COLOGNE, Germany — Dutch shipbuilder Damen has picked Thales to supply the combat management system for the four new German MKS 180 warships, the companies announced Wednesday.
The contract, worth an estimated €1.5 billion (U.S. $1.8 billion), includes Thales’ Tacticos system, which connects all of the ship’s communications and radar systems with its guns and missiles. Also included…
US Navy destroyer shoots down an ICBM in milestone test
November 17, 2020
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy has shot down an intercontinental ballistic missile over the Pacific Ocean with an SM-3 Block IIA missile in a milestone test that demonstrated a potential scheme to defend Hawaii, the Missile Defense Agency announced Tuesday morning.
The…
US Army’s heavy ground robot reaches full-rate production
November 17, 2020
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army’s heavy common ground robot has reached full-rate production, less than a year after FLIR won the contract to deliver the system, FLIR’s vice president in charge of unmanned ground systems told Defense News in an interview this month.
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The US Navy is moving to put more ship-killer missiles on submarines
November 17, 2020
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy is pushing ahead with fielding more anti-ship cruise missiles on submarines in the Pacific, the head of U.S. Navy Submarine Forces said Monday.
As the U.S. fleet grapples with the rising threat of China’s expanding Navy, which now has more ships than the U.S. Navy’s fleet on both coasts combined, the service is packing its submarines with longer-range weapons…
SEALs, Green Berets Join Large Defense Drill in Sweden
November 16, 2020
Swedish Special Forces together with U.S. Navy Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewman and Special Reconnaissance Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) operators assigned to Naval Special Warfare Command perform UUV launch and recovery training utilizing a Combatant Craft Medium…
The Iron Dome air-defense system fires to intercept a rocket over the city of Ashdod on July 8, 2014, in Ashdod, Israel. (Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images)
The U.S. Army announced today that it has activated two air-defense batteries at Fort Bliss, Texas that will test the…
In F-35 sale to UAE, Senate seeks State Dept. guarantee for US technology and Israel
November 14, 2020
WASHINGTON ― Senate appropriators are calling on the State Department to certify that a pending sale of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to the United Arab Emirates would not threaten Israel’s military edge or make U.S. military systems vulnerable to Russia and China.
The bipartisan legislation, introduced Nov. 10 by the GOP-led Senate Appropriations Committee, represents another potential hurdle…
Top US Air Force general wants to go faster, but the biggest changes won’t happen for another year
November 14, 2020
WASHINGTON — Shortly after U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown took command this August, he vowed to quickly adopt a radical plan to overhaul the service in preparation for a future fight against an advanced nation, like Russia or China.
But the Air…
WASHINGTON — Senate appropriators want the Army to move more quickly to buy vehicles capable of operating in the Arctic, according to its version of the fiscal 2021 defense spending bill released Nov. 10.
“The committee encourages the Secretary of the Army to pursue…
National Museum Dedicated to Army Debuts on Veterans Day
November 13, 2020
A marker commemorating the service of Sgt. William Carney, a former slave who served in the 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry Regiment and became the first African American Medal of Honor recipient, is displayed outside the new National Museum of the United States Army on Nov. 10, 2020, in Fort Belvoir, Va. (AP Photo/Matthew Barakat)
FORT BELVOIR, Virginia — A sword from the defense of…
