The U.S. Navy’s next-generation air-to-air missile is receiving budget line funding for the first time as the force transitions towards further AIM-260 JATM procurement 🇺🇸 Story by @cjohnston.bsky.social www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

The U.S. Navy is betting on Republican lawmakers in its recently unveiled Fiscal Year 2026 budget, gambling one of the primary surface-to-air missiles fielded in the U.S. Navy and ordered by some major partners in the Indo-Pacific: 🇰🇷, 🇯🇵 🇦🇺 By @cjohnston.bsky.social www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

The SM-6 Block IB, one of the U.S. Navy’s future time sensitive strike weapons soon to be fielded, has been put on hold due to ‘internal deliberations’ 🇺🇸🚀 Story by @cjohnston.bsky.social www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

The U.S. Marine Corps’ Long Range Fires launcher, built around a single-cell Mark 41 VLS cell for Tomahawk missiles on a ROGUE-Fires vehicle, has been cancelled due to concerns over maneuverability in littoral and austere environments 🇺🇸 By @cjohnston.bsky.social www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

In August 2024, during the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) Composite Training Unit Exercise, the USS Jason Dunham (DDG 107) tested BAE Systems’ Hypervelocity Projectiles (HVP) as part of a fleet trial of Counter-UAS systems 💥 Story by @cjohnston.bsky.social www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

VADM John Gumbleton gave remarks at the Combined Naval Event in Farnborough, United Kingdom, explaining how the U.S. Navy is revamping its maintenance and modernization planning to improve force generation and contingency preparation 🇺🇸 By @cjohnston.bsky.social www.navalnews.com/event-news/c...

The AIM-174B ‘SM-6 ALC’ has been given a first official nickname by Commander, Naval Air Forces: Gunslinger 🇺🇸 Story by @cjohnston.bsky.social www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

Lockheed Martin Testing Extended Range Increment One Precision Strike Missiles, Provides Update on Anti-Ship PrSM Family 🇺🇸🚀 story by @cjohnston.bsky.social www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

The U.S. Marine Corps has deployed unmanned surface vessels (USV) to Japan as part of a larger push to bring unmanned logistics systems to the Indo-Pacific. 🇺🇸 Story by @cjohnston.bsky.social www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

General Atomics has confirmed the existence of a new airborne laser program being developed for the U.S. military’s fleet of MQ-9 drones 🇺🇸⚡️ Story by @cjohnston.bsky.social www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

The Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group redefined how the U.S. Navy performs its highest level pre-deployment integration exercises, achieving countless ‘firsts’ for naval aviation throughout its time in the Red Sea 🇺🇸 By @cjohnston.bsky.social www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

So this is the Low-Cost Guided Imaging Rocket, specifically this is the ROKMC variant called Poniard. It's basically a 70mm fire-and-forget rocket. Basically APKWS but it's guided by thermal imaging. Now I'm not here to talk about its history. Instead let's talk about how this could augment the USN.

Lockheed Martin is proposing to add multirole AGM-179 JAGM missiles to U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, replacing their RGM-84 Harpoon launchers 🇺🇸 #SNA2025 story by @cjohnston.bsky.social www.navalnews.com/event-news/s...

Lockheed Martin Provides Updates on Naval PAC-3 MSE and G-VLS 🚀 The #USNavy continues in their effort to integrate and field PAC-3 MSE on destroyers. The capability would bring another layer of proven missile defense to the fleet 🇺🇸 By @cjohnston.bsky.social www.navalnews.com/event-news/s...

BlueSky account acquired. Here's my latest for Naval News breaking down exactly what happened to the Ticonderoga-class modernization program and what the U.S. Navy is doing with the lessons they learned from their failures. DDG Mod 2.0 and future amphibious mods depends on those lessons.