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President Donald Trump announced that the Navy’s new “battleships” will each be armed with “state-of-the-art electric railguns.
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Saab has secured a contract from Lithuania to supply AT4 weapon and Carl-Gustaf ammunition, with the total order valued at $141.3m.
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Have you heard the phrase “Long War”?
If you are reading this, it’s late December; you are likely hiding in different rooms of your house, playing an annual game of hide-and-seek to keep everyone guessing or avoid your in-laws. Possibly, you’re stuck on a 24-hour shift staring at a clock that seems to be moving backward. You have reached the point in the holiday timeline where high-speed motivation breaks down, and the only objective is survival.
The U.S. Armed Forces’ fleets of F-35 fifth generation fighter aircraft operated by the Air Force, Marines, and Navy have continued to suffer low availably rates, which the Defense Department’s Office of the Inspector General’s latest report revealed remained at just 50 percent. Published on December 19, the report observed that although “the aircraft were not available to fly half of the time,” and the maintenance issues meant they didn’t meet “minimum military service requirements,” the Pentagon still paid the fighter’s primary contractor, Lockheed Martin, $1.
As the year comes to a close, Dara Massicot and Mike Kofman talk with Ryan about the state of play from diplomacy to the battlefield.Image: ArmyInform
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The Air Force conducted an experiment in November that further demonstrated how artificial intelligence can speed up battle management — an event that included participants from three other U.S. military services and all Five Eyes partners.
Capstone 2025 was led by the 805th Combat Training Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, and served as the unit’s latest in a series of experiments broadly focused on modernizing command-and-control missions with AI-enabled capabilities.
We’re not quite at space battleships yet, but the U.S. Navy plans to bring the big warships back to the fleet with a new guided-missile battleship. On Dec. 22, 2025, President Donald Trump, Navy Secretary John Phelan, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the planned construction of the USS Defiant (BBG-1).
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Billed as the most lethal surface combatant ever constructed, the Defiant would be the first Trump-class battleship and the Navy’s first designated guided-missile battleship.
L Todd Wood and Pete Blaber bring the latest lies from the EU and the neocon globalists…they’re still lying. Trump works for peace while the EU works for global war.
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