The United Kingdom, Japan and Italy are coordinating plans for the inclusion of Canada in the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), a next generation fighter program intended to deliver aircraft ready for active service by 2035. Canada has sought to join as an observer, which would allow the Canadian Defence Ministry to access selected classified program information without joining the development phase or sharing a similar burden of development costs.
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The U.S. Army has deployed AH-64E Apache attack helicopters under the 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade to Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in Romania, across the border from the ongoing war effort in Ukraine. The facility has increasingly served as a central node for the U.S. and other NATO members’ operations in the Black Sea, and has taken on growing significance following the outbreak of full scale hostilities in the Ukrainian theatre in February 2022. The deployment of Apaches closely follows the U.S.
Iranian ballistic missile striking Bahrain, reportedly targeting the headquarters of the U.S. 5th Fleet.
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DOW released the following press release today:
Department of War Forges Landmark Agreement to Triple PAC-3 Seeker Production, Bolstering the Arsenal of Freedom
The Department of War, in partnership with Boeing and Lockheed Martin, today announced a landmark framework agreement to triple the production capacity of seekers for the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3®) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE).
Saronic Technologies filed a lawsuit asking the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to stop the Navy from awarding or moving forward with a solicitation issued in January that bundles work associated with the operation and sustainment of littoral combat ship mission modules and small unmanned surface vessels.
In a 34-page redacted version of its bid protest, Saronic alleged that the Naval Sea Systems Command contracting opportunity violates federal statute and a Trump administration order to expedite certain government contracting, among other challenges.
Across military occupations, infantry troops had the highest number of suicides in 2024, according to the Pentagon’s latest suicide report.
The Annual Report on Suicide in the Military was released Tuesday and marks the first time that the Department of Defense has broken down suicide numbers by military occupation. The job-specific data was included as a new requirement set by Congress.
In the 2024 calendar year, the report found, infantry troops had the highest number of suicides: 49 total across active and reserve forces.
The Army’s 101st Airborne Division incorporated Northrop Grumman’s new Lumberjack one-way attack drone into a recent training exercise, testing the platform’s autonomous target detection and strike capabilities.
The demonstration took place during the unit’s Operation Lethal Eagle exercise, a large-scale training event that focuses on air assault operations and testing new military capabilities. According to Northrop Grumman, Lumberjack successfully showcased its capacity to conduct missions autonomously and use artificial intelligence for adaptive targeting.
The Army is looking for sensors designed to assess the physiological effects of rapid, damaging shock waves caused by explosions, according to a recent government notice.
Officials are conducting market research on technologies that could give the military better data about troop health after decades of blast exposure and new impacts of lethal drones.
Blast overpressure, as the effect is called, is the sudden, volatile expansion of air from not only explosions, but weapon systems commonly used by ground troops.
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A service member can fight in Baghdad, return home to lose a house in a hurricane, and patrol the wreckage of his own neighborhood — and still be told trauma belongs only to combat.
The 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team deployed to Iraq in 2004, conducting combat operations in and around Baghdad. Within months of returning home, Louisiana was struck by Hurricane Katrina. Guard members mobilized again — this time to stabilize shattered communities inside their own state. Some lost homes. Some lost neighborhoods.
On September 3, 1951, a 21-year-old Navy ensign walked onto the flight deck of the USS Essex.
The aircraft carrier was stationed off the coast of Korea, and as the young pilot prepared for his seventh combat mission, it was a beautiful, albeit cold, morning. Catapulted into the air, the pilot’s F9F Panther jet flew by Mount Fuji and over the Sea of Japan before crossing into Korea.
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Along with the rest of the group of fighters, the naval aviator dropped 500-pound bombs on their targets during a reconnaissance mission.