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Key Points: The NATF-22 was a proposed naval variant of the Air Force’s highly advanced F-22 Raptor, intended to replace the Navy’s aging F-14...
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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 second Trump administration is reviewing America's military footprint in Europe, and the worst-case outcome is a full withdrawal. Andrew Michta argues that would...
The US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding is being judged on whether it cools tensions in the Persian Gulf. Strategic-studies scholar Andrew Michta argues that's the...
What if Canada had aircraft carriers in 2026? It would look impressive, visit useful ports, and let ministers speak. It would also do little...
On paper, a MiG-35 against an F-35 sounds like a fair fight, and in one narrow sense it is: dragged into a close-in knife...
On July 4, imagery appeared to show a Russian T-90M fitted with the Arena-M active protection system outside a factory for the first time,...
On July 1, U.S. Pacific Air Forces released its first-ever image of a combat drone flying beside a crewed fighter, an F-15EX over the...
A single Ukrainian drone forced Russia's largest refinery, in Omsk, to halt operations, knocking out units that make roughly 75 percent of its output...
Iran is moving to charge ships for passing through the Strait of Hormuz — the waterway that carries a fifth of the world's oil...
A film celebrating ten years of China's Y-20 transport slipped in something no other country has shown on official camera: a sixth-generation fighter refueling...
A decade after it surfaced, China's H-20 has no flying prototype and no production line. The reasons are industrial, not financial: an intercontinental flying...
National security expert James Jay Carafano argues that although the fighting grinds on, the war in Ukraine is strategically over — and Putin has...
President Trump arrived at the NATO summit in Ankara and threatened to withdraw substantial U.S. forces from Europe unless Denmark softens its grip on...
Cheap drones can make a Chinese assault on Taiwan bloodier and a quick victory less likely — but they don't repeal geography or remove...
The expectation that cutting U.S. aid would force Ukraine to fold is dead: Russia cannot win this war without a mass mobilization or nuclear...
Last year North Korea's newest destroyer rolled over at its own launch, and the world assumed the program was finished for years. Instead Pyongyang...
The KN-23, North Korea's version the Russian Iskander missile, showed up to fight in the Ukraine war. And it isn't the same platform as...
On May 21, 2025, a brand-new North Korean destroyer rolled over and partially capsized at its own launch ceremony — with Kim Jong Un...
Fake Russian IDs, Orders Never to Be Captured, and 50% Casualties: Inside North Korea’s Secret War in Ukraine The Russian Army has sustained nearly...
Key Points: The NATF-22 was a proposed naval variant of the Air Force’s highly advanced F-22 Raptor, intended to replace the Navy’s aging F-14...
Key Points: Israel launched Operation Bashan Arrow, a comprehensive military campaign targeting Syria’s remaining military assets amid the collapse of Syria’s regular armed forces....
Key Points: The U.S. Army has begun fielding its newest assault rifle, the XM7, which will replace the M4 Carbine and M16 families in...
Key Points: HMS Triumph (S93), the Royal Navy’s final Trafalgar-class submarine, has completed its final deployment, marking the end of the Trafalgar-class era in...
Key Points: Recent rumors claimed President-elect Donald Trump planned to cancel the “$1 trillion” F-35 with Lockheed Martin, allegedly citing China’s fighter jet advancements...
