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Tom Shugart

@tshugart3

Defense analyst, former submariner, bugsmasher pilot/flight instructor. Founder, Archer Strategic Consulting. @cnasdc Adjunct Senior Fellow. Opinions my own.

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Launch of (another) Type 903A at Wuhu. The total figure for this production run remains to be verified, but we're probably looking at 4+ hulls.

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Stamp of approval! 📬🚢 On this National US Postage Stamp Day, be sure to check out the U.S. Postal Service's stamp honoring 250 years of America's Sailors keeping the seas open and free! #Navy250 #USPostageStampDay

Stamp of approval! 📬🚢

On this National US Postage Stamp Day, be sure to check out the <a href="/USPS/">U.S. Postal Service</a>'s stamp honoring 250 years of America's Sailors keeping the seas open and free!

#Navy250 #USPostageStampDay
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Not that it likely mattered in this case, but during a tour on a Disney cruise, the Captain informed me that, unique among major cruise lines, their ships are equipped with a system that uses radar + IR to detect a person going overboard, sounds an alert & maintains tracking of

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Warp Speed for Warships is a critical effort to ensure the Navy has the digital tools to maintain maritime superiority and deter conflict. The combination of BlueForge Alliance's trusted role in the shipbuilding ecosystem and Palantir's Warp Speed software will give shipbuilders

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Four months after President Trump vowed to resurrect American shipbuilding, his ambitious plans to reverse decades of maritime-industry decline are sputtering on.wsj.com/4nvo4JX

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“China's acquisition of multiple new replenishment ships indicates its seriousness in pursuing the goal of having a world class military by mid-century, Tom Shugart, an adjunct senior fellow at CNAS, told Newsweek.”

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the European Union’s Kaja Kallas on Wednesday that Beijing does not want to see a Russian loss in Ukraine because it fears the United States would then shift its whole focus to the Indo-Pacific scmp.com/news/china/dip…

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An absolutely remarkable graph. Not just because of the China role - which we knew. It visually conveys how - if you take PRC, ROK, and Japan out - the rest of the world is almost absent.

An absolutely remarkable graph. Not just because of the China role - which we knew. It visually conveys how - if you take PRC, ROK, and Japan out - the rest of the world is almost absent.