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Marine Corps investigation faults F-35 program after in-flight fire (Marine Corps Times)

Actually reported at least as early as 2012. Northrop Grumman's F-35 DAS and Radar Demonstrate Ability to Detect, Track, Target Ballistic Missiles

The Navy’s Much-Hyped Electromagnetic Railgun May End Up Dead In The Water (Task & Purpose)

In Return to Cold War Posture, U.S. Sending Sub Hunting Planes to Iceland (Foreign Policy)

Defense Contractors Holding the Pentagon Hostage with Service Contracts (POGO)

Every now and then I pull out this game and give it a go. But I have to say it continues to disappoint ... not because it doesn't deliver a lot, because it does, but because it still doesn't deliver what I expect from it. For example: An SA-21a/b Growler battery engages a flight of Super Hornets at a distance of over 175 nm. The Superbugs are flying at 36,000 feet. The SAM site is virtually at sea level (<30 ft). The SAM site fires a number of missiles, and of course, the Superbugs detect them incoming and dive to 300 ft AGL (<1,000 ft above S/L). There is intervening terrain - between the SAM site and the Superbug flight - that is nearly 4,000 ft in height. Despite this, the SAM site "sees through" the mountains and the missiles dive from >40,000 ft to hit my Superbugs in terrain following flight. Frustrating nonsense. I expect more realism than this. Am I expecting too much?

An unfortunate update passed along via Admiralty Trilogy:

Images of Russian Project 955A SSBN reveal design changes (Jane's)

As Tony mentioned, putting images together for the DB has never been viewed by me as offering a good return on investment of time and energy. Not in an era where a couple of clicks can bring up a plethora of images on the Interwebz.

Russia Scooped Up Wrecks Of Its Crashed Naval Fighters Off The Seafloor Near Syria (The War Zone)

Army Expected to Sell Off Thousands of Surplus 1911 Pistols (Kit Up!) A great opportunity for some of you to grab a piece of history.

Now seems likely to have been the victim of a catastrophic explosion, perhaps a battery explosion. Explosion Was Recorded Where Argentine Submarine Went Missing (New York Times)

Russia’s A-100 AWACS makes maiden flight (Jane's)

Russian official says MENA country has Iskander-E missiles (Jane's)

Argentine navy loses contact with submarine (CNN) TR1700 class ARA San Juan (S-42)

Russia Rolls Out New Tu-160M2, But Are Moscow's Bomber Ambitions Realistic? (The War Zone)

North Korea’s Submarine Ballistic Missile Program Moves Ahead: Indications of Shipbuilding and Missile Ejection Testing (38 North)

Don't overthink it ... its an error. Hoping to find time soon to get a new update available.

Part 1 (War is Boring) Part 2 (War is Boring) Part 3 (War is Boring) Part 4 (War is Boring)

Quantum Communications and Chinese SSBN Strategy (The Diplomat)

Turning Point: The F-35 May Not Deliver (National Interest)

Reagan, Reykjavik, and strategic imagination (Foreign Policy)

Fifty-three year old nuclear missile accident revealed (Rapid City Journal)

Corrosion issue stops F-35 deliveries for a month (Flight Global)

War Poetry (Poetry Foundation)