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The U.S. Navy has awarded separate contracts to Raytheon and Lockheed Martin to design and build competing prototypes to meet its requirement for an air-launched, air-breathing hypersonic anti-ship cruise missile. The service says this weapon is key to addressing increasingly advanced naval threats in contested environments in future major conflicts, such as a potential one against China in the Pacific, and that it must be in service by 2029.
The Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) announced the contract awards late on Tuesday.

According to state media, the Chinese Navy is recruiting high school graduates as candidates for its fighter jet cadet program to find more carrier pilots for its expanding fleet.
Over 4,500 recent high school graduates from the provinces of Shandong and Henan and the city of Chongqing have enlisted in the People’s Liberation Army Navy this month, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
The students – boys between the ages of 15 and 16 – will attend the PLA Navy Youth Aviation Schools, created in 2015 in cooperation with some of the best institutes in the country.

The digitally focused U.S. Space Force wants reprogrammable systems across all segments of its satellite communications infrastructure and more software coders that can program “on the fly,” according to Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt.
Software — and the cybersecurity tools needed to protect it — is viewed as an increasingly important component of U.S. military modernization and operations.
“We have three parts of the space infrastructure we care about. One is the ground system that we operate the satellites from, the satellites themselves, and then the receivers.

Each year on March 29, we observe National Vietnam Veterans Day. This day honors those who fought in the Vietnam War. When they returned from Vietnam, they were met with hatred, resentment and judgment, solely for doing their jobs. Now, we treat them as we always should have: with honor and respect.
It’s also a day to reflect on the lessons learned from the Vietnam War. In this way, we can show our resolve as Americans so that we don’t repeat the mistakes of that conflict.

Green Beret and Army Master Sergeant Chad Conley may be about to retire after 20 years of service to this country, but he’s just getting started. 
“I came into the service back in 2003 as 18x. I was in college during 9/11 and just felt like I had to do something. I had a bunch of family stuff happen that made me take a step back and evaluate what’s going on and at that point, I knew I wanted to serve. So with blue hair, and some big gauge earrings and some other piercings, I walk into a recruiter station,” he laughed.

France’s latest nuclear-powered attack submarine has entered its final testing phase ahead of its scheduled delivery to the armed forces later this year.
The SSN Duguay-Trouin, belonging to the new generation of Barracuda-class nuclear-powered submarines, began its sea trials on March 27 and 28 at the Cherbourg naval base in Normandy (France), according to the Ministry of French defense and submarine manufacturer, NavalGroup. After several months of testing, it should be delivered to the French Navy in the summer of 2023.

In this April 9, 2003 file photo, Iraqi civilians and U.S. Marines pull down a statue of Saddam Hussein in downtown Baghdad, Iraq.(Jerome Delay/AP).

Two decades after a U.S.-led military coalition ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the Senate has repealed the authorization from Congress to launch the Iraq war and subsequent military actions.
In a 66-30 vote, senators rescinded the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force that gave then-President George W. Bush the power to “defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq.

MOSCOW, RUSSIA – Units of the Russian Pacific Fleet conducted a live-fire exercise in Peter the Great Bay in the Sea of ​​Japan.
 According to a Russian Defense Ministry press release, the exercises were conducted by the missile boat assault group of the Littoral Fleet [part of the Pacific Fleet]. The boats launched P-270 Moskit cruise missiles.
What was the target of the missile?
The exercise was planned, the press service of the Pacific Fleet said. The target of the missile attacks was a major naval target. The target was a naval shield imitating an enemy warship.

The Defense Department has awarded the first task order for its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC), according to the director of the Defense Information Systems Agency.
The Pentagon awarded spots on its enterprise cloud contract to Google, Oracle, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft in December. As part of the $9 billion program, each vendor participating in the program must compete on individual task orders that will be rolled out in batches.
“We just awarded the first task order last week, and many others are working through the process,” DISA Director Lt. Gen.

There’s a myth going around the web that claims the Nazis invented stealth, or more specifically, that the Horten brothers did. It’s not true.
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