An unmanned helicopter concept being developed by Airbus for Marine Corps logistics missions may pave the way for an armed variant, company officials say.Airbus is working on an unmanned version of the MQ-72C Lakota for the Marines’ Aerial Logistics Connector competition; on Wednesday, the company said it had completed another…
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NASHVILLE—The Army is continuing to name its airframes after Indigenous tribes with its first tiltrotor aircraft. The MV-75 is officially the Cheyenne II, the service’s undersecretary announced Wednesday at the Army Aviation Warfighting Summit.Members of the tribe have served in every U.S. armed service and during every major conflict, said…
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Thirty-eight years ago today, an Iranian mine tore a hole in the hull of the USS Samuel B. Roberts, a guided missile frigate that had been helping to escort reflagged Kuwaiti tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. The blast broke the frigate’s keel, flooded its engineroom, and lit fires on…
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado—Iran’s use of commercial space imagery to strike U.S. and allied targets will force the Pentagon to adjust, the head of U.S. Space Command said.“We have to recognize that the rest of the world can now see the entire planet transparently and almost 24/7 and so we have…
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.— Launch nuclear reactors to orbit as soon as 2028 and to the Moon as soon as 2030—that’s the White House’s new order to the Pentagon and NASA.The six-page policy memo released on Tuesday calls for a dual design competition between the agencies that is to produce a…
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The electoral defeat of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán dealt a blow to Russia’s foreign-influence operations—and illustrated how the Kremlin’s approach is changing. In the victory of the opposition-party candidate, other Western nations can draw lessons for confronting Russia’s continuing efforts.Orbán was a key player in Vladimir Putin’s effort to weaken the…
Patience gets thrown around a lot in general hunting advice. Whether it’s pulling an all-day hunt during the whitetail rut or waiting another hour on that gobbler that went silent, patience usually pays off. You’ll punch a lot of tags if you learn to embrace patience. But sometimes you need…
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Russia’s alleged use of a nuclear anti-satellite capability was the focus of U.S. Space Command’s latest wargame exercise, which pushed the U.S. government, allies, and dozens of defense companies to speculate on the fallout from the weapon’s launch.Gen. Stephen Whiting, the head of U.S. Space Command, told Space…
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