by | Jun 25, 2024 | Security
The Marines recently landed their first fixed wing aircraft on a recertified airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu, which jarheads captured after brutal combat in 1944. The KC-130J Super Hercules tanker with 1st Marine Air Wing landed Saturday, marking the first...
by | Jun 25, 2024 | Security
ROME — Work on fixed-wing and tiltrotor drones is taking up the slack at an Italian facility run by Leonardo, which has been hit by a slowdown caused by sluggish civil contracts from Boeing, the firm has said. Leonardo had told unions in Rome that the plant at...
by | Jun 25, 2024 | Security
MOSCOW — The sole Russian company that produces Tu-160M bombers has completed upgrades to three workshops, it announced June 24. United Aircraft Corp., which owns Tupolev and the Kazan Aircraft Plant, said upgrades were done for preproduction, mechanical assembly and...
by | Jun 25, 2024 | Security
The U.S. Army said it fired its newly fielded Precision Strike Missile from the Pacific island of Palau and engaged a moving target at sea, marking the first time the weapon has been used outside of American-based testing sites. The first set of Precision Strike...
by | Jun 25, 2024 | Security
PARIS — The French Navy took delivery of its first serial-produced, quantum-technology sensor this year, a quantum gravimeter used for mapping the seabed, the head of the country’s defense innovation agency AID said. Future uses of such sensors could be for navigation...
by | Jun 25, 2024 | Security
The latest Future Years Defense Program, for fiscal 2025, shows continued support within the Pentagon for dramatic growth in spending on so-called sixth-generation aircraft, most prominently including the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance and the Navy’s F/A-XX...
by | Jun 24, 2024 | Security
The U.S. will have fully cleared out of one air base in Niger as it continues to move personnel and equipment from the African country ahead of a September deadline to complete its withdrawal, according to the head of U.S. Africa Command. Niger and the U.S. announced...
by | Jun 24, 2024 | Security
SANTIAGO, Chile — The Argentine Army will begin receiving its first modernized 2CA2 medium tanks in September, with a dozen to be delivered by year’s end, military sources in Buenos Aires told Defense News. The more detailed confirmation follows a hint from the...
by | Jun 24, 2024 | Security
PARIS — Western gun makers are exploring the potential of small arms to counter small drones, turning cheap and widely available weapons into last-resort defenses against an emerging threat. The shift is playing out on the battlefields of eastern Ukraine, where...
by | Jun 24, 2024 | Security
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Despite China’s notorious secrecy surrounding all things defense, there are indications it is making progress on a sixth-generation fighter. Perhaps the clearest admission came from a WeChat social media post by Aviation Industry...
