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    The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) fires a MK 15 Phalanx close-in weapon system during a live-fire exercise in 2023
    John Keller
    Sept. 16, 2025
    At sea, the CIWS is designed to defeat anti-ship missiles and other close-in threats that have pierced other lines of defense.

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    Desktop trainers display naval aviation's new carrier-based joint air training program in a lab at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division near its Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., in 2024.
    U.S. Marine Corps aviation ordnance technicians load an AGM-179 joint air-to-ground munition (JAGM) onto an AH-1Z M299 launcher at Kadena Air Base, Japan, in June 2024.
    This artist's concept depicts the DARPA Artificial Intelligence Reinforcements (AIR) program to develop tactical autonomy for multi-ship beyond-visual-range air combat missions, and to enable crewed and uncrewed combat aerial vehicles to work together.
    The Burke-class destroyer USS Higgins (DDG 76) launches a standard missile 2 (SM-2) from the forward vertical launching system while operating in the Philippine Sea last spring.
    A NATO tactical director operates inside a NATO AWACS aircraft during a military exercise last June.
    U.S. Marines launch an ACV last month during training on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C.
    An Army National Guard cryptologic linguist trains in 2022 on a new tactical dismounted electronic warfare and signals intelligence (TDEWS) system at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa.
    The Kongsberg RT-20 is designed to resist the corrosive effects of salt water and salt spray in the marine environment.
    John Keller
    Sept. 3, 2025
    RT-20 is a compact remotely operated weapons turret with a 30-millimeter automatic cannon, linkless ammunition handling, and advanced fire control.
    Liquid cooling connectors are for high-reliability equipment that employ liquid cooling like AI data centers, energy storage systems, and electric vehicle charging.
    Options include barb and threads, right angle or inline configuration, and coolants like deionized water, ethylene glycol, and propylene glycol.
    A 3rd Infantry Division Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle drives off of a barge during a wet-gap crossing exercise on Fort Stewart, Ga., in 2021.
    John Keller
    Sept. 2, 2025
    The AMPV armored combat vehicle has several electronic subsystems that involve communications, situational awareness, and command and control.
    Maine Air National Guard airmen deploy the MUOS antennae to establish radio communications via satellite link in Montenegro in May 2023.
    John Keller
    Sept. 2, 2025
    The MUOS system uses a 3G wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) cell phone-like service network architecture and geosynchronous satellites.
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    Weird networks are unconventional, covert, and hard-to-detect, and are designed to be deniable, stealthy, unpredictable, and resilient.
    John Keller
    Aug. 21, 2025
    PWND2 will develop models and tools to improve the deployment and detection of hidden communication networks -- also known as weird networks.