Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Summary and Key Points: Ukraine sought M1A1 Abrams tanks, expecting Desert Storm-style dominance, but the battlefield delivered a different verdict. In fact, the last...
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Summary and Key Points: Ukraine sought M1A1 Abrams tanks, expecting Desert Storm-style dominance, but the battlefield delivered a different verdict. In fact, the last...
Summary and Key Points: Russia’s Aerospace Forces are absorbing punishing losses of two premium combat aircraft—the Su-34 fighter-bomber and the Su-35 “Super Flanker”—raising questions...
Russia is reviving its push to sell the Su-57 to India by offering a Su-57E variant built with extensive Indian industry participation and indigenous...
Summary and Key Points: A January 28 op-ed says Canadian defense planners are considering a mixed fighter fleet: no more than 40 F-35A stealth...
Summary and Key Points: A new investigation argues China is supplying much of the manufacturing equipment and sensitive components Russia needs to sustain weapons...
Summary and Key Points: A recent U.S. intelligence briefing characterizes Belarus as effectively integrated into Russia’s military posture, thereby shifting the security calculus along...
Synopsis: New long-distance video posted January 30 shows a fourth J-36 prototype in flight—another signal the program is cycling through prototypes at an unusually...
Summary and Key Points: China’s defense minister Dong Jun urged Russia to deepen military coordination during a video call with Russian defense minister Andrei...
Summary and Key Points: A new Congressional Research Service report examines the Navy’s proposed guided-missile battleship program, BBG(X), widely framed as the Trump-class centerpiece...
Summary and Key Points: The unveiling of the GCAP mock-up sparked a simple question: why are next-generation fighters getting so large? -Size is a...