French H160

Interesting article on the new French replacement helicopter.  It will be interesting to see if this has any success beyond the French military.

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Lasers

China has developed a hand-held laser. It looks to be mainly useful for crowd control and maybe anti-terror operations at the moment.

The US may put laser weapons on the F-35.  Interesting.

Not to be outdone, the US Army is going to field a 100Kw laser for anti-drone, anti-mortar defense.

Missile defense

More evidence that the Pacific is the most important strategic area right now.  I suspect that more of these will be built.  Look for one in Japan at some point.

Space Force

The President has announced that he wants to see a Space Force as a separate branch of the military. I’ve always thought this was a good idea. (post in memory of Mike Nofsinger)

More Russian casualties in Syria

Story here.

More F-35 analysis

I recently wrote about the F-35 in Israeli service here.  Now here is another article on the same subject.

Not good news

If Chinese forces are actively using lasers to try an blind our pilots, you have to think that the Chinese are willing to up the tensions between the two countries.  I wonder if this was a local commander or some local troops going off script.  If not, that worries me.

Railguns

Now the Army wants in on the railgun whiz-bang.  If the US gets these into service with the Navy and Army, it will put the US military far ahead of the rest of the world.

The Space Corps

The beginnings of a new space race?  Personally, I think a Space Corps is inevitable.

Russian Navy activity

Putin flexes his naval muscles.  The Russians seem to be doing this more often.