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[Mike1976]

US Strengthens Strategic Missile Strike Capabilities with $1 Billion LRASM and JASSM Investment

US Strengthens Strategic Missile Strike Capabilities with $1 Billion LRASM and JASSM Investment

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[Mike1976]

U.S. announces contract for full-rate production of new MRIC air defense system for U.S. Marine Corps

U.S. announces contract for full-rate production of new MRIC air defense missile system for U.S. Marine Corps

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[Mike1976]

US industry seems to think they're being asked to handcraft Stradivarius's with a microscope and a pair of tweezers

150 THAAD Ballistic Missile Interceptors Fired By U.S. During Iran's Barrages On Israel: Report

Roughly 25% of all U.S. THAAD interceptors funded to date were reportedly launched in June, and SM-3s were also expended at a worrisome rate.

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[haze99]

  USA

'All about time': Army turns to AI to reprogram RF waveforms at the edge - Breaking Defense

“The intent behind this is to provide for a deployed soldier an enhanced capability so that they can easily provide an RF [radio frequency] waveform and provide some of that reprogramming at the edge," Eric Bowes, the program officer of ARAT, told Breaking Defense.

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[Mike1976]

US Army Secures Future of Its Intercontinental Strike Force with LGM-35A Sentinel Missile Test

US Army Secures Future of Its Intercontinental Strike Force with LGM-35A Sentinel Missile Test

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[Mike1976]

US Army Tests M134 Minigun on M1 Abrams Tank Highlighting New Anti-Drone Measures for Future Battlefields

US Army Tests M134 Minigun on M1 Abrams Tank Highlighting New Anti-Drone Measures for Future Battlefields

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[Mike1976]

Will GE Aerospace’s dual-mode ramjet engine power a second U.S. hypersonic successor to the SR-71 Blackbird?

Will GE Aerospace’s dual-mode ramjet engine power a second U.S. hypersonic successor to the SR-71 Blackbird?

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[Mark Sman]

US Army Tests M134 Minigun on M1 Abrams Tank Highlighting New Anti-Drone Measures for Future Battlefields

US Army Tests M134 Minigun on M1 Abrams Tank Highlighting New Anti-Drone Measures for Future Battlefields

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A second generation of with this that has remote operation so the crew can be buttoned up is interesting.

Third Gen, autonomous targeting software that can nock down drones and other threats?

 

[Mike1976]

A second generation of with this that has remote operation so the crew can be buttoned up is interesting.

Third Gen, autonomous targeting software that can nock down drones and other threats?

Seems like a "cheap" "interim" fix to me as a brand new vehicle tender is put out, years and billions of design by committee + R&D sunk into it before the project is cancelled as the first vehicles finally start rolling off of the production line because "we have VSHORAD at home", already bolted to Abrams.

So yeah, what you said except billions of taxpayer dollars have to be burnt and loads of time wasted before we reach that point.

As usual.

 

[Mike1976]

US Air Force expends refuelling capabilities with purchase of 75 more KC-46 aircraft

US Air Force expends refuelling capabilities with purchase of 75 more KC-46 aircraft

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[Mike1976]

By the time they're done it'll be an oversized and overpriced frigate ...

US Navy Seeks to Transform Its Fleet with Armed Autonomous Modular Surface Drones

US Navy Seeks to Transform Its Fleet with Armed Autonomous Modular Surface Drones

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[Mike1976]

U.S. Air Force develops OA-1K Skyraider II for special forces deployment in difficult battlegrounds

U.S. Air Force develops OA-1K Skyraider II for special forces deployment in difficult battlegrounds

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[Mike1976]

U.S. Dark Eagle Hypersonic Weapon in Australia to counter Chinese Threat in Indo-Pacific

U.S. Dark Eagle Hypersonic Weapon in Australia to counter Chinese Threat in Indo-Pacific

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[Mike1976]

Lockheed Martin Prepares Space-Based Interceptor for 2028 Under Golden Dome Initiative

Lockheed Martin Prepares Space-Based Interceptor for 2028 Under Golden Dome Initiative

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[Chazman]

By the time they're done it'll be an oversized and overpriced frigate ...

US Navy Seeks to Transform Its Fleet with Armed Autonomous Modular Surface Drones

US Navy Seeks to Transform Its Fleet with Armed Autonomous Modular Surface Drones

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Could be. The Frigate program has been defunded and is hanging by a thread. Let's see what other stuff the unaccountable Admirals can wreck.

 

[Chazman]

U.S. Air Force develops OA-1K Skyraider II for special forces deployment in difficult battlegrounds

U.S. Air Force develops OA-1K Skyraider II for special forces deployment in difficult battlegrounds

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I was secretly hoping for an OV-10 variant. Yes, I know, dreamer. This one probably does a better job.

 

[Mike1976]

U.S. Grants RTX 50 Billion Contract to Sustain Patriot Missile Defense Through 2045

Breaking News: U.S. Grants Raytheon 50 Billion Contract to Sustain Patriot Missile Defense Through 2045

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[Mike1976]

Canada Secures F-35A Program Despite Rising Costs due to U.S. Strategic Pressure

Breaking News: Canada Secures F-35A Program Despite Rising Costs due to U.S. Strategic Pressure

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