Missteps by the West emboldened Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of his latest Ukraine invasion, but the United States can still give Ukraine the weapons it needs to overcome Russian airpower if the U.S. is not deterred by Putin, said the participants in a Mitchell ...
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Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska—The Army brought its Patriot surface-to-air missile system and short-range Avenger air defense system to Alaska for the first time to take part in the state's largest joint force exercise, Arctic Edge, which wrapped up March 16. “We are very fortunate ...
The air war is changing over Ukraine, with Russia picking up the pace of sorties but running low on precision-guided munitions, a senior defense official said March 21. Russia also has allegedly fired hypersonic weapons, a move possibly made to gain momentum after nearly a ...
The military’s old concrete airstrips and missile silos will repair their own cracks if researchers can pull off what the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency hopes under its new BRACE program. DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office announced the four-and-a-half-year BRACE research program—short for Bio-inspired Restoration of ...
Bulgaria is one of the Eastern European countries that possesses the S-300 air defense systems that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said are urgently needed to repel Russia’s air assault. But the Black Sea NATO ally depends on Russian gas, which has contributed to its ...
Lockheed Martin thinks its 17-plus years of demonstrations with unmanned aircraft with various degrees of autonomy will give it a leg up as the Air Force seeks to build new classes of tactical and strategic uncrewed aircraft, company aeronautics vice president Greg Ulmer said in ...
A pair of F-16s deployed from Aviano Air Base, Italy, to Croatia on March 16, taking part in agile combat employment exercises and bolstering NATO’s southeastern flank, the Air Force announced. The F-16 fighters’ arrival comes just a few days after a military drone crashed ...
The Air Force has pushed to revamp its intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations in recent years, focusing on new capabilities such as space-based ISR and next-generation platforms capable of multiple roles and penetrating contested airspace. Yet there still might be a role for older, legacy ...
Slovakia is prepared to donate its S-300 air defense systems and MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine "immediately" if it can come to an agreement with the U.S. and other NATO partners about replacing the systems with something Western and modern, Slovak defense minister Jaroslav Nad told ...
