U.S. Air Guard to buy motorized paragliders for silent infiltration flights

A North Carolina Air National Guard unit, part of the U.S. military's part-time reserve force, wants to give its people the ability to quietly fly themselves into places a helicopter would get shot down trying to reach,...
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Bell to rewire U.S. Marine Corps’ Viper and Venom fleet

U.S. Marine Corps attack and utility helicopters are heading into a major upgrade built specifically to carry...
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Pentagon spends $333 million to keep fighter pilots’ helmets combat ready

The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency awarded Rockwell Collins ESA Vision Systems, a Fort Worth, Texas company, an...
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Pentagon pays $400 million to run its new missile-tracking satellites

The U.S. Space Development Agency, the Pentagon office building America's next generation of missile-tracking satellites, awarded General...

Russian naval gun maker patents a wheeled artillery version

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Russia’s new anti-drone tank shield fails its combat debut

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The first publicly documented combat test of Russia's upgraded anti-drone tank defense system ended in failure, with footage showing a Russian T-72B3A tank taking...
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U.S. Air Force scouts companies to build its next robot fighter jet

The U.S. Department of the Air Force published a market research notice this week seeking companies capable...

Bell to rewire U.S. Marine Corps’ Viper and Venom fleet

U.S. Marine Corps attack and utility helicopters are heading into a major upgrade built specifically to carry...

Pentagon spends $333 million to keep fighter pilots’ helmets combat ready

The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency awarded Rockwell Collins ESA Vision Systems, a Fort Worth, Texas company, an...

Pentagon pays $400 million to run its new missile-tracking satellites

The U.S. Space Development Agency, the Pentagon office building America's next generation of missile-tracking satellites, awarded General...

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Russian naval gun maker patents a wheeled artillery version

A Russian shipyard supplier best known for arming warships just patented a way to put its naval gun on wheels, and the design tells...

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IMCO interview: Tanks can change as fast as the threat does

A tank crew today fights with the same armor and the same engine it had a decade ago, but the software running its sensors, its displays and its threat-detection logic can be rewritten in a single update...

Reusable rockets could turn orbit into military supply chain

Ten minutes after liftoff, SpaceX cut its own live feed on the Starfall demonstration flight. No orbit...

Echodyne plans to mass produce radars for the drone war

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Mayman Aerospace CEO: autonomous drones must replace helicopters in contested battlespace

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Europe must kick its addiction to American tech

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Ukraine hits Russian energy infrastructure to blunt oil revenue surge

Ukraine has doubled its strikes on Russian oil infrastructure and is keeping up that pace into May, targeting refineries, export terminals, Baltic Sea ports,...

U.S. startup Aeon prepares revolution in tactical missiles

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New SATCOM tech helps downed pilot rescues

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Ukraine hits Russian energy infrastructure to blunt oil revenue surge

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