How Drones Could Help the Navy Reach its Fleet Size Goals
The Navy may need to make some internal adjustments as it transitions to vessels that operate with fewer or in many cases no sailors on board those warships. And this could truly change the way the U.S. Navy operates.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The U.S. Navy has announced plans that call for a significant increase in spending on robotics platforms in the coming years. The service’s future defense programs could include about $12 billion for unmanned aircraft, surface vessels and underwater systems in fiscal years 2021 through 2025.
Isolated, unemployed, and unable to adjust.
That’s what Russian veterans face after they leave the military.
Even as Russian state-sponsored trolls target U.S. veterans in an attempt to sow dissension and distrust, it’s Russian veterans that are experiencing significant problems as they reenter civilian life.
“For a significant part of the military personnel and their family members, dismissal from the army leads to the collapse of many hopes and the loss of life and development prospects,” according to Russian researcher Vadim L. Kalinichev.
The scale of the problem is evident in a survey of 248 combat-experienced officers belonging to the internal security forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Some 49 percent felt that society was not ready to receive them, 43 percent felt their future prospects were dim and 18 percent said they had issues that required a psychologist,
How Russia is Supporting India s Ambitions for a Fleet of Nuclear Submarines
Though its primary purpose is likely as a testbed to facilitate India’s plans to indigenously produce six nuclear attack submarines, it remains to be seen if the
Chakra III will become embroiled in the ongoing Sino-Indian tensions in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea.
Here s What You Need To Remember: A somewhat unusual arrangement, India’s willingness to lease rather than procure or import outright submarine technology from Russia has clear precedent in recent history.
In the latest instance of long-standing military cooperation between Moscow and New Delhi, India is set to rent additional Russian nuclear-powered attack submarines as a stepping stone on its path to acquiring an indigenous nuclear submarine force.
China has claimed that at least sixty United States military aircraft had conducted close-up reconnaissance flights near China in September, and that the U.S. is preparing for even more long-distance missions over the region in the coming months.
North Korean Bunkers Will Complicate Any U.S. Military Operation
North Korea, one of the most secretive countries in the world, is no stranger to building underground military facilities.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Pyongyang’s eventual defeat in any wartime scenario is a given, but its underground headquarters, fortifications and troop depots have the potential to not only enhance the Korean People’s Army’s ability to mount a surprise attack, but also to prolong the war, confounding the high-tech armed forces of its adversaries.
North Korea, one of the most secretive countries in the world, is no stranger to building underground military facilities. Whether a tunnel dug under the demilitarized zone designed to pass thousands of troops an hour, or bunkers to accommodate the regime’s leadership, North Korea has built extensive underground facilities designed to give it an edge in wartime.