MBDA is considering a new hypersonic anti-tank weapon, officials told Breaking Defense during a recent tour of the weapons firm’s German facilities.
By Andrew WhiteGA-ASI’s MQ-9B: The right UAV for persistence, power, and performance
When assessing the state of the art of unmanned aerial systems, it’s critical to be very clear about what various aircraft can and can’t do – and could never do.
“It’s hard to put an exact timeline on how long it would take… [but] I can guarantee you without our support, Putin will be successful,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told lawmakers.
By Ashley Roque
Bjørn Arild Gram, Norway’s minister of defense said the agreement “lays the foundation” for developing NASAMS against future threats, although no details have been released about how the system will be matured specifically.
By Tim Martin
“Logistics really matters, sustaining really matters and we are doing that right now with Ukrainians and learning a lot because it’s interesting what you have to do when you can’t send your own US citizens into the country to keep the equipment going,” William LaPlante said.
By Jaspreet Gill
As Sweden moves ever closer to joining NATO, both it and the alliance are reserving judgment on who or what caused damage to a telecommunications cable that runs between Sweden and Estonia, until an investigation concludes.
By Tim Martin
“When it comes to the Russian VKS all you can say sometimes is ‘thank God for shoddy maintenance,’” a NATO-nation military aviation analyst told Breaking Defense.
By Reuben Johnson
“Let’s say enemy strike plans are based around them going in and taking out a whole air wing at an airfield within a morning. Well that is not going to happen if they [friendly aircraft] are dispersed around the country and moving from A to B to C to D the whole time,” said Gary Waterfall, a former UK Royal Air Force air vice-marshal.
By Tim Martin and Bartosz Głowacki
New Army mounted system won’t play favorites when it comes to C5ISR, EW and A-PNT
The CMOSS Mounted Form Factor will facilitate tech insertion for new capabilities while co-existing with the Mounted Family of Computer Systems.
Adm. Ben Key, First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy, made his comments hours after Sweden stated that an undersea telecommunications cable between Sweden and Estonia had been damaged.
By Tim Martin
While the new Russian satellite didn’t get super close to any others, its behavior “could be considered unfriendly,” said Slingshot’s Audrey Schaffer, who until recently served as the director of space policy at the National Security Council.
By Theresa Hitchens
“A specific step was to start negotiations with the aim of achieving the lowest possible price and at the same time the shortest possible delivery date,” said Jana Cernochova, Czech Republic’s minister of defense.
By Tim Martin
Army acquisition chief Doug Bush said in the future the service’s LASSO drone program will see “entry points for other vendors, potentially, because there’s so much innovation in that space.”
By Ashley Roque
US Army Special Operations Command’s Lt. Gen. Jonathan Braga credits successful information operations with the defection of 17,000 Russian soldiers.
By Lee Ferran
The agreement between FMV and BAE Systems Hägglunds signals the “implementation of a preliminary contractual design,” representing the “first step to defining the configuration and program of the combat vehicles that will replace the Combat Vehicle 9040C donated to Ukraine.”
By Andrew White
“If we have to do like most of America does, and tighten our belts a little bit, we may have to push a project or two to the left,” Marion Whicker, Army Materiel Command’s executive deputy to the commanding general, told Breaking Defense.
By Ashley Roque
