The US Air force Special ops command will ground demo a combat laser intended for a AC130 gunship in 2018 and then go airborne with shooting the laser a couple of years after that. Webb’s predecessor, then-Lt. Gen. Bradley Heithold, revealed the “moon shot” laser program in 2015 and pushed for a 60-kW or 120-kW …
The US Navy is performing planned midlife refueling and technology upgrades to the Nimitz aircraft carriers. Carriers are planned to operate for 50 years and halfway they get nuclear refueling and new technology. The cost is currently about $2.8 billion per carrier and it takes 46 months. Carriers will receive upgraded weapons systems; * Rolling …
The US, Japan and South Korea have not killed North Koreans in the 21st century. Israel has killed about 170 North Koreans and injured 2000 in relations to nuclear weapons from an incident in 2004 and another in 2007. Note both actions occurred while George W Bush was president of the USA. Israel is 8000 …
Joe Cirincione makes the easonable case that the USA could not successfully shoot down the North Korean ICBMs. Joe Cirincione is president of Ploughshares Fund and the author of Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late. The North Korean missile was about 770 kilometers (475 miles) over Japan at the apogee of …
The next big war in the Middle East will be another war between Hezbollah and Israel. It will begin because Hezbollah has vastly increased the size and sophistication of its arms (missiles) in Lebanon despite clear and consistent warnings from Israel and the international community not to do so. Hezbollah has about thirty times the …
In November, 2015, Israeli officials believed that the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah has amassed around 150,000 rockets, including a number of long range Iranian-made missiles capable of striking Israeli cities from north to south. The estimates represent a 50 percent increase in the group’s weapons stockpiles since May, 2017 when a senior Israeli intelligence official …
DARPA has new sensor that use virtually zero stand-by power. Then ovel sensors could improve situational awareness for warfighters, add smarts to Internet of Things. A research team at Northeastern University, led by Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Matteo Rinald has built sensors remain dormant and unattended but always alert, even for years, without …
The U.S. Navy is preparing to take full control of the Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) program and procure a second craft. A third might also be built as the Office of Naval Research (ONR) starts to evaluate additional roles for the autonomous wave-piercing trimaran design, an industry executive disclosed at the …
There was an analysis on Quora of the number of deaths associated with the Cold War. The USA did contain communism and then communism failed economically. The USSR and China have now converted to some form of capitalism. Although Russia is more of a Kleptocracy. How many died in the Cold War? A loose definition …
There is an interesting assessment of the Vietnam War. In order to determine who won and who lost the war it asks three questions (1) what was the goals of the involved parties. (2) What price did they have to pay? (3) The overall assessment of the war. A- Goals of Involved Parties 1. According …
It will take until the the 2030s for the US to deploy new Vertical Lift systems (twice as fast and all kinds of new technology) to replace existing combat Helicopters on a large scale. In the meantime, the US army can afford to upgrade about 50 helicopters per year with tech like cockpit automation, improved …