US sends destroyers to track Russian nuclear sub and warship carrying hypersonic weapons

The US Navy dispatched ships and aircraft to track Russian warships that sailed just 25 miles off the South Florida coast yesterday en route to Cuba.

Vladimir Putin's most modern frigate Admiral Gorshkov, a hypersonic missile carrier, was accompanying nuclear submarine Kazan and two other naval vessels in the Atlantic for drills involving the use of high precision weapons, Russia's defence ministry said yesterday.

All four vessels arrive in Havana today ahead of a series of extensive aerial and naval exercises, according to the ministry - the first of their kind in five years in the Caribbean.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13520895/US-sends-destroyers-track-Russian-nuclear-sub-warship-carrying-hypersonic-weapons-flotilla-passed-25-miles-Americas-coast-Havana-chilling-echo-Cuba-Missile-crisis.html

Indiana’s GOP-Run Government Is Paying A Contractor For ‘Pipeline’ Of Communist Chinese Businesses

Indiana’s speedy passage of House Bill 1183 in March, prohibiting certain land sales to companies from China and other adversarial countries, has halted a pending real estate deal with the China-owned company Fufeng, according to LaPorte County Assessor records. Fufeng was looking for real estate in Indiana after being booted out of Grand Forks, North Dakota, following a U.S. Air Force memo that called it a “significant threat to national security.”

Fufeng managed to implant itself in North Dakota with a land purchase before being tarred and feathered out of the state. Fortunately, it was legislated out of Indiana — for now.

Fufeng’s short-lived appearance in Indiana was a smoking gun. What else is going on? The Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC), an unelected upgrade to the traditional commerce department, helps select and develop businesses in Indiana. The IEDC has set up many China-owned companies in the state, including 25 currently operational, according to the IEDC general counsel.

The trend of China-based companies in Indiana has not developed organically but through centralized planning with the help of a Chinese Communist Party-linked nonprofit. A contract on the IEDC’s website shows that it has been paying the America China Society of Indiana (ACSI) to facilitate deals with China-owned businesses. The contract outlines IEDC’s interest in “identifying and creating a pipeline of [foreign direct investment] prospects in China” and preparing trip itineraries, among other tasks.

https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/12/indianas-gop-run-government-is-paying-a-contractor-for-pipeline-of-communist-chinese-businesses/

The Navy’s Warships Can Now Fire the Army’s Patriot PAC-3 Air Defense Missiles

The U.S.’s land and sea warfare services may be fierce rivals on the football field, but when it comes to munitions, they increasingly resemble a couple showing up to work wearing each other’s clothes.

The Army is now deploying Typhon land-attack missile batteries that use the Navy’s SM-6 and Tomahawk missiles, and both services are collaborating on a hypersonic missile destined for Army trucks, Navy submarines, and Navy destroyers.

Now, a recently revealed 2024 test suggests that the Navy could potentially stuff the Army’s Patriot PAC-3 MSE air defense missiles into the Mark 41 vertical launch cells of both their Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and future Constellation-class frigates. The former has 90 or 96 cells in total, and the latter should have 32.

Already, back in 2023, Lockheed successfully test-integrated a PAC-3 MSE missile with a tri-band data-link that allowed it to communicate with the S-Band SPY radars on Navy warships.

Ordinarily intended for initial guidance to target, a PAC-3 missile uses a dual-band receiver to home in on the radar reflection of a target being illuminated by a Patriot battery’s ground-based X- and C-Band phased array radars.

However, most Navy destroyers and cruisers currently rely on the S- Band AN/SPY-1D radar. Thus, the addition of the S-Band to the PAC-3 MSE made it tri-band and compatible with SPY-1 radars. (The latest U.S. warships now use scalable SPY-6 AESA radars, which incorporate both X- and S-Band antennas for targeting and volume search. In principle, these should also be compatible.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a61018467/navy-warships-armys-patriot-pac-3-air-defense-missiles/