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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told lawmakers today that the department may be reevaluating some of the steep aviation budget cuts spurred by the Army Transformation Initiative. “I actually think it’s something we’re taking another look at,” Hegseth told Rep. Rosa DeLauro when asked about the drastic drop in funding for high-profile helo programs in the Pentagon’s proposed fiscal 2027 budget. “There are some very good things in the Army Transformation Initiative, and there are some things that we’ve needed to get another look at, and so I think you’ll see a review of some of those things.”  ATI, announced…

This is Part I of a four-part series on “The First Airtight Empire” – analyzing the historically unprecedented closure that the Chinese Communist Party is constructing in 2026, and how that closure has rendered American policy assumptions obsolete. Subsequent installments will examine the three lockdowns through which the Chinese population was conditioned to accept the airtight closure that followed (Part II), the four-dimensional architecture by which the closure has been mechanically engineered (Part III), and the long historical frame and policy implications that follow (Part IV). By “airtight,” in this series, I mean a closure engineered to ensure that any…

India’s IOS Sagar initiative represents a bold experiment in building a navy of neighbours, embedding regional personnel into Indian deployments to foster interoperability and shared maritime governance, wrote Shantanu Roy-Chaudhury. Its success will depend on consistency, inclusivity, and India’s ability to balance strategic ambition with regional ownership.An Indian warship sailed from Mumbai last month carrying 38 personnel from 16 countries alongside its Indian crew, marking the second edition of the Indian Ocean Ship (IOS) Sagar initiative. The deployment spans the Maldives, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, reflecting India’s intent to intensify regional outreach.This initiative, launched in 2025, aims…

U.S. Naval Institute Staff, U.S. Navy The Department of the Navy currently operates 291 battle force ships, while the Navy requirement by law is 355 Source link

WASHINGTON — The Trump-class battleship will be outfitted with the same nuclear reactor that powers the aircraft carrier Gerald R Ford, according to the Navy’s top officer.  The Navy confirmed in its shipbuilding plan on Monday that the battleship would be nuclear-powered, and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle said that the battleship would share several design features with the Ford — including the A1B nuclear reactor on the carrier, the steam generator, and reactor cooling pump components.  “All of that technology that’s going into the design of the battleship, the nuclear battleship, from the reactor plant perspective, is…

A year ago, Pete Hegseth handed the Army a to-do list that has reshaped the service’s capabilities and how it acquires new ones. But now he’s rethinking some of those changes.That includes the makeup of the Army’s aviation assets, the defense secretary suggested Tuesday during a House Armed Services Committee defense panel hearing into the Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion defense-budget request.“I actually think it’s something we’re taking another look at,” he said in response to questioning from Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., whose district includes the Sikorsky factory that makes UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters. The Army’s portion of the Pentagon proposal would…

Disrupted oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz may appear, at first glance, to be another episode of energy market instability. But the implications, especially for South Asia, run much deeper. Disruptions in oil supply are not only causing a surge in fuel prices; they are a clear warning of an impending food crisis driven by fertilizer shortages, rising production costs, and increasingly fragile agri-food systems. A similar pattern was evident during the 2007-2008 global crisis, when fertilizer prices nearly tripled, and global food prices surged by more than 50 percent. Modern agri-food systems depend heavily on energy, not only…

The BrahMos-NG represents a significant evolution in India’s supersonic cruise missile capability, designed to overcome the limitations of the original BrahMos in terms of size and compatibility with frontline fighter aircraft.The DRDO has been working to produce a smaller, lighter, yet equally lethal missile that can be integrated across a wider range of platforms, thereby transforming the strike potential of the Indian Air Force.The original BrahMos, weighing around 2.5–3 tons and measuring 8.4 metres in length, was too large for most Indian fighter jets, restricting its deployment primarily to the Su-30MKI fleet. The BrahMos-NG addresses this challenge by reducing its…

E. Miller, Defence B. The Hunter WOLF, developed out of HDT’s Advanced Battle Lab, is a multi-mission unmanned ground vehicle built around a modular payload architecture Source link

WASHINGTON ― US Space Command (SPACECOM) and its six closest space-savvy allies expect to complete a joint plan for conducting future “orbital warfare” by the end of the year, SPACECOM Commander Gen. Stephen Whiting said today. Like the US military, the allied militaries participating in SPACECOM’s Multinational Force Operation Olympic Defender (MF-OOD) have been internally discussing “the need for protect and defend capabilities, orbital warfare capabilities.” Thus, the group decided the time has come to figure out how to work together via a collective concept of operations (CONOPS), he told the Mitchell Institute. “[W]e are in the process now of…