Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
For three decades, the Sturgeon-class submarines were the U.S. Navy's quiet Cold War hunters, trailing Soviet missile boats and tapping their undersea cables in...
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For three decades, the Sturgeon-class submarines were the U.S. Navy's quiet Cold War hunters, trailing Soviet missile boats and tapping their undersea cables in...
Key Points: Iran is upgrading its Cold War-era M60 Patton tanks to bolster its military amid potential threats from Israel or a Sunni coalition....
Key Points: Australia’s AUKUS plan for acquiring eight nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) is fraught with challenges, including delays, cost overruns, and doubts about U.S....
Key Points: The F-35 Lightning II, despite its staggering $2 trillion lifecycle cost, remains essential for U.S. and allied military readiness. While the aircraft...
Key Points: The Royal Navy’s HMS Talent, a Trafalgar-class submarine, survived a collision with an ice flow in 2015, suffering significant damage, including a...
Key Points: The USS America, a Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier, was deliberately sunk in 2005 during a “SinkEx” live-fire exercise to study its survivability...
Key Points: The AGM-158 JASSM (Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile) now has an Extreme Range (XR) variant, unveiled by Lockheed Martin. -With a range of...
Key Points: In news you might have missed before the Thanksgiving holiday, U.S. Marine Corps’ F-35C, the carrier variant of the Lightning II, saw...
Key Points: A captured German Leopard 2A6 tank is now being dissected at Russia’s Uralvagonzavod tank factory, offering Moscow intelligence to enhance its T-90...
Not Enough Missiles: The U.S. defense industrial base is under pressure as munitions supplied to Ukraine, the Middle East, and allies have thinned stockpiles, raising...
Key Points: South Korea has ordered its first 20 KF-21 Boramae fighters from Korea Aerospace Industries for $1.41 billion, with delivery expected by 2026...