Federal agents are investigating a new U.S. Navy corruption case that has strong echoes of the Fat Leonard scandal, with a defense contractor facing accusations that he delivered cash bribes and bilked the Navy out of at least $50 million to service its ships in foreign ports, according to recently …

On September 28, 2021, NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) entrusted Arianespace with the launch of its GSAT-24 telecommunications satellite. GSAT-24 is scheduled for launch in the 1st quarter of 2022, from the Guiana Space Center, Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on one of the seven Ariane 5 …

Flamethrower (barometric weapons in Russian parlance–Ed.) drones will appear in the Russian army. The Ministry of Defense has agreed on the tactical and technical requirements for new weapons systems for radiation, chemical and biological protection (RHBZ) troops, sources in the military dep…

Being able to appear hidden through a low and balanced signature, with the help of so-called stealth technology, is a basic characteristic of a submarine. Here, the new submarine A26 will be far ahead.

“A submarine is built so that it will not be visible from the surface. And if you have taken th…

US Navy Adds Destroyer to Naval Forces in Japan

USS Ralph Johnson Joins Forward-Deployed Naval Forces Japan

(Source: US Navy; issued Oct 04, 2021)

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, USS Ralph Johnson (DDG 114) arrived Oct. 4 to their new forward-deployed location in Yokos…

Future Vertical Lift (FVL) is a force structure recapitalization effort to design and procure a family of rotary-wing platforms capable of operations in future highly contested envi­ronments. The Army’s FVL is the leading edge of an effort that has identified the need for a rotary-wing Family of Sys…