The MQ-9 Reaper is the primary offensive strike unmanned aerial vehicle for the U.S. Air Force. Given its significant loiter time, wide-range sensors, multi-mode communications suite, and precision weapons -- it provides a unique capability to perform strike, coordination, and reconnaissance against high-value, fleeting, and time-sensitive targets
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Jumat, 30 Juli 2021
Kamis, 29 Juli 2021
U.S Navy Production of Block V Tomahawk cruise missile
The US Navy has given Raytheon Missiles & Defense the go ahead on production of the latest Block of the venerable Tomahawk cruise missile. The Block V variant will start work later this year, giving the missile a life extension of 15 years plus increased capabilities.
Rabu, 28 Juli 2021
Air Force Testing Out Weapons That Fry Enemy Drones with Directed Energy
The U.S. Air Force is testing new counter-drone systems that use either direct energy or microwaves to take out unmanned drones that pose a threat to troops and bases overseas.
The service announced this month that it has been testing an upgraded laser system, known as the High Energy Laser Weapon System 2, or H2, through a series of experiments that began last summer at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.
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Selasa, 27 Juli 2021
The Air Force with its Flying Car in 2021
The U.S. Air Force is planning to put its futuristic flying car through a series of tests next year that will help determine how the service can use the vehicle, at home or deployed.
The Air Force Research Lab's AFWERX innovation program announced the service's Agility Prime has cleared several regulations that moves planning forward for its "organic resupply bus," or ORB. The flying car, the S4 made by aerospace company Joby Aviation, passed a Technical Airworthiness Authority (TAA) evaluation, the initial step that enables the unusual aircraft "to fly under Air Force contract in early 2021," the service said in a December release.
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Senin, 26 Juli 2021
Selasa, 20 Juli 2021
The Army Is awarding contracts to Build Highly Mobile Light Tanks for In...
U.S. Army modernization officials are looking for defense firms capable of producing lightweight tanks to arm infantry brigades with more firepower for the future battlefield.
Program Executive Office for Ground Combat Systems released a market survey Friday afternoon under the Mobile Protected Firepower, or MPF, program to find companies able to manufacture hundreds of these highly mobile, light armored vehicles, according to the document, released on the U.S. federal contracting website.
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Senin, 19 Juli 2021
Army to Restart Design Competition for Bradley Replacement
The Bradley Fighting Vehicle is a tracked armored weapons system named for Gen. Omar Bradley, the last five-star general in the Army. It is designed to transport infantry and scout soldiers. In November 2020, nearly 300 troops from the 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, perfected their gunnery skills
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Minggu, 18 Juli 2021
Sabtu, 17 Juli 2021
Jumat, 16 Juli 2021
Kamis, 15 Juli 2021
The Air Force's Brand-New F-15EX Fighter Is About to Appear
The U.S. Air
Force is sending its new F-15EX fourth-plus generation fighter to
participate in a large-scale exercise in and around Alaska next month.
The 53rd Wing out
of Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, announced Thursday that the
F-15EX, now known as the Eagle II, will conduct operational tests
while flying in Exercise Northern Edge 21, a joint Indo-Pacific Command drill
incorporating approximately 15,000 service members from each branch,
multiple Navy ships and roughly 240 aircraft.
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Jumat, 09 Juli 2021
Senin, 05 Juli 2021
Air Force's Secret X 37B Space Plane Just Scored a Big Win
For the sixth time since 2010, the Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle has returned to orbit. The X-37B space vehicle began its latest mission on May 17, 2020, when it launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
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Minggu, 04 Juli 2021
Army Fields First New Air Defense Strykers in Europe
U.S. Army modernization officials have fielded the first Mobile Short Range Air Defense, or M-SHORAD, Stryker vehicles in Europe as part of a larger effort to beef up service's ability to defend its forces against enemy drones and other aerial threats.
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The development is certain to shock the defense community, which last saw the first flight of an experimental fighter during the battle for the Joint Strike Fighter contract 20 years ago. With the Air Force’s future fighter program still in its infancy, the rollout and successful first flight of a demonstrator was not expected for years.
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