Djibouti, a tiny country on the Horn of Africa, is about to get a little crowded. The largest and only permanent U.S. Military base in Africa, Camp Lemonnier, will soon have new neighbors. China and Saudi Arabia are building military bases at the strategic Mandab Strait that sees 10 percent of the world’s oil and 20 […]
Lemon Combat Ship: Did the Navy Just Kill the LCS?
The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) has been plagued with cost overruns and multiple breakdowns including catastrophic engine failures and cracked hulls. A week after the Combat Ship Billings’ (LCS-15) christening, the U.S. Navy has released formal details for its Guided Missile Frigate Replacement Program FFG(X). USNI News describes the replacement ship as “much like the […]
Breakthrough Could Pave Way to Underwater Internet
NATO researchers have developed the first ever international standard for underwater communications called JANUS. Named after the Roman god of gateways, JANUS will allow aquatic systems to communicate by transferring data much like devices on a Wi-Fi or cellular network. JANUS would allow robots used for underwater research, mining, and military operations to communicate using […]
Unveiled: Russia’s Next Generation Combat Suit
Russia Today is reporting that Russia has unveiled what looks like a combat suit straight out of a sci-fi movie at the National University of Science and Technology (MISIS). The prototype next-generation combat suit includes a powered exoskeleton, advanced armor, and a high-tech “Halo” like helmet. A major hi-tech Russian military research center has unveiled […]
Zumwalt Advanced Gun System May Finally Get its Ammo
In late 2016 we found out the US Navy couldn’t fire its awesome new gun aboard the USS Zumwalt because the Long Range Land Attack Projectile (LRLAP) rounds cost nearly a million dollars. Shortly after USNI reported the Navy was looking to replace the LRLAP with Raytheon’s Excalibur Projectile. The only problem was the Excalibur’s […]
Is America’s Best Air-to-Air Missile a Dud?
By now you have heard about how a US F/A-18E Super Hornet downed a Syrian Su-22 fighter jet on June 18th. The news spread around media outlets like wildfire as it was the first manned aircraft downed by the US since 1999. Once the smoke cleared we learned the Su-22 “Fitter”, a 30-year-old Cold War […]
First- Ever High Energy Laser Fired From Apache
Raytheon has successfully fired its High Energy Laser (HEL) from an Apache AH-64, a first for a rotary winged aircraft. Raytheon’s HEL is a modular, scalable design which can be integrated across ground based platforms, seaboard, or ground-mobile units. The goal is to replace missiles costing upwards of $150,000 a piece with laser shots for […]
There’s No Telling How Much This Future Aircraft Carrier Will Cost
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report (GAO-17-575) on June 13th, 2017 to draw attention to the Ford Class Carrier program and its unreliable cost estimate. The report, “Follow-On Ships Need More Frequent & Accurate Cost Estimates to Avoid Pitfalls of Lead Ship”, points out that the estimate for follow-on ships does not […]
New Unmanned Wingman Unveiled for 5th Gen Fighter Jets
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that they will unveil a new class of unmanned aerial systems designed to function as wingmen (wing-bots?) for the F-22 and F-35. Kratos will present the XQ-222 Valkyrie and the UTAP-22 Mako drones at the 2017 Paris Airshow. The Air show will be open to the public on […]
Thunderbolt Assassins Proving Lethality in Artillery Exercise
The U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command’s (TRADOC) is reporting that the U.S. Army and Air Force are participating in a joint exercise involving a C-17 Globalmaster III aircraft and M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS). The two are operating as a strategic strike package known as HI-RAIN, an air mobile field artillery mission […]
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