The T901-GE-900 prototype engine installed at General Electric’s test facility. (General Electric)
Delivery of the General Electric T901 engine to the US Army is now scheduled for boreal fall of 2023, General Electric said in a statement, delayed from spring 2023.
The delivery has been delayed several times; the spring 2023 date was a delay from a then-projected November 2022 delivery.
The army intends to test the engines and simultaneously deliver one engine each to Bell Helicopters and Sikorsky in early fiscal year (FY) 2024.
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Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Directorate (GUR) claims that Russian Kalibr missiles were destroyed during transport in the town of Dzhankoy, home to a Russian airbase in the occupied Crimean peninsula.
“An explosion in the city of Dzhankoy in the north of the temporarily occupied Crimea destroyed the Russian ‘Kalibr NK’ cruise missiles during their transportation by railway,” the GUR claimed Monday on its Telegram channel. The missiles are “designed for launches from surface ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
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The U.S. Air Force is already requesting funding for the future modernization of its new B-21 Raider stealth bomber, which is expected to enter service in the mid-2020s. The B-21 has yet to take its first flight, which will now come later than expected.
The request for $241.12 million in funding to modernize the B-21 was included in an Air Force research and development budget justification book for Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24), which begins on Oct. 1, 2023, and ends on Sept. 30, 2024.
Kim Jong-un has ordered the North Korean military to intensify exercises and improve its combat readiness in order to determine and respond to “real war” if necessary, while overseeing a mock fire assault.
The North Korean leader oversaw a frontline artillery exercise simulating an attack on an unspecified South Korean airfield, state media reported on Friday.
His statement comes after the North fired a short-range ballistic missile off its western coastal city of Nampo on Thursday, according to the South Korean military.
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The U.S. Air Force is looking to begin buying conformal fuel tanks for its future F-15EX Eagle II fighter jets. Budget documents also confirm that the service plans to ask for funds to acquire another 24 F-15EXs in the 2025 Fiscal Year. This is on top of the two dozen it wants to buy in its latest budget request for Fiscal Year 2024 and is now the last planned purchase of Eagle IIs.
The War Zone did a deep dive questioning the USAF’s F-15EX fleet plan prior to the 2023 budget release that you can read here.
In January and February, the Russian army tried to capture the small coal mining town of Vuhledar in southern Donbas.
A powerful mechanized force consisting of elite Russian marine brigades attempted to break through the Ukrainian defenses and capture Vuhledar.
If the Russian military had been successful, they would have set the stage for an operational breakthrough. Heavy casualties marked the end of the Russian offensive. The Ukrainians used this weapon system to stop Russian elite tanks and infantry.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — As they work to streamline information sources and operationalize artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities across the Navy’s entire surface fleet, members of Task Force Hopper recently launched a new program to build “low lift, high impact” AI and ML applications that can generate value from the heaps of data captured on ships every day, according to Capt. Pete Kim.
Space Camp is an internationally-recognized program that immerses students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics through experiences and simulators based on space exploration. But, did you know that Naval Aviation has a similar STEM-oriented program? It makes sense given that many astronauts first flew as Naval Aviators. Located aboard Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, the National Flight Academy offers students an immersive, hands-on learning environment like no other.
Sergeant Major Thomas Patrick Payne is a member of the U. S. Army Delta Force and a recipient of the Medal of Honor. Payne earned his award in 2015 for his action in Iraq. He is the only U.S. service member to earn the Medal of Honor for service during Operation Inherent Resolve.
Background on Sergeant Major Thomas Patrick Payne
Sergeant Major Thomas Patrick Payne hails from Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina, where he spent most of his childhood. He comes from a family of civil servicemen. His father is a police officer and two of his brothers serve in the military.
Last week’s Mandalorian season 3 episode meanders a bit without much payoff (for now, maybe) but it should feel familiar to Star Wars fans on a whole. The middle of the episode detours to entirely new(ish) characters for a while. Let’s get to it.
Spoilers ahead.
The episode opens where last week left off: Bo-Katan Kryze and Din Djarin collapsed on the steps of the living waters in the mines of Mandalore. When Djarin comes to, Bo-Katan asks him what he remembers, he observes that the waters were deeper than he’d thought but all he saw were caverns as he plummeted below the surface.