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RAF Typhoons in Lithuania Intercept Russian ELINT Aircraft

RAF Typhoons in Lithuania Intercept Russian ELINT Aircraft

Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jets deployed to Lithuania on a NATO policing mission have carried out their first intercept of the operation, on a Russian Military Aircraft off the Baltic coast. The Typhoons launched on 2nd June 2020 to intercept a Russian IL-20 Coot Intelligence, Surveillance and …
Airbus A400M Drops 116 Paratroopers Through Both Side Doors

Airbus A400M Drops 116 Paratroopers Through Both Side Doors

GETAFE, Spain — The Airbus A400M new generation airlifter has successfully achieved certification of the simultaneous paratrooper dispatch capability and completed the full industrial development of the type’s paratrooping deployment capacity, with a maximum dispatch of 116 paratroopers using both…
Navantia to Maintain Australian Naval Ships It Built

Navantia to Maintain Australian Naval Ships It Built

Navantia Australia has signed a Strategic Agreement with the Commonwealth of Australia, which reinforces the relationship between the signatories and provides the collaboration framework that ensures that all current and future ships, designed by Navantia and in service at the Royal Australian Navy,…
Space National Guard Would Cost $100M -$490M per Year: CBO

Space National Guard Would Cost $100M -$490M per Year: CBO

CBO examines two options for establishing a Space National Guard to support active component Space Force personnel, estimating the additional costs beyond those incurred for existing Air and Army National Guard units that have space-related missions.

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The National Defense Authorization …

Spacecom, Space Force Officials Discuss Planetary Defense

Spacecom, Space Force Officials Discuss Planetary Defense

It’s possible one day an asteroid may threaten the Earth and the threat would need to be mitigated — possibly by the U.S. military. It’s a scenario considered in a paper titled “Whither Space Power?” co-authored by two Air Force officers in 2002.

“Should be found on a collision course, whose job …

Korea to Pay Pentagon’s Korean Employee Labor Costs

Korea to Pay Pentagon’s Korean Employee Labor Costs

The Department of Defense has accepted the Republic of Korea’s (ROK) proposal to fund the labor costs for all U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) Korean National (KN) employees through the end of 2020.

The lapse of last year’s 10th Special Measures Agreement (SMA), in which the Republic of Korea partially s…

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