Competition To Build An Army Stryker That Zaps Drone Swarms Heats Up
A Stryker armed with a high-power microwave weapon joins a field with two other designs equipped with turreted lasers.
A Stryker armed with a high-power microwave weapon joins a field with two other designs equipped with turreted lasers.
Just as with the aging CH-53Es it will replace, scenes like this aboard CH-53Ks will become a staple of Marine infantry for decades to come.
A new carbon transformation process could be game-changing for the Air Force, which spends billions annually to buy fuel and ship it around the world.
Hunker down in the bunker.
The Navy remains tight-lipped as to what the nuclear submarine hit in the South China Sea and the damage that was done.
Wildcat helicopters tasked with protecting Royal Navy ships can carry 10 of the lightweight air-to-surface missiles now, and potentially 20 soon.
Army Special Forces soldiers knocked out "enemy" air defenses, snooped on mock missile silos, and sabotaged a simulated port in a recent exercise.
A sailor's life is never easy, but there can be some great times among the challenges.
The chosen trainer would be expected to offer fighter-like qualities and take the strain off the frontline combat fleet.
The test appeared set to loft a hypersonic craft beyond the range of any existing known U.S. boost-glide vehicle-based weapon in development.
The joint patrol first passed through a 12-mile-wide strait between Japan's main islands in an already significant show of force.
Project Pele is one potentially revolutionary, albeit controversial, answer to the military's growing battlefield energy requirements.
Northrop Grumman is now working to convert four RQ-4s as Range Hawks to gather data on the new breed of hypersonic weapons.
The military hopes its new mini nuclear reactor will lead to new battlefield energy capabilities and help power its sprawling installations.
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The swing-wing bombers are back at the remote Indian Ocean outpost at a time of rising tensions in the wider Asia-Pacific region.
The missile appears to be very similar to a mysterious short-range type that Kim Jong Un recently showed off at an arms showcase in Pyongyang.
These kinds of skills are increasingly seen as vital for the Navy to survive a future large-scale maritime conflict.
Growing threats to the homeland, especially from advanced cruise missiles, have prompted new initiatives aimed at defending key sites.
The aging rotorcraft filled a unique firefighting niche but maintaining them eventually became too troublesome.