Friday, Feb 4 The Biden administration has approved the sale of 16 F-16 Fighting Falcon fighters to Jordan. Here, Jordanian and U.S. F-16s wait on the flightline at Misawa Air Base, Japan, during a 2014 exercise. (Staff Sgt. Tyler McLain/Air Force) The Biden...
DARPA flies a Black Hawk helicopter without a pilot for 30 minutes The Black Hawk is kitted out with Sikorsky Matrix autonomous flying technology. DARPA's ALIAS program was used to fly the helicopter autonomously. DARPA The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...
The use of artificial intelligence in military applications is undeniably growing. While many systems are at an experimental stage, the technology is maturing rapidly. At the end of 2021, NATO officially implemented its first artificial intelligence (AI) strategy. The...
M1 Abrams are the only active main battle tanks of the US Army Via: Sgt. Christopher McCullough Main battle tanks are key military weapons as they provide direct fire and durability on the battlefield. Today, it's common to see military units that consist of main...
Why The Tiger I Tank Was So Terrifying By Henry Kelsall Its thick armor and powerful 88 mm gun meant it could take on pretty much anything that Britain, America and the Soviet Union had. via Tank Encyclopedia In the earlier years of the Second World War, Germany’s...
Senior Airman Cameron Manson inspects cargo netting on palletized ammunition, weapons and other equipment bound for Ukraine during a Foreign Military Sales mission at Dover Air Force Base, Del., on Jan. 24, 2022. (Roland Balik/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON ― The Pentagon...
Jan 26, 11:27 PM A setup of the British military's Land Environment Air Picture Provision (LEAPP) is pictured in 2015. (British Army photo, via Wikimedia Commons) LONDON – The British Army is upgrading its existing command-and-control, battlespace-management...
The US military has indicated its interest in commercial supersonic flight by granting as much as $60 million to Boom Supersonic for its airliner development efforts. The Colorado-based company has announced that the Air Force awarded a three-year contract to Boom to...
STM modernized the Turkish Naval Forces Command's submarines. (Courtesy of STM) After securing great success in developing, operating and exporting its domestic unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Turkey is preparing for similar success stories with mini-submarines in...
The Russian Navy is kicking off several simultaneous exercises, with ships from the Baltic and Black seas and its Northern Fleet sortieing from their homeports across Europe, the Kremlin has announced. More than 140 warships and support vessels, along with 60 aircraft...