Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Key Points and Summary – Bangladesh has signed a Letter of Intent with Italy’s Leonardo to explore acquiring new-build Tranche 4 Eurofighter Typhoons, a...
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Key Points and Summary – Bangladesh has signed a Letter of Intent with Italy’s Leonardo to explore acquiring new-build Tranche 4 Eurofighter Typhoons, a...
Key Points and Summary – Russia’s RS-28 Sarmat ICBM, long touted by Vladimir Putin as an “unstoppable” nuclear super-weapon, has suffered yet another spectacular...
Key Points and Summary – China is quietly opening a new front in undersea warfare. Beijing’s latest AI-enabled underwater drones can execute zero-radius turns,...
Key Points and Summary – Japan’s F-15J “Peace Eagle” is pushing past middle age and getting a serious mid-life upgrade instead of retirement. -Originally...
Key Points – Russia’s lone aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, has been pier-bound in Murmansk for over eight years, its “return to sea” repeatedly derailed...
SINGAPORE – At the May 30 through June 1 Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore, senior Indian defense officials finally provided information about the early May...
Several months ago, we examined the proposed Porte-avions de nouvelle génération (PA-Ng), or “new generation aircraft carrier” – the new supercarrier to be acquired and...
The US Navy has always operated at least 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers that can launch fixed wing, Conventional Take-Off and Landing (CTOL) aircraft in...
Diesel Submarines for the US Navy? The US Navy invented the nuclear-powered submarine. The first of these was the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), which was...
Key Points – HMAS Melbourne, Australia’s last conventional aircraft carrier (serving 1955-1982), had a notably troubled operational history, marked by never firing a shot...