Yearly Archive: 2022

The Department of Defense (DoD) announced today that the University of Notre Dame (ND) was selected for a one-year, $500,000 applied research award to use additive manufacturing techniques to construct a control array module for use on hypersonic vehicle designs.

The control system design will in…

A milestone in the history of the Dutch armed forces was reached as an MQ-9 Reaper has made its first training flight. This happened today in Curaçao, West Indies, where the Air Force will test the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft in the coming period. The favorable weather conditions and availabili…

Britain’s biggest warship sailed within 900 miles of the North Pole as the Royal Navy pushed the boundaries of aircraft carrier operations into the Arctic.

HMS Prince of Wales led a task group to 77 Degrees North in the North Atlantic to demonstrate the ability of the UK’s two 65,000-tonne Queen …

HMAS Toowoomba, nicknamed the Purple Pony, was returned to the water at Henderson, Western Australia, on April 12 after an 18-month maintenance period.

Toowomba is the fifth of the Navy’s eight Anzac-class frigates to exit the dry production phase of the Anzac Midlife Capability Assurance Program…

Logistics wins wars. A non-stop flow of everything from bullets to howitzers is a key to prevailing on the battlefield. As Ukraine continues to surprise the world with its bloody showdown with Russia, it has become increasingly clear that U.S.-provided gear is the oxygen fueling Kyiv’s fight. Russia…

Type certification enables the French Army to proceed with operator instruction and training with the SMDR1 mini-UAS2 reconnaissance system, deploy it in overseas theatres of operations without requiring specific flight approvals, and sustain it over long periods.

Thales worked with partner compa…