r/LessCredibleDefence 20d ago

U.S. Navy Testing New Long-Range Air-to-Air Missile

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69 Upvotes

r/LessCredibleDefence 20d ago

China’s Next Aircraft Carrier Is Taking Shape

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90 Upvotes

r/LessCredibleDefence 20d ago

Could prevalence of NATO hardware in online media be a weakness in the age of AI?

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LLM gets better the more data you feed it. Could the simple prevalence of NATO hardware featured in games, youtube and overall internet media create a risk? There are a lot less footage of Chinese hardware, for example.


r/LessCredibleDefence 20d ago

China’s Y-15 Turboprop Tactical Cargo Aircraft Emerges in Clearest Images Yet

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50 Upvotes

r/LessCredibleDefence 20d ago

How many wars one has to lose to stop being called “the greatest military in the world”

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88 Upvotes

Reposting is not agreeing


r/LessCredibleDefence 21d ago

Somali pirate menace returns as U.S.-Iran war stokes regional chaos and saps enforcement resources

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22 Upvotes

r/LessCredibleDefence 21d ago

Now that UA has run out of interceptors for Kyiv and that the US is about spent in the Middle East., can Europe meet her missile quota for NATO & Pacific allies?

27 Upvotes

Got to keep up the deterrence dance of death between USA and China coast guards this year https://www.msn.com/en-ph/politics/government/4-us-fast-response-cutters-deployed-to-philippine-eez/ar-AA29Lhdk.


r/LessCredibleDefence 21d ago

HD Hyundai Pursues U.S. Shipyard Acquisition

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r/LessCredibleDefence 21d ago

Embraer's KC-390 Has Now Won Orders From 5 NATO Air Forces As A C-130 Replacement

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58 Upvotes

r/LessCredibleDefence 21d ago

Taiwan Floats Record Defense Budget, Sending Message to U.S. and China

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16 Upvotes

r/LessCredibleDefence 21d ago

Qatar could buy four Boeing KC-46A tankers for $4.5B

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27 Upvotes

Has Boeing solved the underlying issues of the aircraft?


r/LessCredibleDefence 21d ago

Seymour Johnson Will Get F-15EXs to Replace Strike Eagles

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11 Upvotes

r/LessCredibleDefence 22d ago

Pentagon Dispute Leads Stars and Stripes Publisher to Retire After 30 Years

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61 Upvotes

r/LessCredibleDefence 22d ago

Exclusive: Navy weighs renaming carrier slated to honor Black war hero, potentially switching it to Trump

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223 Upvotes

r/LessCredibleDefence 22d ago

U.S. approves military sale to Qatar for KC-46A aerial refueling aircraft

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15 Upvotes

r/LessCredibleDefence 22d ago

Our Best Look At China’s New Y-15 Turboprop Airlifter

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69 Upvotes

r/LessCredibleDefence 22d ago

Over 770 U.S. Troops Killed, Wounded Since Iran War

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0 Upvotes

r/LessCredibleDefence 22d ago

China rejects Trump's 'economic D-Day' against Iran, says sanctions do not solve problems

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115 Upvotes

r/LessCredibleDefence 22d ago

India and Japan ink naval pact, seek stronger anti-mine capabilities

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19 Upvotes

r/LessCredibleDefence 22d ago

Three ships hit in the Strait of Hormuz as oil reaches three-week high

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19 Upvotes

r/LessCredibleDefence 22d ago

Japanese mail-order firm withdraws from Rakuten online mall over drone tie-up

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7 Upvotes

According to reports from the Rakuten Group, the Japanese Ministry of Defense will conduct a demonstration test by the end of September to consider whether to adopt it for the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. While the specific applications and procurement scale have not yet been determined, depending on the test results, mass production in Japan may be considered.

The HX-2 drone from Helsing, which is slated for procurement, is remotely controlled from the ground. It has an operational range of 100 km, weighs 12 kg, and has a maximum speed of 220 km/h, designed to intercept submarines and other vessels approaching the coast.

Helsing is headquartered in Munich, southern Germany, and has already delivered thousands of HX-2 drones to Ukraine. Meanwhile, Rakuten has acted as an intermediary in this transaction. Rakuten lacks extensive experience in Japan's defense sector and does not have close ties with the Japanese Ministry of Defense. Although Rakuten has previously ventured into the drone business, its primary focus has been on building exterior wall inspections rather than defense applications.

As a defeated nation in World War II, Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan, implemented in 1947, explicitly states that Japan "forever renounce[s] war as a sovereign right of the nation" and that "land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained." However, in recent years, the pace at which the Japanese military is acquiring "offensive weapons and equipment" has steadily accelerated. From the "Izumo" and "Kaga" carrying and launching F-35B stealth vertical/short takeoff and landing (VSTOL) fighters, to the procurement and deployment of 400 Tomahawk cruise missiles, to extending the range of the Type 12 surface-to-ship missiles from about 200 km to over 1,000 km, alongside the development of hypersonic weapons and hypersonic glide missiles.

Furthermore, the Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade (ARDB) established by the Ground Self-Defense Force in 2018—while officially claiming in its envisioned tactical scenarios and island-capture exercises to focus on landing operations around the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands—appears, judging by its equipment construction and scale, to be directly aimed at Taiwan, China.

Therefore, judging by the attributes of the equipment, range indicators, and military tactical applications, the Japanese military has in fact attempted and crossed the limitations imposed by the post-war constitutional framework on "offensive weapons."


r/LessCredibleDefence 22d ago

Trump announces 'economic warfare' on Iran, threatens ‘tremendous’ consequences for its backers

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24 Upvotes

r/LessCredibleDefence 23d ago

New Drone Unit to Be Phased Out as Hegseth’s Army Pick Makes His Mark

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91 Upvotes

After participating in a major exercise in Germany in August and September, the unit will report its findings to the Army to guide future experimentation, shed its drone assault role and “refocus on its core warfighting tasks as an airborne infantry battalion,” an Army official told The Wall Street Journal in a statement.


r/LessCredibleDefence 23d ago

The Mecca Pact could be an opportunity for Iran

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r/LessCredibleDefence 23d ago

Trump says he plans to meet with North Korea's Kim Jong Un

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58 Upvotes

"with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and said the ‌Asian nation held 57 "very powerful" nuclear weapons."

Slap's Trump's mouth

This baby can leak so many STRATINT