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A North Korean drone last week entered a no-fly zone around the office of the South Korean president, military officials in Seoul have confirmed. The North Korean unmanned aerial vehicle was one of five that crossed the border on December 26, in the first incident of its kind in five years, which you can read about in our previous coverage here.
Army Chief Information Officer Raj Iyer will be leaving the Defense Department in the coming weeks and going back to industry, he announced in a LinkedIn post late Wednesday night.
Iyer served as the first civilian CIO since the Army divided the chief information officer and deputy chief of staff, G6, roles.
“With the completion of my contract with the Army, it is now time for me to return to industry where I can take on the next big challenge,” he wrote.
The Czech-designed Bren 805 and Bren 2 are modern, modular rifles that have become quite popular and will continue to serve in the future.
The post The reliable Czech Bren rifles – Service rifles from around the world appeared first on Sandboxx.
Metawave has received the Direct-to-Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the US Army to develop perception sensing solutions for off-road autonomous vehicles.
Valued at approximately $1.7m, the SBIR Phase II contract will require Metawave to address four main areas of challenge related to perception sensing for autonomous ground systems.
These areas feature adverse weather sensing, long-range sensing and reduction of the processing burden for ground vehicles, and off-road sensing.
DefNews
WASHINGTON — The U.S.
Forbes
In Ukraine, America’s humble M-109 howitzer isn’t getting much attention.
Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics
The ship is the third in a new generation of non-nuclear Russian submarines that should have wrapped production over a decade ago.
Liz George, AMN
On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a frigate armed with hypersonic missiles to the Atlantic Ocean.
The Polish Ministry of National Defence (MND) has approved a new contract with the US to procure an additional 116 Abrams tanks for the Polish Army.
The estimated value of the contract is approximately $1.4bn. Out of the total value, nearly $200m has been provided by the US, as part of its efforts to grant financial aid to Poland.