The Defense Innovation Unit successfully launched a 3D-printed hypersonic testbed manufactured by a commercial vendor on Friday as part of an effort to broaden the Pentagon’s ability to try out the complex, high-speed platforms.
During the mission — dubbed Cassowary Vex — the DART AE technology demonstrator developed by Australian company Hypersonix was deployed into a suborbital environment via Rocket Lab’s Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) launch vehicle.
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For as long as troops have loaded bombs onto planes, they’ve marked them with scrawled messages or even their own names.
That tradition appeared to continue this week among sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln, as pictures released by U.S. Central Command showed. A series of photos posted on Department of Defense websites showed sailors on the Lincoln arranging GBU-31 bombs on the ship’s deck, in preparation for loading onto an F/A–18 strike fighter. Navy Aviation Ordnancemen, or AOs, huddled over the weapons in their distinctive red vests.
Photonis Defense has secured a contract from the US Army Contracting Command for the Binocular Night Observation Device (BiNOD) programme.
Marines assigned to the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, recently fired their weapons in self-defense after they were attacked by protestors who had breached the facility, a U.S. official told Task & Purpose.
Reuters first reported that the Marines had fired their weapons when protesters tried to storm the consulate on Sunday following the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, who was killed the day prior during air and missile strikes against Iran launched by Israel and the United States.
The Army took another step Monday in its journey to beef up its communications and electromagnetic spectrum capabilities, releasing a solicitation for a “radio frequency-delivered effects” platform that can be easily transported and employed by troops on the battlefield.
The service in recent years has been pushing to enhance its EMS prowess and ability to share data, including via its “transforming-in-contact” initiative and Next Generation Command and Control effort.
The RF Delivered Effects Platform – Portable 2.
From the outset of the campaign, the US and Israel almost immediately achieved air superiority, exposing issues with Iran’s air defences.
In a letter addressed to U.S. troops the same day that American forces began striking targets inside Iran, the top commander in the Middle East said that the military was moving from “deterrence into active combat” and that those involved in the operation, dubbed Epic Fury, would “change the course of human history.”
The letter, dated Feb. 28 and signed “C.B. Cooper II,” was written by Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), Task & Purpose confirmed.
It was supposed to be a standard intercept. In the pitch-black maelstrom over the Kuwaiti desert, three F-15E Strike Eagles from the 335th Fighter Squadron were hunting for Iranian suicide drones. They’re the low-budget, flying, exploding lawnmowers that Iran had been lobbing by the hundreds into the region.
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But the F-15s, multi-role aircraft designed to own every inch of the sky, didn’t fall to Iranian steel; instead, they fell to our own allies.
The Italian Ministry of Defence has awarded BAE Systems OneArc a contract to upgrade the Italian Army’s virtual training environment.