show of force was the latest of a surge Chinese and Russian navy ships operating in international waters near Alaska in 2022 and 2023.
Enhancing the Joint Force’s technology arsenal and infrastructure in the Arctic marks a key pillar in the Defense Department’s new approach for operating in that complex, rapidly changing region.
Pentagon leadership on Monday issued the 2024 Arctic Strategy, which aims to guide the military’s path forward as it adapts to the unfolding and intensifying geopolitical and geophysical shifts in the security environment — particularly in and around U.S. territory in Alaska and allied hubs in the High North.
The Army recently set out to standardize its data formats for an annual cyber experimentation to not only reduce integration challenges, but prove this type of standardization can be done.
The effort was part of the annual Cyber Quest event held earlier this month at Fort Eisenhower, Georgia. Cyber Quest is an experimentation venue where the Army seeks to test emerging technologies on either existing or desired capabilities brought by contractors that respond to specific problem statements from the service in order to help inform future requirements and concepts.
Sergeant Clinton LaVor Romesha is a retired member of the United States Army and a recipient of the prestigious Medal of Honor. Romesha earned his award by taking courageous action during the Battle of Kamdesh in eastern Afghanistan.
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