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The U.S. Army has been acquiring multiple versions of the LOCUST laser weapon system to bolster its ability to shoot down hostile drones.
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The system countered drone swarms in the exercise and showed its launch, flight, intercept, and recovery capabilities.
George Kalergis, Modern War Institute
… speed, accuracy, and combat readiness—not as theory, but as a standard you can measure with a stopwatch.
John Maynard Keynes once wrote, “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones,” an apt depiction of the current discourse and debate of what the world will look like now that the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) treaty has expired. The passing of New START marks the end of treaties formally limiting strategic nuclear weapons between the United States and Russia.
Chinese commercial satellite imagery from the MizarVision satellite company has confirmed the deployment of a U.S. Army Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, which has increasingly emerged as the U.S. Armed Forces’ most prominent forward operating location as they have prepared for a possible resumption of high intensity hostilities with Iran. Commenting on the recent THAAD deployment, a senior Pentagon source observed: “Before any potential action against Iran, we need to bolster our defences.
U.S. Navy and Coast Guard units mounted a joint operation targeting the oil tanker Aquila II in international waters in the Indian Ocean on February 9, with the vessel boarded and commandeered by U.S. forces. The 274 metre ship and its 700,000 barrels of Venezuelan crude oil are expected to be appropriated by the United States without compensation paid to the owners. U.S.
Su-57 fifth generation fighters from the latest batch delivered to the Russian Aerospace Forces on February 9 have reportedly integrated a new passive sensor, the upgraded 101KS onboard optical-electronic self-defence system, which is heavily optimised for maximising situational awareness while maintaining the fighter’s stealth profile.The system uses a medium and long wave infrared sensor which can detect and track airborne targets by their heat signature, and is reportedly a significant improvement over the preceding passive sensor that had only optical, laser and ultraviolet channels.
L Todd Wood sits down with Israeli BG Yossi Kuperwasser (Ret) to discuss Iran, Lebanon and Hezbollah, Syria, Turkey, Hamas and Gaze, and Yemen.
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The Air Force announced Thursday that it is integrating and testing the mission autonomy package for its Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) prototypes — moving the program one step closer to a production decision this year.
The service is currently integrating a government-owned Autonomy Government Reference Architecture (A-GRA) onto loyal wingman drones built by both General Atomics and Anduril, according to an Air Force news release.
The Defense Department’s Joint Hypersonics Transition Office (JHTO) has awarded six non-traditional vendors contracts to support advancements in novel technologies, officials announced Thursday.
Leidos, GoHypersonic, Special Aerospace Services (Aurex), the Purdue Applied Research Institute, Halo Engines and Kratos have each received other transaction agreements from the JHTO and its partner, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane Division. The awards are intended to help further advance the office’s ongoing development of next-generation hypersonics capabilities.