The P-8 Poseidon is quickly becoming the Pentagon’s super-adaptable multi-role surveillance platform of choice. We know it can pack one of the most advanced radar systems in the world, slung under its belly in a huge canoe-like enclosure. Now, another previously unknown external ‘plug and play’ capability for the P-8 appears to be in testing. […]

In a first for the U.S. Navy, a submarine has launched and recovered an underwater drone used in a military operation.The attack submarine USS North Dakota returned to its base in Groton on Monday following a nearly two-month deployment to the Mediterranean Sea specifically to test the drone-launching capability. “This was something they thought we […]

The Lodi Police Foundation raised $200,000, and along with a $50,000 grant, the money enabled police to purchase an armored vehicle. Called the BATT, the brand-new vehicle from Detroit is being driven home by officers, passing landmarks across the country. “These guys put their lives in danger every day to protect the people of Lodi, […]

Lockheed Martin Corp has agreed to buy United Technologies Corp’s Sikorsky Aircraft for over $8 billion, two sources said on Sunday, cementing a deal that would confirm Lockheed’s dominance in weapons making and giving the Black Hawk helicopter to the maker of the F-35 fighter jet. The deal will add further heft to Lockheed, which […]

US-Ukrainian exercise “Rapid Trident” involving 1800 military from 18 countries started in Lviv region Americans and Europeans now coming very close the Russians(rebels) for a direct contact.

Patuxent River, Md., (July 14, 2015) – Bell Boeing, a strategic alliance between Bell Helicopter, a Textron [NYSE: TXT] company, and Boeing [NYSE: BA], was awarded a U.S. Navy contract today for five Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft to bedelivered to Japan, marking the first sale of the aircraft through the U.S. government’s foreign […]

The United States Air Force (USAF) and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have completed the first development flight test of a controversial update to a nuclear bomb that has been use since the 1960s. A ‘safe’ version of the the B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb with no warhead was tested at Tonopah Test Range in Nevada. […]

The U.S. Army has awarded BAE Systems a contract worth $110.4 million to convert 36 M88A1 recovery vehicles to the M88A2 Heavy Equipment Recovery Combat Utility Lift Evacuation Systems (HERCULES) configuration. “The HERCULES is an integral part of the U.S. Army’s Armored Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) and essential to its recovery missions as the fleet […]

The FBI is investigating a veteran accused of leading deputies on a chase. Aiken County deputies say a heavy duty Humvee, stolen from Fort Gordon, crossed the South Carolina state line and weaved on and off Interstate 20 for miles. Calls about the Humvee came in around Mile Marker 11. Investigators tell News 12 the […]

The Bell 525 Relentless super-medium helicopter has successfully completed its first flight at Bell Helicopter’s aircraft assembly centre in Amarillo, Texas, the company announced on 1 July. The flight test began with taxi testing and manoeuvres, after which it began an initial hover and performed hover manoeuvres. The helicopter’s low speed handling qualities were tested […]