Rick HirdU.S. Army Army Zeroes In on Rapid Artillery Raidsrealcleardefense.com - William Cole In comparing land-based capabilities, the U.S. Army found that its artillery was falling short of Russian and Chinese weaponry, following a decade of …
Rick HirdMilitary Army uses Netherlands port Vlissingen first time amid Russia tensions - Business InsiderBusiness Insider - Christopher WoodySoldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division's 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team started arriving in Europe this week for a nine-month rotation as part of Operation Atlantic Resolve. The 2nd ABCT's rotation is
Rick HirdMilitary The Army’s 1,000-Mile Long Range Cannon Is Coming TogetherPopular Mechanics - By Kyle MizokamiThe U.S. Army is pushing ahead with plans to field a cannon with an astounding 1,000-mile+ range. The cannon, along with hypersonic weapons, will allow the service to attack long range, strategic-level
Rick HirdU.S. Navy Navy Reestablishes Submarine Group 2 to Track Russian Boatsrealcleardefense.com - Christopher Woody The Russian sub fleet is growing and growing more active, and the US and its NATO partners are more concerned about what those boats and rest of the …
Rick HirdWar Dropping Bombs: These Are the Best Bombers To Ever Flynationalinterest.org - Robert Farley What do you think? What does history tells us? These were the honorable mentions: Grumman A-6 Intruder, MQ-1 Predator, Caproni Ca.3, Tupolev Tu-95 …
Rick HirdMilitary History This Isn't A Sci-Fi Prop, It's A Doomsday Navigator For America's Biggest Cold War ICBMThe Drive - By Tyler Rogoway The Peacemaker missile's navigation suite featured the most precise and complex self-contained gyro system ever built. It had 19,000 individual parts. …
Rick HirdU.S. Air Force The F-35 Is America's 'Jack of All Trades' Stealth Jet, But It Has A 'Secret'.nationalinterest.org - David Axe It's not what it seems.Key point: It's different models are really different jets.A few years back, the U.S. Senate confirmed what an Air Force …
Rick HirdDwight D. Eisenhower US, Royal Navy aircraft carriers underway together in the Atlanticnavaltoday.com zoomUSS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), HMS Queen Elizabeth and accompanying ships sail in formation in the Atlantic Ocean. Photo: US Navy USS Dwight …
Rick HirdMilitary Reforger redux? Defender 2020 to be 3rd largest exercise in Europe since Cold WarDefense News - Jen Judson WASHINGTON — The Defender 2020 in Europe is set to be the third-largest military exercise on the continent since the Cold War, according to Lt. Gen. …
Rick HirdKaliningrad NATO Has a Secret Plan to Destroy Russia's Kaliningrad Basenationalinterest.org - David Axe Let's hope it never comes to that.Key point: Moscow's Kaliningrad territory is bristling with missiles and would need to be dealt with during any …
Rick HirdLockheed Martin The Air Force's New Hypersonic Spy Plane Is Coming Soonnationalinterest.org - Jared Keller The future of espionage.Key point: Like stealth, hypersonics are a disruptive technology.The successor to Lockheed Martin’s SR-71 Blackbird, the Mach …
Rick HirdUnited States Russia Would Love To Get Its Hands on These 5 Killer U.S. Weaponsnationalinterest.org - Robert Farley Sad.Key point: America's high-tech wonder weapons and capabilities are the envy of the world.During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the United …
Rick HirdWorld News Swedish navy returns to vast underground HQ amid Russia fearsThe Guardian - David Crouch in GothenburgSweden’s navy HQ is returning to a vast underground cold war fortress designed to withstand a nuclear attack, in what has been seen as a defensive move against a resurgent Russia. After a 25-year absence,
Rick HirdAviation One Big Fail: Why Russia's MiG 1.44 Is No F-35 Stealth Fighternationalinterest.org - Mark Episkopos So what went wrong?Key Point: Over the prior decade, Russia’s foray into fifth-generation jet fighter development has become synonymous with the …
Rick HirdMilitary You're Dead: The U.S. Army’s Truck-Mounted Hypersonic Missile Is Comingnationalinterest.org - Michael Peck And it could be a killer. Key Point: New clues are emerging about the U.S. military’s hypersonic missiles program.A Powerpoint slide at a recent …
Rick HirdRussia How Russia's T-90 Tanks Got Blown Away in Syrianationalinterest.org - Sebastien Roblin TOW missiles at work.Key point: Syrian rebels are using advanced anti-tank weapons with great results.The interconnected conflicts raging across the …
Rick HirdU.S. Army The Army Wants the Shift Away from Russia and Focus on the Threat from Chinanationalinterest.org - Stratfor Worldview A good idea.Key point: Moscow is still declining, whereas Beijing is set to pass Russia in land power in the next 10-15 years.What Happened: The U.S. …
Rick HirdF-35 Israel"s F-35I: The Best Stealth Fighter Ever Made?nationalinterest.org - Sebastien Roblin We've got the details.Key point: The F-35 is already excellent, but Israel has a different version.On May 22, Israeli Air Force commander Amikam …
Rick HirdMilitary Big Railguns: The U.S. Navy's Plan to Blow Away China and Russia in a War?nationalinterest.org - Jared Keller Innovations change war.Key point: Needs more testing before it becomes operational.What happens now? The Navy's electromagnetic railgun is undergoing …
Rick HirdU.S. Dept. of Defense 5 Old and Retired U.S. Weapons of War the World Still Fearsnationalinterest.org - Warfare History Network, Francis Horton What a joke.Key point: Some weapons are best left behind in history.No one can say the U.S military doesn’t rise to a challenge. When President …
Rick HirdMilitary History The B-52 Will Fly and Fight for 100 YearsPopular Mechanics - By Kyle MizokamiThe 1960s-era bomber will fly into the 2050s, but not without a lot of help. The B-52H fleet, already nearly 60 years old, has been the recipient of a steady but slow stream of upgrades to keep the planes
Rick HirdMilitary The Air Force Is Deploying Its First Drone-Killing Microwave WeaponPopular Mechanics - By Joe PappalardoThe U.S. Air Force is sending PHASER overseas—the first direct energy weapon ever fielded and a huge milestone for the controversial weapon system. Yesterday afternoon, the Pentagon notified Congress its
Rick HirdU.S. Air Force Here's Who Has Been Flying The F-117 Stealth Jets And Why According To The Air ForceThe Drive - By Joseph Trevithick There have long been rumors and speculation about what the jets, which the Air Force is supposed to be destroying, are still doing up in the …
Rick HirdWar If You Wanted to Know Where World War III Might Start, There Are 5 Places to Looknationalinterest.org - Robert Farley Let's hope it never happens.Key point: Few exactly predicted how World War I and World War II happened, but the flashpoints and major players were …
Rick HirdPrototyping U.S. Air Force is Prototyping a Replacement for the Stealth F-35nationalinterest.org - Kris Osborn And it could be revolutionary. (Washington, D.C.) Drone fighter jets, hypersonic attack planes, artificial intelligence, lasers, electronic warfare …
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Rick HirdMilitary B-2 stealth bombers are learning new tricks in Europe, but it's not only about sending a message to RussiaBusiness Insider - Christopher WoodyThree US Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bombers, airmen, and support equipment from the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri arrived in the United Kingdom on August 27 for a Bomber Task
Rick HirdF-35 Air Force F-35s Are Practicing to Fight and Win Against Russia's S-400nationalinterest.org - Kris Osborn One war game at a time.Key point: The F-35 is using ope-air ranges and computer simulations to learn how to fight against Russian air …
Rick HirdKaliningrad U.S. Says It Has Plans to ‘Take Down’ Western Russian Region's Air Defensesthemoscowtimes.com The U.S. and Russia have conducted multiple probes of each other’s air defense systems this year.
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