As the US Army pivots toward peer and near-peer conflicts, a since-deleted tweet by the Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command appears to show a conceptual image of the Strategic Long… Continue reading "US Army Deep Fires to Include Strategic Long Range Cannon & Precision Strike Missile"
For the 70th anniversary of their founding in 1949, the People’s Republic of China has shown off a UAV like no other. WZ-8 is a supersonic high altitude unmanned aerial… Continue reading "China’s WZ-8, The Air-Launched Rocket-Powered UAV"
In his statement regarding the US withdrawal from the INF Treaty, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said the US had been doing “treaty-complaint” research on mobile land-based conventionally armed ballistic… Continue reading "Mobile Medium Range Missile, the Army’s post-INF Weapon"
On August 18th, just sixteen days after the official exit by the United States from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the US Navy fired a Tomahawk land-attack cruise missile… Continue reading "US Enters the Post-INF World With Ground Launch of Tomahawk Cruise Missile"
Anti-ship missiles define the modern naval battlespace. Historically there have been two schools of thought in regards to the design of anti-ship missiles (AShMs). Broadly speaking, they have been big… Continue reading "The Future Tools of Anti-Ship Warfare – are Anti-Ship Missiles Evolving?"
The US Navy is planning to back-fit a derivative of the future SPY-6 radar to its Flight IIA Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyers. The currently fitted SPY-1 has been… Continue reading "Flight IIA Arleigh Burke destroyers to get SPY-6 radar"
The US Army’s newly stood up Futures Command will look at what the battlefields of the near future will look like and what operational factors troops might encounter. Senior officers… Continue reading "Army Futures Command to Ask What Will Future Battlefield Look Like?"