Steve Balestrieri

The Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Florida (SSGN 728) departs Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay. Florida will perform routine operations while at sea. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class James Kimber/Released)

Aerospace & Defense

The Navy Is Retiring Four Nuclear Submarines That Carry 154 Missiles Each. It Will Take 20 New Boats to Replace Them.

The four Ohio-class guided-missile submarines leaving service by the end of the decade carry 154 Tomahawks each, and they have been a favorite of...

Steve Balestrieri4 hours ago

U.S. Navy Carrier Air Wing 8 aircraft fly in formation over the world’s largest aircraft carrier, Ford-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), during Carrier Air Wing 8’s aerial change of command ceremony while underway in the Caribbean Sea, Jan. 19, 2026. U.S. military forces are deployed to the Caribbean in support of the U.S. Southern Command mission, Department of War-directed operations, and the president’s priorities to disrupt illicit drug trafficking and protect the homeland. (U.S. Navy photo)

Aerospace & Defense

The US Navy’s Newest Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Is Running a Year Late. The Holdup Is the Arresting Gear and the Weapons Elevators. (

USS John F. Kennedy, the second Gerald R. Ford-class supercarrier, is now scheduled for delivery in March 2027. The Navy's own budget documents give...

Steve Balestrieri5 hours ago

The aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) picks up speed as she steams through the western Pacific Ocean on Aug. 25, 2004. Stennis and her embarked Carrier Air Wing 14 are conducting exercises at sea on a regularly scheduled deployment.

Aerospace & Defense

The US Navy’s USS John C. Stennis Went Into Its Overhaul in 2021. Five and a Half Years Later, the Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Is Still Not Back.

USS John C. Stennis went into her midlife refueling and complex overhaul in 2021, work scheduled to take about four years under a $3...

Steve Balestrieri7 hours ago

Aerospace & Defense

Australia Painted One of Its Newest M1 Abrams Tanks to Look Like a Chinese Type 99. The Americans Only Do This With Old Hulls.

Soldiers from B Squadron, 3rd/4th Cavalry Regiment took an M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams, painted it in People's Liberation Army digital camouflage, and bolted dummy external...

Steve Balestrieri9 hours ago

Aerospace & Defense

Russia’s National Guard Is Rewriting Its Civil Defense Rules to Handle Dangers at Home Before the ‘Call-Up’ Is Announced

The Kremlin appears to be preparing a new mobilization, according to an ISW assessment, with the Duma opening military contracts to people carrying unexpunged...

Steve Balestrieri5 days ago

Aerospace & Defense

A Rare Russian Su-57 Felon Stealth Fighter Has Just Crashed And Looks Destroyed

A Russian Su-57 stealth fighter crashed during a training flight in Moscow Oblast, with the pilot ejecting safely after witnesses say he steered the...

Steve Balestrieri5 days ago

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Britain Just Named Its Drone Wingman: Storm Fighter Will Fly Into Combat With the Typhoon, F-35, and Tempest

Three new combat drones, one day of announcements, and a claim no European air force has made before. Here's what Britain's Storm Fighter program...

Steve BalestrieriJuly 17, 2026

Vladimir Putin 2017 New Year Address to the Nation. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

The Embassy

Only One Russian Gas Refinery Had Escaped Ukraine’s Drones This Year — Last Night, 930 Miles From the Border, It Burned

Ukrainian drones set two major Russian refineries ablaze overnight — including Salavat in Bashkortostan, the last gas refinery untouched in 2026 — while Russia...

Steve BalestrieriJuly 14, 2026

Aerospace & Defense

China Commissioned This 12,000-Ton Destroyer in March. By June It Was Off Japan’s Coast and Tokyo Was Scrambling to Shadow It.

China commissioned the Type 055 destroyer Dongguan in March. Barely three months later it slipped through the Miyako Strait off Okinawa on its first...

Steve BalestrieriJuly 2, 2026

(April 8, 2017) - Pre-Commissioning Unit Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) departs Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding for builder’s sea trials off the coast. The first- of-class ship—the first new U.S. aircraft carrier design in 40 years—will spend several days conducting builder’s sea trials, a comprehensive test of many of the ship’s key systems and technologies. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ryan Litzenberger)

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Iran Wants Every Ship in the Strait of Hormuz to Pay It “Protection Money” — and Experts Say the World’s Most Important Oil Route May Never Be the Same

Iran is moving to charge ships for passing through the Strait of Hormuz — the waterway that carries a fifth of the world's oil...

Steve BalestrieriJuly 1, 2026

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Aerospace & Defense

The Navy Is Retiring Four Nuclear Submarines That Carry 154 Missiles Each. It Will Take 20 New Boats to Replace Them.

Aerospace & Defense

The US Navy’s Newest Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Is Running a Year Late. The Holdup Is the Arresting Gear and the Weapons Elevators. (

Aerospace & Defense

The US Navy’s USS John C. Stennis Went Into Its Overhaul in 2021. Five and a Half Years Later, the Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Is Still Not Back.

Aerospace & Defense

Australia Painted One of Its Newest M1 Abrams Tanks to Look Like a Chinese Type 99. The Americans Only Do This With Old Hulls.

Aerospace & Defense

Russia’s National Guard Is Rewriting Its Civil Defense Rules to Handle Dangers at Home Before the ‘Call-Up’ Is Announced

Aerospace & Defense

A Rare Russian Su-57 Felon Stealth Fighter Has Just Crashed And Looks Destroyed

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Britain Just Named Its Drone Wingman: Storm Fighter Will Fly Into Combat With the Typhoon, F-35, and Tempest

The Embassy

Only One Russian Gas Refinery Had Escaped Ukraine’s Drones This Year — Last Night, 930 Miles From the Border, It Burned

Aerospace & Defense

China Commissioned This 12,000-Ton Destroyer in March. By June It Was Off Japan’s Coast and Tokyo Was Scrambling to Shadow It.

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Iran Wants Every Ship in the Strait of Hormuz to Pay It “Protection Money” — and Experts Say the World’s Most Important Oil Route May Never Be the Same

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