Yearly Archive: 2022

Over the next five years, the U.S. Space Force plans to spend $100 billion on acquisition programs. Procurement only accounts for 23.1 percent of that total, while the majority of the U.S. Space Force’s acquisition budget is dedicated to research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) appropriat…

The Russian Federation’s use of Iranian-manufactured uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) in Ukraine represents a notable development in the evolution of the conflict. Conflict Armament Research (CAR) investigators physically documented a number of these UAVs in Ukraine in November 2022 and are conductin…

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III discussed matters of mutual concern with Chinese Defense Minister Gen. Wei Fenghe in Siem Reap, Cambodia, today.

The two defense leaders are attending the Association of Southeast Asian Nations defense ministers’ meeting. The secretary last met China’s def…

As part of another backfill activity commissioned by the German government, Rheinmetall is supplying Marder 1A3 Infantry Fighting Vehicles to Greece. The first units of these Marder Infantry Fighting Vehicles were presented as part of the parade of the Hellenic Armed Forces on the occasion of the na…

Finland, Norway and Sweden strengthen trilateral defence cooperation. Finland’s Minister of Defence Antti Kaikkonen, Norway’s Minister of Defence Bjørn Arild Gram and Sweden’s Minister for Defence Pål Jonson signed the Statement of Intent (SoI) in Oslo, Norway, on 22 November 2022.

LANDING FIELD ATLANTIC, N.C. — U.S. Marines with 2nd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion tested the Marine Corps’ newest ground-based air-defense system, the Light Marine Air-Defense Integrated System, Oct. 18-19, 2022.

The LMADIS provides 2nd LAAD and the Marine Corps with the capability to det…