The U.S. Air Force has confirmed plans to significantly reduce procurements of F-35A fifth generation fighters for the remainder of the decade, as the service is forced to contend with growing strain on its budget from a wide range of competing programs. A new plan for fighter procurements provided to Congress has indicated that the overall fighter fleet will contract, at least temporarily, while F-35 procurements will remain far below previously planned levels. The Air Force previously planned to procure F-35s at a rate of 110 per year, before cutting this to 80, 60 and finally 48.
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4/23/1983 President Reagan and Nancy Reagan honor the victims of the bombing of the United States Embassy in Beirut Lebanon at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, Public Domain
Bloomberg and Israeli media are reporting the U.S. is planning to spend $500 million to build a vast new base on the Gaza border to implement President Trump’s Middle East peace plans.
Israeli officials familiar with initial discussions said the facility would serve international forces stationed in Gaza to help uphold the current Trump-brokered ceasefire and could accommodate several thousand troops.
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According to the Pentagon’s Top Weapons Buyer.
On November 7, SecWar Pete Hegseth* pressed executives of industries developing and manufacturing military weapons to focus on speeding up delivery of those weapons and producing more of them. To do this, he urged industry to invest its own dollars to upgrade facilities, up-skill workforces, and expand capacity. Speed was embodied throughout many elements of this acquisition-overhaul announcement.
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The Air Force is seeking industry’s ideas on a potential new project to develop an anti-air missile that can be rapidly produced for around $500,000 per munition.
The service recently published a presolicitation on Sam.gov requesting industry white papers for the new Counter-Air Missile Program (CAMP), which is being run by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Armament Directorate. The effort is still in the conceptual phases of development, but the service broadly envisions procuring thousands of weapons, including ground-launched variants.
Industry has until Dec.
The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier and its strike group arrived in Latin America, nearly three weeks after they were ordered to join the U.S. forces building up in the Caribbean.
The U.S. Navy confirmed that the USS Gerald R. Ford arrived in the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility on Tuesday. The ship is not yet in the Caribbean but will “augment” forces already there. The carrier group’s arrival marks a major escalation in the U.S. military’s buildup in Latin America over the fall.
remembering the mistake that made modernity
Yes, I know. In America this is Veterans Day. I’ve written before about my conflicted thoughts on some aspects of how we observe it, and I won’t dwell on it again.
Yes, we have the very American Memorial Day that, too, modernity has warped a bit.
The older I get, the more a long-standing feeling gets stronger with me. It has always been there, but in my years seconded to NATO and serving with the British, I really started to feel that, yes, they have the right idea.
Defense technology company Anduril will provide its AI-powered Lattice software platform to the Army for the Integrated Battle Command System Maneuver (IBCS-M) program, the contractor announced Monday.
The Army’s selection comes as the service is pursuing new capabilities and mobile tools to protect troops from adversaries’ small unmanned aerial systems, which are seen as a growing threat on modern battlefields across the globe.
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