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Former Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Russian ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin shared a video on December 11 showing a Russian Ka-52 helicopter flying...
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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...
A Chinese research team published a peer-reviewed simulation in which stealth aircraft, advanced sensors, and hypersonic missiles hunt down and destroy America's next stealth...
Summary and Key Points: The Kilo-class submarine entered Soviet service the year Ronald Reagan was elected president. Forty-six years later, Russia is still launching...
After 27 years and roughly $5 billion, Russia has returned the nuclear battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov to the sea, packed with 80 strike cells that...
This summer, satellite photographs showed Russia bolting lattice cages over the conning towers of its Black Sea submarines, hiding their masts from Ukrainian drones...
Washington and Tehran can't agree whether the Strait of Hormuz is open — Trump declared it open under a new U.S. 'guardian' regime, while...
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...
Trump is stuck. He started a war with Iran he expected to end quickly; six months on, the central point of contention is control...
The United States can hit almost anything Iran places near the Strait of Hormuz. It cannot hit the strait itself. That distinction is the...
A Ukrainian drone strike killed three people in the Moscow region over the weekend as Kyiv's deep-strike campaign — now reaching as far as...
U.S. forces hit dozens of Iranian targets in fresh strikes, including the first combat use of one-way attack sea drones, after Iran struck a...
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...
Former Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Russian ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin shared a video on December 11 showing a Russian Ka-52 helicopter flying...
See Ukrainian Soldiers Training With New M-55S Tanks: Video footage shared recently shows Ukrainian soldiers training for the first time using tanks donated by...
When determining what is truly worthy of being described as the “Greatest Of All Time” (GOAT), no losses is certainly a box to check....
The United States is expected to send Patriot air defense missiles to Ukraine, according to unnamed officials. Three officials told CNN that the Biden...
The Kremlin’s war effort absorbed another blow this week, as Beijing reportedly banned the export of military-grade microprocessors. Sanctions imposed on Russia after it...
