The Army-Navy Game is one that temporarily divides our usually united U.S. military, if only for a few hours. The rivalry is more than 120 years old, is attended by sitting Presidents of the United States, and is older than the Air Force itself. But for the men who compete for the Commander-In-Chief’s Trophy, it can be even more daunting to head west and face the Air Force Academy Falcons.
There’s no way the Air Force will ever get as legendary a rivalry as the Army-Navy Game. It’s one of the biggest games in sports.
Author: Michael
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have successfully targeted a major factory producing electronic connectors in Russia, marking a significant escalation in attacks on the country’s industrial base. Ukrainian sources claimed that the attack on the Elektrodetal Plant in the Bryansk region was carried out using indigenous R-360 Neptune cruise missiles on September 29, although successful attacks by foreign systems have reportedly often been attributed to indigenous ones to increase their prestige.
Rebeccah has some ideas
Commander Salamander Substack
One topic I didn’t expect us to dive into on yesterday’s Midrats with Dean Cheng was the growing nuclear capability of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Once the show was over, I figured I needed to pull Rebeccah Heinrichs’s article from Friday up from my ‘read later’ tab.
She gives a solid review of the state of play and offers three suggestions, two of which I generally endorse, and the third a firm non-concur.
First, let’s review the table she sets.
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — As they hustle to accelerate the adoption of next-generation weapons amid real-world conflicts unfolding across the Middle East, the U.S. military’s existing and emerging innovation teams there are focused on delivering small, low-cost drones and systems to defeat those types of threats.
Lt. Gen. Derek France, commander of Air Forces Central and the combined forces air component commander for U.S. Central Command, briefed reporters on those and other near-term plans during AFA’s Air, Space and Cyber conference last week.
A Ukrainian FPV drone literally entered the crew door of a Russian MI-8 while in flight and forced the aircraft down to a crash landing.
The fate of the crew is unknown.
Another drone investigated the burning wreck.
As a former rotor head, this one hit home for me.
Warfare has changed.
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The Air Force brought a permanent deployment of MQ-9 Reaper drones to South Korea on Monday to serve as a surveillance and reconnaissance unit, and in doing so, revived a World War II-era squadron.
The 7th Air Force announced the activation of the 431st Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, based out of Kunsan Air Base in South Korea. The new squadron will provide aerial reconnaissance of the border with North Korea, but also conduct surveillance missions around the Indo-Pacific theater, the Air Force said.
“Deploying the MQ-9 brings a powerful capability to the region,” Lt. Col.
The military could do a better job at helping service members with gambling addictions, according to a government watchdog report released last week, as a growing body of research suggests that troops and veterans may be more susceptible to the disorder.
In a 19-page finding, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said that the services are inconsistent in their gambling prevention methods, and that the Department of Defense should clearly define roles and responsibilities for staff to help curb the issue.
In his first high-profile speech since taking office Air Force Secretary Troy Meink argued that the U.S. Air Force is dominant today, but also needs to mount the most aggressive modernization and readiness campaign in its nearly 80-year history. That paradox highlights a failure at the heart of the service’s current design. The only way it can stay ahead is by growing and improving at an ever-increasing — and unsustainable — pace.
It’s no mystery why this happened. The Air Force’s fighter-centric design depends on bases close to the enemy.
Anduril and Zone 5 Technologies recently conducted successful test flights of drone interceptor prototypes and have received additional funding to refine the technology, the Defense Department announced Monday.
The two companies were separately tapped for the Defense Innovation Unit’s Counter NEXT program last year, a few months after DIU released a solicitation for the initiative. According to the solicitation, the effort is aimed at developing less expensive drone-killing capabilities for the Navy.
HMS Somerset has carried out the first firing o