President Donald Trump said July 30 that a deal has been reached for Hamas to disarm and Israel to withdraw its forces from Gaza, but many hurdles, conditions, and long timelines remained to wind down the war in the Palestinian territory. Neither Hamas nor Israel gave immediate indication that they had agreed.
A Russian missile crashed in Poland on July 30 during an overnight assault on neighboring Ukraine, NATO said, an event that could risk bringing Russia closer to direct confrontation with the Western military alliance, to which Poland belongs.
In the decades since Kuwait’s liberation in the first Gulf War, the U.S. has used the oil-rich emirate as one of the Army’s biggest logistics hubs in the world, hosting thousands of troops, Abrams tanks and heavy artillery. The American military footprint gave Kuwait a sense of security. But the Iran war has undercut this arrangement for both Washington and Kuwait City. The U.S. is now rethinking the scope of its footprint in the emirate, said U.S. officials familiar with the deliberations, even as Kuwaiti officials have said they still need a firm commitment of American support.
Since the war with Iran began in February, U.S. forces in the Middle East have burned through their supply of ground-based air defense missiles to fend off Iranian attacks. Now the U.S. military could need about three years—and possibly longer—to restock its inventory of Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, missiles to pre-war levels, experts told Task & Purpose.
The U.S. Air Force’s F-47 program has begun its engineering and manufacturing development phase and will fly in the coming years, a service official said. The program, described as “extreme teaming” with industry partners, entered the phase with “unprecedented maturity,” Gen. Dale White, director of Critical Major Weapon Systems, said in a July 29 keynote address at an event in Dayton, Ohio.
CACI International has won a three-year, $500 million contract to provide its nonkinetic SkyValor counter-drone system, along with “other tactical” unmanned systems, to the Joint Interagency Taskforce 401, the company and task force announced July 30.
L3Harris is postponing its planned spinoff of its missile solutions unit until at least mid-2027, with its chief executive saying that the business is being undervalued even as demand soars for solid rocket motors and other weapons components.
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