Whoops: Lockheed Martin’s F-21 (Or Super F-16) Won’t Be Joining India’s Air Force. “According to journalist Angad Singh, the likely winner is French company Dassault’s Rafale twin-engine fighter.”
Inside the Stryker Turret: New targeting tech destroys drone swarms
Charles E. “Chuck” Myers, a valued and colorful member of the military reform movement and “Fighter Mafia” co-conspirator, died on May 10th at the age of 91. Here’s an interesting bit: “In 1960, he set the world speed record flight by flying a Delta Dart 1,544 miles per hour. The previous record had been set by a Soviet pilot.”
Daigle to exit as CAPE head, leaving another Pentagon vacancy. Guess where he is going?
Russia in space: An operational Russian anti-satellite (ASAT) capability may well be on the horizon.
Russia underwater: Russia has launched its new Belgorod submarine, which is designed to carry devastating underwater nuclear drones.
How much should we care about China’s rise in technology? “… we claim that, contra the conventional wisdom, imitating state-of-the-art weapon systems has become increasingly more difficult over the past 150 years – i.e., since the Second Industrial Revolution (1870-1920)”
Here’s another view: China has also seized a virtual monopoly in one class of conventional missiles – land-based, intermediate-range ballistic and cruise missiles.
The Biases That Keep Good R&D Projects from Getting Funded.
The Coast Guard’s program of record (POR) calls for procuring 8 National Security Cutters (NSCs), 25 Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPCs), and 58 Fast Response Cutters (FRCs) as replacements for 90 aging Coast Guard high-endurance cutters, medium-endurance cutters, and patrol craft.
In CAS Of Emergency Grab One Of These Sweet A-10 Warthog T-Shirts!
U.S. Army Trains To Fire Howitzers From Landing Craft For The First Time In Decades.
Raytheon: “The AN/TPY-2 was already a high performer; a Porsche of a radar“
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