by Craig Hooper Defense Tech Naval Warfare Analyst In a high-threat environment, the Navy’s AEGIS vessels have a problem. They cannot be re-armed. AEGIS cruisers have 122 vertical launch system (VLS) cells, while the destroyers have 96. Each magazine is “multi-use,” composed of specialized land attack and self-defense weapons, so a desired missile may not […]
From the monthly archives:
June 2010
This afternoon I’ll be at the Center for New American Security (CNAS) annual conference in Washington, DC, headlined by Michele Flournoy, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. The conference is sold out. But, you can watch it here via webcast over the tubes. I’ll be curious to hear if the resident counterinsurgency brain trust still thinks a population-centric […]
Conflicting statements from Russian officials on whether or not it will scrap the pending S-300 surface-to-air missile system sale to Iran because of new United Nations sanctions over Tehran’s continued pursuit of nuclear weapons. First, an “industry source” said the S-300 deal was off. Now, Russia’s Foreign Ministry says the sale is still on. Israel […]
There has been mounting frustration among the Obama administration and the military’s top leadership over China’s failure to do something, anything, about the North Korean lunacy; that frustration is now publicly coming out in the wake of the North’s sinking of the South Korean ship Cheonan and the sound of crickets from Beijing. Last night, […]
Yesterday at a reporter’s roundtable, House Armed Services Committee chair Rep. Ike Skelton said he expects SecDef Robert Gates and his merry band of program killers in OSD will try to terminate the Marine Corps armored amphibian, the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV). Skelton said he’s pretty agnostic on the EFV and that the HASC would […]
