Laura Heckmann
Reporter at National Defense
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5 days ago |
realcleardefense.com | Laura Heckmann
The Marine Corps recently rolled out a sprawling aviation plan stretching across 15 years and every aircraft in its arsenal
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1 week ago |
nationaldefensemagazine.org | Laura Heckmann
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Marine Corps recently rolled out a sprawling aviation plan stretching across 15 years and every aircraft in its arsenal. The plan is a framework seeking to balance readiness and modernization, but the glue that will hold it all together is a fundamental concept in need of its own update: sustainment.
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2 weeks ago |
nationaldefensemagazine.org | Laura Heckmann
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — The U.S. military formed its first dedicated space organization in 1954 — the Western Development Division — under the Air Force. It would be 65 years before the Space Force was established as an official branch in 2019, and like much of the world, the vernacular of space as a warfighting domain is a relatively new concept. China is the only other country to have an independent space force, which it established in 2024.
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2 weeks ago |
realcleardefense.com | Laura Heckmann
A testing range said to have the largest enclosed tunnel for hypersonic flight and laser testing in the nation is open for business
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2 weeks ago |
nationaldefensemagazine.org | Laura Heckmann
A testing range said to have the largest enclosed tunnel for hypersonic flight and laser testing in the nation is open for business in Bryan, Texas. Sitting on Texas A&M University’s RELLIS campus and part of the university’s Bush Combat Development Complex, the Ballistic, Aero-Optics and Materials, or BAM, range is eight feet in diameter and 400 meters long, with plans to extend to one kilometer.
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