The Nazis drove Abraham Wald, a Jewish mathematician, out of Romania and Europe. He emigrated to the United States, where he would serve in the Statistical Research Group. The SRG was a bunch of eggheads that used math to make the military better at everything from firing rockets to shooting down enemy fighters.
Wald convinced the Navy that it was about to armor the completely wrong parts of its planes, saving hundreds of flight crews in the process.
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Jason Leisey served nine years as an infantryman and received a Purple Heart after he was severely injured by a car bomb in Iraq. John Beasley served as an intelligence soldier in Afghanistan and had to leave after 17 years when he developed sarcoidosis. Austin Chapman was hit by an improvised explosive device while serving as a combat medic in Afghanistan, leaving him with nerve damage and a post-traumatic stress disorder diagnosis after six years of service.
All three were medically retired and had their military careers cut short by life-changing injuries and illnesses.
Despite a long-standing policy of neutrality, Ireland has recognised Russia as a threat, and is following Europe in rearmament.
Production of Ajax will continue unchanged despite defects reported by training crews and with three investigations ongoing.
The Army is one step closer to turning the AH-64 Apache helicopter into a drone hunting tool. Soldiers recently carried out live-fire tests of a new explosive round specifically designed to take out enemy drones at the Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona.
The tests involved Apaches firing the new 30x113mm XM1225 Aviation Proximity Explosive rounds at multiple types of small drones.
If you listen closely to the sounds coming from the Donbas on this frigid Winter day, you won’t just hear the whistle of incoming 152mm shells or the persistent buzz of drone engines in the sky. You will hear the sound of Ukrainian men and women’s fingers tapping away, in a muddy dugout near Bakhmut, as they stare at a cracked tablet screen.
These warriors aren’t scanning Netflix or a social media profile. They are looking at a leaderboard. To the left of the screen, a stack of empty crates represents the “freedom weight” of a unit that has run out of thermal optics.
L3Harris Technologies has been awarded a contract worth around $400m to power the US Missile Defense Agency’s THAAD interceptors.
TTTECH North America has secured a contract to supply advanced TSN solutions for the US Army’s HADES aerial ISR initiative.
Dylan Malyasov, Defence Blog
The TRV-150 belongs to a family of cargo drones designed to improve rapid resupply operations across dispersed battlefields
Mikayla Easley, DefenseScoop
The command is interested in industry’s offerings for small cruise missiles following a successful demonstration of Leidos’ Black Arrow weapon from an…