Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Video footage of a Russian Mi-8 helicopter being shot down in Donetsk Oblast became widely shared on Twitter this week. The footage, first shared...
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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...
Roughly a thousand miles from any ocean, in the Taklamakan Desert near Ruoqiang, the People's Liberation Army has built replicas of the United States...
The Colt Python is an excellent, historically significant revolver that will do the job in a defensive scenario, but most people carrying for personal...
America owns eleven aircraft carriers and can put about four to sea at any given moment. The rest are tied up in maintenance cycles...
The Mossberg 500 arrived in the 1960s as an affordable pump-action for hunting and general use. Two decades later, as law enforcement agencies and...
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.
Video footage of a Russian Mi-8 helicopter being shot down in Donetsk Oblast became widely shared on Twitter this week. The footage, first shared...
Norway to Send $144 Million In Ukraine Support: The Norwegian government confirmed on Thursday that it will provide $144 million to the British International...
WATCH: Ukrainian Forces Have Begun Reclaiming Towns In Kherson Oblast – Following a staged television announcement in Russia that announced the withdrawal of Russian...
Amnesty International Publishes Bombshell War Crime Report: International human rights organization Amnesty International published a new report on Thursday that accused Russia of committing...
Russia has bragged about its vaunted Belgorod advanced submarine that can launch underwater combat drones, including the Poseidon nuclear-powered and nuclear-tipped drone torpedo, known...
