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According to the Pentagon’s Top Weapons Buyer.
On November 7, SecWar Pete Hegseth* pressed executives of industries developing and manufacturing military weapons to focus on speeding up delivery of those weapons and producing more of them. To do this, he urged industry to invest its own dollars to upgrade facilities, up-skill workforces, and expand capacity. Speed was embodied throughout many elements of this acquisition-overhaul announcement.
The Air Force is seeking industry’s ideas on a potential new project to develop an anti-air missile that can be rapidly produced for around $500,000 per munition.
The service recently published a presolicitation on Sam.gov requesting industry white papers for the new Counter-Air Missile Program (CAMP), which is being run by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Armament Directorate. The effort is still in the conceptual phases of development, but the service broadly envisions procuring thousands of weapons, including ground-launched variants.
Industry has until Dec.
The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier and its strike group arrived in Latin America, nearly three weeks after they were ordered to join the U.S. forces building up in the Caribbean.
The U.S. Navy confirmed that the USS Gerald R. Ford arrived in the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility on Tuesday. The ship is not yet in the Caribbean but will “augment” forces already there. The carrier group’s arrival marks a major escalation in the U.S. military’s buildup in Latin America over the fall.
remembering the mistake that made modernity
Yes, I know. In America this is Veterans Day. I’ve written before about my conflicted thoughts on some aspects of how we observe it, and I won’t dwell on it again.
Yes, we have the very American Memorial Day that, too, modernity has warped a bit.
The older I get, the more a long-standing feeling gets stronger with me. It has always been there, but in my years seconded to NATO and serving with the British, I really started to feel that, yes, they have the right idea.
Defense technology company Anduril will provide its AI-powered Lattice software platform to the Army for the Integrated Battle Command System Maneuver (IBCS-M) program, the contractor announced Monday.
The Army’s selection comes as the service is pursuing new capabilities and mobile tools to protect troops from adversaries’ small unmanned aerial systems, which are seen as a growing threat on modern battlefields across the globe.
As the United States continues to increase its military presence in the Caribbean and to strike boats that the government accuses of trafficking drugs, the Venezuelan government and people are feeling the intensifying pressure and preparing for potential U.S. military action directly against the country. We asked five experts to examine how various actors within Venezuela are responding — and how they might react if the situation escalates further.Read more below.John Polga-Hecimovich Associate Professor of Political Science at the U.S.
Originally published 8/9/24
Host L Todd Wood speaks with Vic Renza, on his horrific experience with the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam on the Cambodian border.
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“It is all very wonderful to me that I should be a part of such a tremendous movement,” Canadian nurse Sophie Hoerner wrote her friend following her arrival in France in 1915. The “thrills and bubbles” of anticipation wouldn’t last long, however. All hopes for a short-lived conflict dwindled as casualties surged, pushing nurses like Hoerner closer to the front lines of World War I.
Israel Weapon Industries has launched a lithium-ion battery component that can be integrated in the buttstock of AR-15 and M4 rifles.
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As a former special operations rotary-wing pilot, I remember well the day they put the aircraft I flew on a stick outside a museum.
Now I really feel old as the U.S. Army is looking at halting production of crewed rotary-wing aircraft.
The Department of War is evaluating a reform concept that would sharply reduce or halt the purchase of new piloted helicopters for the U.S. Army beginning in the second half of the decade, according to individuals familiar with internal discussions.