American defence producer Radia has confirmed work is planned to design a next generation military cargo aircraft, designated the WindRunner, which the firm has stated will be the world’s largest. A rendering of the aircraft released by the firm has shown that it is could be considerably larger with several times the internal volume of the U.S. Air Force C-5 Galaxy, which is currently the largest in service. The firm described the new aircraft as an ultra-large cargo aircraft intended to fill the a gap in U.S.
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The South China Sea is one of the most contested maritime areas in the world. Smaller countries like the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Indonesia face increasing pressure from an assertive and militarily powerful People’s Republic of China due to overlapping sovereignty claims and critical trade routes. Beijing’s maritime power projection threatens regional sovereignty and economic rights under the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea through its militarization of artificial islands, aggressive maritime activities, and widespread illegal fishing.
…it’s been 14 years…
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NATO last month, to absolutely no fanfare, published a revision to the Alliance Maritime Strategy.
Don’t feel bad if you’re finding out about it first here—you’re not alone. You can search NATO’s website, but you can’t find it—at least I couldn’t. Head over to my friends at NATO’s Maritime Command in Northwood, nothing there either.
If it weren’t for the friendly hippies at Human Rights at Sea, we wouldn’t have the copy you can download here.
The Marine Corps is rapidly fielding its newest anti-ship weapons platforms in Japan. The Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System, better known as the NMESIS, is being forward deployed to the islands around Okinawa as part of a bilateral training exercise focused on island defense.
Speaking at a press conference on Saturday, Col. Richard Neikirk, the 12th Marine Littoral Regiment commander, said that training with the NMESIS is ongoing. According to Kyodo News, Neikirk said that the Marines and the Japanese Self-Defense Force are coordinating how to rapidly field the NMESIS.
Some 36 hours into a cross-country PCS, a seven-year-old autistic military child declared, mid-interstate meltdown, that he was “never speaking to another base housing office again.” It was his fourth move in five years, and he was done with it all.
Meanwhile, his mother juggled Waze directions, a spilled Capri Sun, and a Bluetooth call with the gaining base’s EFMP coordinator. The family dog barked nonstop. Her spouse was somewhere behind them in convoy formation. In the midst of the chaos, she had an epiphany: this wasn’t just another move.
War is 50% luck…
A Ukrainian drone narrowly missed, yet exploded nearby a Russian infantryman on a motorcycle in the Donbass theater.
He keeps going…amazing – the luck of war.
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Officials at the German Ministry of Defence are considering options to leave the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) next generation fighter program, which has been pursued from 2018 as a pan-European project to develop the continent’s first class of stealth fighter. The program has been led by France and Germany, with Spain having joined in 2019 as a more minor partner, followed by Belgium. German officials are currently exploring how the country’s defence sector may leave the program, with German Air Force officials having briefed parliamentary lawmakers on the issue earlier in the week.
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When people think of the U-boat war in the Atlantic, they think of the North Atlantic: cold, windy, grey, foreboding. Three of the best movies on the topic, The Cruel Sea, Das Boot, and Greyhound, only reinforce this view.
There was a lot more to the war than that. Far from sideshows, other theaters were critical points in the Axis’s attempt to choke supplies to Europe. Gaylord T. M. Kelshall’s superb book, The U-Boat War in the Caribbean, does the best job in pointing out that theater from the mouth of the Mississippi River to where our focus is today.
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An Army MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) crashed Wednesday night near Joint Base Lewis-McChord, military officials said.
The helicopter went down around 9 p.m. in a rural area outside the installation. The aircraft was carrying four soldiers at the time of the crash. The conditions of the passengers have not been disclosed.
On Thursday, deputies with the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office located the crash site in the Summit Lake area, the sheriff’s office announced on Facebook post.
Eight decades after he died, the Department of Defense confirmed it had positively identified the remains of Capt. Willibald Bianchi, a Medal of Honor recipient who went “beyond the call of duty in action with the enemy” while fighting in the Philippines during World War II.
Bianchi was captured during the fall of the Philippines to Japanese forces and survived the Bataan Death March. He would eventually die near the end of the war on Jan. 9, 1945, when U.S. planes hit the Japanese transport ship the Enoura Maru that he was on near Taiwan.