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News August 12, 2026 Dan Taylor Technology Editor Military Embedded Systems Vehicle-mounted SGT STOUT via Leonardo DRS ARLINGTON, Virginia. Leonardo DRS demonstrated software updates enabling its fielded SGT STOUT air-defense system to defeat Group 1 and Group 2 small uncrewed aerial system (UAS) threats during a U.S. government test event, the company announced in a statement. Several hundred SGT STOUT systems are already fielded, and the system was originally designed to counter Group 3 and larger UAS as well as fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft, the statement reads. During the test, the system expanded its capability against smaller UAS through changes…

A Russian Aerospace Forces Mi-8SMV medium-lift utility helicopter is seen here equipped with the P-324 Smalta-PG electronic attack system which is fixed to the side of the aircraft’s fuselage.In the first of a new series of articles, Armada examines the history, performance and specifications of Russia’s P-324 Smalta airborne radar jamming system.Despite being developed and deployed by the Soviet Union’s (USSR’s) Red Army during the Cold War, Armada understands that variants of the P-324 Smalta airborne electronic attack system may still be deployed onboard Russian Aerospace Forces (RASF) aircraft. Specifically, the apparatus is thought to be installed on dedicated Mi-8SMV…

The United States lacks a resilient domestic manufacturing base that can rapidly manufacture respiratory personal protective equipment (PPE) during biological emergencies. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic exposed dangerous shortages of PPE; supply disruptions, foreign export restrictions, and spikes in global demand left health care workers and the public without adequate protection when it was needed most. Among the U.S. manufacturers that were able to step up or turn to production of PPE during the pandemic were small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). SMEs represent an important but underleveraged part of a more resilient domestic industrial base: Their flexibility, regional distribution,…

The U.S. subsidiary Thales Defense & Security, Inc. (TDSI) has received a major contract to supply more than 400 units of the SharpView Dual Camera – Minerva vision system to the U.S. Marine Corps. The advanced optronic systems are dedicated to the targeted modernization of the U.S. Marine Corps’ armored fleet and will specifically be integrated into the ACV-P (Personnel) and ACV-C (Command) amphibious combat vehicle variants. Datum und Uhrzeit ändern Thermal Imaging and Daylight Sensor in a Compact Housing The Minerva camera system combines thermal imaging and daylight sensors into a single compact housing. The high-resolution, uncooled optronic system…

Bottom lines up front KYIV—Travel to Dnipro or Kharkiv, cities close to Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory, and the first impression might be one of improbable normalcy. Families stroll through manicured parks. Restaurants and hotels are packed with foreigners and locals. Commerce spills onto buzzing streets. Look closer, however, and the architecture of war is everywhere. Children study in a growing number of underground schools. Hotels sit atop makeshift bomb shelters for guests. Giant nets increasingly loom over arterial roads to foil Russian drones. More than four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukrainians are, understandably, tired. Russia’s strategy of targeting civilian infrastructure…

Before Larry Elmore became one of the artists behind Dungeons & Dragons’ popular imagery, he was drawing tanks and rifles for the U.S. Army. Elmore has been drawing for as long as he can remember, but growing up in a family with limited means meant his family had to ration paper, he said in a conversation with Fort Knox Public Affairs Office reporter Savannah Baird.When Elmore was drafted into the Army after graduating with a fine arts degree from Western Kentucky University, the service gave him the resources to hone his craft, he told Baird. “Once I got assigned, the…

Roughly 80% of mental health appointments made in the Veterans Affairs’ Community Care Program are scheduled within the department’s 30-day wait-time standard, but VA schedulers still struggle to meet the seven-day requirement for making these appointments, the VA Office of Inspector General has found.The VA’s watchdog evaluated mental health referrals for community care at 133 VA medical systems and found that just five met the seven-day metric for scheduling the appointments.But the inspectors also found that despite those delays, 80% of the referrals received appointments within 30 days.Of those that didn’t meet the requirement, the average wait time for an…

ADAPTIV Defense Launches The F.L.I. Drone Goggle Harness Spring Hill, TN – Today, military and law enforcement SUAS/FPV operators face a number of challenges with emerging drone technology. One of those challenges is having a streamlined way to wear FPV goggles while wearing a helmet. Most FPV goggles come equipped with an elastic headband requiring the user to remove their helmet to put on and take off the goggles. The ADAPTIV Defense F.L.I. (Fast Latch Integrated) Drone Goggle Harness utilizes magnetic Fidlock® attachment points mounted directly on modular helmet rails giving the user the ability to quickly don and doff…

The perverse incentives for presidents to use military force.

A new $3.4 million Pentagon grant to two universities aims to help solve the thorny problem of military recruits getting sidelined with stress fractures.The grant, which covers four years, was awarded to Rosalind Franklin University in Illinois and Old Dominion University in Virginia. According to a release from Rosalind Franklin, bone-stress injuries affect up to 8% of military recruits across the services and cost the Department of Defense about $100 million per year in medical expenses alone.“Because suspected stress fractures often require serial clinical visits, radiographs, MRI and bone scans, there is a strong operational and economic incentive to improve…