Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Summary and Key Points: Huntington Ingalls’ CEO says the Navy will provide its first concrete design-schedule guidance for the BBG(X) “Trump-class” guided-missile battleship within...
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Summary and Key Points: Huntington Ingalls’ CEO says the Navy will provide its first concrete design-schedule guidance for the BBG(X) “Trump-class” guided-missile battleship within...
Synopsis and Key Points: China’s DF-27 is presented as an operational, conventionally armed intercontinental-range missile with an anti-ship variant designed to threaten U.S. aircraft...
Summary and Key Points: Commissioned in 1943 and modernized across World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War, USS New Jersey later faced...
Automation Is the Key – Summary and Key Points: Despite setbacks like the delayed Maritime Action Plan and the cancellation of the Constellation-class frigate,...
Key Points and Summary – Former Navy advisor Neal Urwitz argues the Pentagon must push forward with its new “portfolio scorecards” to fix a...
Synopsis: In a 2005 Pacific war game, the Swedish diesel-electric submarine HSwMS Gotland shattered the myth of U.S. naval invincibility by repeatedly “sinking” the...
Key Points and Summary – Starting in 2026, U.S. Navy special operators—including SEALs, SWCC, EOD, and divers—will face a demanding new Combat Fitness Test...
Key Points and Summary – President Trump has suggested the U.S. may need to “take” or “buy” Greenland to secure the Arctic against growing...
Summary and Key Points – The U.S. military has officially replaced the controversial height-and-weight tables with a new Waist-to-Height Ratio (WHtR) method to estimate...
Summary and Key Points: Researchers from the U.S. Navy, Electric Boat, and the University of Connecticut have developed a breakthrough method using “neutron beams”...