submarines
Key Dems Question Biden Defense Budget; Ship Fight Likely « Breaking Defense
USS Dewey (DDG 105) fires an SM-2 missile. WASHINGTON: The chairman of the House seapower subcommittee, Rep. Joe Courtney, fired a shot across the bow of the White House shipbuilding budget, questioning its proposed cuts to surface warships. An even more prominent Democrat, Senate Armed Services chairman Jack Reed, signaled loud and clear he plans …
US senator: Huawei 5G is like Soviets building west’s submarines | Technology
A Republican senator told MPs that using Huawei kit in 5G phone networks would be akin to allowing Russia to build submarines for western nations during the cold war, in a tense hearing that saw him clash with opposition MPs. Tom Cotton, who represents Arkansas, said he had geopolitical and technical objections to Huawei and …
It’s All Nukes, All Night, At Intense HASC Markup Debate « Breaking Defense
CAPITOL HILL: House Armed Services Committee Democrats beat back two attempts by Rep. Liz Cheney to protect funding for the deployment of submarine-launched low-yield nuclear weapons Wednesday night, both times along party lines. The votes reflected a wider fight about nuclear weapons policy that pit Democrats against Republicans. All shot down on party line votes: …
Nuclear: Energy bills ‘used to subsidise submarines’
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Experts say the government should be frank about the inter-dependence of civilian and military nuclear Energy bills in the UK are inflated partly because households are subsidising nuclear submarines, MPs have been told. Experts think one government motive for backing civilian nuclear power is to cross-subsidise the defence industry. …
