Inside the Marine Corps’ first-ever littoral regiment
Oct 6, 2024 · MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII—"Hold right, clear left.”. Four Marines in helmets and flak jackets are stacked outside a rusty metal building covered in faux brick and wood. The first enters the ...
Giant military manta ray drone passes first ocean test
May 1, 2024 · An enormous underwater drone, built to roam the oceans for “very long periods of time” without refueling, has passed initial tests off California, DARPA announced on Wednesday. “Our ...
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Meet the Air Force’s secretive long-range drone that flies for days
Jul 2, 2024 · The U.S. Air Force is getting closer to realizing its vision of low-cost surveillance drones with an autonomous drone that can fly for more than three straight days.
China’s new stealth bomber ‘nowhere near as good’ as US’s, intel ...
Apr 22, 2024 · The plane China built to rival the United States’ B-21 stealth bomber doesn’t even come close to U.S. capability, a U.S. intel official said Monday.
How the Air Force is preparing for the new administration
Dec 11, 2024 · The Air Force recently delivered its new force design concept to Congress, which aims to be a framework for the service to adapt to varying funding levels and changing threats. While few details ...
The Pentagon is already testing tomorrow’s AI-powered swarm …
Jan 22, 2024 · The United States isn’t the only country making new uses of autonomy. While the one-way attack drones that Houthi forces are firing at ships in the Red Sea are crude, earlier this month they ...
How Trump may shake up DOD: an insider’s view - Defense One
Nov 7, 2024 · Few people, if any, have a better window into Donald Trump’s plans for the Pentagon than Christopher Miller, the final acting defense secretary of Trump’s first term and architect of the ...
Army puts new unit loaded with cutting-edge tech to the test
Aug 21, 2024 · To overcome the delays, the Army came up with a “transforming-in-contact” fielding strategy, in which the service rapidly fields small numbers but wide varieties of new tech to three selected ...
US-made jam-resistant drones helped Ukrainians cut through …
Oct 31, 2024 · Tseng and his team at Shield AI originally brought the drones to Ukraine to test against electromagnetic warfare effects in June. The drones proved able to work in jam-heavy environments in ways ...