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1. The US Navy’s Ohio-Class Nuclear Submarines Were Loaded with 154 Tomahawk Missiles and Can’t Be Replaced But Will Soon Be Retired

2026-09-15

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View In: 19FortyFiveThe 1994 Nuclear Posture Review found the Navy needed only 14 of its 18 Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines. Rather than scrap the other four, the Navy rebuilt them — ballistic missile tubes converted to carry seven Tomahawks apiece, two tubes turned into lock-out chambers, accommodation for 66 specia...

2. Why Putin Still Believes He Is Winning in Ukraine: The Reporting Problem Inside Russia’s Command Structure

2026-09-15

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View In: 19FortyFiveRussia's negotiating position has not shifted across eight visits to Moscow by Steve Witkoff, and Putin's precondition remains the whole of Donetsk oblast — including the fortress-belt cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk that Ukraine still holds.

3. Japan’s Quantum Submarine Sensor Sees Several Thousand Meters at Best. Tokyo Will Put It on Cheap Drones and Crowd the Straits China Must Use.

2026-09-15

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View In: 19FortyFiveJapan's fiscal 2027 defense budget request funds research into a quantum magnetic sensor that detects the faint magnetic shifts a submerged submarine leaves behind. The Defense Ministry wants it working by fiscal 2031, mounted on low-cost drones launched from ships.

4. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Flew Well Against Iran for One Reason: The Pentagon Finally Gave It the Parts. The Bill to Keep Doing That Is $13,700,000,000.

2026-09-15

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View In: 19FortyFiveThe F-35 flew well in Operation Epic Fury, the Iran campaign that opened in March 2026, and Air Combat Command's Brig. Gen. Brian Laidlaw told the Air & Space Forces Association on September 14 why: the jets finally got priority for spare parts and logistics.

5. Poland Has Taken Delivery of 8 of Its F-35A Husarz Fighters and Spent Close to $700,000,000 Rebuilding 1 Airbase to Receive Them. The 6th US Loan Guarantee, Signed on 9 September, Brings American Military Financing to Warsaw to Nearly $20,000,000,000 — All of It Repayable With Interest.

2026-09-15

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View In: 19FortyFiveThe sixth US-Poland loan guarantee was signed at the Polish Army Museum in Warsaw on 9 September, worth $4 billion. Within hours European outlets reported it as a down payment on more F-35s; Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said instead that the money accelerates deliveries under existing contracts...

6. Ukraine’s Two Deficits: A $27 Billion Defense Shortfall and 140 Russian Ballistic Missiles a Month

2026-09-15

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View In: 19FortyFiveTwo shortfalls are converging on Ukraine before winter. The first is fiscal: a $27 billion defense funding gap, roughly $4 billion in European Union assistance already delayed by parliamentary deadlock, and a share of $29.5 billion in planned funds contingent on legislation Kyiv has not passed. The secon...

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