Author Archives: Kris Osborn
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How US-Built Abrams Tanks Could Help Taiwan Stop A Chinese Ground Attack (From Fox News)
June 17, 2019- Kris Osborn The Trump administration’s plan to sell tanks, missiles and ground-launched air defenses to Taiwan embodies what might be called a strategic paradigm shift to empower the small island’s deterrence posture against an often-threatened Chinese invasion. While much existing discussion centers [Read More...] -
US Special Ops Want A-29 Super Tucanos To Battle Terrorists In Africa (From Fox News)
June 11, 2019- Kris Osborn Members of Congress would like to see a more expansive use of the A-29 Super Tucano aircraft in various global hotspots as a way to support U.S. Special Operations Forces and continue needed counterinsurgency efforts. The A-29 is turboprop light [Read More...] -
New Navy Ocean Attack Plan Combines Air, Surface And Undersea Drones (From Fox News)
June 5, 2019- Kris Osborn Should an enemy submarine surface well beyond undersea or surface drone detection range and send intelligence to attack platforms — U.S. Navy platforms could be vulnerable in some instances. Fortified by targeting data from well beyond the horizon, enemy subs, [Read More...] -
Navy Starts Building New Massive, 50-Ton Undersea Attack Drone (From Fox News)
June 3, 2019- Kris Osborn The Navy is planning to launch a massive, 50-ton undersea drone to expand mission scope, increase attack options, integrate large high-tech sensors, further safeguard manned combat crews and possibly fire torpedoes — all while waging war under the ocean surface. [Read More...] -
Navy Plans To Shoot Nuclear Missile From New Columbia-Class Sub (From Fox News)
May 21, 2019- Kris Osborn Almost nobody knows where they are at any given time, yet nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines quietly patrol dark domains of the undersea realm in strategically vital waters around the globe, bringing the prospect of unprecedented destruction upon potential enemies — [Read More...] -
Coast Guard Arms Entire Cutter Fleet With Ship-Launched Drones
May 7, 2019- Kris Osborn The Coast Guard’s vigorous push to equip its entire Cutter fleet with deck-mounted surveillance drones offers an interesting window into the service’s expanding mission scope – to include an increased focus upon great power threats and potential military attacks such [Read More...] -
New Navy Carrier-Launched Drone to Fly This Year – Change Attack Strategy (From Warrior Maven)
April 25, 2019- Kris Osborn The Navy’s first-of-its-kind carrier-based drone has been performing advanced ground testing exercises in preparation for its first flight as soon as this year, a process intended to introduce new attack tactics for the service and substantially improve the “strike” reach [Read More...] -
Marine Corps Fires Weapons at its New Amphibious Combat Vehicle (From Warrior Maven)
April 17, 2019- Kris Osborn The Marine Corps’ ongoing offensive and defensive live-fire exercises with its emerging Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV) are intended to refine the new vehicle’s weapons systems and survivability – while aligning the modern vehicle with the service’s evolving amphibious warfare strategy. [Read More...] -
Is The Air Force “Accelerating” B-21? – To Bring NextGen Stealth To War Faster (From Warrior Maven)
April 5, 2019- Kris Osborn The Air Force appears to have completed its Critical Design Review of the emerging B-21 bomber, inspiring confidence and optimism that a new-generation of stealth will be ready for war by the mid-2020s, and beyond. The apparent program progress does, [Read More...] -
US Missile Defense Breakthrough: Navy Ships to Destroy Enemy ICBMs (From Warrior Maven)
March 17, 2019- Kris Osborn The Pentagon plans a “first-of-its-kind” test of an unprecedented weapons capability to intercept and destroy an enemy Intercontinental Ballistic Missile *ICBM” — from a Navy ship at sea using a Standard Missile-3 Block IIA. The concept, as articulated by Pentagon [Read More...]