Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Members of two Russian militant groups crossed the border from Ukraine into Belgorod, Russia, on Monday. Fighters with the Russian Volunteer Corps and the...
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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...
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...
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...
Castelion, a Torrance, California startup, aims to keep its Blackbeard hypersonic missile below $500,000 per round. A Lockheed Martin PAC-3 MSE interceptor costs more...
The Z-20 can carry roughly 11 to 15 fully equipped troops internally, move about 1.5 tons of cargo inside the cabin, or sling-load up...
Some decoys are so convincing that they don’t even include every detail of actual warplanes, meaning that, for a very low price, China can...
RUSI puts J-20 output near 120 aircraft a year. Across its production life the F-35 has averaged roughly 67 a year, and the F-22...
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,...
Washington redirected 55 commercial vessels away from Iranian ports as of Sunday, up from 35 a week earlier, while the Kpler intelligence firm counted...
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.
Members of two Russian militant groups crossed the border from Ukraine into Belgorod, Russia, on Monday. Fighters with the Russian Volunteer Corps and the...
Why AIM-120 AMRAAM Missile Is a Legend – Fox 1, when you’ve got nothing left/Fox 2, it’s the heater in your chest/Fox 3, the only...
President Joe Biden’s loan forgiveness program enjoys strong popular support even as it faces a constitutional test before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants a So-Called ‘National Divorce’: What Does That Even Mean? Representative’s Marjorie Taylor Greene Twitter feed is a cesspool of vitriol and...
Not only does Trump know that Scott doesn’t pose an immediate threat to his campaign, but he also knows that as Republican candidates drop...
