By Amanda Miller, Published by Airforce Magazine, 2 January 2022 Airmen recite the oath of office before transferring into the Space Force during a ceremony at the Pentagon, Sept. 15, 2020. About 300 Airmen at bases worldwide, including 22 in the audience, transferred during the ceremony. Air Force photo by
By Frank Gardner, Published by the BBC, 30 December 2021 The year 2021 has seen a fundamental shift in British defence and security policy. Up goes the budget for digital technology, artificial intelligence and cyber. Down goes the money for more traditional hardware and troop numbers. All of this at
By Theresa Hitchens, Pubished by Breaking Defense, 28 December 2021 US leaders this year faced difficult decisions against a backdrop of rapidly growing challenges from potential adversaries, and a booming commercial space sector that innovation-wise is leaving the Defense Department and the Intelligence Community in the dust. WASHINGTON: Saying it
The terrifying future space weapons – ‘rods from God’ meteorites, molten metal cannons and weaponised asteroids By Patrick Knox, Published by the U.S. Sun, 23 December 2021 WEAPONISED asteroids, "rods from god" raining down on Earth and cannon firing molten metal and — it sounds like something from a sci-fi
By Vladimir Kozin, Published by World Beyond War, 22 November 2021 On November 15, 2021, the Russian Ministry of Defense carried out the successful destruction of the discontinued and decommissioned national spacecraft named “Tselina-D”, which was put into orbit back in 1982. The head of the Russian Defense Ministry, Sergei
By Paul Robinson, Published by Russia Today, 18 November 2021 News that Russia has tested an anti-satellite missile has sparked concern for spacecraft and, more worryingly, highlighted the lack of international treaties regulating space weapons, meaning the cosmos is becoming a battleground. While the US currently opposes controls on orbital
By Mike Wall, Published by Space.com, 18 November 2021 Privateer aims to characterize space junk like never before. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's startup Privateer aims to help humanity get the goods on space junk before it's too late. The Hawaii-based company, whose existence Wozniak and co-founder Alex Fielding announced in
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 17 November 2021 You can imagine a reusable system that can fly around and drop payloads and come back, or a hypersonic system that can carry other hypersonic systems," said Gillian Bussey, head of DoD's Joint Hypersonics Transition Office. WASHINGTON: Reusable super-high-speed aircraft
