Six U.S. companies are participating in the first cohort of NATO’s initiative to enable a transatlantic network of accelerator sites and test centers that can coordinate and push more innovation across the military alliance, DefenseScoop has learned.
The half-dozen firms are among a total pool of 44 that were tapped for the effort.
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An image has emerged on social media that some widely followed Twitter accounts claim to be a U.S.-made Patriot air defense missile launcher that Ukraine sold to China. One expert, however, tells The War Zone that the undated photograph instead shows a mock-up.
The picture depicts what some have claimed is a Patriot launcher on the back of a flatbed truck being moved in China. This sparked the spread of conspiracy theories on social media.
This image likely shows a Patriot system mock-up, one expert tells us.
Host L Todd Wood speaks with former CIA case officer John Ritchie about the string of infrastructure accidents across the United States.
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Germany’s Heckler & Koch is looking into producing new versions of firearms across its catalog in Soviet-designed calibers, such as the 7.62x39mm round made famous by the AK-47 rifle. A major driving factor has been the ongoing war in Ukraine, where that country’s armed forces continue to make heavy use of Cold War-era firearms and derivatives thereof. At the same time, guns that fire Soviet ammunition types remain in widespread use around the world and the famed German gunmaker has had an on-again-off-again interest in trying to tap into those markets for decades.
The Department of Defense is moving forward with the first tranche of systems for its Replicator initiative, but the military services that receive them must be prepared to sustain the platforms and work through other issues, officials noted during a congressional hearing Wednesday.
A stated goal of Replicator, a signature project of Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks, is to accelerate production and field thousands of “attritable autonomous” systems across multiple domains by August 2025 to help the U.S. armed forces counter China’s military buildup.
NASA’s Douglas DC-8 flying laboratory, one of only two examples of the airliner understood to still be flying in the United States, has ended its career. DC-8-72 N817NA, known to NASA as the Airborne Science Laboratory, made a final flight today out of the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, California, followed by a flyover of Ames Research Center, then on to its new home at Idaho State University.
Did you just see an airplane flying low in the South Bay?
That was NASA’s DC-8 “flying science laboratory.
The Army is eliminating 346 hours of online courses that soldiers were required to complete in order to be promoted, Sergeant Major of the Army announced Wednesday. Photo by Spc. Zachary Stahlberg.
The Army is eliminating 346 hours of online courses that soldiers were required to complete in order to be promoted, the Sergeant Major of the Army announced Wednesday.
Active duty, Reserve and National Guard officers and NCOs were previously required to take online courses before becoming eligible for promotion. On Wednesday, Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael R.
A soldier was recalled to active duty and charged in the military justice system with years-long sexual abuse of a stepdaughter. Photo by Maj. Charles Emmons.
In a first-of-its-kind case under the military’s new way of handling crimes like sexual assault, murder and domestic violence, a soldier was recalled to active duty and charged in the military justice system with years-long sexual abuse of a stepdaughter.
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To celebrate it’s 50th anniversary, the Air Force’s F-16 Viper Demonstration Team aircraft has a new paint job that harkens back to the F-16’s 1974 look. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Meghan Hutton.
The Air Force debuted an old-is-new paint job for an F-16 this week to commemorate the aircraft’s 50th anniversary. The red-white-and-blue livery mirrors the scheme used on original YF-16 demonstrators in the early 1970s, and will also seem familiar to anyone who grew up building model planes from the era.
A lot happens every day. Alliances shift, leaders change, and conflicts erupt. With In Brief, we’ll help you make sense of it all. Each week, experts will dig deep on a single issue happening in the world to help you better understand it. *** Speaking at the European Economic Congress last week, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called on Europe to increase its defense capabilities in the next five years so that “no power in the world will dare raise a hand against it.