Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Summary and Key Points: The B-1B Lancer was built for Cold War penetration, but its modern value comes from standoff striking at scale. -With...
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Summary and Key Points: The B-1B Lancer was built for Cold War penetration, but its modern value comes from standoff striking at scale. -With...
Summary and Key Points: Sweden’s Koncept för Framtida Stridsflyg (KFS) program is being shaped as a system-of-systems rather than a single JAS 39 Gripen...
Summary and Key Points: The debate over the proposed Trump-class battleship echoes an earlier experiment: the Cold War reactivation of the Iowa-class. -Reactivated in...
Summary and Key Points: China’s airpower modernization has produced multiple stealth fighters, but its long-range bomber force remains the weak link. The H-6 fleet—upgraded...
Summary and Key Points: Trump’s BBG(X) ‘Trump-class’ guided-missile battleship is pitched as a huge command-and-control platform to replace retiring cruisers. -Renderings and Navy briefings...
Summary and Key Points: Israel’s F-35I Adir is a rare exception to the standard export model: rather than procuring a standard F-35A with limited...
Summary and Key Points: Lockheed Martin’s SR-72 “Son of Blackbird” remains a hazy, high-speed concept tied to a turbine-based combined-cycle engine that would accelerate...
Summary and Key Points: Built to survive a world where the U-2 could be shot down, the SR-71 Blackbird was Lockheed’s Skunk Works answer...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Army has officially transitioned from the overweight M1A2 SEPv4 to the M1E3 Abrams, an evolutionary redesign intended for...
Synopsis: Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, remains America’s most iconic voice on the human condition. -From his humble beginnings in Hannibal, Missouri, to...