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Russia Using Cold War T-55s as ‘Kamikaze Tanks’ – Following the losses of literally thousands of modern tanks in Ukraine, the Kremlin has been...
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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...
If Taiwanese drones are still finding targets over a beachhead in week three, Chinese units moving supplies inland, widening a lodgment, or reopening a...
The Army has put more than half a billion dollars into expanding General Dynamics' Valleyfield plant near Montreal, which supplies the M31A2 propellant for...
The AIM-424's maximum range far exceeds the detection range of the radars on the fighters carrying it. Shooting at full distance requires external sensors...
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 SR-71's propulsion was far more than two engines. At speeds above Mach 3, the movable inlet spike, bypass system and exhaust worked together,...
The F-22 is designed to detect an enemy before being detected. Three older aircraft have nonetheless reached firing positions against it in training: French...
Commissioned in November 1961, Enterprise was built with eight Westinghouse A2W pressurized-water reactors arranged in four independent propulsion units, producing roughly 280,000 shaft horsepower...
Six FV4007 Centurion tank prototypes arrived on the European continent for testing weeks after the Second World War ended. The tank entered service in...
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 Using Cold War T-55s as ‘Kamikaze Tanks’ – Following the losses of literally thousands of modern tanks in Ukraine, the Kremlin has been...
Hunter Biden, the 53-year-old son of President Joe Biden, appeared in a Little Rock courtroom on Friday for a deposition in the paternity case...
Former President Donald Trump appeared on Fox News Monday night, and seemed to admit that he mishandled classified documents.
We’ve no idea what Joe Biden’s family medical history is. His doctors officially state that the forty-sixth president is in excellent shape—for an octogenarian.
With his voluminous successes in the entertainment industry and various business dealings, it’s easy to forget that Arnold Schwarzenegger was once the governor of...
