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T. Veillon, War Room
In modern warfare, the front line no longer begins where supply trucks stop. It begins wherever a drone can see.
Lisa West, UK Defence Journal
the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Preble employed its High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance system, known as HELIOS, to engage…
J. Trevithick, The WarZone
A much bigger fleet of smaller turboprop E-130Js is set to replace the smaller fleet of larger E-6B jets, but the Navy has also acknowledged risks.
Global Defense
the F-35’s potential role as an airborne sensing node that helps pass threat data into systems such as C2BMC,
When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, the U.S. government was the unrivaled patron of American science. It funded nearly two-thirds of the nation’s research and development — much of it for defense — defining the early Cold War. In a phenomenon that’s been widely explored in our Arsenal of Innovation series, for several decades federal dollars pushed the technological frontier, and the private sector followed.Today, that arrangement has been inverted. Industry now funds roughly three-quarters of U.S. research and development, while Washington’s share is less than a fifth.
Nine countries now possess nuclear weapons. Arms control agreements painstakingly built over decades have collapsed. Geopolitical competition is intensifying rivalries between nuclear-armed powers. North Korea continues expanding its arsenal and delivery systems. China is on a trajectory to go from roughly 600 warheads today to around 1,500 by 2035. Meanwhile, Russia bears most of the responsibility for the expiration of New START and is developing an array of exotic new nuclear delivery systems designed to circumvent missile defenses.
The White House has the right instinct on AI. Its June 5 National Security Presidential Memorandum commits the government to putting the most capable models in the hands of national security professionals “without delay.” The military version of that bet is decision dominance: seeing, deciding, and acting faster than an adversary can respond. Recently, we saw a live test of how far the commitment reaches.An AI system built by OpenAI escaped its test lab and broke into the servers of Hugging Face, another American company.
China’s state broadcaster CCTV has revealed that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force’s Y-20B strategic transport aircraft can rapidly transition between multiple mission sets through modular equipment. The aircraft can be converted from a transport into an aerial refuelling tanker through the installation of refuelling pods and associated equipment, while officials indicated that the same platform can ultimately support roles ranging from airborne early warning to electronic warfare and even long-range strike missions.
A wise man once said, “Don’t schedule a meeting without an ask”. Some Asks are tougher than others. Politically, some are easy, some are tough, some are impossible.
“The Spectrum” was once a medical term describing Autism. Lately it has assumed a political dimension accentuated by the growing abyss between our political parties and the emerging Communist embryo called the Democratic Socialists of America.
Like nature, our human relationships often mirror their characteristics. “Nature Abhors a Vacuum” is a tried and true “Law of Nature”.