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Nuclear-capable cruise missiles rose from the soon-to-be commissioned North Korean guided missile destroyer, Kang Kon (52), as Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un watched on July 3. The launch was conducted less than two weeks after the Korean People’s Army Navy (KPAN) formally commissioned the 5,000-ton destroyer Choe Hyon (51), North Korea’s largest domestically produced surface warship.  These two events underscore indications that North Korea is engaging in a concerted effort to build up its navy. At the Choe Hyon’s commissioning, Kim declared that the KPAN had entered a “new era” after “over 70 years” of naval stagnation. These developments indicate…

Joseph Trevithick, The WarZone PAC-2 GEM-T missiles are not generally as capable as their PAC-3 counterparts, but the Army needs all the Patriots it can get Source link

On the day of a snap winter election – one that would ultimately end in a landslide victory for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) – Takaichi  Sanae stood alongside two men. They were not members of her own party, but rather the two leaders of Nippon Ishin no Kai: Osaka Governor Yoshimura Hirofumi and Fujita Fumitake, who leads his party’s Diet delegation. Yet Yoshimura’s stump speech hardly sounded like one delivered by the leader of a different party. In fact, it barely sounded as though Takaichi herself belonged to the LDP. “We may not have the numbers. But we will…

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WASHINGTON — The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) today announced the new Ground-Based Affordable Mass (G-BAM) challenge for long-range precision strike systems that can be demonstrated within three months and ready for production within 12-18 months. “Aligned with the Direct Reporting Portfolio Manager for Unmanned Systems (DRPM-UxS) mandate to field low-cost autonomous capabilities at scale, the government is particularly interested in mature, proven solutions that deliver favorable cost-per-effect at operationally relevant ranges while minimizing the logistical, training, and sustainment burden on employing units,” the DIU wrote. The Pentagon plans to spend $250 million evaluating options and making early follow-on deals for…

A notable feature of the July 2026 NATO Summit in Ankara was the absence, for the second year in a row, of the four leaders of NATO’s Indo-Pacific partner countries, collectively known as the IP4: Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea. It may be tempting to see this as evidence that NATO-IP4 relations are on the downturn, but a deeper analysis does not support such a conclusion.  First, the main variable affecting the presence of the IP4 leaders was not the interest of NATO and IP4 countries in continued engagement, but the nature of the summits themselves. In addition,…

Donald Vandergriff Until we do, our generals will continue to fail us — not because they lack technology or tactical drills, but because the system that produces them was designed for a… Source link

WASHINGTON — Oracle has scored a $7 billion agreement to consolidate what the Pentagon called its “fragmented, one-off information technology purchases” from the firm into a single, unified contract, the department announced Thursday. The Enterprise Software Agreement (ESA), which was negotiated by the Department of the Navy, is projected to save about half-a-billion dollars over its lifecycle, according to the announcement. While Department of Defense entities have been separately purchasing Oracle software for years, this new award will create one giant contract for the entire organization, improving visibility of enterprise usage and spending as a means of optimizing technology budgets,…

A Leonardo AW149 helicopter. Credit: Andrey Vyrodov/Shutterstock.com. GE Aerospace has selected StandardAero to conduct assembly, maintenance, and overhaul operations for its CT7-2E1 engines, which will power the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) new fleet of Leonardo AW149 helicopters. The engines will be delivered as part of the New Medium Helicopter (NMH) programme, with initial aircraft to be delivered from 2030. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more StandardAero will build, maintain, and repair the engines set for 23 AW149 helicopters at its Gosport facility…

Hamza Zaman, RCDefense . . . attacks by the IRGC hardliners illustrate a prominent political cleavage in Iran. Source link