Pentagon’s weapons tester gives update on Navy’s new long-range anti-ship missile January 14 A Long Range Anti-Ship Missile launches from an Air Force B-1B Lancer during flight testing in August 2013. (U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) WASHINGTON The U.S. Navy’s new Long Range Anti-Ship Missile must go through more rigorous and realistic testing, according to the 2020 annual report from the director of operational test and evaluation. Citing “multiple hardware and software failures” in the first iteration of the LRASM missile, the DOT&E report calls on the Navy to put the new LRASM 1.1 through a rigorous testing process under realistic combat conditions to ensure it will “demonstrate mission capability in operationally realistic environments.”
Allies sharpen ASW skills at multi-national Exercise Sea Dragon
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Royal Australian Air Force P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft have joined allies from the US, Japan, Canada, India and New Zealand in Guam to conduct a series of joint training exercises to support interoperability and multinational anti-submarine warfare capabilities.
Royal Australian Air Force P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft have joined allies from the US, Japan, Canada, India and New Zealand in Guam to conduct a series of joint training exercises to support interoperability and multinational anti-submarine warfare capabilities.
Sea Dragon 2021 centres on anti-submarine warfare (ASW) training and excellence to include 125 hours of in-flight training ranging from tracking simulated targets to the final problem of finding and tracking USS
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Naval Strike Missile
WASHINGTON: After years of discussion, the Navy and Marine Corps are getting ready to see if they can fit long-range anti-ship missiles aboard amphibious ships, expected to play a bigger role in challenging Chinese claims in the Pacific.
Placing the Naval Strike Missile on these smaller flattops would be in keeping with the push to add more punch to the US fleet, as China and Russia push their own long-range weapons out to sea.
“We have these magnificent 600-foot-long, highly survivable, highly LPD 17s,” Marine Maj. Gen. Tracy King, the Navy’s director of expeditionary warfare, told reporters. “The LPDs need the ability to reach out and defend themselves and sink another ship. It’s not from the aspect of using them as a strike platform; it will drastically increase their survivability if the enemy has to honor that threat.”
5 Most Overrated Weapons of War (Nuclear Weapons Topped the List)
We very occasionally make veiled threats of the combat use of nukes, we often use nukes as diplomatic chips, and we certainly enjoy the deterrent umbrella than the strategic nuclear forces provide. But the weapons themselves haven’t helped us win a war since 1945, even then under arguable circumstances.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Nuclear weapons have, in an important sense, dominated international diplomacy for the last six decades. What they haven’t dominated is warfare, where they appear to be nearly useless in all configurations.
“Overrated” is a challenging concept. In sports, a player can be “great” and “overrated” at the same time. Future Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Derek Jeter, for example, is quite clearly a “great” player, well deserving of the first ballot invitation he will likely receive. However, as virtually all statistically minded aficionados of the game ha
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The Taiwan Strait s contested waterways will soon be joined by Upgraded American F-16s that are far more advanced than most Chinese aircraft. The sale of the new F-16s should give an edge to the Taiwanese airpower.
The American U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin, soon followed by the Shandong on the water, soon followed the strait naval crossings. But in the air, Taiwan is jousting with the People s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) that pits their current version of the Fighting Falcon in the air.
But their dated planes will be joined by a new buy from the U.S. government, the F-16V (Viper) in its Block 70/72. It is the most modern Fighting Falcon worth $62 billion, and the first deliveries come in 2022. This version is far better than the less advanced fighters of the PLAAF, reported Forbes.