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RAND Comments on the Threat of Drifting Mines
A senior engineer at the RAND Corporation wrote about the dangers of floating and drifting mines and how current navies are hard-pressed to counter them.
1 December 2022
A senior engineer at the RAND Corporation wrote about the dangers of floating and drifting mines and how current navies are hard-pressed to counter them.
For many years, analysts, the military, and members of Congress have called for more missile interceptors to be placed on Guam to defend its airbase and naval port from enemy missile attack.
The United States Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is tasked with creating a solution to intercept enemy Hypersonic Glide Bodies (HGB) that threaten allied naval and maritime vessels and interests. In order to accomplish this, MDA is developing missile interceptors to literally hit a hypersonic missile with a hypersonic missile and is termed, “Enhanced Hypersonic Missile Defense.” Naval News reached out to the MDA for comment.
A photo released by the U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. Sixth Fleet shows a modular SM-6 launcher system within the U.S. European Command (EUCOM). Naval News inquired to the USMC…
The United States Marine Corps (USMC) stated in their Defense One webinar that they now possess four different anti-ship munitions in their arsenal…
Naval News reached out to ShinMaywa Industries, Ltd. in Japan to inquire on if the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) might be interested in their US-2 seaplane…
At SNA Waterfront Symposium 2022 the U.S. Navy fielded audience questions regarding the status of the unmanned surface vessels (USV) that participated in Rim of the Pacific 2022 (RIMPAC 2022) naval exercise….
Q & A with Captain Brad Busch, U.S. Navy, Deputy Director, Expeditionary Warfare (N95) at the Surface Navy Association’s 2022 (SNA 2022) Waterfront Conference during his “Future of the [U.S. Navy’s] Amphibious Fleet” session.
Naval News reached out to DARPA for an update on their test firing of an Operational Fires (OpFires) hypersonic missile
One of the greatest advantages of PrSM is that it can hit moving land and maritime targets using a multi-mode seeker.
