Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
The Kremlin’s highly touted T-14 Armata main battle tank and Sukhoi Su-57 fifth-generation stealth fighter have seen little action during the war in Ukraine....
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US intelligence indicates Moscow now reads the Iran war as having depleted the United States, and sees that as an opening in Europe. CSIS...
The logic of the capital ship is impeccable. The impediments are daunting for the Trump-class. The Congressional Budget Office puts each hull at $18...
When the American military destroyed Saddam Hussein's army in Kuwait, Chinese planners were reportedly stunned by the ferocity and speed of it. For thirty-five...
USS Abraham Lincoln will have logged 295 days on deployment by September 12, the second-longest carrier run since the Cold War, behind USS Gerald...
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 first submarine of this class, the Sankt-Peterburg, was laid down in December 1997 and launched in 2004. Complications from its propulsion system arose...
Among the capabilities reportedly demonstrated during the 2019 exercises was electronic attack: J-16s jamming the radars of the fighters flying against them. A large...
Visiting a training range, the SOCOM commander saw the M79s and lit up, remembering his time advising Vietnamese Ranger battalions. Offered a few rounds,...
The M249 plastic ammunition box was the problem nobody writes about. In thick vegetation it announced the gunner long before anyone saw him.
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.
The Kremlin’s highly touted T-14 Armata main battle tank and Sukhoi Su-57 fifth-generation stealth fighter have seen little action during the war in Ukraine....
The biggest story in aviation right now is the mysterious crash of an F-35B Joint Strike Fighter in South Carolina last weekend.
Ukrainian efforts to achieve an operational breakthrough in Ukraine continue. Ukrainian forces are using constant, measured attacks in Southern Ukraine and the Donbas.
The latest CNN/University of New Hampshire primary poll of that state, released Wednesday, found that Gov. Ron DeSantis has been bleeding support in New...
President Joe Biden has said very little about his son’s legal problems: That’s probably a good idea: Hunter Biden, the president’s son, was indicted last...
