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“Japan is building concrete shelters and digging tunnels for passive defense against Chinese attacks on its bases, something that the United States has inexplicably failed to do in either Asia or the Middle East."

Navy has finally released an RFI for the industry seeking two fully functional prototypes within three years.

So long, USAF is already flying their multiple CCAs. Even the Marines are flying Valkyrie. The Navy, meanwhile, has only the MQ-25.

This is the second award under CHAOS (Coalition Heterogeneous Affordable Offensive Strike) program, the first contract was awarded to CoAspire for its surface-launched RAACM-ER.

But unlike RAACM-ER, Rusty Dagger is very far ahead in development. It's already in production for Ukraine’s Air Force and have hit some neat targets with precision while also maintaining high survival rates.

Let's see if Andruil's Barracuda-M also gets awarded a contract or not.

These launchers are mounted on the Heavy Tactical Truck instead of trailers launcher designs that Denmark and South Korea have. So much more compact and mobile.

In 2023, Taiwan ordered 100 launchers and 400 RGM-84L-4 Harpoon Block II missiles for $2.3 billion.

Navy also awarded $90 million Phase III award to Castelion on August 25th to advance the Blackbeard toward Early Operational Capability (EOC) by 2027, support 50 EOC weapons and transition Blackbeard into a Navy Program of Record.