Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Russia’s foreign minister is at the center of a huge diplomatic flap after defending his assertion that Israel supports “neo-Nazis” in Ukraine. Appearing 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...
China's third carrier, the Fujian, launches aircraft with an electromagnetic catapult, and the Type 004 is almost certain to retain the system. In the...
The F-22's radar cross-section is generally estimated at as much as 15 times smaller than the F-35 and perhaps 100 times smaller than China's...
The F-15's radar had a speed gate set at 1,500 knots. SR-71 crews were cruising between 1,850 and 2,000. As pilot Richard Graham put...
The ladder keeps counting down: 750 planned, 187 built, 183 flying, 142 combat-coded, 56 ready tonight — seven percent of the plan, against a...
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.
Russia’s foreign minister is at the center of a huge diplomatic flap after defending his assertion that Israel supports “neo-Nazis” in Ukraine. Appearing on...
Saab JA 37 Viggen, a Short History – Sweden sought to maintain absolute neutrality during the Cold War but ensure if war with Russia...
SR-72 Darkstar in Top Gun: Maverick? The long-awaited “Top Gun: Maverick” will fly into theaters later this month, and while most of the movie features...
While surpassed by the F-35, F-22, and other fighters of today, the F-15E Strike Eagle is still one very impressive plane that is even...
Last week, Germany’s parliament finally agreed to supply heavy weapons to Ukraine. The Bundestag’s move has been hailed as the last nail in the...
