Defense One

Artillery shells will be part of a new $1 billion tranche of various types of military aid to Ukraine announced Wednesday by the White House. Officials did not say how much of that would go toward 155mm artillery rounds, which cost roughly $3,000 apiece. But if, say, one-quarter of the funds are devoted to artillery, the roughly 80,000 rounds that would buy would last Ukraine just six weeks—and that only at their current reduced rate of fire. Read the story by Sam Skove: https://lnkd.in/gizy-HCH #artillery #ukraine #155mm #ukraineaid

NEW: Now that the Air Force wants to halve its planned buy of a new helicopter to patrol missile fields, the program is running far over budget. Read the story by Audrey Decker: https://lnkd.in/guBgpHD9 #usaf #airforce #defenseindustry #helicopters #congress #overbudget

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Sierra Nevada Corporation has been selected to replace the U.S. Air Force’s “Doomsday” planes. Read the story: https://lnkd.in/gvywd-HY #usaf #sierranevada #defenseindustry #airforce

A new digital engineering accelerator could streamline how the Pentagon and its contractors develop new weapons, reducing the time it takes to get to a usable prototype by enabling faster, more accurate modeling and simulation. Read the story by Patrick Tucker: https://lnkd.in/dUvQBJZM #defensetech #digitalengineering #pentagon #weapons #defenseindustry

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion more than two years ago, Army special-forces soldiers have trained thousands of Ukrainian commandos in Poland and elsewhere. And U.S. troops have learned as well—not just about the Ukrainians’ special brand of resilience, but lessons from European battlefields that are now shaping Army special operations and modernization efforts. Read the story by Sam Skove: https://lnkd.in/dwdUKcJ4 #ukraine #specialoperators #usarmy #ukrainiantroops #militarytraining #specialforces

Excellent encapsulation by Matt Trollinger in Defense One on how the Marine Corps Raiders are using #FICINT to help their special operators visualize and develop future concepts through their own fiction writing. It’s a privilege for Useful Fiction to work with MARSOC and to mentor the Raiders who leapt at the chance to contribute to the intellectual development of the future of special operations in the 2030s and beyond. “But even as we provide solutions for today’s challenges, our Marine Raiders continue to evolve from the strategic vision laid out in MARSOF 2030 towards the ever-increasing strategic and operational challenges anticipated in the following decade. It is for this reason that we turned to FICINT writing.” https://lnkd.in/eFdWTWKE

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In commentary by Matt Bruzzese and Peter W. Singer: The unexpected elimination of the People’s Liberation Army unit that handled space, cyber, and electronic warfare missions is all the more surprising because the Strategic Support Force seemed to just be coming into its own. Read the oped: https://lnkd.in/gBxThweh #china #military #nationalsecurity #pla

U.S.-provided precision-guided munitions have failed in mission after mission in Ukraine, taken down by Russian electronic warfare. On Wednesday, the Pentagon revealed the latest casualty. Read the story by Sam Skove: https://lnkd.in/ggax72k3 #russia #ukraine #electronicwarfare #munitions #jamming