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The Seawolf-class submarine was the quietest, fastest and most heavily armed attack boat anyone had built. The Navy stopped at three anyway. The 1993...
Supporters of the Ford-class counter that the carrier’s power generation and sortie capacity make it uniquely capable of sustaining high-intensity air operations, and that...
The reactors on a Nimitz-class carrier are buried behind structural compartments, radiation shielding, machinery spaces and armor. That is deliberate, and in combat it...
Speaking in Baghdad on August 20, Iran's parliament speaker warned that military power counts for nothing if the people are hungry. Four days later...
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...
Everything that makes the Glock 20 good in the woods makes it bad in a city. It is 8.07 inches long and 5.51 inches...
The F-22 Raptor carries an internal 20mm M61A2 Vulcan rotary cannon with 480 rounds. The F-35A carries a 25mm GAU-22/A with 181. The Chengdu...
The strongest argument for the Glock 26 has nothing to do with the gun itself. It is that a shooter who trains on a...
HMS Prince of Wales displaces 65,000 tons, runs 920 feet, carries a flight deck of roughly 13,000 square metres, makes better than 25 knots...
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,...
American forces struck Iranian positions preparing to fire mine-carrying missiles into the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran answered with a handful of missiles that reportedly...
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,...
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.
Europe Has a Big Defense Call to Make: The Trump administration’s apparent desire to cut Ukraine loose and terminate NATO’s proxy war against Russia...
The big idea behind Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) appears to be that too many people work for the federal government. Therefore,...
In 2006, Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it awarded them the prize “for...
The F-47 Next-generation NGAD Warbird Flew for Years as an “X-Plane” – While many people in the defense analysis community were surprised at the...
The news last week that Poland and the three Baltic nations are withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention banning member nations from using anti-personnel landmines...
