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The Cold War’s end promised relief from nuclear nightmares. Long-adversarial governments agreed to eliminate warheads and collaborated to stop the spread of atomic weapons. That promise is now slipping away. One of the two critical U.S.-Russian nuclear-arms-control treaties has collapsed. The other, which caps how many nuclear weapons Russia and the U.S. deploy, expires in early 2026. A pledge made by declared atomic powers during the Cold War to strive for disarmament looks less realistic than ever. #nuclearmodernization #deterrence #captialparkpartners

Bell Flight and Textron?will produce fuselages for the US Army’s?Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft?in house, having made the decision to take the work away from?Spirit AeroSystems?following the announcement of Spirit's?proposed acquisition?by?Boeing. The transfer of work on the Army’s highest priority aviation program is the direct result of Bell's concerns that financial and operational instability at Boeing, which is set to acquire Spirit in mid-2025, could have an adverse impact on the FLRAA program. #flraa #defenseindustrialbase #capitalparkpartners

On this date in 1947, United States Air Force pilot Chuck Yeager flies faster than the speed of sound in the Bell Flight X-1 aircraft, ushering in the supersonic era. #americanheroes #usaf #capitalparkpartners

The US Navy just reloaded a Vertical Launch System for the first time while underway at sea. The ability to replenish surface combatants' vertical launch system cells while underway is seen as critical to sustaining a fight in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. On October 11th, Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Chosin came alongside Military Sealift Command’s dry cargo ship USNS?Washington Chambers?to transfer an empty VLS weapon container to the cruiser while sailing off the southern California coast, proving the ability to reload at sea. #unrep #indopacific #capitalparkpartners

The US Army Service Component Command to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command finds itself at the front of the service’s transformation initiative, incorporating new unit types created to facilitate rapid adaptation to adversary tactics, according to Commanding General Charles Flynn. Several units under the?US Army Pacific Commandcwere chosen as part of CSA Randy George’s initiative, dubbed “Transforming in Contact,” Gen. Flynn said in an interview ahead of the Association of the United States Army - AUSA annual conference in Washington, D.C. #usarpac #ausa2024 #capitalparkpartners

Leonardo DRS has just revealed a new counter-drone focused variant of the?8×8 Stryker light armored vehicle?armed with a laser directed energy weapon,?laser-guided 70mm rockets, a 30mm automatic cannon, radars and other sensors. Leonardo and its industry partners are actively pitching the vehicle to the US Army, which is looking to significantly?grow its short-range air defense - or SHORAD - capabilities?in the coming years. #shorad #stryker #capitalparkpartners

NATO will hold a long-planned major nuclear exercise next week, a few weeks after President Vladimir Putin announced?changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine?to discourage Ukraine’s Western allies from supporting attacks on his country. Angus Lapsley, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defense Policy and Planning, said the STEADFAST NOON exercise is aimed at proving that the alliance’s ability to counter any threat to its 32 member countries is credible and something that “any adversary would need to take extremely seriously indeed.” #deterence #natopartners #capitalparkpartners

The new chief executive of the US unit of South Korean industrial conglomerate Hanwha Group wants to restore naval shipbuilding at Philly Shipyard, Inc. once the acquisition of that business is finalized this fall. #shipbuilding #defenseindustrialbase #capitalparkpartners Hanwha Defense USA, Inc.

Thirty-nine years ago today, US Navy F-14 Tomcats launched from the USS Saratoga and successfully intercepted a hijacked Egyptian 737 airliner attempting to fly the Palestinian hijackers of the Italian cruise ship?Achille Lauro?to freedom. #middleeastconflict #F14tomcat #capitalparkpartners

A model of the newly-released Anduril Industries Bolt drone is under contract with the United States Marine Corps on its Organic Precision Fires-Light program to deliver loitering munitions small enough for troops to stash in a rucksack. AeroVironment and Teledyne FLIR are also competing for the program, worth up to $249M. #opfl #usmc #capitalparkpartners