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Lockheed built three YF-12 interceptors, and not one ever entered service. They flew above 80,000 feet at better than Mach 3, and on May...
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USS Long Beach commissioned in 1961 as the first nuclear-powered surface warship, and she looked like nothing else afloat — a slab-sided superstructure built...
A cruise missile came down about 90 kilometers inside Poland and hurt no one. That incident will be logged and forgotten. The question underneath...
Ottawa is still debating whether to complete its purchase of 88 F-35s, and the arithmetic has moved against it. The original figure was about...
Ukraine needs Patriot interceptors now, and Zelensky has asked for three hundred before winter. The more consequential project is the one announced this month:...
For all the talk of spending targets, the Ankara NATO summit's real work happened elsewhere. Europe is being handed responsibility for NATO's conventional defense...
Western analysts fixate on North Korea's missiles. The real danger is speed — a mass artillery-and-missile salvo in the war's first hours, backed by...
The second Trump administration is reviewing America's military footprint in Europe, and the worst-case outcome is a full withdrawal. Andrew Michta argues that would...
The US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding is being judged on whether it cools tensions in the Persian Gulf. Strategic-studies scholar Andrew Michta argues that's the...
Satellite imagery taken in late June and early July indicates eleven J-20 fighters at two Chinese bases near the disputed border with India —...
Shutting down F-22 production made every remaining Raptor more expensive. Without a continuing line the program lost its economies of scale, spare parts stopped...
New July 2026 imagery may show a fifth distinct J-36 airframe and a third major visible configuration. Since December 2024, China has changed the...
The famous World War IV warning is a polished version of a thought Einstein expressed in 1949. His life moved from the Swiss Patent...
No vessel entered any of the three Ukrainian ports in the Odesa region on Wednesday, the first such day since the grain corridor opened...
Oil futures are signaling that traders expect prices to fall over the coming months, despite the war and the disruption around Hormuz. The bet...
Ukraine's long-range drone strikes on Russian refineries have spread the fuel crisis into the countryside just as harvest begins, one analyst argues, with farmers...
Two tankers loaded with Saudi crude reversed course in the Red Sea — without being fired on — after the Houthis threatened any ship...
Getting to Somaliland used to be simple. Then Somaliland refused more than a quarter of a billion dollars to drop Taiwan, and the routes...
Zelensky met Raytheon executives in Kyiv, saying Ukraine is moving to co-produce Patriot missiles under plans he discussed with Trump — though waiting lists...
In a new analysis, national security expert James Jay Carafano argues President Trump has already achieved America's key objectives against Iran and is de-risking...
The Pentagon's official count of American troops killed in the Iran conflict dropped from eighteen to fourteen between Wednesday and Thursday, the New York...
North Korea has roughly 60 nuclear weapons and Kim Jong-un keeps demanding an exponential increase. Bruce Bennett works the problem backward, from Kim's objectives...
Xi's first Pyongyang visit in seven years, a ratified Russia pact, and a declaration that the arsenal is permanent: Andrew Latham on why the...
Last year North Korea's newest destroyer rolled over at its own launch, and the world assumed the program was finished for years. Instead Pyongyang...
The KN-23, North Korea's version the Russian Iskander missile, showed up to fight in the Ukraine war. And it isn't the same platform as...
Lockheed built three YF-12 interceptors, and not one ever entered service. They flew above 80,000 feet at better than Mach 3, and on May...
There is no Super Rafale. The phrase belongs to Dassault's chief executive, who used it when asked what came next after France and Germany...
Americans picture a retired aircraft carrier becoming a museum, like the Midway or the Yorktown. Only a handful ever do. Most are towed to...
The Air Force entered fiscal 2026 planning to retire every A-10. It will now fly them until 2030. The problem is what closed in...
There is no Super Eurofighter Typhoon. Eurofighter has not adopted the designation, and the phrase compresses six separate programmes — a new radar, an...
