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Looks like Northrop is already deep into AN/APG-85 production for the F-35. This is the sixth production lot which means a previous five were awarded in secret and accounts for 249 radar units.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1732224744584302872

It will interesting to see what upgrades the AN/APG-85 has over the AN/APG-81... whenever we eventually get some concrete info on it.
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Well, they've been efficient at this, must be quite critical and urgent.
 
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The report must include a description of the Defense Department’s process for learning and disseminating knowledge, and identify any working groups associated with this effort. It must also include a detailed summary of recommendations, identify which Defense Department organizations have the lead on implementing these recommendations, and provide a timeline for implementation.

Some Army officers have argued that observations from the war, while useful, are not always relevant to the U.S. military, which expects to fight with multi-service operations backed by highly
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soldiers funded by a military
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many times Ukraine’s gross domestic
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“If you look at the fight that's going on in Ukraine, you've got a large Soviet army fighting a small Soviet army, right? That is defensive-oriented, [artillery]-oriented.” said 101st Airborne Division commander Maj. Gen. Brett Sylvia in an August interview. “That's not our [kind of] fight," he said, contrasting the U.S. Army's multi-domain, maneuver-centric approach with the grinding trench warfare that has defined much of the war in Ukraine.

Anthony Tingle, formerly a program director at the Air Force Academy’s the Institute for Future Conflict and now an independent
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who has spent time in Ukraine, said he could not say whether the Army’s four analysts were sufficient. CALL could be working with other academic institutions to analyze the war, he said.

However, any U.S. observations of the war are ultimately
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presence in Ukraine, said Tingle.

“How many U.S. government employees have been to Donbass recording the electromagnetic spectrum or sitting down with the drone operators to say, ‘Well, okay, how do they frequency-hop? How do they try to thwart our drones?” said Tingle. “This is all stuff we're gonna have to relearn the first week of a war with anybody.”

The U.S. has repeatedly said it will not send military advisors to Ukraine, and maintains an even
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presence in Kyiv than before the war. The Defense Department also maintains travel restrictions within Ukraine that prevent at least some staff from getting within a certain distance of the front line, according to a January
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from the Inspector General.

The academic community is similarly limited in the analysis it can provide, Tingle added, saying the number of academics with experience on the frontline was in the single digits.

Tingle believes the military branches are at least partially writing off the conflict based on assumptions that the U.S. would not struggle with the same types of problems as Ukraine, such as establishing air dominance over Russia.

Those assumptions may be true, Tingle said, but that doesn’t mean the war has nothing to teach.

“There are lessons about modern warfare in general that we are not getting because of that attitude.”
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I've always suspected that this was going to be the attitude from US Armed Forces.
 
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Anduril has been awarded a $250 million contract to provide 500 Roadrunner drone interceptors along with Pulsar drone jammers.

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There's kinda an information desert about this award. No service has raised their hand and said this is our new toy nor is there any hint of a Replicator/CCA relationship. The only ownership hint was this Defense News excerpt
An Anduril spokesperson declined to name the firm’s DOD customer due to security concerns, but the company said the contract will serve multiple military services in “priority regions where U.S. forces face significant threats” from drones. Deliveries will begin this year and continue through the end of 2025.

The firm is already on a 10-year, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract worth up to $1 billion with U.S. Special Operations Command to supply counter-drone hardware and software, but the spokesperson would not confirm whether the new business is part of its SOCOM award.
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And there's this announcement from last November
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so yeah this looks like a SpecOps toy.
 
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I've always suspected that this was going to be the attitude from US Armed Forces.
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The US military conclusions are not wrong.

Russia is being forced to fight this using artillery and attrition because they can't establish air superiority over Ukraine. If they controlled the air, this war would be massively different and probably near an end. Ukraine won't have armored, artillery, and logistics because air power would wither them out with precision strikes and likewise protect Russia's own pieces and logistics.
 
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Looks like last little bit of funding for the AGM-183A has come in to the tune of $13 million which brings the total current contract value to $1,319,270,400. Some speculation that his is just to close out the development, but I've always felt this program might have more life in it.

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Anduril has unveiled their Bolt and Bolt-M quadcopter man packable autonomous air vehicles.

The devices claim to be AI enabled with gross weight of ~13.5 lbs. The device takes five minutes to set-up from unpack, and contains 40 mins of flight time over 20km. Flight is handled via waypoints or direct tracking of objects and is capable of tracking objects even through obstacles.

Device flight system is fully autonomous and does not use FPV drone flight.

The system seems to have an Xbox like controller interface using the nearly the same button layout as a traditional Xbox controller combined with a touch screen in the centre.

Weight of explosive device is around 3lbs so suited for small vehicles and infantry.

 
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