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According to US Central Command, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) initiated a wave of ballistic missile strikes from Iraq on Tuesday night. US regional defenses intercepted many of the attacks, with CENTCOM describing the IRGC missile attacks as an “attempted surprise attack.”
CENTCOM did not issue any further details.
The Army test fires a Patriot missile in a recent test.
After a Soviet ballistic missile submarine sank in 1968, they tried unsuccessfully to retrieve the lost vessel for two months. Maybe the CIA would have better luck.
The American intelligence agency wanted to see what cryptological information the disabled sub possibly contained. To do that, CIA agents needed an alibi to explain why a ship was hovering around where the K-129 sub went down approximately 1,800 miles northwest of Hawaii. It needed something plausible, a reason that did not arouse the Soviets’ suspicion during the Cold War.
The CIA had a problem.
The Aviationist
The CCA Experimental Operations Unit tested the uncrewed aircraft in Agile Combat Employment scenarios in a realistic operational environment
NDM
Air Force Undersecretary Matthew Lohmeier during a keynote speech July 27 gave a blunt assessment of the service’s current state, calling it “older, smaller and less ready than it needs…
Bowman, et al., NYP
The United States produces the most technologically advanced weapons in the world, but that’s not enough to deter and win future conflicts.
Aviation Week
The Pentagon on July 27 announced another new agreement with key companies to expand munition production
AeroVironment and Applied Intuition are teaming up to produce a drone capable of autonomously operating in swarms or “hunter-killer” teams under the direction of one operator, the companies announced Wednesday, marketing the collaboration to the Army’s Launched Effects program.
AV, best known for its Switchblade suite of loitering munitions, launched a new unmanned aerial system product line in April by unveiling the Mayhem 10. Now, Applied Intuition will add its Acuity ISR/Strike software to the drone so teams of Mayhem 10 platforms can operate autonomously, the companies said.
In June, the U.S. Department of Commerce informed the Dutch company ASML that it suspects one of its extreme ultraviolet lithography machines has reached China, an accusation that ASML denied, and for which no supporting evidence has yet been made public. ASML is the sole global producer of the machines capable of making the most advanced microchips. Whether China obtained a full extreme ultraviolet lithography scanner, major subsystems, or just related components, the strategic question is the same: How much can China gain from physical access to these pieces of the technology?The U.S.
On June 22, the United States announced that it had signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia. This type of agreement broadly authorizes trade in nuclear technology, equipment, and materials, but only if the agreement and the country in question meet defined nonproliferation requirements. They are called Section 123 agreements for the section of the 1957 U.S. Atomic Energy Act that lays out the specific conditions for them.