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The milestone marks a major step toward deploying the most advanced radar ever installed on an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer.

Trimble, AvWeek
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D’urso & Cenciotti, Aviationist
A B-52 with test markings was spotted carrying a mysterious payload that resembles the rendering of the AGM-181 LRSO, the Air Force’s next-gen stealth nuclear…

Rebecca Grant, RealClearDefense
Protecting America’s critical infrastructure from cyber hacks is a never-ending problem – and not just on Earth, but on orbit, too.

Shipbuilding is having a moment in Washington. That’s great, but hype doesn’t float boats.Reshoring commercial shipbuilding is billed as the key to maritime security. Proponents claim benefits to naval shipbuilding, sealift capacity, and a hedge against China — builder of over half the world’s commercial vessels — wielding its merchant tonnage for coercion.The United States does need to build more ships — and fast — to meet China’s challenges.

In November 2015, I was five months into commanding the air campaign against the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Operation Inherent Resolve was in full swing. Coalition airpower was blocking enemy reinforcements, severing supply lines, choking off illicit oil revenue, and enabling friendly forces to retake key ground. We were taking it to the enemy: The week before Thanksgiving 2015, U.S. Central Command registered the highest seven-day total weapons expenditure since the beginning of the campaign.

The Azerbaijan Air Force has been confirmed to have procured and begun fielding the Chinese HQ-9B long range air defence system, with a launcher from the system having been shown at a military parade rehearsal in the capital Baku. Despite Azerbaijan’s close geopolitical alignment with countries in the Western world, as well as with Israel and Turkey, the country has in recent years looked to China to re-equip its forces, most recently with procurements of JF-17 Block III fighter aircraft to replace its ageing Soviet-built MiG-29s.

Former Iranian official Mohammad-Javad Larijani has stated that his country has developed a new doctrine, under which its nuclear program will retain the ability to proceed to develop nuclear weapons within two weeks. This is expected to provide a degree of deterrence against potential adversaries, allowing Tehran to shift its policy to develop nuclear weapons should it face a security threat considered sufficiently serious to do so. It would mirror the positions currently taken by a number of non-nuclear weapons states including Japan, Germany and South Korea.

First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Defence Committee Alexei Zhuravlev has confirmed airlifts of Pantsir and BuK-M2 surface-to-air missile systems to strengthen the air defence capabilities of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, at a time when Caracas faces an imminent threat of a large scale military assault by the United States. “Russian Pantsir-S1 and Buk-M2E systems were just recently delivered to Caracas by Il-76 transport aircraft,” Zhuravlev stated, while raising the possibility of further deliveries, and of deliveries of ballistic or cruise missile systems.

Note that when writing Veterans Day, there is no apostrophe. It’s not a day that belongs to veterans, it’s a day for the country to recognize veterans—all of them.
The United States has a tradition of recognizing those who fight in its wars. Memorial Day began as a way for Union soldiers who fought in the Civil War to decorate the graves of their fallen comrades (Memorial Day was originally called Decoration Day). Eventually, it would come to recognize all American troops killed in action. Veterans Day was born from the trenches of World War I.