Current Events in the Americas

Conclude the Littoral Combat Ship Now (Real Clear Defense)

From DefenseNews' Intercepts blog [excerpt]

US Navy weighs halving LCS order (DefenseNews)

Boeing Surveillance Plane Found Not Effective for Mission (Bloomberg)

UK prime minister rebuffs Argentina over Falklands (BBC News)

From USNI Proceedings, September 2012 issue http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2012-09-0/new-kind-carrier-air-wing

Carrier Cut Could Be Back on Table (DefenseNews)

Boeing Tests Redesigned Harpoon Anti-Ship Missile (Naval News) Like the sim, the missile just won't go away. ☺️

Heron, Reaper and Hermes 900 Compete for Canadas Arctic mission (Defense Update)

DOD Inspector General's report: Assessment of the USAF Aircraft Accident Investigation Board (AIB) Report on the F-22A Mishap of November 16, 2010

Could New SSBN Program Sink U.S. Navy? (The Diplomat, Flashpoints blog)

Topping Off a Carrier: GERALD R FORD (CVN 78) Island Landing (DefenseNews' Intercepts blog) Lots of pics.

F/A-18F CFT & Weapons Pod mockup in St Louis (Flight Global, DEW Line blog) Boeing poised to begin flight-testing Advanced Super Hornet features (Jane's)

New big-deck amphib AMERICA (LHA 6) takes to the sea for the first time (DefenseNews, Intercepts blog)

X-47B UCAS-D conducts first land-based catapult shot (Flight Global)

From How the North-South divide plays out in three key swing states (Lexington Institute's Early Warning blog) [excerpt] Harpoon is no stranger to North vs South scenarios, however unpleasant such a prospect might be ...

LCS-4 Trials Halted After Engine Fires (Aviation Week) Newest LCS Suffers Fire at Sea, Damage ‘Minor’ (DefenseNews)

US Carrier Launch Pushed Back 4 Months (DefenseNews)

AIM-120D still troubled as Nammo comes aboard (Jane's)

Time to change America's atomic arsenal (The Diplomat)