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Tyler Rogoway, The WarZone
The lack of an American amphibious aircraft capability has become more glaring as the possibility of a conflict with China looms larger.
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Jennifer Hlad, Defense One
III MEF includes the 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment, which is “leading the service” in various capabilities.
Gidget Fuentes, USNI News
Confidence in Amphibious Combat Vehicles Grows as Landing Craft Deploy
Jeff Schogol, Task and Purpose
President Donald Trump announced that the Navy’s new “battleships” will each be armed with “state-of-the-art electric railguns.
Saab has secured a contract from Lithuania to supply AT4 weapon and Carl-Gustaf ammunition, with the total order valued at $141.3m.
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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