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Navy unveils the seven companies that will participate in MUSV at-sea-testing
Leidos, HII, and Saronic Technologies are among those selected to advance to the at-sea testing phase.
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Leidos, HII, and Saronic Technologies are among those selected to advance to the at-sea testing phase.
A pair of childrenโs shoes is an odd place to look for the changing dynamics of American power. But stick with me because, after the past year, it is one of the clearest places to see them.Long before those shoes reach a store shelf, tariffs have raised the cost of materials, components, and importation. Oil touches nearly everything else: synthetic fabrics, foam, adhesives, packaging, and freight. When both shocks arrive together, companies cut margins, cut orders, cheapen materials, delay investment, and eventually pass the pain on to consumers. Now, multiply that across the economy, and you start to see the The post Glass Jaw? The New Economic Fragility Recasting American Power appeared first on War on the Rocks.
This week on The Break Out, we travel to eastern Europe for drone testing with NATO troops before briefly reviewing the history of unmanned systems.
โThe [Rogue 1] Block 2 upgrade leverages user feedback to greatly enhance performance, resilience, and operational capability, all while maintaining existing form-factor,โ a Teledyne FLIR statement read.
This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Catarina Buchatskiy, the co-founder and director of analytics at the Snake Island Institute, a Kyiv-based defense analytics center, and Viktoriia Honcharuk, the instituteโs director of defense technologies. We asked them to share their views on how Ukraineโs military and defense firms turn battlefield feedback into rapid innovation, what Western investors and defense tech companies can learn from Ukraine, and what a future Ukraine-West defense industrial partnership might look like. Sign Up for Our Newsletter American and allied defense companies often speak about testing their products in Ukraine, but few have consistently done so. Why The post Inside Ukraineโs Battlefield Innovation Loop appeared first on War on the Rocks.
The U.S. Navy has placed directed energy systems on nine surface combatants and is looking to expand testing and deployment of similar systems across the fleet. The post These American Destroyers Are Equipped With Laser Weapons appeared first on The War Zone.
Official imagery confirms that the two-seat Su-57D version of the Russian fighter has begun flight testing. The post Russiaโs New Two-Seat Su-57 Felon Takes Its First Flight appeared first on The War Zone.
The Army knows it needs a more affordable and producible Patriot option as enemies seek overmatch through cheap drones and throngs of ballistic missiles. The post โCheapโ Patriot Interceptor Costing Under $1 Million Now Being Sought By Army appeared first on The War Zone.
Fresh off extensive combat operations against Iran, Israel is boosting the F-35I Adirโs endurance with external fuel tanks that will also reduce dependence on tanker aircraft. The post Israelโs F-35s Are Getting External Fuel Tanks appeared first on The War Zone.
The drones hitting Gulf Arab states daily since the United States and Israel launched large-scale military operations against Iran in February are not merely Iranian. They are originally Iranian, yes. But these designs and production processes were improved and refined by Russia through years of battlefield testing against Ukrainian defenses. So, they were returned to Tehran from Moscow. Confronted with a threat that Ukraine has spent four years learning to counter, the United States found itself in unfamiliar territory. It was one of 11 countries requesting Ukrainian counter-drone assistance to defend against Iranโs attacks, despite the American presidentโs assertion that The post As Adversaries Integrate, U.S. Partners Bypass Washington appeared first on War on the Rocks.
One number buried in the Pentagonโs Fiscal Year 2027 budget request reveals a decade of acquisition decisions in a data point: The U.S. Navy is requesting 785 Tomahawk cruise missiles. In 2025, Congress funded 55. That 1,200 percent jump is the cost of choices never stress-tested against the scenario unfolding today โ a sustained air campaign against Iran while China watches the magazine drain.As a legislative fellow on the Hill, I watch acquisition reform proposals grind through the legislative machinery every day. A proposal usually arrives with a clean rationale: streamline this contracting mechanism, expand multi-year purchasing authority for this The post Acquisition Reform Needs Its Own Wargame appeared first on War on the Rocks.
The term โaffordable massโ entered public defense discourse in 2021 as a munitions concept, which the Air Force adopted in 2023 to describe its effort to field large numbers of lower-cost, semi-autonomous aircraft to complement crewed fighters. The term has since spread in defense reporting, think-tank commentary, service initiatives, and even on War on the Rocks.The Air Force, Army, and Navy are all pursuing low-cost, high-volume buying efforts to augment the force of the โfew and exquisiteโ with the โaffordable and plentiful,โ and the Pentagon is requesting $54 billion to dramatically expand autonomous drone warfare efforts. The Air Force calls The post From Slogan to Standard: How the Pentagon Should Define Affordable Mass appeared first on War on the Rocks.
Michael Kofman joined Ryan at a live event earlier this year to discuss the performance of American defense technology in Ukraine and why it often falls short. They examine the challenges of fielding and iterating systems in combat, from poor implementation and weak feedback loops to deeper mismatches between design and battlefield reality. They also explore what it takes to succeed in this environment and what it means for future conflicts. Thanks to Leonid Capital Partners for hosting the event at which this podcast was recorded. Image: ArmyInform via Wikimedia Commons The post Why Do Many Western Defense Tech Firms Struggle in Ukraine? appeared first on War on the Rocks.
The debate over how best to deter China in the western Pacific has reached a new level of ambition. Ely Ratner, a former senior defense official in the Biden administration, proposed a โPacific Defense Pactโ โ a legally binding multilateral treaty among the United States, Japan, Australia, and the Philippines. This reflects serious concerns over Chinaโs rise and its potential future use of force along the first island chain. The underlying diagnosis is sound: Existing U.S. alliances in the region lack an integrated command and control structure and the collective responsiveness required to credibly deter China in a high-intensity conflict. The post A Formal Defense Pact in the Indo-Pacific Is the Wrong Answer appeared first on War on the Rocks.
The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran has exposed a reality many policymakers long preferred to avoid: The deterrence model that governed the Gulf for decades is no longer working as intended.For years, the region operated in the gray zone โ covert strikes, proxy warfare, and carefully managed escalation. Iran built a strategy around missiles, regional partners, and nuclear latency.The United States underwrote Gulf security without direct war. Saudi Arabia and its neighbors relied on that umbrella while hedging against its limits, investing in missile defense and selective partnerships. There were rules, even if unwritten.That world is breaking down. The two-week ceasefire announced The post The End of Managed Escalation in the Gulf appeared first on War on the Rocks.