Floridian in D.C. @SAISHopkins Alum. I like bikes, foreign affairs, & politics. All views are my own.
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A truly godless place
Arlington Costco Ranked 6th Worst in the U.S.; Several Other NoVA Locations Make the List.
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Wilson Grossman-Trawick retweeted
🎉 Happy Birthday to the United States Navy! ⚓
For 251 years, the Navy has answered the nation’s call—defending the seas and projecting American power and influence around the world.
Happy 251st Birthday, U.S. Navy. Here’s to the sailors who came before, those standing watch today, and the generations still to come. ⚓🇺🇸
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#USNavyBirthday #Navy251 #NavalHistory #USNavy #USNI
Wilson Grossman-Trawick retweeted
À bord de la frégate multi-missions Auvergne, j'ai assisté au premier tir du nouveau missile balistique M51.3 depuis le sous-marin nucléaire lanceur d'engins Le Vigilant.
Très peu de nations disposent d'un tel savoir-faire.
Félicitations à tous les acteurs de cette réussite exceptionnelle : DGA, CEA, Ariane Group, Naval Group et Marine nationale. Votre professionnalisme, votre rigueur et votre maîtrise technique sont la fierté de la France.
Ce succès technique est une nouvelle démonstration de la crédibilité de notre dissuasion, dont la pérennité est assurée.
Pour être libre, il faut être craint. Et pour être craint, il faut être puissant.
Pour protéger les Français dans la durée face aux menaces, j'ai engagé dès 2017 le renouvellement de nos moyens pour les décennies à venir. En dix ans, le budget de nos armées aura doublé. Nos futurs sous-marins stratégiques sont actuellement en chantier. Le programme de missiles stratégiques hypersoniques et manœuvrants, qui équiperont notre composante aérienne de dissuasion, a été lancé cette année.
Notre dissuasion nucléaire nous protège et continuera à nous protéger.
Vive la République et vive la France.
Always loved the French SSBN naming tradition
What was the best name for a submarine class or submarine, and why?
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USN appears to be distributing its medium-unmanned vessel contracts—and, by extension, technical know-how—across the shipbuilding sector rather than selecting a single winner.
3 Louisiana Shipyards to Build 30 Drone Ships in $1.2B Navy MUSV Deal — USNI News
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The inclusion of neo-prime Saronic alongside the legacy shipbuilder HII is particularly notable. Galliano Marine Service, a commercial shipbuilder serving the oil industry, adds a third dimension.
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On Saturday, Hot Spot Fishing Charters, a Pensacola-based charter fishing company found and recovered a large distinctive delta-wing unmanned aerial vehicle in the Gulf of America, several miles off the western coast of Florida.
The UAV, found by the charter group during a six-hour fishing tour, shares a striking resemblance with the Iranian Shahed-136, but is likely either a Low-cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System (LUCAS) or a Griffon Aerospace MQM-172 Arrowhead, both of which are American-built and designed copies of the Shahed.
So far the U.S. Air Force and nearby Eglin Air Force Base have declined to comment on the discovery, with Hot Shot Charters stating that authorities arrived later in the day to retrieve the drone.
Wilson Grossman-Trawick retweeted
A new vessel spotted at a Chinese shipyard is likely the world’s first mothership designed to deploy submarine drones. It represents the latest piece in the puzzle of China’s undeclared effort to develop and deploy full-sized uncrewed submarines 🇨🇳
By H I Sutton
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The arguments I’ve made against Seoul’s nuclear submarine push apply just as much to Japan as they do to ROK.
Interesting news. Yesterday, Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi confirmed that Japan is keeping all options open regarding nuclear-powered submarines and revising core national security documents because of rapid naval expansion by China & North Korea.
Right now, they use conventional diesel-electric boats with newer ones like the pictured Taigei-class JS Jingei (SS-515) rely entirely on advanced lithium-ion batteries. Nuclear power is on another level though because a boat can stay completely hidden without ever coming up to recharge, maintain top speeds underwater indefinitely, and remain deployed for as long as the crew has food..
Pulling this off will be an uphill battle though. There's typically heavy pushback on nuclear military tech and they have strict defense-only and anti-nuclear laws. Plus, making the jump would be a massive expensive and would mean building new infrastructure and training programs from scratch. Still a very interesting development.
You can do a find & replace South Korea with Japan and most of my article still applies
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This would be a massive mistake.
Our most capable allies should not spend billions on exquisite capabilities that take decades to develop when those limited defense dollars could be better invested in the technologies and capabilities that will define 21st-century warfare.
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Friday reiterated that Japan is not ruling out acquiring nuclear-powered submarines, days after a U.S. Navy official reportedly offered a positive assessment of such a move. ebx.sh/MIxqWx
Wilson Grossman-Trawick retweeted
📖| Si la Corée du Sud est capable de construire des sous-marins nucléaires, elle ne devrait pas le faire
Retrouvez l’analyse de Wilson Grossman-Trawick (@WilsonTrawick), associé senior au sein du pôle Défense et Sécurité nationale de l’Asia Group, traduite en français sur #LeRubicon.
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Just to bring everyone back down to earth a bit — last month’s waiver only removes one barrier (statutory prohibitions) to foreign warships.
Congress would still need to authorize and fund any foreign-built warships. Big if if you ask me!
Japanese, South Korean, Turkish Warships Under Consideration for New U.S. Frigate Competition — USNI News
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Now I’m agnostic on this idea — no value judgement or opinion about if we should do it.
Just trying to encourage folks to not get all liquored up on an idea that has massive, massive headwinds.