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The Chinese military is acquiring weapons “five to six times” faster than the United States.

North Korea also heads a robust maritime smuggling ring.

There is no shortage of proxies interested in buying North Korean weapons.

The fighter procurement process is a mess.

There is no shortage of proxies interested in buying North Korean weapons.

No one likes the idea of reliving the troubled development process that produced it. Heres What You Need to Know: The F-35 has become a victim of its size and expense. Could a rethink of U.S. acquisition policies bring back the heady days of the “Century Series,” a time in which the Air Force could pick and choose between a variety of different fighters specialized in certain tasks? Could such an approach free the Pentagon from the specter of another gigantic, F-35-sized procurement project...

Why The U.S. Air Force Will Never Build Another F-35 The integration of modular components into a usable airframe, especially one that would require stealth, seems extraordinarily difficult. Heres What You Need To Remember: The idea of having a variety of different aircraft rather than putting all of the eggs into one fighter-shaped basket has an intuitive appeal. But before we pine for the days of Super Sabres, Delta Daggers and Starfighters, we should take a clear-eyed look at the problems a...

White house officials say. growing concern across the administration that north korea is brazenly evadesing sanctions. giving it the cash to continue its weapons program. germanys intelligence chief says north korea got some nuke her weapons technology by using its berlin embassy as a front. >> we determined from there weapons procurement took place in our view with an eye ward the missile program. >> reporter: north korea earned more than $200 million in revenue last year exporting coal and oth...

We see there is commitment, we have an all volunteer force, we have some challenges but the marine corps will go, and we are going to go fight, we wanted to be a fair fight, we want to be as ready as we can be. jillian: you mentioned modernizing the force, we about things like weapons procurement and technology but an important part of the modernization program is the incorporation of women down to the line units of the institute level. how is that process from your perspective going so far? is ...

Theyre trying to get long-term benefit from it to move away, move their capacity in the country, move it away from the oil sector into other areas. and certainly youll get some regional experts that would be a good thing for the long-term stability of the region. obviously weapons procurement on the scale that saudi arabia is doing. given the high animosity with iran also will be a troubling detail. however, these are the deals that are being signed here today. >> and just remind our viewers, li...