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Summary and Key Points: The new F-47 Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter jet will face significant budgetary pressures, with initial cost estimates around $300...
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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 MQ-25A Stingray will launch from an aircraft carrier, loaded with aviation fuel, and rendezvous with other Navy planes to transfer fuel to them...
Roughly a thousand miles from any ocean, in the Taklamakan Desert near Ruoqiang, the People's Liberation Army has built replicas of the United States...
The Colt Python is an excellent, historically significant revolver that will do the job in a defensive scenario, but most people carrying for personal...
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...
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 new F-47 Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter jet will face significant budgetary pressures, with initial cost estimates around $300...
Summary and Key Points: The F-22 Raptor experienced severe oxygen system issues causing pilots hypoxia-like symptoms and, tragically, at least one fatal crash. -From...
Summary and Key Points: The USS Nimitz (CVN-68), nearing its retirement after nearly 50 years of distinguished service, will begin deactivation in Norfolk in...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Air Force’s F-47 Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter jet is poised to revolutionize aerial warfare, blending stealth, speed,...
It might be the most shocking news story of the second Donald Trump era so far: On Monday, Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The...
