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U.S. Navy
F/A-XX: Why the U.S. Is Putting All Its Fighter Eggs in the Boeing Basket
A six-paragraph news release at 5:01 pm on Tuesday was all that marked the launch of one of the biggest U. S.

Air Warfare
Blackbirds: Take These Broken Wings and Learn To Fly, Says NASA
I’ve been a keen follower of the Lockheed Blackbird family since the headline ‘We have Mach 3 plane, says U. S.

Russo-Ukraine War
Destruction on a Budget
‘There are weeks when decades happen’ has been a stock phrase to remember this summer. The missile wars between Ukraine and Russia and between Iran...

Air Warfare
Lightning Strikes: New F-35 Radar Could Have Directed-Energy Attack Mode
F-35 program leader Lieutenant General Greg Masiello delivered something of a lite-beer testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee last week,...

U.S. Air Force
Area 51 Snap May Confirm the Long Roots of the F-47
More than a year ago, I speculated here about a connection between the forthcoming Boeing F-47, a modest technology demonstration program from the...

Defense Budget
The Lamentable State of British Defence Acquisition
The expertise of the South Asian sub-region is robust, so the title of Worst Defence Acquisition System is in safe hands. But Britain’s allies in a...

U.S. Air Force
Valkyrie Redux: Supercruising Bombers Could Viably Replace B-52s
The U. S.

Europe
In European Defence, a Sudden Reluctance To Buy American
In London a few weeks ago, taking a break from grim Washington and catching some early spring weather, I met a British defence executive for coffee on...

Air Warfare
Once Unthinkable: Canada May Choose a Non-U.S. Fighter
Canada may well cancel part of its 2022 order for 88 Lockheed Martin F-35As and replace them with Saab JAS 39E Gripens. One report suggests that...

U.S. Air Force
We've Probably Just Seen the USAF's Secret Electromagnetic Attacker
Another element in the U. S.

A Passage to the Middle East: India as a Mediator and Security Partner
By Irina Tsukerman • RealClearDefense
South China Sea is Key to Invigorate Positive U.S.–Malaysia Relations
By Brent D. Sadler • RealClearDefense
The Necropolitics of the Wasteland
By Yunus Emre Tumen • RealClearDefense
AI, Robotics, and Marines
By Gary Anderson • RealClearDefense
The Emerging SQUAD
By Muhammad Shoaib • RealClearDefense

AI, Robotics, and Marines
By Gary Anderson • RealClearDefense
AUKUS Partners Test Autonomous Maritime Systems
By Jangoulun Singsit, Naval Tech
AUKUS: USS Colorado Announced as First Submarine for SRF – West
By USNI News
Navy, Marine Corps Simulate Ship Strikes From Air and Land
By Alex Wilson, S&S
Air National Guard To Stand Up a New Special Tactics Squadron
By Patty Nieberg, T&P
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