Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was critical of plans announced Sunday by his military to hold 11-hour pauses in fighting along a main road into Gaza to facilitate getting aid into the bomb-stricken area. Reuters reported that the Israeli military announced daily pauses in battle from 5 a.m. to 4 p.m. local time between Kerem […]
Precision warfare has been a central tenet of American strategy. But perceptions that precision weapons are effective is a myth, a retired Army officer argues. “Accurate strikes do not inherently mean effective,” the officer told BI. America loves smart bombs. Ever since World War II, precision warfare has appealed to what America sees as its […]
Rolls-Royce has been chosen to supply technology for a new version of the American military aircraft nicknamed the “Doomsday plane” for its ability to survive a nuclear blast. The engineering giant is joining a group of aerospace companies working on the Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC) project, which aims to develop a successor to the […]
Rolls-Royce is one of a number of companies that will contribute to the Survivable Airborne Operations Center or SOAC project – Sierra Nevada Corp Rolls-Royce has been chosen to supply technology for a new version of the American military aircraft nicknamed the “Doomsday plane” for its ability to survive a nuclear blast. The engineering giant […]
The US military is developing a huge underwater drone called the “Manta Ray.” The unmanned system passed its first major test at sea earlier this year. Drones like the Manta Ray can function like a torpedo, mine, or small submarine. A US military submarine that looks like a giant metal manta ray and is currently under […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force is betting a large part of its future air warfare on a fleet more than 1,000 autonomously operated drones, and later this spring its top civilian leader plans to climb into one of those artificial intelligence-operated warplanes and let it take him airborne. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told […]
The Osprey, a workhorse aircraft vital to US military missions, has been approved to return to flight after an “unprecedented” part failure led to the deaths of eight service members in a crash in Japan in November, Naval Air Systems Command announced. The crash was the second fatal accident in months and the fourth in […]
By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – After weeks of false starts and delays, SpaceX teams prepared again on Thursday to launch the military’s secretive X-37B robot spaceplane on its seventh mission, the first atop a rocket capable of delivering it to a higher orbit than ever before. The SpaceX Falcon […]
Ukraine’s military wants to mobilise up to 500,000 more troops to fight Russia’s invasion. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that he has asked them to spell out their plans in detail on what is “a very sensitive matter” before deciding whether he grants their wish as the war approaches the two-year mark. Such […]
Ukraine’s military wants to mobilise up to 500,000 more troops to fight Russia’s invasion. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that he has asked them to spell out their plans in detail on what is “a very sensitive matter” before deciding whether he grants their wish as the war approaches the two-year mark. Such […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s military wants to mobilize up to 500,000 more troops to fight Russia’s invasion, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that he has asked them to spell out their plans in detail on what is “a very sensitive matter” before deciding whether he grants their wish as the war approaches […]