Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Last August, Vladimir Putin arrived on American soil expecting a favorable deal. Russia held the momentum, the February White House meeting with Zelenskyy was...
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Last August, Vladimir Putin arrived on American soil expecting a favorable deal. Russia held the momentum, the February White House meeting with Zelenskyy was...
The USS George Washington and its strike group entered the South China Sea this week, days after two confrontations between Chinese and Philippine vessels...
Long-range missiles, satellites and drones have made U.S. aircraft carriers more vulnerable than ever. Yet moving carriers remain hard to target, their strike groups...
The famous line about birth and purpose is often credited to Mark Twain, although the attribution is unsupported. It still provides a revealing frame...
An SR-71 lost effective thrust at 83,000 feet near the Soviet Kola Peninsula, fell 65,000 feet, and reached a tanker with minutes left.
The third Seawolf-class submarine is not quite like the other two. USS Jimmy Carter carries a 100-foot section inserted into the hull specifically for...
The USS George Washington strike group came through the Luzon Strait on July 22, and two days later Chinese vessels were using water cannons...
The story gets repeated in a fixed shape: a cheap Canadian diesel submarine caught a nuclear supercarrier during a 1981 NATO exercise. The documentary...
The Soviet Union completed four nuclear-powered Kirov-class battlecruisers, and as of this summer their fates diverge completely. One went for dismantlement under a five-billion-ruble...
The Navy planned 32 Zumwalt-class destroyers and built three. It planned 20 Constellation-class frigates, and cancelled the program in November 2025 with two under...