Sunday Links

Report confirms DOD will investigate SOCOM professionalism and ethics.

Imagine This: F-35 Stealth Fighters Armed with Lasers. Yeah imagine that. “The first airborne tests are expected to take place by 2021…” The Air Force was just popping balloons out of a C-130J, but perhaps they realize that fragile modern fighters might be compromised by relatively weak lasers. But the wrong reaction would be, “that’s silly, let’s shut these guys down,” because our expectations might be wrong. I would want to know who are the “true believers” on the project and see if I believed in them.

A new quantum paradox.

Growth of China’s defense industry. China has 3 defense firms in top 10 global list.

Related. “The think tank further noted that following a period in the 1990s and early 2000s when China experimented with small classes of incrementally improved designs, it has in recent years settled on designs and shifted its priorities toward putting ships in the water at a rapid clip, in what has been likened to “dropping dumplings into soup.” I wish this was the type of style the US took in its defense programs.

More in-depth analysis of US losing technology edge in defense to Russia and China. “The U.S. military could suffer unacceptably high casualties and loss of major capital assets in its next conflict. It might struggle to win, or perhaps lose, a war against China or Russia.”

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