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The Lockheed Martin X-44 MANTA was one of the most radical fighter concepts ever seriously studied by the United States Air Force and NASA....
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Canadian Defense Minister David McGuinty told a Senate defense committee on April 27 that Ottawa has not set a timeline for deciding whether to...
The satellite imagery doesn’t lie. China’s Chengdu facility is running five production lines. The J-20 fleet has crossed 300 aircraft. Annual output runs between...
The latest chapter of the Franco-German Future Combat Air System (FCAS) fighter jet saga is now being written by both countries’ defense ministers as...
Just moments before he left office, former Navy Secretary John Phelan told USNI the service was considering foreign shipyards to accelerate and strengthen U.S....
Iran: A War at the Wrong Time and Place: As the war in Iran continues and analysts debate how long it will last and...
Strategic expert Andrew A. Michta explores how Russia is capitalizing on the Iran War to consolidate gains in Europe. With U.S. resources drained and...
Key Points and Summary – The recent NATO summit in The Hague, where European allies agreed to a new 5% of GDP defense spending...
The Trump administration made the Russia-Ukraine ceasefire its priority foreign policy initiative shortly after the inauguration. Setting aside Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric that he...
China’s new H-20 stealth bomber can be understood as a clear paradox: it is both concerning and mysterious, unclear, and simply not here yet....
Japan’s Light Aircraft Carriers Carrying F-35s Are Gamechangers In the Pacific: The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) have evolved into a high-speed, mobile, 5th-generation...
How Much Longer Can The F-22 Raptor Rule The Sky?: The F-47 NGAD is already in limited production and will eventually replace the iconic...
Today’s world of “near-peer”/Great Power competition, between the United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the People’s Republic of China (PRC), is very...
Many geologists worldwide are seeking game-changing rare-earth elements. China processes these minerals used in cell phones, weapons systems, and other 21st-century products. Now, miners...
The Southwest Florida (SWFL) region is experiencing a severe drought. With rainfall deficits running over 13 inches, the Southwest Florida Water Management District has...
Why Did the Gulf of Panama Miss Out on Upwelling Last Year? The Gulf of Panama has long enjoyed a phenomenon known as “upwelling,...
Summary and Key Points: thirteen-year-old boy hiking through a field in Germany — at a location near Berlin that had previously been documented as...
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” – Winston Churchill Of...
The latest change to how things work in the military is the U.S. Army’s recent announcement of new retirement rules. The announcement came in...
Putin is the Head of a Russian State on the Brink of Economic Collapse: Leonid Putin, meet Vladimir Brezhnev. Serious Russian economists are increasingly...
An internal Pentagon email circulated this week by Elbridge Colby, the U.S. Defense Department’s top policy adviser, examined options for punishing NATO allies that...
Fake Russian IDs, Orders Never to Be Captured, and 50% Casualties: Inside North Korea’s Secret War in Ukraine The Russian Army has sustained nearly...
Summary and Key Points: Dr. Bruce E. Bechtol Jr., a political science professor and proliferation expert, evaluates the strategic partnership between Iran and North...
Summary and Key Points: Reuben F. Johnson, a veteran defense technology analyst and Casimir Pulaski Foundation fellow, scrutinizes the Ninth Congress of the Workers’...
Korea’s Division Isn’t a Glitch Anymore. It’s a Feature of the New Order The division of Korea was always understood to be temporary. In...
The Lockheed Martin X-44 MANTA was one of the most radical fighter concepts ever seriously studied by the United States Air Force and NASA....
An F-15C Accident Could Have Been A Tragedy: Many heroic, unlikely jet landings have occurred in war zones. Last weekend, one happened in California,...
The U.S. Navy’s Seawolf class nuclear-powered fast-attack submarines (SSNs) are extremely impressive warships, and back in the day, they seemed like The Next Big...
The Lockheed Martin X-44 MANTA (Multi-Axis No-Tail Aircraft) was a conceptual late-1990s US Air Force/NASA design for a tailless fighter, derived from the F-22...
The U.S. military is already under pressure to build two sixth-generation fighters, with the Navy’s F/A-XX program perpetually underfunded in favor of the Air...
