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Packed into this Sunday's newsletter: 🔷 The Navy selects 4 vendors for CCA designs @anduriltech @BoeingDefense @GenAtomics_ASI @northropgrumman 🔷 Japan’s defense budget request is a record $60B, and it's only going to keep getting higher 🔷 JIATF 401. Get to know that bold…
This wins the deftech geek internet for the day.
This wins the deftech geek internet for the day.
🔷 Our latest newsletter and episode is a banger of a deep dive on Solid Rocket Motors with @ursamajortech! 👉newsletter: themerge.co/p/solid-rocket… 👉YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=x85KZj…
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It's not a direct correlation, but the number of military personnel generally determines its capacity. From @chartrdaily
This week's latest defense tech happenings👇 themerge.co/p/cargo-drones
On this day: 71 years ago, pilots Stanley Beltz and Roy Wimmer, with flight engineers Jack Real and Dick Stanton, made the first flight of the YC-130 Hercules from the Lockheed plant in Burbank, CA (August 23, 1954). The mighty Herky Bird, the legend of legends, was born!
In this week's newsletter: An augmented reality fighter jet helmet is being installed in the F-16. 👇 themerge.co/p/red-6-rising
Someone got their hands on the security footage of the recruiter randomly ejecting out of their F15 incentive flight while the plane was still taxiing
Spotted a cameo of what appears to be @Firestorm_Labs towards the end. What other deftech company products can you VID in the video?
Spotted a cameo of what appears to be @Firestorm_Labs towards the end. What other deftech company products can you VID in the video?
In space-based sensing, no single phenomenology can answer every question. At SkyFi, we unite them in one virtual platform with the largest constellation of assets on Earth. Optical, SAR, RF, and thermal each see the world differently. One login. Every perspective. Quote…
This week we take a closer look at the Shahed-136, its origins and clones. Also: an F-35 and quadcopter working together, a bad intel update, and the latest, and industry updates 👇 themerge.co/p/kamikaze-clo…
The hungry C-5 sits patiently, awaiting its next meal.

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