Summary and Key Points: Defense analyst Jack Buckby evaluates the critical “magazine depth” crisis facing the U.S. Navy as the four Ohio-class SSGNs (USS Ohio, Michigan, Florida, and Georgia) enter retirement.
-With each boat carrying 154 Tomahawks, the fleet’s decommissioning removes over 600 VLS cells from the undersea inventory.
Tomahawk Block IV Missile. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Tomahawk Launch. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Summary and Key Points: Jack Buckby, a New York-based defense analyst and British researcher, evaluates the looming “magazine depth” crisis as the U.S. Navy prepares to decommission its four Ohio-class SSGNs.
-As of March 9, 2026, the ongoing Operation Epic Fury in Iran has underscored the vital role of the Tomahawk land-attack cruise missile (TLAM), with the Navy exhausting stockpiles to dismantle IRGC infrastructure.
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The National Armaments Consortium is expanding its collaboration with academia, industry and the military in an effort to quickly standardize drone fuzing technology, which its leaders say is a critical component to the Pentagon’s push to pump out lethal unmanned aerial systems.
Fuzing technology generally refers to systems that control how and when a munition, in this case attached to a drone, explodes. Fuze development is particularly important to lethal UAS, which are intended to move quickly to a target and need to detonate reliably.
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When the United States becomes embroiled in any ongoing conflict (not just a new Middle Eastern conflict), it inevitably stokes conscription fears among American civilians. They start to wonder if they’ll be drafted, if their sons will be drafted, and what (if any) draft exemptions are possible.
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt didn’t help allay any anxiety or fears of a draft when she refused to tell Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that President Trump isn’t planning to use ground troops in Iran.
The UK Government has revealed, supposedly for the first time, that it has established four MRO facilities in Ukraine.
The Defense Department has identified Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington, of Glendale, Kentucky, as the American soldier who died after being wounded in a March 1 attack by Iran on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia.
Pennington, 26, died of his wound on March 8, according to the Defense Department. He is the seventh U.S. service member to die during Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. military’s name for combat operations against Iran. At the time of the attack, he was assigned to the 1st Space Battalion, 1st Space Brigade, based out of Fort Carson, Colorado.
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Before the first bomb fell, the conflict in Iran was already being dominated from 22,000 miles above it.
On an uneventful evening in February 2026, hours prior to F-35s screaming off carrier decks and B-2s beginning their long trek toward Tehran, U.S. Space Command and Cyber Command were already at work, relentlessly severing the connective tendons of Iran’s military.
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Satellite communications would go dark, sensor networks would lose sight.
Joint Interagency Task Force 401 and the Federal Aviation Administration have conducted a high-energy laser test to advance c-UAS in the US.
