Hermeus an aerospace company that signed a $60 million dollar U.S. Airforce partnership last year, has now landed an investment from aerospace and defense giant Raytheon Technologies. Read the full press release below. Raytheon Technologies today announced a strategic investment in Hermeus Corporation, a company developing hypersonic aircraft for defense and commercial applications, through its newly established corporate venture capital group, RTX Ventures. Joining Hermeus’ previously announced $100 million Series B financing round, RTX Ventures’ investment in the company will directly … [Read more...]
Bell Reveals Unmanned Tilt-Rotor Drone for the Navy!
Initially designed for the Marines, a smaller, more potent V-247 Vigilant recently designed by Bell Systems is aimed at meeting the US Navy’s shipboard requirements, writes Dan Parsons of The War Zone. He continues (abridged): Bell has resurrected the unmanned V-247 Vigilant designed for the Marine Corps and scaled it down for use as a strike and surveillance aircraft aboard Navy ships, where the autonomous tiltrotor can fit in the same space as an MH-60R and perform any of the manned helicopter’s missions. Designed as a contender for the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Unmanned … [Read more...]
Ukraine’s Home-Grown Anti-Tank Weapon is Shredding Russian Armored Columns
According to BBC, "Russia has lost some 460 tanks and over 2,000 armored vehicles", but Ukraine is claiming Russia has lost more than 680 tanks. "What Syria taught us about tanks", is that any tank is vulnerable to the proliferation and continued development of long-range ATGM’s. Ukraine’s remotely controlled homegrown anti-tank weapon, the Stugna-P ATGM (a.k.a. Skif), developed by Luch Design Bureau, is shredding Russian armored columns. The Stugna-P is a true force multiplier, says Brent M. Eastwood of 19fortyfive.com. He writes (abridged): Russian tanks are dying at the hands of another … [Read more...]
The U.S. Quietly Pushing Hypersonic Development on All Fronts
A team including the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) has successfully flight tested a new system known as the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC). The test, conducted off the coast of the U.S. using Lockheed Martin’s version of the HAWC, reached speeds in excess of Mach 5 and traveled 300 nautical miles at a flight ceiling greater than 65,000 feet. This is the second successful flight test in DARPA’s HAWC program. The first successful test was carried out by … [Read more...]
How Ukraine Is Using Cheap Tech to Fend Off a Superpower
Ukrainian soldiers are using inexpensive consumer drones from DJI to locate Russian tank and troop columns and then using those coordinates to guide mortars and set up ambushes. To counter this effective tactic, the Russians have used an extended version of DJI’s Aeroscope system, which is a public safety system normally used for locating the drones and their operators. With that information in hand, Russia is targeting the drones as they land near their operators. Kherson Oblast. Ukrainian forces batter Russian artillery about to get deployed pic.twitter.com/PlYAXWYRuJ — Illia … [Read more...]
The A-10 Deserves a Warrior’s Death
Warriors deserve a warrior’s death, not a retirement spent rusting away in the desert. The Bushido taught samurai, “death before dishonor.” The A-10, one of the USAF’s most iconic planes, deserves a warrior’s death. The plane was developed in the middle of the Cold War with a specific type of warfare in mind, to kill Soviet tanks on the front line. It has a chance to do that before being shuffled off into memory. Instead of sending America’s most iconic aircraft to the desert for zero dollars, Erik Prince says, “send them to Ukraine on a lend-lease policy.” Air Force Asks to Retire … [Read more...]
SPOTTED IN UKRAINE: Russian AI Suicide Drone Can Pick Its Own Targets
A Russian "suicide drone" that picks its own targets using artificial intelligence (AI), has been spotted in Ukraine. Pictures of the ZALA Aero Group's suicide drone, called ZALA KYB (KUB-BLA) was first demonstrated at the IDEX-2019 arms exhibition in the United Arab Emirates. ZALA Aero Group is a subsidiary of the Russian arms company Kalashnikov. The KUB-BLA has a maximum flight time of 30 minutes and is packed with ball bearings to maximize injuries and deaths[as seen nearby in a photo Tweeted by @UAWeapons]. ZALA Aero also makes the Lancet, a loitering munition with a max … [Read more...]
Ukraine War Is an “Intelligence Bonanza” for the West
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, a lot military intelligence has been gathered. Recently, reports of odd munitions on the ground in Ukraine had ballistic experts stumped. The rounds were thought to be some sort of bomblets or cluster bombs. Further investigation has shown that, in fact, they were released from Russian Iskander-M short-range missiles, reported The New York Times. The munitions were decoys to fool air-defense radars and heat-seeking defensive missiles. The munitions emit radio signals and heat reports to fool defenses, reports Julie Coleman of Business Insider. She … [Read more...]
SWITCHBLADE: Ukraine Sky’s May Soon be Buzzing with Flying Munitions
Like a scene out of a horror movie, the Russians could soon be finding themselves hunted by a killer swarm. The swarm would come in the form of AeroVironment’s backpackable, rapidly deployable, loitering precision strike missile called, Switchblade. The Switchblade 300, with a range of just over 6 miles, has a flight endurance of 15 mins and weighs just over 5 pounds. The Switchblade 600 has a weight of 50 pounds and is for larger, more hardened targets and carries an anti-armor warhead. The range of the 600 is over 20 miles with a flight endurance time of 40 minutes. Unit cost is around … [Read more...]
Did Ukraine Find Russia’s Achilles’ Heel?
Coverage of the war in Ukraine suggests that the Ukrainian military has created a logistics nightmare for Russia with seemingly minimal efforts. Ukrainian troops appear to have targeted high value fuel trucks in order to stymie the advance of Russian tanks and APCs relying on their cargos. The Ukrainians also destroyed vital bridges and railways to deny their use to the Russians as routes for resupply. This effort also appears to have created choke points for Russian columns, making them vulnerable to further attack. Across the country, Ukrainians have taken down or painted over street … [Read more...]
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