Diego Ramos, Author at DEFENSE-AEROSPACE

$25 Million Set Aside as Army Plans 2026 Tests of Blackbeard Hypersonic Round on Autonomous Launchers

The Army is moving fast to fold a new hypersonic strike option into its tactical fires family. Budget lines for fiscal year 2026 outline Project HX3, a pathway that funnels $25 million toward Castelion's Blackbeard Ground Launch missile and an autonomous launcher

July 3, 2025

Defense Budgets / Policy

House Appropriations Committee Proposes Flat $832 Billion FY26 Defense Budget Ahead of Pentagon Request

The House Appropriations Committee circulated its full fiscal 2026 defense draft late on 28 June, two days before the Pentagon is expected to send over its own request. The text assigns $832 billion in discretionary authority, matching last year's enacted figure and

July 1, 2025

Advanced Propulsion Systems

Why DARPA Cancelled Its DRACO Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Project

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has closed the books on its Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations program. Defense officials confirm the termination order went out late Monday. The move ends a five-year push to field a nuclear-thermal upper stage able

June 30, 2025

Space Systems

FY 2026 Request: Space Force Seeks $277M for MILNET and Pauses Tranche 3 Transport Layer

The Space Force wants $277 million next year to launch the Military Internet (MILNET) constellation and has frozen money for the Space Development Agency's Tranche 3 Transport Layer. Defense officials confirm the shift appears in the service's fiscal 2026 budget books, released

June 30, 2025

Missiles / Drones / Directed Energy

MDA Awards $429M Contract to i3 for Advanced Missile Defense Data Evaluation

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) signed a new deal on 10 June 2025. It is an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract worth up to $429 million with Integration Innovation Inc. (i3). The Huntsville firm must collect missile-test data, check its quality, and turn the

June 12, 2025

Aircraft

The F-35 Fighter Jet, The World’s Costliest Weapons Program, Just Got More Expensive

The Pentagon just raised the F-35 bill again. Numbers inside its fresh acquisition report point to $438 billion for development plus production. Last year they put the figure at $412 billion. Now planners must live with extra $26 billion—they said inflation and

October 11, 2023

Aircraft

Northrop Grumman Adding Mobile Targets to B-2 Bomber Capabilities

The B-2 Spirit edges into a new era. Air Force engineers push the bomber toward a fresh role—striking vehicles that refuse to sit still. The project looks dry on paper, yet it shifts how commanders think about fast raids. Crews on the

October 7, 2023

Russia-Ukraine War

R-168: The Russian Military Radio That’s Not So Russian

Moscow sells the R-168 as proof its army can talk under fire without outside help. Documents and captured sets prove many key chips ship in from abroad. That clash between message and material defines its whole tale.

August 15, 2023

Helicopters

Australian Chinook Helicopter Refuels Abrams Tanks

The Army pushed a dusty run at Townsville this week, hooking a Chinook’s fuel lines straight into three Abrams. Blades kept spinning, hoses hissed, and heavy armor rolled off topped up. Roads in those scrub ridges stay rough, so air-pump beats truck

April 11, 2023

Aircraft

All Issues Pertaining to Serviceability of MiG-29K Sorted Out – Indian Navy

The Indian Navy has fought hard to keep its carrier aviation alive after retiring the Sea Harrier. MiG-29K fighters now fill that hole on INS Vikramaditya and the soon-to-sail INS Vikrant. Admiral Sunil Lanba told reporters on the eve of Navy Day

December 4, 2018

Diego Ramos

$25 Million Set Aside as Army Plans 2026 Tests of Blackbeard Hypersonic Round on Autonomous Launchers

House Appropriations Committee Proposes Flat $832 Billion FY26 Defense Budget Ahead of Pentagon Request

Why DARPA Cancelled Its DRACO Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Project

FY 2026 Request: Space Force Seeks $277M for MILNET and Pauses Tranche 3 Transport Layer

MDA Awards $429M Contract to i3 for Advanced Missile Defense Data Evaluation

The F-35 Fighter Jet, The World’s Costliest Weapons Program, Just Got More Expensive

Northrop Grumman Adding Mobile Targets to B-2 Bomber Capabilities

R-168: The Russian Military Radio That’s Not So Russian

Australian Chinook Helicopter Refuels Abrams Tanks

All Issues Pertaining to Serviceability of MiG-29K Sorted Out – Indian Navy

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Julien Mercier

Clara Nguyen

Priya Shah

Michael Adler

Lena Kovacs

Diego Ramos

Peter Johansson

Lucas Meyer

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