The USS McCain heads for Shanghai after a collision that killed seven sailors. CAPITOL HILL: Congress’s repeated budget malpractice and the Navy’s flawed policies combined to cause the accidents that killed 17 sailors, the Navy and the GAO say. Legislative…
Author: Breaking Defense
USAF doesn’t know how it will afford new $85 billion nuclear missile defense system
The intercontinental ballistic missiles, know as the Minuteman nuclear weapons, were designed in the 1960s at the height of the cold war and are starting to show their age. With replacement parts difficult to find for the weapons, ageing silos with decaying…