AeroVironment on Wednesday unveiled Mayhem 10, the first in a new product line of unmanned aerial systems that the company plans to market to the Army and other potential customers.
Best known for its Switchblade family of kamikaze drones or loitering munitions, AeroVironment describes its new platform as an “autonomous, multi-role launched effects system” with payload flexibility that allows it to perform precision strike, intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), electronic warfare, or communications relay missions.
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After the president’s FY27 budget request zeroed out funding for the new engine, GE said more money is needed to finish qualification testing.
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A new image of aerial refueling trials gives us our first full overhead look at the B-21 and a glimpse at some very interesting features.
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ADOC leads Army’s shift to data-centric operations by connecting commanders to enterprise data for timely decisions.
The Navy photographer who snapped a defining photo of the Artemis II astronaut crew’s return to Earth swears he wasn’t trying to create an iconic American image. In fact, he barely even recalls taking it.
“To be honest, I don’t even remember taking the photo,” Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class August Clawson told Task & Purpose. Clawson snapped the photo April 10 on the deck of the USS John P. Murtha after two Navy helicopters retrieved the Artemis crew from their Pacific Ocean splashdown, just as the sun began to set.
Improvise, adapt, and overcome. This is a mantra of the U.S. Marine Corps, but throughout American history, U.S. troops have demonstrated their capacity for extraordinary innovation and determination.
One of the most powerful examples of that determined spirit came during the Civil War, when Union troops under Ulysses S. Grant constructed an enormous pontoon bridge across the James River.
The U.S. Army has exhausted its entire stockpiles of the new Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) since the initiation of military operations against Iran, when the missile saw its first ever combat use to strike targets deep inside the country from positions in the Persian Gulf. Head of the Transformation Department at the U.S. Army’s Center of Excellence for Fire Support Jimmy Arter observed regarding the expenditure of the missiles: “We used up all our PRSM arsenal at the beginning of the war, but we’re already receiving new ones.
What happens when one of the defense industry’s leading technology integrators partners with one of Silicon Valley’s most influential venture firms? Bryce Pippert of Booz Allen and Matt Cronin of Andreessen Horowitz join Ryan to unpack their new partnership and discuss how the United States is trying to tap into the tech ecosystem. The conversation gets into venture capital’s growing role in national security, how this partnership is supposed to work in practice, and why getting real technology into government hands is still harder than it should be.
Satellite imagery has revealed that the Algerian People’s National Army is rapidly constructing underground bunkers and hangars near the Moroccan border, in an apparent response to the shift in ground warfare brought on by advances in drone and loitering munition technologies that has been widely observed in the Ukrainian theatre.
The recent news that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death was caused by epibatidine — a South American frog toxin — has reignited interest in state use of poisons and toxins in assassinations. Although state use of such compounds has a long history, the erosion of the norms prohibiting assassinations and chemical and biological weapons increases the likelihood of future assassinations using poisons and toxins.