Training and Simulation

Attendees try out the Caliverse Hyper-Realistic Metaverse experience at the Lotte booth at CES 2023 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on Jan. 5, 2023, in Las Vegas, Nevada

The next Army recruiting tool amid a slump? It could be the metaverse.

The U.S. Army missed its fiscal 2022 recruiting goal by thousands of new soldiers, leaving it shorthanded.

8 days ago

Explore the showroom floor at Spain’s FEINDEF security expo

The defense conference FEINDEF took place in Madrid, Spain, from May 17-19.

11 days ago

The 556th Test and Evaluation Squadron completed the first round of MQ-9A Reaper ground and flight testing with the Angry Kitten ALQ-167 Electronic Countermeasures Pod at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, in April 2023.

Air Warfare

Fur-midable: US Air Force pairs Angry Kitten jammer with Reaper drone

Angry Kitten’s name is a brew of inside joke and design goals, and is a departure from the typically terrifying military moniker, like Hellfire or Stryker.

Israel’s Elbit to supply Montenegro with vehicle-mounted mortar system

The contract, signed in Tel Aviv, will include Elbit's 120mm munition system that can be mounted on vehicles.

14 days ago

Britain to train Ukrainian pilots, supply more missiles and drones

Debates within NATO nations over providing Ukraine with combat jets continues unabated.

2 weeks ago

Protect the force with timely and robust readiness funding

The safety and readiness of the force is too important to get lost in clever language about decision frameworks and assessment tools.

3 weeks ago

Ohio Air National Guard Capt. Travis Dancer exits his aircraft after landing at Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center in Michigan during the Global Information Dominance Experiment 3 in July 2021.

Pentagon’s AI office rebooting global experiments for JADC2

Craig Martell said his team took the reins of the Global Information Dominance Experiments to “understand what’s the right way to get after JADC2.”

3 weeks ago

Marines to deactivate historically female recruit training battalion

Until 2019, the 4th Recruit Training Battalion was the sole training unit for female Marine recruits.

4 weeks ago

New Zealand military plays catchup in pandemic aftermath

New Zealand’s military has tested beach-landing equipment in an overseas environment — a type of exercise one officer admitted hasn't happened for a while.

4 weeks ago

More international forces to join US Army’s aviation experiment Edge

This year's event is taking place in Arizona but spans all the way to Alaska with a growing number of other countries.

5 weeks ago

In this file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, an anti-surface gunnery is fired from China's Navy missile frigate Yulin during the "Exercise Maritime Cooperation 2015" by Singapore and Chinese navies in the South China Sea on May 24, 2015.

Chinese navy ships head to Singapore for joint drills

China's military has dispatched a pair of navy ships to take part in joint drills with Singapore's navy and join a regional maritime security exhibition.

5 weeks ago

Beyond ship counts: Training, readiness and capabilities ‘count’ too

While procurement numbers and fleet size are important, they are not a proxy for assessing warfighting prowess.

5 weeks ago

Lawmakers in a new House select committee on China from left, Rep. Jake Auchincloss, D-Mass., Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., committee Chairman Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., gather for a tabletop war game exercise in the House Ways and Means Committee room on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, in Washington.

Lawmakers war-game conflict with China, hoping to deter one

The exercise explored American diplomatic, economic and military options if the United States and China were to reach the brink of war over Taiwan.

5 weeks ago

US to start training Ukrainian troops on Abrams tanks within weeks

A separate shipment of refurbished M1A1 Abrams tanks is expected to reach Ukrainian battlefields by the end of the year.

6 weeks ago

Escape system problem causes T-7 deliveries to slip to end of 2025

It's the latest slide in the T-7's schedule, and means the first deliveries will happen at least two years later than anticipated.

6 weeks ago

Marines with Charlie Company, 3d Assault Amphibian Battalion, 1st Marine Division, prepare amphibious combat vehicles for waterborne operations at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Jan. 7, 2022.

Corps to update training for new amphibious vehicles after mishaps

The transition training unit will include aviators, light armored vehicle crewmen, AAV crewmen and others.

6 weeks ago

US Air Force, Navy conduct ICBM test aboard nuclear command aircraft

This was the first Minuteman III test conducted from an airborne control center on a Navy E-6B Mercury aircraft since August.

6 weeks ago

Russia trains Belarusian pilots in nuclear weapons use

The deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus would put them closer to potential targets in Ukraine and NATO members in Europe.

7 weeks ago

French forces prep for final phase of major multidomain exercise

After several years without an exercise on its territory, the French military is preparing for the final phase of Orion 2023.

7 weeks ago

Training & Sim

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The U.S. Army missed its fiscal 2022 recruiting goal by thousands of new soldiers, leaving it shorthanded.

The defense conference FEINDEF took place in Madrid, Spain, from May 17-19.

Angry Kitten’s name is a brew of inside joke and design goals, and is a departure from the typically terrifying military moniker, like Hellfire or Stryker.

The contract, signed in Tel Aviv, will include Elbit's 120mm munition system that can be mounted on vehicles.

Debates within NATO nations over providing Ukraine with combat jets continues unabated.

The safety and readiness of the force is too important to get lost in clever language about decision frameworks and assessment tools.

Craig Martell said his team took the reins of the Global Information Dominance Experiments to “understand what’s the right way to get after JADC2.”

Until 2019, the 4th Recruit Training Battalion was the sole training unit for female Marine recruits.

New Zealand’s military has tested beach-landing equipment in an overseas environment — a type of exercise one officer admitted hasn't happened for a while.

This year's event is taking place in Arizona but spans all the way to Alaska with a growing number of other countries.

China's military has dispatched a pair of navy ships to take part in joint drills with Singapore's navy and join a regional maritime security exhibition.

While procurement numbers and fleet size are important, they are not a proxy for assessing warfighting prowess.

The exercise explored American diplomatic, economic and military options if the United States and China were to reach the brink of war over Taiwan.

A separate shipment of refurbished M1A1 Abrams tanks is expected to reach Ukrainian battlefields by the end of the year.

It's the latest slide in the T-7's schedule, and means the first deliveries will happen at least two years later than anticipated.

The transition training unit will include aviators, light armored vehicle crewmen, AAV crewmen and others.

This was the first Minuteman III test conducted from an airborne control center on a Navy E-6B Mercury aircraft since August.

The deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus would put them closer to potential targets in Ukraine and NATO members in Europe.

After several years without an exercise on its territory, the French military is preparing for the final phase of Orion 2023.