BLACKROCK CAMP, Fiji — The Pentagon is set to supply the Fiji Military Forces with new maritime assets and (pending Congress’ approval) $4.9 million in security assistance to help modernize and professionalize the island nation’s battalions, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters on Nov. 23.
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An Army Reserve master sergeant was arrested twice this month by Florida sheriffs for having inappropriate relationships with high school students while working as a substitute teacher.
Two different Florida county sheriff offices charged and arrested Army Reserve Master Sgt. Joseph Antoine Prevatte for sending inappropriate messages to high school students and in one case, having a sexual relationship with one of them.
Prevatte, 39, an intelligence non-commissioned officer, has been assigned to a Reserve detachment with Special Operations Command since March 14, 2022.
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Anyone familiar with downtown Moscow knows taxi drivers have a very rough time delivering passengers in the middle of the city.
Why? Because the Kremlin jams GPS in the capital in order to protect against Western GPS guided weapons.
It is possible the DHL flight which crashed into the ground on final approach in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, a mile before the runway, could have been impacted by similar GPS jamming out of the Russian exclave Kaliningrad.
Kaliningrad borders Lithuania where the accident took place.
How the U.S. military chooses and promotes its generals and admirals — the highest-ranking officers in the military — rarely gets attention. That changed this month with reports that officials appointed under President-elect Donald Trump may take a far more direct role in shaping the military’s general officer corps
Last week, the process that moves three- and four-star generals upwards came to the forefront when a promotion for Army Lt. Gen.
The Czech Army will cement its use of the Leopard 2A4 tanks in the coming years, with the current national variant T-72 to be withdrawn.
U.S. Naval Forces Central Command is steaming ahead with experimental efforts to launch unmanned aerial vehicles from uncrewed surface vessels.
The latest Digital Talon exercise, conducted earlier this month in the Middle East region, included a variety of robotic capabilities that could play a significant role in future conflicts.
“Digital Talon 3.
Bombardier Defense delivered its first Global 6500 business jet to the Army on Monday in a ceremony in Wichita, Kansas, to help close the service’s number one capability gap: deep sensing.
The jet will be the main platform for the High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES) program, the Army’s fixed wing aircraft-based intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance system that will replace the legacy RC-12 Guardrail.
The UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF), comprising ten Northern European countries, has concluded Exercise Joint Protector in Latvia.
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is considering revising the 2022 Nuclear Posture Review to maintain effective nuclear deterrence amid perceived growing threats from China and Russia and the potential absence of nuclear arms control agreements after February 2025.