The British Ministry of Defence has awarded Rheinmetall a contract for its Robotic Platoon Vehicles (RPV) programme, which aims to determine the extent to which unmanned vehicles can boost the combat effectiveness and capabilities of dismounted troops at platoon level. For Spiral 3, the programmes final phase, the British once again chose to work with Rheinmetall Canada
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Several loitering drones operated by the Ukrainian Armed Forces reportedly destroyed an Russian ammunition depot located in the Belgarod region. As per unconfirmed reports, Russian air defense systems tasked with destroying aerial targets failed to shoot down the Ukrainian drones
Russias Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) can be equipped with several Avangard hypersonic warheads, a top official revealed today. Sarmat is planned to be put into service this year
The United States' Navy used a high-energy laser weapon to defeat a target representing a subsonic cruise missile in flight during a test at the High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico in February 2022.Known as the Layered Laser Defense (LLD), the weapon was designed and built by Lockheed Martin to counter unmanned aerial systems and fast-attack boats with a high-power laser—and also use its high-resolution telescope to track in-bound air threats, support combat identification and conduct battle damage assessment of engaged targets
Ukrainian Forces flew an airplane over the Black Sea within range of Russian warships air defenses and launched the ‘Neptune missile when these were fully engaged in tracking the aerial threat. Unconfirmed audio intercepts of Russian seamen on social media caught one of them stating that Ukrainian forces used an airplane northeast of the port city of Mykolayiv as a decoy, distracting the ships anti-air defense systems and allowing the Neptune missile to strike,
A fire abroad the Russian Missile Cruiser, Moskva on Wednesday night seriously damaged the warship, said to be the flagship of the Black Sea fleet. The Ukrainian military has hit the Russian cruiser Moskva by Neptune missiles, causing serious damage to the warship
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and ENEOS Corporation have jointly developed a second-generation “EX ROVR,” a plant inspection robot with explosion-proof features, by utilizing remote maintenance technology for nuclear power plants. Realization of a practically viable model has been achieved after successful verification of the robots explosion-proof capability, incorporation of a manipulator, development of requisite software, and completion of demonstration testing of the first unit
Ukraines Air Force said they destroyed 300 Russian aircraft since February 24, the day Moscow invaded the country. The military added that on April 12, it managed to shoot down a Russian Su-25 jet, despite bad weather
The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) today released the new unclassified report, "Challenges to Security in Space 2022," that examines the space and counterspace programs which could pose significant challenges to U.S