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Soldiers from the British Army have recently carried out a series of training drills with new AH-64E helicopters, preparing it for future frontline service deployments.
The drills were undertaken by the UK’s 3 Regiment Army Air Corps, as part of the two-week-long Exercise Talon Guardian.
The activity allowed the British Army’s soldiers, who are responsible for operating the new Apache aircraft, to hone and adapt new skillsets and tactics for countering emerging battlefield adversaries.

It also maximised the capabilities of the aircraft.

Northrop Grumman has begun the full production of propulsion system used with the US Army’s guided multiple launch rocket system (GMLRS).
This signifies the fulfilment of the Army’s full contract production quantity.
The latest milestone comes after the company successfully handed over the 15,000th rocket motor and 20,000th warhead to Lockheed Martin to complete their final integration onto the GMLRS weapon system.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is reverberating more than 1,000 miles away in Syria. Squeezed by its strategic blunder, Moscow’s shrinking strategic bandwidth and its diminished capacities in Syria have disrupted the conflict’s complex power dynamics, potentially imperiling the relative calm that has prevailed since March 2020 and undermining U.S. interests. Amidst feverish jockeying among regional […]
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Ukraine may be one step closer to receiving modern Western tanks as well as Styker armored combat vehicles.
The British Defense Ministry (MoD) is considering sending Kyiv a limited number of Challenger 2 main battle tanks, according to a report Monday by Sky News while Poland is considering sending Leopard 2 tanks, according to The Associated Press. If that happens, it would mark the first time Ukraine has received non-Soviet-era tanks from NATO members. And Politico on Monday reported that the U.S.

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Canada has finalized a deal with the U.S. government and Lockheed Martin for the procurement of 88 F-35A Lightning II stealth jets, the first of which are expected to be delivered to the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in 2026. This looks to bring what has been a prolonged and fraught procurement process to a close, some eight years after Justin Trudea publicly promised not to purchase any F-35 jets before becoming the Canadian Prime Minister in 2015.

U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Micah Coate

U.S. Air Forces Central, or AFCENT, has established a small but highly agile unit focused on rapidly innovating new capabilities that the service badly needs to confront emerging tactical problems in a very tough neighborhood. Forward stationed at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, they too live and operate in that neighborhood. To learn more about this unique outfit and its mission, officially named Task Force 99, The War Zone spoke with its commander.

Barbara McQuiston recently moved on from her tenure as the Pentagon’s deputy chief technology officer for S&T to serve in a full-time capacity as chair of the board of directors for NATO’s new Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North-Atlantic (DIANA) initiative, DefenseScoop has learned.

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Nearly 14 years after officially ‘retiring’ its F-117A Nighthawk stealth combat jets, the Air Force may now be looking to keep them flying through at least 2034. A portion of the remaining F-117A fleet, flown by Air Force test pilots, has been very actively used for research and development, test and evaluation, and training purposes in recent years. This has included using the jets as ‘red air’ aggressors and as surrogates for stealthy cruise missiles during large-scale exercises.

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U.S. officials have been touting hypersonic weapons as game-changing capabilities. However, recent wargames indicate that those systems would likely have a limited impact in a future fight against China over Taiwan if such a conflict were to take place in the next few years.