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I think the USA from miltiary / strategical standpoint seriously f*d
The houtis sink Israely ships on daily basis, in practice the Red sea closed.
Means the USA can't deploy forces to the area.

My pet theory, considering the extreemly low level of patriot and similar missiles, is next:
- Russian shahed production climbed to 500/day recently. they moped up the bext part of USA SAM/AA missile stock, appart from the minimum required strategical stock level.

-then came the Israel bet on an Iranian regime change, that went south in 12 hours time. But to keep up the pressure the USA/Israel continued it for 12 days. During this period the Iranian spamed Israel with Shaheds/ballistic missiles, that soaked up the 75 % of strategical SAM/AA missiles stock.
-Now Israel and USA find themselves in a stiutaion, when to protect again a quite angry Iran and Russia regional bases and Israel they need to husband the leftover missile stock. The USA /Israel can't afford to waste any missile even to defend commercial shipping on red sea.
So, no USA warship in Red sea. No aircraft. There is nothing that can be used to protect them .

Well played, good game.I am sure the Iranians and Russians enjoyed the game.
Next time, dear USA , please scale up the daily low weight defence missile production to 2000/day prior start a war against industrial powers.
2000/year is like using tropical fruits against guns. Doesn't make a diference. The heavy weight fighters droping cheap ammunitions is like the drednaughts agaisnt aircraft carriers 90 years ago. Outdated.

Navy Next-Generation Attack Submarine (SSN[X]) Program: Background and Issues for Congress​

A January 2025 Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reporton the Navy’s FY2025 30-year shipbuilding plan states thatin constant FY2024 dollars, the SSN(X)’s average unitprocurement cost is estimated at $7.1 billion by the Navyand $8.7 billion by CBO. CBO’s estimate is about 23%higher than the Navy’s estimate. The CBO report states thatCBO’s estimate assumes that the SSN(X) design wouldhave a submerged displacement of about 10,100 tons, about11% more than that of the SSN-21 design.

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The Pentagon will buy $400 million of preferred stock in MP Materials which owns the only operational rare earth mine in the U.S. at Mountain Pass, California.

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The Pentagon will buy $400 million of preferred stock in MP Materials which owns the only operational rare earth mine in the U.S. at Mountain Pass, California.

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The Pentagon is going to be a gaint SOE. How dare USA walk the evil socialist road?!

Why the U.S. Can’t Simultaneously Develop Two Sixth-Gen Fighters Like China

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Pentagon policy chief’s rogue decisions have irked US allies and the Trump administration

Even for an administration with a knack for moving fast and breaking things, Elbridge Colby’s moves at the Pentagon have caused frustration and friction.

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When the British defense team came to the Pentagon in June and spoke about the U.K.’s decision to send an aircraft carrier to Asia on a routine deployment, Colby interjected with a brusque comment.

“He basically asked them, ‘Is it too late to call it back?’” said the person familiar with Trump administration dynamics. “Because we don’t want you there.” A second person familiar with the meeting confirmed this account.

The British team on the other side of the table “were just shocked,” the first person added. “He was basically saying, ‘You have no business being in the Indo-Pacific.’”

Colby has also irked allies by pushing them too hard to boost defense spending — or telling them to simply get out of America’s way. “DOD has been telling a European partner that we don’t need the Europeans to be doing anything [in the Indo-Pacific],” said one U.S. official familiar with the conversations.

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Colby is not wrong. US will be better serve if Europe focused on the Med and even the Middle East.

Sending a cobble up carrier strike group from many nations to just sail into the Pacific is a complete waste of resource.
UK and EU friends could have that strike group in the Red Sea right now defending shipping routes against Houthis.

Instead, UK is trying to relive its glory days. Europe overall needs to get its priorities right and focus on their immediate concerns (their continent and immediate region) instead of trying appear as global power like back in the good old days.

It's been years since China commissioned two carriers into service, but you don't see them sailing into the Atlantic and the Med.

Priorities. It's all about priorities and these guys have lost theirs. US will have to keep leading them, holding their hands for a very long time it seems.

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Colby is not wrong. US will be better serve if Europe focused on the Med and even the Middle East.

Sending a cobble up carrier strike group from many nations to just sail into the Pacific is a complete waste of resource.
UK and EU friends could have that strike group in the Red Sea right now defending shipping routes against Houthis.

Instead, UK is trying to relive its glory days. Europe overall needs to get its priorities right and focus on their immediate concerns (their continent and immediate region) instead of trying appear as global power like back in the good old days.

It's been years since China commissioned two carriers into service, but you don't see them sailing into the Atlantic and the Med.

Priorities. It's all about priorities and these guys have lost theirs. US will have to keep leading them, holding their hands for a very long time it seems.

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Soooooo, you shame the UK carrier because hiding to the same place from the Yemeni and Iranians missiles as the USA carriers.

Why?

Reason why the USA carriers are way away from any conflict point, and doesn't protect the USA interested shipping is because the USA and allieas run out of surface to air and air to air missiles, and they can't protect the ships from them .

Thats it.

Free range for the ansharAllah from Yemen.

It only takes one airplane to scare off the boats from the commercials ships. But nothing can protect that plane from the Yemeni missiles.

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Pentagon policy chief’s rogue decisions have irked US allies and the Trump administration

Even for an administration with a knack for moving fast and breaking things, Elbridge Colby’s moves at the Pentagon have caused frustration and friction.

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It's a shame his enemies are trying to spin it this way. He's actually one of the few relatively sensible people in there. Very much hated him before, but he seems to be showing a lot more sense this time around.

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Colby is not wrong. US will be better serve if Europe focused on the Med and even the Middle East.

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People can say what they will about Elbridge Colby (be it from the perspective of Han Nationalists or NAFO useful idiots), but Bridge is by all reasonable accounts the singular force within the DoD in particular, and the broader American national security establishment in general, cognizant of and communicating a clear, rational and honest recognition of what the emergence of Pax Sinica represents, and what (little) the US can do to deter such a near inevitability.

What makes Bridge a man worthy of respect is that he is willing to communicate and act upon truths that lesser men are too cowardly to acknowledge due to a dysfunctional Congressional, if not largely "democratic" preference for, if not insistence upon good news over true news.

B-1B To Finally Get New External Pylons Drastically Expanding Missile Carriage Potential (Updated)​

The Air Force sees external pylons as key to increasing the B-1's ability to launch standoff strikes ahead of the arrival of the B-21 Raider.

The HACM program is also still ongoing and could be another future addition to the B-1’s arsenal. Past reports have said that B-1s fitted with pylons might be able to

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, in total, externally and internally.

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This is a delusional estimate. Long range hypersonic weapons are much too heavy and large to mount in such large numbers on a B-1 if you go by what we see from Chinese and Russian examples. This estimate must be based on the assumption that they can make hypersonic weapons as small and light as their current subsonic weapons, which is magically delusional.

Edit: I think they must be referring to shorter range missiles such as for air-to-air combat. The kind of missiles that would compete against PL-15, 17, 21, etc. Not the kind to compete with DF-17, 27, etc. If so, then this estimate of theirs makes much more sense.