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Bellum_Romanum said:

High quality production marketing and of their missions along with the talents they've assembled together. The founder is the guy that used to head or founded Oculus VR back in 2017. The money and team was provided by the founders of Palantir and Space X plus interestingly enough, the initial government contracts may have come about since the founder was a big TRUMP supporter and fundraised for his presidential runs in 2016 and 2020.

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Good ol' Palmer Luckey.

This drone looks early days as that model looks to be made of plastic (maybe even just a render). I am guessing this is the Anduril entry into the collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) initiative similar to what Kratos developed in the XQ-58 Valkyrie?

gpt said:

Stealth drone by Anduril

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Wait I'm genuinely confused here. How is a buncha of guys who made (simple) video games and a glorified face laptop toy supposed to be good at making top of the line futuristic military weapons?

Defense News has a good article that provides an overview of the current methods being used to increase capacity at General Dynamics Electric Boat and HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding, along with downstream suppliers, to meet the current 1+2 production goal (one Columbia Class and two Virginia Class Block V boats) per year.

The U.S. Navy expects the submarine-industrial base to start delivering attack submarines on time by 2028 —

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vendors and shipbuilders began struggling to keep up with growing demand, made worse by the pandemic and the seismic disruption it brought to the labor market.

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To get there, the sea service anticipates spending $6.3 billion to

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— on top of the annual cost of buying and repairing submarines.

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The second area is shipyard infrastructure, to ensure General Dynamics Electric Boat and HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding can ramp up their production to a rate that will, in FY26, hit its highest rate by tonnage since World War II: one Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine and two Virginia-class attack submarines with the Virginia Payload Module insert each year, dubbed a 1+2 production rate.

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"Anduril", "Palantir", I wonder if Tolkien's estate can sue them.

In other news, Propublica yesterday published a piece on LCS...


I think you can guess how it goes...

Maikeru said:

$2bn per AB DDG:

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Do we have an idea of what it costs Japan or South Korea to build ships of similar capabilities? From reading that article, the hull alone is around $800+ million. So even if the hull cost $0, it would still be nearly a billion/billion dollar vessel!

SlothmanAllen said:

Do we have an idea of what it costs Japan or South Korea to build ships of similar capabilities? From reading that article, the hull alone is around $800+ million. So even if the hull cost $0, it would still be nearly a billion/billion dollar vessel!

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What if Korean shipyards build the hulls with wiring and send them to American yards using sem-submersibles for furnishings?

vincent said:

What if Korean shipyards build the hulls with wiring and send them to American yards using sem-submersibles for furnishings?

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Korean ship yards are a lot cheaper than American ones. They could get them to build large modules, ship them over state side and do final assembly at one of the Americans yards. Unfortunately that would just make the problem of not having enough ship building capacity in USA worse. Whatever capacity there are left gets outsourced.

gpt said:

Stealth drone by Anduril

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Stealth drone... first thing I see is a vertical stabilizer. I see where this is going already

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The will, as expected, miss its active-duty goals for the first time since 1999, Secretary Frank Kendall said during a conference here Monday.

"We're almost to the end of the fiscal year, and the expectation is we're going to come in short about 10%," Kendall told Military.com during a media round table, adding that the service plans to address long-standing recruiting issues in an effort to improve next year. "I'm overall encouraged by where we are in recruiting, but we still have a lot of work."

The last time the Air Force did not reach 100% of its goal was 1999, according to the Air Force Recruiting Service. That was when Millenials -- who were born between 1981 and 1996 -- first began to reach the age of service. In 1979, the Air Force also missed its goals when Generation X began to become of age to serve, .