Kris Osborn, Warrior Maven
The M107A1 is nearly five-feet long at “57 inches, with a cylinder-like suppressor at the end and a weight of about 28-pounds
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Brent D. Sadler, The National Interest
Without the leaders in place to implement the president’s orders, momentum behind US maritime strategy is at risk of stalling.
Gary Anderson, American Spectator
War games are not meant to be predictive, but in this case, it was
The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) next generation fighter program being jointly developed by France, Germany and Spain has continued to face growing difficulties, as the program’s viability has for years been in serious question. Most recently, disagreements between two of the primary participating firms, Airbus and Dassault, have reportedly caused major delays to the ongoing technology development phase of the program, marking the latest of several cases of infighting hampering progress.
In one of the lesser known incidents of the Cold War, a Soviet-built MiG-25 Foxbat combat jet landed in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on October 2, 1987, making the UAE one of the few countries in the world to ever host the aircraft. The MiG-25 was, and remains today, the fastest combat aircraft ever to enter service worldwide, with its speed exceeded only by the American SR-71 and A-12 reconnaissance planes – larger aircraft that were orders of magnitude more costly to procure and operate.
Can the American military maintain deterrence in East Asia without fixing its shipbuilding? The U.S. Navy’s fleet is rusting and shrinking, while China’s grows. Last week, new data showed Chinese shipbuilding again accelerating relative to American, with 54 percent of global output, up from 35 percent a decade ago. “All of our programs are a mess,” said Secretary of the Navy John Phelan before the Senate. Chinese military planners may conclude it is time to risk their fleet against America’s.
The U.S. Army doesn’t have a data problem. But it does have a “data-in-the-right-place-in-a-usable-format” problem. And that matters for decision-making in future war.Think about all the places we have tactical warfighting information. In some cases, it’s in a stove-piped, warfighting-system-specific program. In other cases, it’s in a green notebook in a platoon sergeant’s cargo pocket or written on a piece of cardboard. We have the data, but it’s not in the hands or on the screen of the commander who needs it.
The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group is now rushing to the Middle East and a snap deployment of tankers has landed at bases across the Atlantic.
The U.S. Navy is sending the supercarrier USS Nimitz and the rest of its strike group to the Middle East amid a new buildup of forces in the region ostensibly for defensive purposes, U.S. officials have told TWZ. Overnight, dozens of U.S. Air Force KC-135R and KC-46A tankers had already been tracked heading east over the Atlantic Ocean.
Any military spouse knows the daily trials of being married to military personnel, but the milspouse is an unsung hero almost everywhere else. For the general public, it’s just another job, one that few people understand what the stakes can be. And for this reason, it hasn’t always been easy to talk about.
Luckily, in these more modern, cosmopolitan times, it’s more kosher to convey the hardships of military life and the changes that come with it, especially when you are not the military member. It wasn’t always so.
Sometimes, the absolute legends in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and their booster clubs are so funny that we almost forget they’re actually, at every moment, at war.
And that was the case today when Reddit user GermanDronePilot on r/UkraineWarVideoReport shared the video of a Ukrainian pouring ball bearings into the casing for a “shaped” charge. But the shape of the object is, well, not what you would typically expect.
Or maybe you knew it would come to this eventually.