Category: Defence

A Marine Corps JLTV with 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing offloads from a Landing Craft Air Cushion with Assault Craft Unit 5 on the coast of Camp Pendleton, California. (LCpl. Nan Yang/Marine Corps) The Marines are sticking with the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, even as costs may rise following the Army’s decision to halt the program.

Army aviation leaders were caught off guard by some of the sweeping changes to the service’s overall force structure and are now scrambling to align plans with the top brass’ shifting vision, which includes abrupt moves to cancel or scale back key programs like a modernized aircraft engine, spy planes and larger runway-dependent unmanned aircraft.

Stinger missiles are mounted on a Sgt. STOUT during the Formidable Shield 2025 exercise on May 8 in Andoya, Norway. (Capt. Alexander Watkins/U.S. Army) Formidable Shield 25 is a U.S. Sixth Fleet-led, multinational exercise focused on integrated air and missile defense. The live-fire training brings together naval, air and ground forces from 10 NATO allies

An Army paratrooper fires a Javelin shoulder-fired, anti-tank missile during an exercise at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, Aug. 21, 2019. (Army) CULPEPER, Va. — L3Harris has begun clearing forest and carving out roads deep in the Virginia countryside, breaking ground on a major expansion at its Orange County facility to produce small and medium solid

Marines with 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, use NMESIS to fire a Naval Strike Missile from NAS Point Mugu, California. (Cpl. Earik Barton/Marine Corps) Marine Corps and Army missile systems are set to deploy to a key chokepoint in the Philippine Island chains for anti-ship drills during the military exercise known as KAMANDAG. The

A Standard Missile-3 Block IIA is fired from a Vertical Launching System on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, as part of Flight Experiment Mission-02 on Dec. 10, 2024. (Missile Defense Agency). Early this year, the Pentagon issued a memo halting development of a new radar meant to protect Guam from high-end air and missile threats

Two soldiers assigned to the 2nd Mobile Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, hold a security posture in support of Exercise Balikatan 25, at Aparri, Cagayan Valley, Philippines, on May 3. (SSG. Brenden Delgado/U.S. Army) Soldiers with the Hawaii-based 25th Infantry Division are in the midst of a training exercise with Philippine allies that has

Opinion By Joseph Welch  Tuesday, Jun 3, 2025 U.S. Army Soldiers with the 2nd Cavalry Regiment are pictured during exercise Dragoon Ready 2023. (Sgt. Rebecca Call/U.S. Army) Within the Army Transformation Initiative, the Army’s Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) effort represents a fundamental change in delivering data-driven C2 to our formations. From requirements to resourcing, acquisition

Maj. Gen. Jered Helwig, the commanding general of the 8th Theater Sustainment Command, receives a tour of the Joint Theater Distribution Center in Australia on May 22, 2024. (Courtesy of the 8th Theater Sustainment Command) The U.S. Army will test a nascent capability to effectively preposition equipment and supplies forward in the Pacific theater in

The Army is seeking to develop and field a mobile nuclear reactor to power forward-operating bases. (DOD) Some Army installations could be powered by nuclear microreactors under an executive order recently issued by President Donald Trump. The order, published May 23, calls for deploying advanced nuclear reactor technologies for national security and directs Army Secretary