Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Summary and Key Points: The North American F-100 Super Sabre, the first supersonic fighter jet, set the stage for modern air warfare despite its...
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German Foreign Minister Wadephul's fourth Kyiv visit — two days before Ukraine's Independence Day — capped an accelerating shift: Berlin is becoming Ukraine's principal...
The Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative emerged from US Army Europe and Africa and NATO's Allied Land Command as a concept for restoring deterrence by...
For all the talk of spending targets, the Ankara NATO summit's real work happened elsewhere. Europe is being handed responsibility for NATO's conventional defense...
Western analysts fixate on North Korea's missiles. The real danger is speed — a mass artillery-and-missile salvo in the war's first hours, backed by...
The Seawolf-class submarine was the quietest, fastest and most heavily armed attack boat anyone had built. The Navy stopped at three anyway. The 1993...
America owns eleven aircraft carriers and can put about four to sea at any given moment. The rest are tied up in maintenance cycles...
The Mossberg 500 arrived in the 1960s as an affordable pump-action for hunting and general use. Two decades later, as law enforcement agencies and...
The most expensive warship, the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, runs its plumbing on a vacuum. Thirty miles of narrow copper pipe, pumps,...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has unveiled Operation Economic Outcast: secondary sanctions across five sectors and more than sixty targets, with no relief attached. Iran's...
Rezaei's threat goes beyond the strait: no oil leaving the Gulf by any route if neighbors cooperate. In practice that would mean strikes on...
Of the 1.5 billion barrels in emergency stocks, the IEA cannot order the commercial half released, leaving governments under a billion. The American reserve...
The Houthis have no warships. It doesn't need any. A blockade holds if shipowners and insurers decide the passage is not worth the risk,...
Speaking in Baghdad on August 20, Iran's parliament speaker warned that military power counts for nothing if the people are hungry. Four days later...
American forces struck Iranian positions preparing to fire mine-carrying missiles into the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran answered with a handful of missiles that reportedly...
Analysts dismissed American control of the Strait of Hormuz as a near-impossible task. The US government now says it has been helping tankers move...
Drones reached Moscow on three of the last five nights. A ballistic missile would not extend Ukraine's reach so much as compress Russia's warning...
Trump ordered Ulchi Freedom Shield cut from eleven days to five before Kim Jong-un had agreed to anything in return. Kim Yo-jong dismissed the...
As President Trump downsizes the Ulchi Freedom Shield war games after South Korea declined to help with Iran, one uncomfortable fact goes almost completely...
Russia has used North Korean ballistic missiles in Ukraine since late 2023. The early shots missed by kilometers. Later ones did not. That combat...
Iran's Shahab-1 came from the Scud-B and reached 300km. The Khorramshahr, derived from North Korea's Musudan, reaches 2,000km — a 6.7-fold increase in reach.
Summary and Key Points: The North American F-100 Super Sabre, the first supersonic fighter jet, set the stage for modern air warfare despite its...
Summary and Key Points: Australia is modernizing its Collins-class submarines to bolster its defense amid rising tensions with China. -Originally commissioned between 1996 and...
Summary and Key Points: In 1984, a Soviet nuclear-powered submarine collided with the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk in the Sea of...
Russia’s T-14 Armata tank has been heralded as the world’s best for many years, yet its actual combat performance stands somewhat at odds with...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy is set to choose a prime contractor for its new F/A-XX fighter, a next-generation carrier aircraft replacing...
