Monthly Archive: Ottobre 2021

Pentagon to Modernize Its Own Industrial Base

Pentagon to Modernize Its Own Industrial Base

The Defense Department’s organic industrial base — which includes things such as maintenance depots, shipyards, fleet readiness centers, air logistics centers and manufacturing arsenals — needs to be modernized and updated in order to keep serving America’s warfighter. The department has a plan to m…
Ukraine’s Latest “Mineral-U” Radar Passes Factory Tests

Ukraine’s Latest “Mineral-U” Radar Passes Factory Tests

Mobile multifunctional radar complex “Mineral-U”, developed by SE “Research Institute of Radar Systems” Quantum-Radar “, which is part of Ukroboronprom, has successfully passed factory (preliminary) tests.

“Mineral-U” detects and classifies surface objects at a distance of up to 500-600 km due to…

Air-to-Air Refuelling First for RAF A400M Atlas Aircraft

Air-to-Air Refuelling First for RAF A400M Atlas Aircraft

A RAF Atlas C1 (A400M) transport aircraft has been refuelled in the air for the first time. In trials conducted recently by RAF Brize Norton based 206 Squadron, the large transport aircraft received fuel from a Voyager air-to-air refuelling tanker.

“Our test pilots have conducted previous flight …

US Army Tests Semi-Autonomous Resupply for Battlefield

US Army Tests Semi-Autonomous Resupply for Battlefield

YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz. — Situated in a broad swath of Arizona desert, Yuma Proving Ground offers the U.S. Army a prime location for testing — or “proving” — new capabilities.

It is a fitting home base for Project Convergence 2021, a modernization experiment organized by Army Futures Command…

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