Marines aboard the USS New Orleans have launched a portable, electronic-warfare system on drones for the first time at sea, according to the Marine Corps.

A backpackable electronic attack module, or BEAM, uses its technology to detect the radio frequency of a specific threat, a hostile drone, for…

BAY OF BENGAL — Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Izumo-class helicopter destroyer JS Kaga (DDH 184) and U.S. Navy Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 1 are conducting bilateral operations in the South China Sea for the first time since Vinson Carrier Strike Group (VINCSG) deployed this summer.

While in…

This paper is part of U.S. Military Forces in FY 2022. The U.S. Army’s force structure remains steady even though its budget declined by $3.6 billion dollars. The Army does this by cutting modernization and readiness. In the long term, the Army’s force structure is at risk because of the strategic f…

PARIS — In response to our query, the US Air Force’s Air Combat Command has provided a breakdown of how it calculated the cost of the MQ-9A Predator that was written off after if “departed the runway surface at Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait, September 24, 2020, suffering catastrophic damage.”

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The NRP Bartolomeu Dias returned today, October 25, to the Lisbon Naval Base, after carrying out the Half-Life Modernization Program planned in the Netherlands, to update operational capacities in this class of ships, similarly to updates carried out by ships Dutch and Belgian equals.

The objecti…

The Defence Aviation Safety Authority (DASA) recently audited Army’s unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or drones, and the fleet passed with flying colours.

DASA’s Squadron Leader Malcolm Walker, an experienced pilot and flying instructor, said he was impressed by how Army operated its large and comp…