Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
America's Tomahawk cruise missile stockpile took a serious hit during the ongoing Iran war. Pentagon planners are likely scrambling. But the more urgent question...
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America's Tomahawk cruise missile stockpile took a serious hit during the ongoing Iran war. Pentagon planners are likely scrambling. But the more urgent question...
Harry J. Kazianis, Editor-in-Chief of 19FortyFive and veteran national security expert, evaluates the "Washington-speak" beginning to echo in the West Wing. He argues that...
Summary and Key Points: Harry J. Kazianis, a veteran national security analyst, examines the legacy of the HSwMS Gotland and its 2005 simulated “sinking”...
Key Points and Summary – China’s J-35 stealth fighter’s recent launch from the catapult carrier Fujian marks a real shift: Beijing is moving from...
Key Points and Summary – For a decade, the MiG-25 Foxbat was the West’s worst-case nightmare: a titanium Mach-3 super-fighter that seemed to outclass...
Key Points and Summary – NASA’s Hyper-X program proved hydrogen-fueled scramjet flight with the X-43A at Mach 7–10, but its planned follow-on, the Mach...
Key Points and Summary: The official plan to build “at least 100” B-21 Raiders is dangerously insufficient for a two-theater conflict against China and...
Key Points and Summary: The Forrestal-class carriers were the first true “supercarriers,” purpose-built to handle the heavy jets of the Cold War era. The...
Key Takeaways – In 2005, the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS San Francisco slammed at high speed into an unmapped seamount, turning a routine...
Article Summary – The Soviet Alfa-class was a radical answer to a Cold War problem: sprint through NATO’s GIUK chokepoint, hunt U.S. carriers, and...