The U.S. military will continue sending counter-drone capabilities to the Middle East in the days and weeks to come, according to a spokesperson for the Pentagon task force responsible for such assets, following a nine-figure C-UAS investment and amid uncertainty about the future of the Iran war.
Multiple experts told DefenseScoop that, despite the overall drone threat being known for years, U.S. military investments in countering them are well overdue.
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In the spring of 2023, a barren stretch of Wyoming highway briefly became the tactical hub of a three-day Army and Air Force exercise in which special operators unloaded nimble attack helicopters from cargo planes as attack jets and drones watched overhead.
At the center of the exercise — dubbed Agile Chariot — was a “missing pilot.” Once unfolded, the helicopters, draped with commandos dangling their feet in the air, bolted to go find him, as escort fighters buzzed above.
A federal grand jury in North Carolina indicted a former Army employee at Fort Bragg this week for allegedly revealing classified national defense information to a journalist.
Courtney Williams served in a support capacity for the Special Operations unit Delta Force from 2010 to 2016. As such, she held a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance. A grand jury indicted Williams on Wednesday, one day after her arrest.
The US Army is seeking to achieve “decision dominance” on the modern battlefield through the launch of the Army Data Operations Center (ADOC).
Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg set up a new unit to lead all the Pentagon’s work that involves fusing economic leverage and requirements into joint U.S. military planning and operations, according to a memorandum obtained by DefenseScoop.
The two-page memo formally establishes the Economic Defense Unit and the position of EDU director, who will oversee the new hub and report to Feinberg as the deputy secretary’s principal advisor for economic competition across the Defense Department.
The Ukrainian bounty hunters scavenging the streets for fighters again beat a man unconscious.
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The Finnish Ministry of Defence has placed an additional order for K9 Self-Propelled Howitzers (SPH) from South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace.
James Doohan’s first day of combat came during the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. He almost didn’t make it to his second, all because of a friendly fire incident.
Doohan, who played chief engineer Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery Scott (“Scotty”) on the 1960s television classic “Star Trek,” served as a lieutenant in the Canadian army during World War II. On D-Day, he survived a turbulent landing at Juno Beach, and as the troops advanced inland, he shot and killed two German snipers.
Footage released by Qatari state media has for the first time shown the destruction on the ground of the AN/FPS-132 Block 5 Upgraded Early Warning Radar near Umm Dahal in Qatar, showing substantial internal damage after Iranian attacks on February 28. The radar is one of the most important and capable ground-based radar systems in the U.S. global missile warning architecture, although its extreme cost prevents widespread deployments, meaning the radar in Qatar is the only one of its kind outside the U.S. mainland.
Sources speaking to CBS News have reported that the U.S. Air Force has lost 24 MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft during engagements with Iranian forces. This represents a significant increase from the 16 that had been lost by the beginning of the month, with eight more reported to have been shot down from April 1-9. Losses in early April have reportedly been particularly concentrated around Shiraz and the island of Kish. The updated report on the number of MQ-9s shot down has closely coincided with the reported disappearance of an even higher value type of unmanned aircraft, a U.S.