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III MEF includes the 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment, which is “leading the service” in various capabilities.
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Confidence in Amphibious Combat Vehicles Grows as Landing Craft Deploy
Jeff Schogol, Task and Purpose
President Donald Trump announced that the Navy’s new “battleships” will each be armed with “state-of-the-art electric railguns.
Saab has secured a contract from Lithuania to supply AT4 weapon and Carl-Gustaf ammunition, with the total order valued at $141.3m.
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Have you heard the phrase “Long War”?
If you are reading this, it’s late December; you are likely hiding in different rooms of your house, playing an annual game of hide-and-seek to keep everyone guessing or avoid your in-laws. Possibly, you’re stuck on a 24-hour shift staring at a clock that seems to be moving backward. You have reached the point in the holiday timeline where high-speed motivation breaks down, and the only objective is survival.
The U.S. Armed Forces’ fleets of F-35 fifth generation fighter aircraft operated by the Air Force, Marines, and Navy have continued to suffer low availably rates, which the Defense Department’s Office of the Inspector General’s latest report revealed remained at just 50 percent. Published on December 19, the report observed that although “the aircraft were not available to fly half of the time,” and the maintenance issues meant they didn’t meet “minimum military service requirements,” the Pentagon still paid the fighter’s primary contractor, Lockheed Martin, $1.
As the year comes to a close, Dara Massicot and Mike Kofman talk with Ryan about the state of play from diplomacy to the battlefield.Image: ArmyInform
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The Air Force conducted an experiment in November that further demonstrated how artificial intelligence can speed up battle management — an event that included participants from three other U.S. military services and all Five Eyes partners.
Capstone 2025 was led by the 805th Combat Training Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, and served as the unit’s latest in a series of experiments broadly focused on modernizing command-and-control missions with AI-enabled capabilities.
We’re not quite at space battleships yet, but the U.S. Navy plans to bring the big warships back to the fleet with a new guided-missile battleship. On Dec. 22, 2025, President Donald Trump, Navy Secretary John Phelan, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the planned construction of the USS Defiant (BBG-1).
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Billed as the most lethal surface combatant ever constructed, the Defiant would be the first Trump-class battleship and the Navy’s first designated guided-missile battleship.
L Todd Wood and Pete Blaber bring the latest lies from the EU and the neocon globalists…they’re still lying. Trump works for peace while the EU works for global war.
The post While Trump Works For Peace, EU Works For Global War – Ukraine SitRep 12/23/25 appeared first on Armed Forces Press.
President Donald Trump’s recent announcement that the Navy will build “battleships” again was not the only blast from the past. If they are ever built, the ships would each feature an electromagnetic railgun, even though the Navy paused the program four years ago.
Railguns use electricity to create a magnetic field to launch a projectile at up to 5,600 miles per hour, or more than seven times the speed of sound. Unlike traditional artillery, they do not require chemical propellants such as gunpowder to fire rounds.
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The Navy and Palantir recently announced a $448 million deal that will integrate the tech firm’s advanced AI software into multiple public and private shipyards and suppliers to optimize naval construction and readiness, and help surge U.S. nuclear submarine production under the second Trump administration.
Senior officials from the sea service and the company briefed a small group of reporters on their plans for this AI-powered shipbuilding operating system — ShipOS — during an industry day event for the Navy’s new Rapid Capabilities Office earlier this month.
President Donald Trump and Navy leadership presented plans Monday evening for a new class of modern battleships that would be armed with a variety of high-tech weapons and aided by artificial intelligence.
Their ambitious vision for the platform and a so-called “Golden Fleet” could run into a variety of technological and budgetary challenges, analysts say.
Key Points and Summary – President Donald Trump has unveiled plans for a new “Trump-class” of large surface combatants, billed as modern battleships and the centerpiece of a revitalized “Golden Fleet.”
-Based on Arleigh Burke–era technologies but with heavier gun armament—and even artwork hinting at a railgun—the ships are meant to signal naval dominance as the Navy cancels its troubled Constellation-class frigate.
Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112) sails alongside Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) on Dec.
Key Points and Summary – At dawn in Moscow, Russia, a car bomb killed Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Russian General Staff’s operational training, in the latest high-profile blast near the capital.
-Investigators are probing suspected Ukrainian involvement, echoing earlier attacks that killed generals Igor Kirillov and Yaroslav Moskalik.
Putin in 2019. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Putin in August 2025. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
-The strike comes as U.S.
Some of the risks for global security in 2026 are obvious — such as increasing tensions between the United States and China, the grinding continuation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, more direct conflict between the United States and Venezuela, and a return to major fighting between Israel and the Palestinians — even if the solutions are less clear. However, governments must also prepare for the many less apparent risks, so we asked three experts to identify one important but underrated risk to global security to watch for in 2026.Read more below.Patrick M.
Donald Trump is going to sea… without leaving
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If “Stranger Things” feels less like pure science fiction and more like a greatest-hits album of government bad decisions, that’s because, in part, it is.
Unlike a Demogorgon, the show didn’t jump onto our screens fully formed from the Upside Down. It crept out of the Pentagon’s file cabinet containing documented instances of Cold War paranoia, secret line items, questionable ethics, and experiments that really should have involved more oversight and fewer psychedelics.
Reporter Simon Newton gives us his top takeaway
Key Points and Summary – China’s Type 003 Fujian has been commissioned, giving the PLAN its first CATOBAR aircraft carrier with electromagnetic catapults and a clear signal of intent.
-Now attention is shifting to the rumored Type 004: open-source indicators suggest China may be moving toward a nuclear-powered supercarrier designed for longer endurance and higher electrical margins.
China Aircraft Carrier. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
(September 24, 2021). The navy’s only forward deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) transits the South China Sea.
Key Points and Summary – The M551 Sheridan was America’s last true light tank: airdroppable, amphibious, and armed with a 152mm gun that could launch MGM-51 Shillelagh missiles.
-Fast and agile, it delivered bunker-busting HEAT, beehive, and canister rounds in Vietnam, then smashed roadblocks in Panama and led 82nd Airborne thrusts in Desert Storm.
M551 Sheridan Light Tank. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
-But its thin aluminum armor, vulnerability to mines and RPGs, and volatile caseless ammunition were costly drawbacks.
-Built by Cadillac (1,662 produced), the four-man, 16.
Key Points and Summary – President Trump wants a new class of Trump-class “guided missile battleships,” but the case for them is unclear, and the timeline is, in one word, implausible.
-The proposed 35,000-ton BBGs would pack a headline-grabbing mix of railguns, hypersonic missiles, nuclear cruise missiles, lasers, and a large VLS battery—yet several of those systems are immature or difficult to integrate quickly.
Trump-Class Battleship. Image Credit: White House.
War stems from division. It happens when there are problems we just can’t seem to solve. War is brutal, but every now and then, a little light shines through. The Christmas Truce of 1914 was one of those seemingly impossible moments.
It all began when the entrenched British forces recognized the “Silent Night, Holy Night” Christmas carol coming from the German side. “Our boys said, ‘Let’s join in.’ So we joined in with the song,” Francis Sumpter told the History Channel.
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President Trump’s Monday announcement of the “Trump class battleship” made a splash, though the development timeline on them is unclear and, likely, far off. But another new ship may be closer to the fleet, according to a Navy announcement.
After a false start last year, the Navy has picked a design for the Medium Landing Ship, or LSM, a beach landing ship that the Marine Corps have long said is a vital component to its plan for a 21st Century island hopping campaign.
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"It’s been a remarkable year for us"🗣️ General Sir Jim Hockenhull commends an organisation ready to react and prepared to provide the nation’s security Commander of the UK’s Cyber and Specialist Operations Command highlighted the "enormous demands" that have been undertaken #cyber #military #armedforces #warfare #shorts Subscribe to Forces News: http://bit.ly/1OraazC Check out our website: https://www.forcesnews.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ForcesTV Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/forcesnews/?hl=en X: https://twitter.com/ForcesNews
Collins Aerospace, a subsidiary of RTX, has demonstrated its latest anti-jam Assured Positioning Navigation and Timing (APNT) technology.
The German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) have placed an order with Rheinmetall for laser light modules (LLMs) for their new assault rifle.
On May 5, 1945, a quiet spring afternoon near Bly, Oregon, became a tragic moment in American history. Six innocent lives were lost when a Japanese balloon bomb (one of the mysterious Fu-Go weapons carried across the Pacific by the jet stream) detonated as a group of children and their minister’s wife approached it during a picnic.
Elsie Mitchell, along with children Edward Engen, Jay Gifford, Dick Patzke, Joan Patzke, and Sherman Shoemaker, were killed in the attack. They remain the only civilians on the U.S. mainland to die as a direct result of enemy action during World War II.
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U.S. Air Force and Marine teams used on-site additive manufacturing to rapidly print and install critical F-15 parts, slashing repair timelines from months to hours.
Parth Satam, The Aviationist
The PhantomStrike AESA radar will be integrated on the U.S.
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FF(X) will initially have the same armament installed as the Littoral Combat Ships, relying on uncrewed platforms and modular payloads for expanded capability.
Shelbourne & LaGrone, USNI News
The centerpiece of the Trump administration’s revamp of the U.S. Navy is the largest surface combatant America will build since World War II.
Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko on December 22 confirmed that his country had received up to ten Oreshnik intermediate range hypersonic ballistic missile systems, following confirmation earlier in the year that the new Russian missiles would be prioritised for delivery the country. Lukashenko in 2024 stated a number of “ten for now,” suggesting that Belarus could host a larger arsenal in future. The procurement is a game changer for the reach of the Belarusian Armed Forces, and provides a means of countering the vast and fast growing capabilities of NATO members on its borders.
The Libyan National Army has reportedly signed a $4 billion contract to procure armaments from Pakistan, with the bulk of the value of the contract financing the purchase of Chinese JF-17 fighter aircraft which are partly produced in Pakistan. A copy of the draft agreement indicates that 12 JF-17s and 12 Super Mushak trainer aircraft are currently planned for procurement, although it remains uncertain whether these are the latest significantly improved JF-17 Block 3 variants with advanced ‘4+ generation’ capabilities.
Presidential Aide and Russian Naval Board Chairman Nikolai Patrushev has confirmed that work is underway to develop a next generation nuclear powered nuclear armed ballistic missile submarine, underscoring the country’s continued prioritisation of both its long range submarine fleet and of its nuclear forces. He elaborated that the program will include autonomous underwater vehicles and unspecified high-end underwater weapons “with no global analogues.” The vessels will succeed the Borei class ships currently in production, of which eight are now in service with four more planned.
The Republic of China Army’s 584th Armoured Brigade has deployed newly operationalised M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks for battalion-level urban operational readiness and infrastructure protection exercises in the Hsinchu area, alongside multiple other armoured vehicle types. The Republic of China Ministry of National Defence reported that the exercise is aimed at validating the unit’s ability to respond to changing battlefield circumstances and protect key targets.
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Reventec won the Innovation award in the 2025 Army Technology Excellence Awards for its Tracked Vehicle Suspension 80° Arc Position Sensor.
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President Donald Trump signed the Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act last week. At more than 3000 pages, the document reflects a series of negotiated changes to Defense Department policy, contracting authorities, compliance, and new opportunities.While the bill contains many exciting new provisions and increased compliance burdens, its true impact will depend on the department’s follow-through.
The U.S. Air Force faces a compelling and capable adversary in China’s air force. The U.S. Air Force cannot overcome this adversary’s range and numbers solely by buying more crewed combat aircraft. Having recognized this, the Air Force has taken to experimenting with “affordable mass” in the form of autonomous combat aircraft.The largest component of the effort to achieve affordable mass is the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, with the first increment of collaborative combat aircraft entering flight testing this year.
