Latest Feature Stories No article today in this section Latest Press Releases Japan, UK to Develop Common Airframe for Next-Gen Fighters: Report Joint development of a next-generation fighter jet for Japan and the United Kingdom will likely involve a common airframe, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. Arrangements to integrate the development pl... Sukhoi Wins New Production Order for Su-57 Fighters, Su-34 Bombers: Tass PATRIOT PARK, Russia --- Four serial-produced Su-57 fifth-generation multirole fighter jets have been built today under a state contract with Russia’s Defense Ministry, CEO of the United Aircraft Corp... US Army Testing Autonomous HIMARS Launcher REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. --- Imagine the possibilities of a self-driving vehicle on the battlefield. Engineers at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center, or AvMC... Missile-Defense Exercise in Hawaii Includes First Live-Fire Intercept FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii --- The Navy and its Pacific allies recently demonstrated their ability to use the Aegis Combat System to down ballistic missiles of the type tested by North Korea this year. T... Raytheon Says Hypersonic Missile Passes Second Consecutive Test A hypersonic cruise missile co-developed by Raytheon Technologies has passed its second flight test in a row – an important milestone in the U.S. Department of Defense’s plan to field weapons that tra... China Issues New Warnings for Naval Exercises in Yellow Sea Weihai maritime safety authorities issued a passage warning on early Wednesday morning that military activities will be carried out in parts of the Yellow Sea waters starting from 8:30 am Wednesday to... US Launches Unarmed Minuteman ICBM in Deferred Test BARKSDALE AFB, La. --- A joint team of Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen and Navy crew members launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a test reentry ve... MDA Chief: Mid-course Defense, Guam, Hypersonics Are Lead Issues Last year, the Missile Defense Agency awarded contracts to Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin to advance development of its next generation interceptor, or NGI program — a key component of its groun... S. Korea, US Kick Off Military Drills, Hold High-Level Defense Talks South Korea and the United States on Tuesday kicked off preliminary military drills in the run-up to revived large-scale military exercises while holding high-level defense talks on the alliance’s det... Russia’s Upgraded Missile Early Warning System Begins Operational Tests PATRIOT PARK, Russia --- Russia’s upgraded ballistic missile early warning system has gone on experimental combat alert, System Chief Designer, CEO of the Vympel Inter-State Corporation Sergey Boyev s... BAE Wins Order for Advanced Seekers for THAAD Missile BAE Systems has received a contract from Lockheed Martin to design and manufacture next-generation infrared seeker technology for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor missile. T... US Air Force Receives First F-35A Intended for Block IV Testing EDWARDS AFB, Calif. --- The newest F-35A, straight out of the factory, found its new home here at Edwards Air Force Base, California, Aug. 1. The aircraft, Air Force serial number 338, is the first... Latvia Delivers Six M109A5Oe Self-Propelled Howitzers to Ukraine The Ministry of Defense informs that, in accordance with the decision of the extraordinary meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on July 28, Latvia has delivered to Ukraine six self-propelled howitzers ... Swedish Instructors to Train Ukrainian Troops in UK Planning is in full swing in the army and in a few weeks the Swedish instructors will be on site in Great Britain. In October, the first Ukrainians begin to be trained in, among other things, weapons ... General Atomics Tests PT6E Engine on MQ-9B Unmanned Aircraft SAN DIEGO --- On July 29, 2022, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) tested a PT6 E-Series model turboprop engine from Pratt & Whitney Canada on GA-ASI’s MQ-9B Remotely Piloted Aircraft... Elbit Wins $240M Contracts to Upgrade Tanks for Foreign Customer HAIFA, Israel --- Elbit Systems Ltd announced today that it was awarded two contracts, in an aggregate amount valued at $240 million, to upgrade Main Battle Tanks (MBT) for an international customer. ... German Army Introduces ASUL Counter-Drone Defense System KOBLENZ, Germany --- At the Koblenz-based Federal Office for Equipment, Information Technology and Use of the Federal Armed Forces (BAAINBw), the employees of the office were presented with the new "d... Russian ‘Ufa’ Submarine Resumes Factory Sea Trials JSC "Admiralty Shipyards" (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) has started the second stage of factory sea trials of a large diesel-electric submarine of Project 636 "Ufa". The first stage... Defense Minister Hands Over New Equipment to Indian Army Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh handed over indigenously-developed equipment and systems to the Indian Army in New Delhi on August 16, 2022. These include Future Infantry Soldier as a System (F-INSAS... Colorado Guard First to Receive Modernized UH-72B Helicopter BUCKLEY, Colo. --- The Colorado National Guard Army Aviation Support Facility received Aug. 4 the first two of 18 UH-72B Lakota helicopters purchased by the Department of Defense exclusively for the U... Serbia Displays Newly-Produced Weapons and Military Equipment Today, President of the Republic and Supreme Commander of the Serbian Armed Forces, Aleksandar Vučić, together with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Nebojša Stefanović, PhD, and Chief of ... Ingalls Lays Keel for Future Destroyer USS Jeremiah Denton The keel for the future USS Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129), a Flight III Arleigh-Burke class destroyer was ceremonially laid at Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division, August 16.... DCMA Delivers Final QF-16 “Zombie Viper” Target to US Air Force JACKSONVILLE, Fla. --- Defense Contract Management Agency Aircraft Integrated Maintenance Operations St. Augustine personnel celebrated the delivery of the final QF-16 “Zombie Viper” Full Scale Aerial... Darpa Picks Teams to Work on Next-Gen Battlefield Obscurants DARPA has selected multiple teams of researchers for the agency’s Coded Visibility (CV) program. CV aims to develop tailorable, tunable, safe obscurants that provide warfighters with an asymmetric adv... |