U.S. planes will continue to fly “where permitted by international law,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu on Wednesday as the two ministers discussed Tuesday’s incident over the Black Sea, in which U.S. planes Moscow planes caused the downing of an American drone.
Russia denies involvement and blames the United States for conducting “hostile” flights in the area. However, the United States alleges a Russian Su-27 collided with an MQ-9, prompting the drone to be shot down in the Black Sea.
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A conceptual image, displayed at DSEI Japan 2023, showing how the UUV and semi-submersible USV developed by IHI Corporation will work together with the mother vessel to counter mines. (Janes/Oishee Majumdar)
Japanese heavy-industry manufacturer, IHI Corporation, has developed an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) to detect mines. The system has been delivered to the Japan Coast Guard and will also be provided to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), a company official told
Janes
at DSEI Japan 2023 being held in Chiba from 15 to 17 March.
Munitions are the currency of exchange in armed conflicts. The existing acquisition and procurement process exposes the defense industrial base to significant short- and long-term risks: hampering America’s capacity to surge production and impairing military effectiveness in a sustained peer or near-peer conflict. At present, the availability of ammunition is becoming a key determinant of […]
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The US Coast Guard’s fiscal year 2024 proposed budget requests sustainment funding for ships such as the icebreaker USCGC
Healy
.
(Michael Fabey)
The US Coast Guard (USCG) is requesting about USD13.5 billion in its fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget proposal, compared with the USD13.9 billion enacted in FY 2023, according to USCG budget documents.
The FY 2024 budget requests USD10.2 billion for Operations and Support (O&S) and USD1.6 billion for procurement, construction, and improvements (PC&I).
Funding requested by PC&I includes USD1.
Ghost Robotics plans to deliver at least six units of its Vision 60 UGV to the Japanese Self-Defense Forces in 2024, a company official told
Janes
on 15 March. The company has displayed Vision 60 at the DSEI Japan 2023 show being held in Chiba.
(Janes/Oishee Majumdar)
Philadelphia-based Ghost Robotics plans to deliver at least six units of its Vision 60 (V60) quadrupedal unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) to the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) in 2024, a company official told
Janes
at the DSEI Japan 2023 show being held in Chiba.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has displayed a new USV (pictured) at DSEI Japan 2023, which will be able to automatically launch and recover expendable mine disposal systems and smaller unmanned systems. (Janes/Oishee Majumdar)
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) unveiled an unmanned surface vessel (USV) it has developed, named Whale, at DSEI Japan 2023 being held in Chiba from 15 to 17 March.
According to company specifications, the Whale USV has a length of 8.8 m, a beam of 3.05 m, and weighs about 6 tons. The system is equipped with a folding mast. The Whale has a height of 6.
AI-enabled autonomous weapons will surely at some point find themselves pointed at human targets and that’s when things will become terrifying.
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(U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Colton Elliott)
The U.S. Air Force is again looking to retire its fleet of iconic U-2S Dragon Lady spy planes by 2026, according to a new report. The service is also reportedly sticking to its previously announced plan to get rid of its remaining RQ-4 Global Hawk drones, the fate of which has often been intertwined with that of the U-2s, within four years.
Norway announced on Tuesday the purchase of six US-made Seahawk helicopters for more than $1 billion to replace the European NH90s it gave up after a series of delays and setbacks.
Fed up with delivery delays and performance problems, the Norwegian government decided last June to cancel a contract for the supply of 14 NH90s from the European industrial consortium NH Industries (NHI).
Six of those planes were destined for the Norwegian Navy to combat submarines, and the other eight for coast guard rescue and surveillance missions.
War Hippies frontmen, Donnie Reis and Scott “Scooter” Brown, are tearing up country music. And they both credit their time serving America for it all.
Reis never intended to enlist in the Army, though he had a long family history of service. A violinist, he received a full-ride music scholarship to Miami University. Just as his sophomore year was beginning, everything changed. “I was the first person in my family to go to college. The day I watched the towers go down I went right to the dean and told him I was going to enlist,” he shared.