The Navy’s plan to modernize and upgrade its four shipyards in the coming years could take half a century and cost more than $200 billion, a new report found.
The Government Accountability Office released a new report on the Navy’s Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program (SIOP) on Friday. The report, “Naval Shipyards: Complete Information Needed for Decision-Making on Multibillion-Dollar, 50-Year Infrastructure Program,” found that the price tag has noticeably grown since it started, and that the effort lacks plans for regular reviews of its progress.
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SR-71 Blackbird. Photo: ZeroHedge
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An SR-71 Blackbird parked for years on an outdoor display at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center is no longer visible in commercial satellite imagery, and the agency has offered no public explanation of where it went.
The spy aircraft, the NASA 844, has been absent from its pad since at least May 17, according to Aviation Week.
U.S. Patriot missile battery — U.S. Army photo (DoD/Public Domain)
Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen launched a coordinated overnight attack against Saudi Arabia in the early hours of Saturday, September 26, firing a ballistic missile at the southwestern city of Khamis Mushait while simultaneously dispatching a swarm of drones toward the capital Riyadh. Saudi air defenses intercepted and destroyed both volleys.
Saudi Arabia’s military spokesman, Maj. Gen. Turki al-Malki, announced the interceptions early Saturday morning.
Denmark has warned that Russia could attack NATO within months in a new intelligence report. The Danish Defense Intelligence Service (DDIS) identifies a “low but growing risk” that Russia could carry out isolated attacks on infrastructure that is critical to supporting Ukraine. It follows growing concerns over hybrid attacks by Moscow as part of its four-and-a-half-year full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
September is Suicide Awareness Month, a time to talk about something that can be incredibly difficult to say out loud. Sometimes, and oftentimes, people are hurting more than we realize.
For military families, connection can be complicated. We move, start over, and we say goodbye on repeat. We make new friends, only to eventually pack our stuff and categorize into moving boxes year after year. We watch our service members leave for training, deployments, schools, missions, and assignments where we learn how to keep life moving when the person we love is separated from us.
Jack Bharucha, The National Interest
The United States cannot challenge Chinese shipbuilding in the short term.
Liselotte Odgaard, RealClearDefense
The new U.S.
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Marines & Make Containment Work Again
Hervé Auffret, CIMSEC
Ships can deter a competitor, compel a rival, and escort a convoy
Hope Hodge Seck, Military Times
A new study drawn from survey data of nearly 16,000 sailors shows which jobs and ship classes report the best sleep and which have the most fatigue