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A new US government report cites concerns about installing hypersonic missile equipment on the USS
Zumwalt
.
(Janes/Michael Fabey)
Both US Navy (USN) vessel platforms lined up for the service’s first Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) deployments face issues with scheduling and development, according to a US Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released on 8 June.

The first USN platform lined up for the CPS weapon system is the guided-missile destroyer, USS
Zumwalt
(DDG 1000).

Grievance-based curricula are coming to a military academy near you.

Public Domain

From late 2017 to 2018, three scholars wrote and submitted to academic journals 20 fake papers focused on gender and sexual identity—what the authors call “grievance studies.” Seven journals published their submissions. The scholars’ stated objective for this experiment was to expose the farcical nature of these “disciplines” and their replacement of scholarly rigor with an overt political agenda devoid of academic seriousness.

Anthony Capaccio, Bloomberg
The Pentagon faces a delay of at least a year in its timetable to deploy the new $96 billion intercontinental ballistic missile that’s central to modernizing the…

Thomas Newdick, The War Zone
Manufacturing issues and uncertainties over production quantities explain why the Air Force has only received two of the jets to date.

Steve Beynon, Military.

Stars & Str.
Legislation drafted by a group of U.S.

Stephen Tupper, RCDefense

Norway will acquire nearly 300 TG3 MIL 8×8 military trucks from German defence prime Rheinmetall in a deal worth in excess of €150m ($162m), with deliveries beginning form late 2026.
In terms of volume, it is the largest single call-off of trucks to date under the framework contract concluded between Rheinmetall, Norway, and Sweden. Earmarked for the Norwegian Armed Forces, the package encompasses multiple vehicle variants, including hook loader trucks, special vehicles with crane and hook loader systems as well as trailers and flatracks.

The RNoN Ula-class submarine, HNoMS
Utsira
(foreground), and Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate HNoMS
Otto Sverdrup
operate together during NATO’s ‘Dynamic Mongoose’ anti-submarine warfare exercise in the North Atlantic in 2020. Under the defence chief’s recommendations, Norway could expand both its submarine and surface fleets.

A model of the Surion MCH displayed at MADEX 2023. (Janes/Chinmay Kohad)
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) and BAE Systems signed a contract agreement on 8 June to support delivery of the UK company’s Archerfish Mine Neutralisation System (AMNS) for integration onto the KAI KUH-1 Surion mine-countermeasures helicopter (MCH).
The total number of AMNS units to be delivered to KAI under the agreement, which was signed at the MADEX 2023 exhibition held in Busan, is unknown. However, KAI intends to fit the MCH with four Archerfish systems and an associated launcher.