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The Navy originally conceived of the FFG(X) frigate as a small, inexpensive warship with modest combat capabilities that would complement the fleet's bigger, pricier and more sophisticated destroyers and cruisers. But in the five years since the sailing branch decided it needed a new frigate, ...

The latest announcement of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) cutting its size by 50% is unsurprising yet consequential. This steep reduction brings about a structural transformation announced by President Xi Jinping and consistent with the military reforms introduced in 2015. ...

The Navy is building two new large drone ships to coordinate synchronized attacks, perform command and control across fleets of Unmanned Surface Vessels and conduct high-risk maritime missions such as anti-submarine operations, mine countermeasures, surface warfare and forward-deployed surveillance. ...

A Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser and a dry cargo ship collided stern-to-stern during a resupply operation in the Atlantic off the southeastern coast of the U.S., the Navy announced Tuesday.The cruiser Leyte Gulf and cargo ship Robert E. ...

The US Navy's AN/SPY-6(V)1 Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) successfully tracked a ballistic missile target in the system's final developmental test. The test took place on January 31 and involved the launch of a short range ballistic missile target from the Pacific Missile Range Facility. ...

As the U.S. military ramps up for a possible major battle with Russia or China, the Pentagon is taking steps to ensure that irregular warfare is not forgotten as a critical tool for defeating near-peer adversaries before the fight begins, Defense Department officials said.'As a department, ...

WASHINGTON — A day after President Donald Trump defended plans to pull troops from Syria in his State of the Union address, a top Pentagon official said a withdrawal would make the military less effective against the Islamic State group and that he didn't understand the strategic thinking behind it. ...

One of the highest-ranking officers in the California National Guard told lawmakers Tuesday that the state is not removing transgender soldiers and airmen from its ranks despite efforts by the Trump administration to bar transgender people from the armed forces.'As long as you fight, ...

Estonian Minister of Defence Juri Luik confirmed the Ministry of Defence's action plan for the period 2020-2023. According to Estonian Minister of Defence Luik, servicemen are at the centre of the new action plan. 'In 2018, together with the Commander of the Defence Forces, ...

US Navy's newly-commissioned aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) recently wrapped up the first-ever live fire testВ of the latest generation of the Ship Self Defense System, or SSDS, Integrated Combat System on the Self Defense Test Ship. ...

A Norfolk-based junior officer entered a guilty plea at court-martial last week to charges involving sexual harassment and assault, according to charge sheets and officials. Lt. j.g. Ruben L. Anderson, an aerospace engineering duty officer with Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 26, ...

If the Marine Corps Marathon just isn't enough of a challenge for you, you can soon tack on a few more miles and add a new ultra-run to your bucket list.The marathon's first-ever 50-kilometer race will be held Oct. 27, race officials announced Wednesday. Registration for the new race opens Feb. ...

But the AAA study appears to be the first to have used standard, repeatable methodology to confirm the problem. It compared the effect of winter temperatures on different models.AAA tested the BMW i3s, the Chevrolet Bolt EV, the Nissan Leaf, the Tesla Model S and the Volkswagen e-Golf. ...

A Ticonderoga–class guided-missile cruiser collided with a Military Sealift Command-operated cargo ship during an underway replenishment off the southeastern coast of the United States, Feb. 5, the US Navy said. Cruiser USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55) and Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship USNS Robert E. ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Army soldiers struggle to haul heavy sleds backward as fast as they can down a grassy field at Fort Bragg, filling the brisk North Carolina morning air with grunts of exertion and the shouts of instruction from their coaches. Watching from the sidelines, Sgt. Maj. ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The chief of naval operations upped his rhetoric regarding Russian and Chinese 'gray-zone' aggression, ...

More than five years ago, I boarded a shuttle bus from the Pentagon to Capitol Hill for the first of many briefings to congressional staffers on the Army's plan to consolidate its cyber institutions at Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia. Most staffers were polite, professional, ...

Once either China or Russia manages to put together a long wave IRST, high-speed data-links, and the computers and algorithms for multi-ship sensor fusion, the ability of U.S. fifth-generation fighters to operate independently will diminish. ...

GM's electric vehicles won't be profitable for a few more years, said GM CEO Mary BarraThe automaker gave no specific details on when it will release an electric pickup General Motors does not expect its electric vehicles to turn a profit for at least a few more years, ...

Army Spc. Kevin Holyan arrived especially early at the Hopkinsville, Ky., home of his former barracks mate, who had been promoted to sergeant and was celebrating with a party that evening in April 2017.Holyan, ...

Criticism is one thing, but President Donald Trump's attacks on the press could be dangerous, says New York Times CEO Mark Thompson.'It could encourage people to do crazy things in relation to news organizations and individual reporters,' he says. ...

The US Navy marked retirement of its last legacy McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet fleet in a fly-over ceremony at sunset on 1 February at Naval Air Station Oceania in Virginia Beach, Virginia.The Blue Blasters of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 34 were the last squadron in the USN flying the Hornet, ...

'You're not looking at my mission needs,' Brig. Gen. Crall told an audience of contractors. 'If 'there's an app for that,' does the app work when you're disconnected?' Crall asked. 'Does the app work when you haven't had food for three days and you've been cut off?'

'Autonomy may look like an Achilles' heel, and in a lot of ways it is' – but for both sides, DTRA's Nick Wager said. 'I think that's as much opportunity as that is vulnerability. We are good at this… and we can be better than the threat.'

The U.S. Army will buy the Israeli-made Iron Dome air-defense system to protect soldiers from indirect-fire threats on the battlefield.'The U.S. ...

WASHINGTON: The Navy needs to increase both the number and complexity of its wargames, the service's top admiral said Wednesday, citing rapid advances being made by competitors in cyber and information warfare tactics that will muddy and confuse future battlefields. While Adm. ...

The US Navy's next Independence-variant littoral combat ship will be named USS Pierre (LCS 38), theВ Secretary of the Navy has announced. The future USS Pierre (LCS 38) is named in honor of the capital city of South Dakota and is the second ship to bear the name. ...

The Pentagon has almost completed a study of how to shoot down hypersonic missiles. It's also developing new offensive weapons -- conventional, not nuclear -- whose deployment will become legal with the end of the INF Treaty.

Born as what most thought was a joke in March 2018, President Trump's Space Force had by June become a White House directive to the Pentagon. Since then the Trump Administration has been considering possible variants in the Force's subordination, authorities, size, and budget, ...

WASHINGTON — The Air Force has found an architect to run its uber-complicated Advanced Battle Management System program, which will replace JSTARS ground surveillance planes with a network of existing and new air and space-based sensors. Will Roper, the service's top acquisition official, ...

Germany's defense procurement agencyВ BAAINBw is seeking to replace the current SMART-L radars aboard the German Navy's Sachsen-class (F124) air-defense frigates, according to a request for information (RFI) issued on January 28. As stated in the RFI, ...

From 1978 to 1988, a secret U.S. Air Force unit flew captured Russian MiG fighters in a dangerous effort to teach American pilots how to defeat the planes in combat. The 4477th Test & Evaluation Squadron, also known by its code name 'Constant Peg,' flew 15,000 sorties and trained 6,000 U.S. pilots, ...

Dassault has handed over the first of an eventual 36 Rafale combat aircraft – a DQ two-seat variant – to Qatar, for operation by the country's air force.Doha signed for 24 examples in 2015, adding a further 12 aircraft a little over two years later. ...

The Chief Of Nigerian Army Staff, (COAS) Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai, has announced that the Nigerian Army will begin to export combat vehicles to other African countries in the year 2030. ...

Combined with the dramatic collapse of the Russian economy in the wake of Western economic sanctions following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the inflexibility of UAC made the Su-57 impossible to realize. ...

It was St. Patrick's Day 2017, and Spc. Kevin Holyan was celebrating a friend's promotion at a home near Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Drinks were had, and at one point, Holyan took out his Glock 23 pistol ― which he kept stored at that friend's house, ...

U.S. Army helicopters are conducting realistic military urban training in the greater Los Angeles and Long Beach areas, California, until Feb. 9, 2019 (most probably 'observed' by a U.S. Navy P-8 that circled over LA area several hours on Feb. 4) For this reason, ...

Deployed operations with the UK's Panavia Tornado GR4 strike aircraft have come to an end, with its last examples having returned to the Royal Air Force's Marham base in Norfolk.Crown CopyrightThree of the type completed a transfer from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus on 5 February, ...

In a speech that stressed bipartisanship and compromise for the good of the Republic, President Donald Trump highlighted a need to pull out of the longtime war in Afghanistan, seek for peace on the Korean Peninsula, and return home from Syria.'Great nations do not fight endless wars,' Trump said, ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump expects coalition forces to announce as early as next week that they have reclaimed all of the territory once held by Islamic State group militants in Iraq and Syria, a major milestone in the ongoing fight there. 'Over the past two years we have retaken 20, ...

The Indian government has failed to conclude a deal with foreign manufacturers to acquire mine countermeasure vessels since 2005. In the meantime, the last batch of minesweepers retired last year, rendering the Indian Navy devoid of the crucial asset. ...

WASHINGTON — America will not cede leadership of the fight against the Islamic State group, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday, ...

Nearly 35,000 pounds of cocaine that has been removed from the international drug trade pipeline arrived at Port Everglades Tuesday.The drugs seized in 21 separate operations in international waters off Mexico and Central and South America were offloaded from the Coast Guard Cutter Forward. ...

In an interview given to 'Strategic News' of India, the chief of the Maldivian Defense Force, Maj.Gen Abdulla Shamaal, said ten radars are being installed in the Indian Ocean archipelago.When the radars are installed and connected via a network, ...

NORFOLK —Two Navy ships that collided yesterday afternoon during an underway replenishment in the Atlantic Ocean arrived a Naval Station Mayport in Florida on Wednesday so officials could assess the damage and probe what happened. ...

Any dispute in the inter-governmental agreement (IGA) with France for the 36 Rafale fighter jets will 'be settled through the bilateral high-level group' established by the two governments, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman informed the Rajya Sabha on Monday. ...

After pulling out of a competitionВ to outfit the Navy's small surface combatants with anti-ship missiles, Boeing is seeing a warmer embrace of its 40-year-old Harpoon missile from the U.S. Navy's aviation and surface fleets and from foreign military sales. The Harpoon missile, despite its age, ...

Saab has signed a contract with the French Ministry of Defence's Direction de la Maintenance Aeronautique (DMAe) regarding support for the surface based radar system Giraffe AMB. DMAe is responsible for the operational maintenance of the French Ministry of Defence's aeronautics equipment. ...

COLOGNE, Germany – The French and German defense chiefs announced a contract award to Airbus and Dassault on Wednesday to narrow down the two governments' vision of a common, sixth-generation aircraft. The announcement moves the ambitious Future Combat Air System project further along, ...

RAF MILDENHALL, England -- Maintenance crews may soon have a safer way to inspect fuel tanks and tight crawl spaces inside tanker planes, instead of just knocking around in the dark.A respirator mask idea conceived by Mia Tobitt and Master Sgt. William Bell, of the 100th Air Refueling Wing, ...

The Department of Defense's cloud strategy, released to the public Feb. 4, gave the first comprehensive look at how the Pentagon plans to structure its commercial cloud acquisitions and its expectations for cloud service providers. According to industry experts, ...

A key characteristic of a good leader is one's ability to put pride aside and admit one's own mistakes. That's exactly what Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel, chief of the National Guard Bureau, ...

Shares of Sonos plunged after the company disclosed its CFO plans to retire as it reported earnings that beat expectations.CFO Michael Giannetto will stay in the roll until Sonos appoints his successor, Sonos said.The company reaffirmed its guidance for the 2019 fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. ...

Soldiers and their families could see improvements in child care services and spouse employment, as well as changes to assignments under the Exceptional Family Member Program this year. ...

BEIRUT — The Islamic State gunmen came out of hiding in the middle of the night and set up a checkpoint on a rural road in eastern Syria. For several hours, they stopped those passing and searched through their mobile phones to check their allegiances, until they vanished again into the desert. ...

The U.S. Air Force doesn't believe that a recent C-5M Super Galaxy nose gear mishap at Travis Air Force Base, California, is linked to anomalies the airlift fleet experienced two years ago, according to a spokeswoman.Maintainers and engineers have seen no indicators that the Jan. 31 incident, ...

Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) stated that Maldivians are being trained to pilot the two military helicopters. At a press conference on Wednesday, ...

Military hospitals, clinics and pharmacies will soon share information on prescriptions written for controlled substances with civilian doctors in nine states, part of a growing effort to stem addiction and illegal transfer of medications such as opioids within the military population. ...

India has sharpened its focus on scaling up infrastructure along the China border and set a target of three years to complete all strategic road projects along its northern frontiers, ...

Space is vast, but the useful part of space is getting crowded. Orbital debris is a side-effect of keeping satellites in space, and it's a finicky problem. All the value in orbit is in adding new objects; ...

Kiev has been quietly developing their own arms manufacturing industry since 2013. The goal was two-fold: to supplement aid from Washington with domestically-produced equipment, and to become a player in the export markets. How have they fared five years down the line? ...

MIAMI -- Zhao Qianli says he's a musicology student from China who traveled to the United States for a summer exchange program. After he finished his studies in September, he booked a flight to Miami and then headed for Key West.But rather than see the Hemingway House and other sights, ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration expects to deliver its fiscal 2020 budget on March 12, a six-week delay from the planned initial release date. Three sources, speaking on background because there has been no formal announcement from the Office of Management and Budget, ...

The French Air Force announced on Tuesday that it had conducted the test launch of a nuclear-capable missile from a Rafale fighter.An ASMPA cruise missile, which is the French military's main nuclear strike weapon for aircraft, was reportedly used by the Rafale. According to the French Air Force, ...

JOHANNESBURG — The United States said Wednesday it is cutting some military aid to Cameroon over human rights concerns after growing allegations of abuses by security forces, ...

A former Navy SEAL and retired high-ranking Defense Department official said Wednesday that the Pentagon could prevent the suicide spikes that occurred recently among special operators and other service members by tracking every detail of human performance.In 2018, ...

The Defense Department wants U.S. Special Operations Command to do more than the traditional leaflets-and-loudspeakers approach to information warfare, a senior Pentagon official said this week. ...

Australia believes it has finally overcome the high-profile problems that have dogged two of its helicopter procurement programmes – with such progress made on one platform that it has now been accepted for special forces operations. ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — The governor of New Mexico ordered the withdrawal of the majority of the state's National Guard troops from the U.S. border with Mexico on Tuesday, in a move that challenges President Trump's description of a security crisis.Gov. ...

JERUSALEM — The U.S. Army plans to buy a limited number of Iron Dome batteries, evaluating the option for protecting U.S. military service members against a wide variety of indirect fire and aerial threats. In the long term the U.S. is still assessing a variety of other options, but the U.S. ...

On 5 February, in Paris, Emmanuel Levacher, CEO of Arquus (successor of Renault Trucks Defense), presented the worldwide achievements of his company for 2018, as well as the perspectives for 2019 onward. 2018 was definitely an excellent year: ...

Almost all Indian missiles may fall under the limits of a potential new treaty on intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles that would involve an expanded list of counties, Vice President of India's Observer Research Foundation Nandan Unnikrishnan told TASS. ...

Will it work?В  Russia is working on a new trick to track American submarines: sonar-equipped robots. (This first appeared several months ago.) But turnabout is fair play: the United States has already developed a robotic yacht-sized surface craft designed to stalk diesel subs. ...

State-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and European defence major MBDA are set to hold talks this week to arm the Light Combat Aircraft Tejas with ASRAAM, a heat-seeking close combat air-to-air missile. ...

The Air Force's budgetary problem has been a long time coming. Spending on new planes peaked at $29 billion in 1986 when the military still was preparing to wage war with the Soviets in Europe. A new fighter to replace the F-22 Raptor could eat the U.S. Air Force's budget starting in the 2030s, ...

When a group of Navy engineers and software developers took time away from their day jobs in December, they spent the time pursuing a task long considered passe: they became licensed amateur radio operators. ...

The Defense Department doesn't want to lose its irregular warfare edge, honed through more than a decade of conflict across the Middle East, even as it directs its armed forces to refocus on state-level adversaries. Retaining the U.S. ...

A terrorist of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was killed in a gunfight with security forces on Wednesday in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district.Police sources said Irfan Ahmad Sheikh, the district commander of Lashkar, was killed in Chakoora village. ...

On Thursday the FlexJobs' Remote Work Virtual Job Fair will offer networking for job seekers who want to work from home, either part- or full-time.Increasingly, virtual career fairs are helping tech companies close the skills gap by finding high-quality job candidates worldwide. ...

A team of researchers from the organization started by billionaire philanthropist Paul Allen found the wreck of the first Japanese battleship sunk by the U.S. Navy during World War II. The Imperial Japanese Navy ship Hiei was found lying upside down on the sea floor about 2, ...

Navy officials are changing what a top admiral called 'fundamental flaws' in its waiver and appeal process for commissioning programs after a sailor who was denied a chance to pursue a career as an officer was sent to Syria, where she was killed in a suicide bombing.Adm. William Moran, ...

New York's police department is demanding that Google remove all DWI checkpoint information from Waze.It says the navigation app helps impaired and intoxicated drivers evade checkpoints.Waze, which is owned by Google, lets drivers alert other drivers to obstacles, speed traps, road closures, ...

Also, the B-2 is slated to fly alongside the services' emerging B-21 Raider next-generation stealth bomber; this platform, to be ready in the mid-2020s, ...