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Lisa West, UK Defence Journal the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Preble employed its High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance system, known as HELIOS, to engage… Source link

The US military’s Golden Dome program may be forced to halt development as early as October if not granted more money by Congress. Program chief Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein explained the situation Tuesday at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Ala. Reporting from the expo floor, Breaking Defense Multimedia Director Daniel Woolfolk and Pentagon correspondent Ashley Roque break down leading developments from day one of the conference. Source link

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—Lasers and high-powered microwaves will need equal standing to traditional weapons when it comes to the Army’s approach to missile defense, the service’s space and missile-defense chief said. But as battlefield tech is developed and integrated, proper training will be key to keeping soldiers safe. “Integrating systems like lasers or high-powered microwaves, there’s a pretty significant burden of implementing that across training and organizations,” Lt. Gen. John Rafferty, who leads Army Space and Missile Defense Command, told reporters Tuesday at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium. Rafferty’s top enlisted advisor concurred.  “I know everyone’s talking about faster, cheaper—all those things are needed.…

Spoiler Alert: Key plot points in “Golden Kamuy” discussed in detail below. Modern-day relations between Japan and Russia are complex, with one of the most pivotal turning points in the relationship being the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War. While the conflict has been extensively studied in academic literature, a popular manga and anime known as “Golden Kamuy” uses the backdrop of the Russo-Japanese War to reevaluate Russo-Japanese relations more broadly, as well as the status of the Ainu and other indigenous Far Eastern people. “Golden Kamuy,” created by Noda Satoru, ran as a serialized manga from 2014 to 2022. It then spawned…

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The annual Space and Missile Defense Symposium kicked off today, with military officials and industry executives gathering in Huntsville, Ala., to talk about the latest in space and missile technology. US and international defense firms are displaying their wares, hoping to earn a piece of US funding for space and missile projects like the sprawling Golden Dome initiative. As the Breaking Defense team roams the expo floor to report the latest news, here are several sights from Day 1. And be sure to check out all our coverage of the event here. Attendees listen during a keynote address at the…

Kyrgyzstan has been earning its long-time moniker as the “Switzerland” of Central Asia of late, having already hosted a flurry of senior diplomatic visits this summer, ahead of a busy few weeks that will see the Shanghai Cooperation Organization celebrate its 25th anniversary with a summit in Bishkek, and the biannual World Nomad Games again setting up camp on the banks of Issyk-Kul.  In regional terms, the most significant of these visits to Kyrgyzstan arguably came at the end of July, when the five leaders of the Central Asian republics were joined by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the resort…

Grant Georgulis, RCDefense Measuring military effectiveness solely by whether political leaders achieve every desired end state assigns military force a burden that no instrument of national… Source link

DETROIT — The Army has awarded six vendors for its Infantry Last Tactical Mile (ILTM) initiative, a program seeking to replace humans with unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) for both logistics and casualty evacuation (casevac) missions in contested areas, the service’s CPE Mission Autonomy office announced today.  The six companies awarded through prototype Other Transaction Agreements are: Maren-Go, Overland AI, Forterra, Hendrick’s Motorsports, American Rheinmetall and HDT, according to a service release. The vendors will each deliver “production-ready prototype” autonomous systems that can operate in the “last tactical mile” — the treacherous area between support units and the forward lines where…

On the 73rd anniversary of the Korean Armistice Agreement late last month, South Korea’s Minister of Unification Chung Dong-young declared, “We must end the Armistice regime and move to a peace regime.” His statement echoed a promise from South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, who earlier in July promised South Korea’s Peace Unification Advisory Council that his administration would work to transition the Korean Peninsula away from the Armistice Agreement toward a “peace regime” paradigm.  But what does this actually mean? What is a “peace regime” and is it attainable with North Korea? These questions matter because they inform the trajectory…