Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. The Pentagon has modified four existing contracts with defense industry partners to acquire and deliver 8,000 ventilators to various hard-hit locations around the country struggling to treat coronavirus patients. Approximately 1,400 of the ventilators are expected to arrive […]
How multi-beam Navy radar tracks several attacks at once
A Raytheon mock-up of the U.S. Army’s LTAMDS radar design. (Raytheon) Emerging radar and signal processing technology is enabling Navy surface ships to achieve a ground-breaking measure of radar-detection range and precision–all while enabling ship defense systems to track and “take out” multiple threats at one time. These steps forward explained recently by Capt. Jason […]
Navy ships seek to stop missile, drone and surface attacks — all at once
PACIFIC OCEAN (July 30, 2009) During exercise Stellar Avenger, the Aegis-class destroyer USS Hopper (DDG 70) launches a standard missile (SM) 3 Blk IA, successfully intercepting a sub-scale short range ballistic missile, launched from the Kauai Test Facility, Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Barking Sans, Kauai – file photo. (U.S. Navy photo/Released) How would the […]
Iraqi Scud-killing Gulf War Patriot missile ‘still lives’ to fight future wars
Patriot missile file photo. (Raytheon Company) They exploded Saddam’s Scud missiles right out of the sky, intercepting what would have been destructive explosions on U.S. forces. They surprised global observers and saved American lives during the Gulf War in the early ’90s — Patriot Missiles. The Patriot, seen as an emerging and highly impactful war […]
New Army technology can track and destroy maneuvering cruise missiles
This undated photo distributed on Friday, June 9, 2017, by the North Korean government, shows a test of a new type of cruise missile launch at an undisclosed location in North Korea – file photo. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP) Maneuvering cruise missiles, fast-moving stealthy fighter jets, armed drones, long-range helicopter-fired air-to-ground […]
Pentagon hypersonic weapons hit ‘impact point’
The DoD test. (Department of Defense) The Army, Navy and Pentagon fired off a new Hypersonic Glide Body engineered to travel more than five times the speed of sound and destroy enemy targets thousands of miles away in a matter of minutes, a Pentagon report said. Hypersonic weapons development, massively prioritized by the Pentagon, has been […]
Navy plans large new fleet of ‘mothership’-controlled drone boats
U.S. Navy Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewman from Naval Special Warfare conducts a patrol June 20, 2019 on the Black Sea in coordination with Trojan Footprint 2019. (U.S. Navy photo by Senior Chief Mass Communication Specialist Jayme Pastoric/Released) Overwhelming enemy fleets with surveillance and weapons, finding weak spots along an enemy coastline to pinpoint areas for […]
New helicopter-killing Army artillery cannon destroys target at 39.8 miles
U.S. Army photo of the firing March 6 at Yuma Proving Grounds, Ariz. (U.S. Army) When a precision-guided artillery projectile exploded an enemy target from 64km (39.8 miles) away in the Arizona desert during a recent live-fire exercise, the Army took a new step toward redefining land-attack tactics and paving the way toward a new […]
New helicopter-killing Army artillery cannon destroys target at 39.8 miles
U.S. Army photo of the firing March 6 at Yuma Proving Grounds, Ariz. (U.S. Army) When a precision-guided artillery projectile exploded an enemy target from 64km (39.8 miles) away in the Arizona desert during a recent live-fire exercise, the Army took a new step toward redefining land-attack tactics and paving the way toward a new […]
Army soldiers will control AI-enabled robot tanks
File photo – FORT HOOD, Tx–A Sabot round is fired from an M1A2 Abrams tank during 3rd Armored Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division gunnery qualification. (Photo by Capt. Scott Kuhn/U.S. Army) The Army Research Laboratory is exploring new applications of AI designed to better enable forward-operating robot “tanks” to acquire targets, discern and organize war-crucial information, […]
