Aerospace & Defense
Every debate about the greatest fighter becomes the Jordan-versus-LeBron argument, and this series already made its LeBron case: the F-16, still getting signed at...
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The United States can hit almost anything Iran places near the Strait of Hormuz. It cannot hit the strait itself. That distinction is the...
Nazi Germany's Horten Ho 229 was the world's first flying-wing jet aircraft, and its triangular shape looks uncannily like a modern stealth plane. That...
The United States is committed to its sixth-generation warplane, the Boeing F-47, and recent photos over Area 51 show what many believe to be...
Canada has spent its way off Washington's list of NATO deadbeats, praised by name in Ankara for a two-year, $215 billion surge. The number...
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 second Trump administration is reviewing America's military footprint in Europe, and the worst-case outcome is a full withdrawal. Andrew Michta argues that would...
The US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding is being judged on whether it cools tensions in the Persian Gulf. Strategic-studies scholar Andrew Michta argues that's the...
Summary and Key Points: The Kilo-class submarine entered Soviet service the year Ronald Reagan was elected president. Forty-six years later, Russia is still launching...
After 27 years and roughly $5 billion, Russia has returned the nuclear battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov to the sea, packed with 80 strike cells that...
This summer, satellite photographs showed Russia bolting lattice cages over the conning towers of its Black Sea submarines, hiding their masts from Ukrainian drones...
The U.S. Air Force just compressed a weapons program that normally takes the better part of a decade into a matter of months, fielding...
Washington and Tehran can't agree whether the Strait of Hormuz is open — Trump declared it open under a new U.S. 'guardian' regime, while...
A single Ukrainian drone forced Russia's largest refinery, in Omsk, to halt operations, knocking out units that make roughly 75 percent of its output...
Iran is moving to charge ships for passing through the Strait of Hormuz — the waterway that carries a fifth of the world's oil...
A film celebrating ten years of China's Y-20 transport slipped in something no other country has shown on official camera: a sixth-generation fighter refueling...
A Ukrainian drone strike killed three people in the Moscow region over the weekend as Kyiv's deep-strike campaign — now reaching as far as...
U.S. forces hit dozens of Iranian targets in fresh strikes, including the first combat use of one-way attack sea drones, after Iran struck a...
National security expert James Jay Carafano argues that although the fighting grinds on, the war in Ukraine is strategically over — and Putin has...
President Trump arrived at the NATO summit in Ankara and threatened to withdraw substantial U.S. forces from Europe unless Denmark softens its grip on...
Last year North Korea's newest destroyer rolled over at its own launch, and the world assumed the program was finished for years. Instead Pyongyang...
The KN-23, North Korea's version the Russian Iskander missile, showed up to fight in the Ukraine war. And it isn't the same platform as...
On May 21, 2025, a brand-new North Korean destroyer rolled over and partially capsized at its own launch ceremony — with Kim Jong Un...
Fake Russian IDs, Orders Never to Be Captured, and 50% Casualties: Inside North Korea’s Secret War in Ukraine The Russian Army has sustained nearly...
Every debate about the greatest fighter becomes the Jordan-versus-LeBron argument, and this series already made its LeBron case: the F-16, still getting signed at...
The Type 10 main battle tank is a technological marvel: a lightweight, network-linked, actively suspended machine with an autoloaded 120mm gun, built by Mitsubishi...
This week a 41-year-old free agent is deciding which team gets him for an unprecedented 24th season, and a third of the league is...
Nearly every "best tank" ranking crowns the American M1 Abrams, and with good reason, but that buries a more interesting question: what is the...
The Iowa-class battleships carried nine 16-inch guns, outmatched by the 18.1-inch monsters on Japan's Yamato, the largest battleship guns ever made. Yet the American...
