Defense contractor Anduril has developed a new torpedo that’s designed to be launched by uncrewed systems, the company is set to announce Monday.
Anduril describes its new Copperhead technology as a “high-speed, software-defined family of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) built for delivery by autonomous systems.”
The munition variant has been dubbed Copperhead-M.
“Despite the rapid advances in autonomous vehicles across air, surface, and subsea domains, torpedoes aren’t built at scale and production remains frozen in Cold War-era designs.
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The recent election of new board members for the U.S. Air Force Academy Association of Graduates, saw the clean sweep election of anti-DEI candidates who ran on a platform of transparency and the agenda to rebuild the Air Force Academy to its original mission – to train warrior leaders.
In response, the incumbent AOG Board self-appointed two more members aligned with the Biden administrations anti-American priorities in order to dilute the power of the newly-elected members by USAFA graduates.
The U.S. Navy welcomed a new USS Iowa into its service this weekend. The new nuclear submarine, SSN-797, was commissioned on Saturday, April 5, not in Iowa, but at the Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut.
The commissioning ceremony — with cold and dreary weather, as many speakers noted — included its captain, Cmdr. Gregory Coy, and Secretary of the Navy John Phelan, among others. Saturday’s event was Phelan’s first commissioning as secretary.
In Part I, “What’s Wrong With the NATO-Made Ukrainian Military?”, we discussed the key reasons why the multibillion-dollar NATO effort to reform and reorganize the Ukrainian military had failed. Most of the shortcomings were identified and memorialized in an official report that was published in 2021.
Yemeni Houthis showcasing missiles. The sign reads, “surface to surface cruise missile” in Arabic. (IRNA)
Iran has ordered its military personnel to leave Yemen amidst the ongoing US bombing campaign in the country, The Telegraph reported on April 3. The newspaper’s source added that regime officials’ concerns over the Trump administration have eclipsed discussions on Tehran’s regional proxies, dominating every meeting and sidelining previous strategic priorities.
Landmines remain an ever present danger on battlefields. That’s for both soldiers in an active conflict and civilians once a war is over. Millions of anti-personnel landmines are buried around the world, and while groups work to remove them safely, in recent years they’ve turned to a novel tool to help: Rats. And one rat based out of Cambodia has now detected more landmines than any other rat in history.
Meet Ronin. Ronin has detected 109 landmines and 15 items of unexploded ordnance since 2021.
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The Navy does have several shipbuilding challenges that need to be corrected, but the replacement of existing ships by small (i.e.