An artist's conception of a sixth-generation stealthy combat jet armed with a laser directed energy weapon. Northrop Grumman By Joseph Trevithick, Publiched by The War Zone, 28 October 2022 Declassified docs offer insights into laser weapons use, and defenses against them, on the USAF’s next generation air dominance aircraft. Newly
By Brandon Vigliarolo, Published by The Register, 28 October 2022 Urges peace in space, while also threatening to shoot western war zone internet out of the sky Russia has warned the United Nations that commercial space systems – like Starlink – risk becoming legitimate military targets if they continue to
By Drago Bosnic, Published by Southfront, 28 October 2022 While the militarization of space is certainly not in the interest of the world, the political West keeps pushing for an exponential increase in the deployment of military assets to Earth’s orbit. In recent days, the Russian military has reiterated its
The Space Development Agency will begin launching its Tranche 1 Transport Layer communications mesh network in 2024. (Image: Northrop Grumman) By Theresa Hitchen, Published by Breaking Defense, 26 October 2022 "Translator" payloads are necessary because many of today's commercial remote sensing providers do not, and will not, have the ability
This chart, distributed March 17, 2022, shows how joint all-domain command and control works, and just how complicated it is. (Department of Defense) By Colin Demarest, Published by DefenseNews, 26 October 2022 WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is establishing an office tasked with aligning and accelerating joint all-domain command and control,
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 25 October 2022 Image: A U.S. Air Force E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) pulls away from a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker after completing aerial refueling over the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility Oct. 5, 2020. (U.S. Air Force
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 24 October 2022 "We may say that we don't want to, and we stand behind not doing, kinetic debris creating testing, but that does not mean that we should not have that capability," said Mitchell Institute Senior Fellow for Spacepower Studies Tim Ryan.
By Lisa Savage, Blog published at WENT2THEBRIDGE, 22 October 2022 When the Pentagon’s think tank, the RAND corporation, publishes a study it’s worth paying attention. Remarkable in their prescience, RAND reports accurately predicted the Ukraine war and the Iraq war. Free download here Consider, for instance, their recent study of what Chinese and Russian primary
