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Russia’s Typhoon-Class Submarine Was Massive and Had A Swimming Pool The Soviet Union’s Typhoon-class submarines (Project 941 Akula) were the largest submarines ever built,...
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The War Between Russia and Ukraine Has Been a Disaster For Putin. But He Won’t Stop Now The Russia-Ukraine War is now entering its...
Why The US Air Force is Going All-Out For a New Stand-In Attack Weapon (SiAW) MANILA – As US weapon systems become more sophisticated...
The U.S. Military Could Launch a Ground Invasion of Iran – It Would Be a Massive Undertaking Shahed drone swarms, mines, anti-armor weapons, and...
Israel Has Nuclear Weapons. The Iran War Has Many Asking When They Would Use Them Israel’s nuclear arsenal is commonly accepted as real—yet has never been formally...
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...
The strain in US-European relations under the second Trump administration stems primarily from a deepening ideological divide, not just policy disputes over trade or...
The USS Parche Just Might be the U.S. Navy’s Best Nuclear Submarine The USS Parche (SSN-683) began life as a normal Sturgeon-class nuclear attack...
The F/A-18 Super Hornet Fighter Has One Last Conflict to Tend To Before Retirement Next-generation infrared target tracking, conformal fuel tanks, a fully redesigned...
Invincible-Class Might Not Be Nuclear But She Packs a Big Submarine Punch Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines the word “invincible” as “incapable of being conquered, overcome,...
Iran’s Military Isn’t Destroyed Yet and Could Still Damage Without a clear regime change in Iran, thousands of hopeful Iranians are likely to be...
The U.S. Air Force probably wouldn’t land on anyone’s list as a top-paying employer. However, learning a valuable skill in the Air Force—especially one...
The U.S. Navy Built 24 Essex-Class Aircraft Carriers. It Can’t Pull That Off Again The U.S. was able to build twenty-four Essex-class aircraft carriers...
From Chernobyl’s Reactor to DARPA’s Lab to the International Space Station: How a Fungus Became a Pentagon Priority Nearly 40 years ago, in April...
F-35 Stealth Fighter Is A Powerhouse: But a Labor Strike Is Now Possible Remember the Boeing F-15EX Eagle II Strike from last year? Could...
Why the Eurofighter Typhoon Is Still Selling in the Age of Stealth The Eurofighter Typhoon first entered service in the early 2000s, the product of a...
If Given a Decade, Could Iran Rearm and Rebuild its Military? What Will Beijing Do? U.S. and Israeli strikes have reportedly seriously degraded the...
92% of Iran’s Warships Destroyed, the IRGC Navy Commander Killed, and the Strait of Hormuz Still Closed: Why the April 6 Deadline Changes Everything...
The Shahed Went to Moscow in 2022, Came Back as the Geran-2 in 2026: How a Drone Deal Came Full Circle in Two Wars...
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...
Russia’s Typhoon-Class Submarine Was Massive and Had A Swimming Pool The Soviet Union’s Typhoon-class submarines (Project 941 Akula) were the largest submarines ever built,...
The Saab JAS 39 Gripen is a single-seat, single-engine, multirole fighter jet designed and manufactured by the Swedish company Saab AB. The newest variants...
The Russian Navy Is Going All In on the New Yasen-Class Submarine: The U.S. Navy Is Watching Russia is moving to replace its entire...
EMALS: The Ford-class Aircraft Carrier Just Might Be the Best on Earth The Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, also known as EMALS, pioneered by the...
The Royal Navy Has Aircraft Carriers That Can Barely Head Out Of Port Some people in the United Kingdom are appalled at the condition...
