Who will be the top Forces horse of 2025?
Author: Michael
Who will be the top Forces horse of 2025?
Lucas de Gamboa, RealClearDefense
We may have the strongest military, but having a strong military does not mean adversaries believe it will be used.
Tyler Rogoway, The WarZone
Hegseth’s visit to Redstone Arsenal provided new disclosures on Dark Eagle’s range and its small warhead.
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Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series exploring the modernization of defense manufacturing. Please also read the first: “The Additive Manufacturing Mirage in Defense.”If the role of additive is shifting away from the savior of manufacturing, then what will replace it as the true reindustrialization of manufacturing? There is an emerging consensus of an “agile factory”, which is theorized as a production ecosystem that mixes multiple manufacturing processes, old and new, orchestrated with advanced software and automation.
Western militaries are still arguing over what “autonomy” means while Russia and China are already building machines that don’t need GPS, data links, or even instructions.And unless the United States rewrites its understanding of autonomy, it will keep fielding systems that look modern on paper but collapse the moment the battlefield cuts the cord.
The Ukrainian state security service (SBU) has reported the first-ever successful attack on a submarine by an unmanned underwater vehiclein military history, damaging the Project 636 Improved Kilo class diesel-electric submarine at the Black Sea naval stronghold of Novorossiysk. A video released by the SBU appears to show the submarine exploding, after the unmanned vehicle navigated a packed harbour to reach its target.
The first submarine produced in the Republic of China, the Hai Kun, has continued to suffer major performance issues during testing. During the warship’s second sea trials, the ship’s hydraulic system was reported to have been left almost entirely ineffective on June 26, preventing the crew from turning the ship’s rudder. Personnel on the ship were as a result forced to turn the rudder by hand to be able to make an emergency return to the port.
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