Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic Ukraine sees the future of naval warfare. The White House doesn’t.
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Rebecca Falconer, Axios
Peter Suciu, Forbes
If you listen closely during the first week of January, you can hear the collective snapping of tendons across America. We are entering a specific season, one that gives rise to the “New Year Resolutioner.” A time when perfectly rational citizens suddenly decide to assault their own bodies with the strategic planning of a private on his first pay weekend. It is a mass casualty event of pulled hamstrings and bruised egos.
Chinese state media outlets have for the first time published live footage of a YJ-20 hypersonic anti-ship ballistic missile in flight, including its launchfrom the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy Type 055 class destroyerWuxi, on December 28. The missile was launched in an apparent show of force that may have been intended to test various aspects of its performance, and was ejected from one of the vertical launch cells located in the aft section of the destroyer. Footage clearly showed the use of a cold-launch system to eject it out of the cell before engine ignition.
Footage from South Korea has confirmed that the Republic of Korea Army has integrated new anti-drone protective cages on its K2 main battle tanks, which were seen during a recent armoured training activity. K2s were tested in a live fire environment, fuelling speculation that the new modification may have been tested under realistic combat conditions involving simulated attacks by drones and loitering munitions.
The UK and Germany have entered into a £52m ($70m) agreement to jointly procure the RCH 155 artillery system.
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On a frozen Himalayan ridgeline, Indian and Chinese troops still stare at each other through rifle sights. Thousands of miles away, Indian factories hum along on Chinese parts. Few rivalries in the world look this schizophrenic — or have lasted this long without snapping.India’s approach to China tests whether asymmetric interdependence gives countries strategic options that more deeply integrated economies lack.