The addition of a new weapon on a warship already bristling with advanced systems might not seem like a big deal for the U.S. Navy in Europe. But when engineers working aboard the Spain-based destroyer USS Porter installed a missile-launcher that can autonomously track and destroy incoming anti-ship missiles earlier this year, it was an acknowledgment of a shift in this theater: For the first time in post-Cold War Europe, the Navy must account for an adversary capable of threatening its ships with modern weapons — Russia. – Stars and Stripes
The Navy will soon deploy a new missile aboard its Littoral Combat Ship that can find and destroy enemy ships at distances up to 100 nautical miles, service officials said. – Scout Warrior The addition of a new weapon on a warship already bristling with advanced systems might not seem like a big deal for the U.S. Navy in Europe. But when engineers working aboard the Spain-based destroyer USS Porter installed a missile-launcher that can autonomously track and destroy incoming anti-ship missiles earlier this year, it was an acknowledgment of a shift in this theater: For the first time in post-Cold War Europe, the Navy must account for an adversary capable of threatening its ships with modern weapons — Russia. – Stars and Stripes Dov Zakheim writes: No one is under any illusion that the culture of that mastodon known as the Defense Department bureaucracy can easily or quickly be changed. Still, the prospects for change are better than ever. If a new Administration’s defense leadership sustains Dr. Carter’s initiatives, and bipartisan congressional efforts continue, reforms could go well beyond those that even sympathetic Pentagon officials are prepared to contemplate. There is reason to hope that defense reform in the 21st century will no longer be merely a gleam in some think tanker’s eye. – The American Interest
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