After 16 Years of Throwing Money at Defense Industry US Navy Finally to Admit Railgun Is a Delusion

Has served the function of lining MIC pockets however

Joseph Trevithick 6 Jun 21 1929 9

Empire Woes

Pentagon Admits Its Drone Fleet Wouldn’t Last Two Seconds Against Russia or China

Already looking to retire its giant Global Hawks drones before a realistic replacement

Joseph Trevithick 16 May 21 1877 12

Russian and US Warships Are Headed for the Black Sea

Russians from the Caspian, Americans from the Med

Joseph Trevithick 10 Apr 21 7207 11

Those Pesky Chinese

For the First Time China Hits Moving Ships With Ballistic Missiles

Joseph Trevithick 19 Nov 20 1350 17

Here’s All the Military Pork Baked Into the Proposed COVID-19 Bill

$30 billion of spending on weapons just in the coronavirus bill

Joseph Trevithick 3 Aug 20 950 0

Our Benevolent Empire

US Air Force Says Was Practicing a Naval Strike on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet With Turkey and Ukraine

Kind of like if Russia practiced striking the US Navy in the Gulf of Mexico with Venezuela and Cuba

Joseph Trevithick 10 Jun 20 1685 11

MIC Joys

US Air Force Won’t Use Its Brand New Boeing Tanker Planes Except in an Emergency. A Fix Expected by 2023 or 2024

USAF has already accepted 30 and continues to accept more

Joseph Trevithick 11 Mar 20 1037 8

Empire Woes

Baghdad Is Blocking US Deployment of Patriot Air Defense Systems to Iraq

The Pentagon is trying to move one battery from Saudi Arabia but it's stuck in Kuwait as Iraqis won't let it in

Joseph Trevithick 20 Feb 20 2140 16

Our Benevolent Empire

US Navy Missile Submarine Begins First Ever Patrol With Low-Yield Nukes

But Iran can't make its own fuel for nuclear power plants?

Joseph Trevithick 1 Feb 20 777 5

Those Pesky Russians

Russia Switches On a Gargantuan Over-the-Horizon Radar to Spot Assailants From the West

Plans to build another such gigantic radar array with a 3,000 km range (!) facing the Arctic north

Joseph Trevithick 5 Dec 19 1958 1

Those Pesky Russians

US Inspectors Have Examined Russia’s Imminently Operational Hypersonic Missile

Under the New START treaty which the Trump administration is about to bury

Joseph Trevithick 27 Nov 19 1319 2

NATO Squabbles

Turkey Tests F-16s and F-4s Against S-400 Radars in Defiance of US Sanctions Threats

Washington had optimistically called on Ankara not to "activate" the radars and to send them back

Joseph Trevithick 27 Nov 19 1435 6

Those Pesky Russians

Russia Is Eying More Armed Icebreakers After Launching Missile-Toting Arctic Patrol Ship

Gotta deter those FONOPs

Joseph Trevithick 18 Nov 19 696 3

War in Syria

US F-15s and Attack Helicopters in “Show of Force” Against Turko-Jihadi Forces in Northern Syria

For ostensibly coming "too close" to a YPG-US position

Joseph Trevithick 16 Oct 19 479 0

Four of the Biggest Revelations From China’s Massive 70th Anniversary Military Parade

The spectacle in Tiananmen Square was full of previously unseen advanced Chinese military developments

Joseph Trevithick 4 Oct 19 1845 5

Those Pesky Chinese

New Photos Point to Chinese Bomber Being Able to Carry Huge Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles

China's anti-access forces get yet more potent

Joseph Trevithick 30 Sep 19 1291 2

Those Pesky Chinese

China Just Launched Its Huge And Incredibly Quickly Built Amphibious Assault Ship

"What may be most impressive about it is China's ability to proceed so fast with its construction" — far faster than the US

Joseph Trevithick 29 Sep 19 1193 8

All 400 F-35s Built So Far Lack Simple Chaff Countermeasures, They Will Have to Be Installed Post-Production

Why didn't a 1.5 trillion weapon come with simple chaff serially?

Joseph Trevithick 11 Sep 19 1187 4

Those Pesky Russians

Russia Releases First Ever Video of New Stealth Bomber Drone

Here's what we can glean from it

Joseph Trevithick 9 Aug 19 12164 6

Trump Balked at Selling Taipei F-16s Lest It Ruined China Trade Talks

At least for now RoC won't be getting what it wanted the most

Joseph Trevithick 12 Jul 19 402 1

South China Sea Missile Test a Reminder That China Rules the Waves — With Ballistic Missiles

Instead of pouding Gobi sand China for the first time fires the "Guam Killer" missile into the South China Sea

Joseph Trevithick 8 Jul 19 1762 3

Invincible Empire

US Navy’s New $14 Billion Carrier Class Can’t Launch F-35s

MIC's destruction of Empire's naval power continues apace

Joseph Trevithick 8 Jun 19 1662 4

Did a Third Party Hit Saudi Tankers to Push America to War With Iran?

Al-Qaeda has attacked ships in those waters before — and despises the US and Iran both

Joseph Trevithick 14 May 19 490 4

Those Pesky Russians

Russia Launches World’s Longest Submarine That Will Carry Its Nuclear Doomsday Torpedo

A third strike "revenge" weapon to dissuade Washington warplanners from the notion a nuclear war on Russia could ever be won

Joseph Trevithick 29 Apr 19 10832 7