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UK All In On FCAS Fighter In New Defense Plan "We've committed to 48, we'll buy 48" F-35s, UK Minister for the Armed Forces, James Heappey, said. The original plan was to buy 138 fifth-generation fighters, but British officials in recent months have declined to say that number is still the target.

DoD's Own Bureaucracy Top Barrier To Winning Spectrum Back America's inability to progress beyond "Cold War capabilities" in this "most important environment to modern warfare" follows three EMS strategies over eight years. "They weren't bad strategies," experts agreed, but DoD simply failed to fully implement them. Now GAO is warning the latest strategy, just months old, may face the same fate.

DoD Needs To Sharpen Hypersonics Oversight: GAO GAO notes that efforts to defend against Russian and Chinese hypersonic missiles are much less mature than offensive efforts, with much less funding. Only 12 of 70 projects tracked by GAO related to defenses; DoD requested $207 million in 2021 for hypersonic defense, up from $157 million in 2020.

Army Missiles, Missile Defense Race Budget Crunch To 2023 "In my career, certainly this is the most amount of modernization I've seen," Brig. Gen. Brian Gibson says. Can multiple Army programs make their 2023 deadline?

Israelis Worry About CH-53K King Stallion Engines The US Director of Operational Test and Evaluation's annual report says the CH-53K engine's performance degrades bellow the accepted minimum after 21 minutes of dust exposure. This is causing great concern in the IAF as it eyes buying the first batch of 20 helicopters.

Bye-Bye, B-52s & Carriers; Hello, More Destroyers & F-35s The US needs to shift investment from hallowed but vulnerable legacy platforms – especially aircraft carriers and B-52 bombers – to more flexible and survivable weapons systems – above all, Aegis warships and the unfairly much-maligned F-35.

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