Throughout history, an arms race has persisted: a race between bigger and better weapons and the armor capable of protecting against those weapons. From swords and chainmail to ceramic ballistic plates and black-tip .30-06 bullets, the two are locked in a constant struggle to defeat each other.
On the armor side, a significant factor is mobility; armor can be nearly impenetrable, but it doesn’t do a soldier much good if it makes them immobile when they need to be on the move.
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Naval Technology
The US Navy has commissioned the USS Pierre (LCS 38), its 19th and final Independence-variant littoral combat ship (LCS)
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Boeing officials are talking-up the speed of the F-47 program, with the first example in production and a first flight slated for 2028.
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Since late 2023, the U.S. Navy has fired nearly $1 billion worth of munitions to protect ships in the Red Sea from low-cost Houthi drones and missiles. The headlines that followed have rightly pointed out the absurdity of firing multi-million dollar missiles against cheap drones. But those headlines miss the bigger picture.Behind each intercept lies a vast and expensive ecosystem: the carrier strike group and its escorts, the logistics tail that keeps them fueled, the training pipeline for crews, and the command-and-control networks that make the engagement possible.
Under the Arizona sun, mothballed aircraft glisten in perfect rows at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. In the brackish calm of the James River, reserve ships drift, their gray hulls streaked with rust. Both rest in quiet suspension, reminders that hardware decays without care. Future force design will share this truth: Hardware degrades if it is not sustained. Procurement is the flashy step, sustainment the sticky one.Replicator is the Pentagon’s catalyst to deliver new capability at speed and scale.