On Thursday, May 19, at 11 hours 03 minutes (Moscow time), a Space Troops combat crew of the Aerospace Forces successfully launched the Soyuz-2.1a medium-class carrier rocket with a spacecraft on behalf of the Ministry of Defence of Russia from the State Testing Spaceport of the Ministry of Defence …

Rheinmetall has successfully tested the technology demonstrator version of a laser weapon built on behalf of the German Bundeswehr. The first trials with the laser testbed were conducted at Rheinmetall’s proving ground in Unterlüß as part of a Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System (C-UAS) campaign.

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ELEMENDORF, Alaska — During a multi-service exercise, the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, or ERDC CRREL, successfully demonstrated a ground-breaking technology to detect airborne targets.

The project, called TripLine, was deve…

One year after signing the contract to deliver the NATO Common Operational Picture (NCOP 2) system, Thales and GEOS have been selected to deploy the software at 30 NATO sites and train operators to use the decision support tool in theatres of operations.

The NATO Communications and Information Ag…

EIELSON AFB, Alaska — The 354th Fighter Wing celebrated the arrival of its final F-35A Lightning II aircraft and the subsequent completion of its fleet with a ceremony, May 13.

Gen. Ken Wilsbach, Pacific Air Forces commander, and retired Gen. Gary North, Lockheed Martin vice president of custom…

The Defense Department’s Chemical Demilitarization Program reached a milestone in its effort to eliminate the U.S. chemical weapons stockpile and recovered chemical warfare materiel. The last M55 rocket containing venomous agent X, or VX nerve agent, was destroyed at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-De…