Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
One of the primary objectives of Operation Epic Fury was to degrade and destroy Iran’s offensive capabilities. While targeting Iranian leadership and naval vessels...
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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...
Japan's Ministry of Defense intends to begin developing an underwater-launched hypersonic missile under its fiscal 2027 program. The disclosure sat among more than 150...
Compared to the F/A-18F Super Hornet, the Growler is not a clean-sheet aircraft, but a missionized derivative of it.
If Taiwanese drones are still finding targets over a beachhead in week three, Chinese units moving supplies inland, widening a lodgment, or reopening a...
As the most widely produced fighter plane of all time, the Bf 109’s odds were good that a goodly number still survive today, whether...
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,...
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...
Georgia Gilholy reports on Trump's map post declaring Hormuz 'New U.S. Territory,' a vessel struck off Oman hours earlier per UK Maritime Trade Operations,...
When it comes to severe economic pressure, Washington has massive options between everything and nothing. Something in the middle that hurts Iran a lot...
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.
One of the primary objectives of Operation Epic Fury was to degrade and destroy Iran’s offensive capabilities. While targeting Iranian leadership and naval vessels...
Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran has faced arms embargoes that prevented modernization of its manned air force, leaving it dependent on aging U.S.-...
The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is the lead ship of the U.S. Navy‘s Ford-class nuclear-powered supercarriers. It is the world’s largest aircraft carrier—indeed,...
Operation Epic Fury, aka Operation Roaring Lion, i.e., the joint U.S.-Israeli military operation against the theocratic terrorist regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran...
The Iran Strait of Hormuz Crisis – From Bad to Worse? As of Monday morning, April 13, a U.S. military blockade of maritime traffic...
