Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
When the Pentagon announced its decision to supply Ukraine with the Switchblade drone, many experts were skeptical of the difference it could make on...
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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 FB-22 carried an estimated price of $30 billion. It would have competed for the same scarce tactical air and long-range strike money as...
For the first time in aviation history, a Chinese fighter has flown organized air combat training against the Dassault Rafale. It did not happen...
Early M48s carried a Continental AV1790 air-cooled gasoline V12 producing 810 horsepower, and suffered persistent engine, transmission, track and suspension problems. From the M48A3...
Only the fuselages went into the pit — the asbestos was bonded into the panels themselves, and a country that had already paid the...
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.
When the Pentagon announced its decision to supply Ukraine with the Switchblade drone, many experts were skeptical of the difference it could make on...
The America-class amphibious assault ships can and should be considered a sort of mini aircraft carrier for many reasons. They are very capable and...
There has been a large number of rumors making claims that Russia’s President Putin is sick with cancer or will soon be deposed in...
One of the most effective weapon systems used in Ukraine is the Bayraktar TB2 tactical unmanned aerial system. Since the start of the conflict,...
On day 96 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military continues to look for a breakthrough in eastern Ukraine, pushing into Severodonetsk....
