The U.S. Coast Guard is deploying 16 autonomous Saildrone Voyager vessels across the Great Lakes and Northeast Atlantic to enhance maritime surveillance, border security, and illegal fishing detection using AI-powered ocean monitoring systems. https://t.co/zMxhbq5WY7
I am told the US strikes are over for now. Again these were defensive in nature not offensive and not an effort to break the ceasefire. The US military says it reacted when they saw 2 IRGC boats laying mines and then also when a SAM missile site targeted its warplanes.
Papers are in! It’s been 20 good years in the Navy and Navy Reserve - looking forward to spending more time with the family! (Still Navy-ing in the day job)
Good!
“…including studies of the ability of allied shipbuilding companies to build ships or components”
U.S. Considering Foreign Designs, Shipyards for New Navy Frigate, Destroyer Work in $1.85B Study - USNI News https://t.co/p9nyBiNVqE
The Pentagon is considering outsourcing warship design and building to Korea and Japan with a proposed $1.85 billion feasibility study into the project within the proposed budget for 2027, with the study to look at the feasibility of adopting or co-producing advanced hulls such as Japan’s Mogami-class and Korea’s Daegu-class frigates to supplement the U.S. Navy, according to USNI News.
Build Ships.
Build them in America. Build them in Korea. Build them in Japan.
But for Pete’s sake build them, and keep on building them, until you run out of sailors to man them and docks to berth them.
A Republican congressman and Special Operations veteran with a pointed, thoughtful take on the arrest this week of a soldier in an alleged Polymarket scheme:
@McCainJack I brought up Andor during my Reserve Senior Leadership Course this month in a discussion about following ethical and moral orders. And got mostly blank stares
@JerryHendrixII@tshugart3 As the XO of an MSC Reserve unit always good to see the support for sealift and combat logistics force. Had a chance to tour GD/NASSCO a few weeks back as they’re pumping out the T-AOs. Will be curious if any of the funding ultimately shifts to foreign yards for auxiliaries.
@HopeSeck Is this a rhetorical question? Or are you looking for the more interesting history of the area, including the Carroll and Blair families and the confederate invasion?
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The Air War College asked @KoriSchake not to give a scheduled lecture on civil-military relations—a subject that she writes is “extremely relevant” in the current political climate. Here’s what she would have said: https://t.co/7h5W9nR7at
Iranian forces hit the US-flagged tanker STENA IMPERATIVE in the Port of Bahrain today, setting the vessel on fire -Vanguard.
STENA IMPERATIVE is part of the US Navy's TSP (Tanker Security Program).
Minister for Defence Mr Chan Chun Sing visited @LockheedMartin’s F-35 production facility in Fort Worth, Texas on 12 Sep (SG time), where Singapore’s F-35 fighter aircraft are being built. 🇸🇬’s first of 20 F-35 fighter aircraft is on track for delivery in end-2026.