Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
In March 2026, senior U.S. Army officials confirmed they are preparing a narrower version of “right to repair” legislation after Congress removed broader provisions...
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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...
USS Boxer returned to San Diego in 2020 and was scheduled back with the fleet by late 2021. Delays pushed her departure to June...
Rostec announced on Thursday that United Aircraft Corporation had delivered its third Su-35S batch of 2026 to the Russian Aerospace Forces, following batches in...
The EA-37B Compass Call is a Gulfstream G550 business jet with electromagnetic spectrum equipment added. It carries a BAE Systems electronic attack suite integrated...
Castelion, a Torrance, California startup, aims to keep its Blackbeard hypersonic missile below $500,000 per round. A Lockheed Martin PAC-3 MSE interceptor costs more...
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.
In March 2026, senior U.S. Army officials confirmed they are preparing a narrower version of “right to repair” legislation after Congress removed broader provisions...
During the Operation Epic Fury in Iran, which now appears to have been temporarily paused with a two-week ceasefire, the U.S. reportedly used a...
The 2027 budget request for the United States Army seeks to greatly expand the supply of one of the Army’s newest precision weapons: the...
The Iran war will be assessed in the usual ways—targets hit, systems degraded, and what the ceasefire froze in place. That accounting misses where...
The Pentagon wants to buy more Tomahawk missiles — lots more of them. With hundreds of missiles fired at targets in Iran, stockpiles of...
