The heavy variant would be based on a Palletized Loading System and fire either Tomahawk or PAC-3 missiles, while the medium-class launcher would use an FMTV to fire Multiple Launch Rocket System munitions or AIM-9X interceptors.
A pair of news reports caused enough commotion in The Hague that the Ministry of Defense felt compelled to push back in a letter to lawmakers.
Michigan’s defense ecosystem and expertise makes it a special asset for production.
The announced potential sale to Tokyo comes days after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met military leaders in the Indo-Pacific.
The new Japanese defense minister admitted he is a "little bit worried" about the new deal being approved by Congress, an ostensible reference to this week's chaos on the Hill.
The Senate's draft defense policy bill calls for the Navy secretary to produce a business case analysis for buying amphibious ships using block buy authorities.
The effort falls in line with Pentagon efforts to deploy more punch at longer ranges, a clear recognition of the growing ability of China and Russia to keep American and forces at a stand-off distance
The initial command and control gateway to earn a continuous Authority to Operate is changing multi-domain operations.
The US could develop more than a dozen different land-based weapons for $7 to $12 billion, thinktank CSBA estimates.
WASHINGTON: As the Navy continues to look for ways to reach out and touch -- or preferably deter -- potential adversaries at greater range, it is turning to the latest version of a decades-old weapon to do it.
“We’ve spent a lot of time over the past years playing defense,” Rear Adm. Ronald Boxall, director of surface warfare, said at the West 2019 conference here. "The best defense is a good offense, and the idea that we will go after the threat -- at range -- is something that we have to be able to do.”
It's a major shift after decades in which submarines focused on projecting power ashore, with their only anti-ship weapons being their rarely-used torpedoes. Driving the change: increasing anxiety about China.
Cybersecurity skills must evolve in near-real time as Zero Day threats continue and AI provides new challenges.
“Long-range precision fires… would provide us the capability (to) either, for example, support the Air Force by suppressing enemy air defenses at hundreds upon hundreds of miles or support the Navy by engaging enemy surface ships at great distances as well,” said Army Secretary Mark Esper. But those examples are two distinctly different missions, each most relevant to a different theater of war.
INF proponents emphasize the risk of nuclear weapons. But, despite its name, the treaty bans a wide range of conventional weapons as well -- and it's non-nuclear, precision-guided missiles that have changed how war is actually waged.
US Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison sent a warning to Moscow about violating the INF treaty -- one that NATO allies appear prepared to back up.
WASHINGTON: In one of the largest coordinated international air operations in years, over 100 American, British and French guided missiles slammed into three Syrian chemical weapons facilities early Saturday morning, launched from an armada of aircraft, submarines, and ships offshore. The Pentagon was careful Saturday to say that the assault didn’t seek to topple the […]