The US Navy has long held a missile-tube advantage over China. But China’s ships now have half as many vertical-launch-system cells as the US, research found. VLS capacity is important for naval combat, but it’s not everything. China is closing the missile-tube gap with the US Navy as the latter’s long-standing edge in vertical-launching-system cell…
Defense tech startup Saronic Technologies unveiled its third autonomous surface vessel (ASV) on Wednesday. The 24-foot (7.31-meter) Corsair is the largest ASV launched by the Texas firm, followed by the 14-foot (4.2-meter) Cutlass and the 6-foot (1.8 meters) Spyglass unveiled earlier this year. All the platforms have been designed to fulfill the operational requirements of…
It is the stuff of science fiction. A giant whirlpool, spanning hundreds of kilometres, suddenly appears in the ocean, threatening anything in its path. But now, after the declassification of a Chinese operation, it appears this particular whirlpool was all too real. And it could be the explanation behind an international incident involving an American…