Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Key Points – Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet has unveiled a forward-looking vision for the F-35 Lightning II, suggesting potential enhancements that could include...
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An executive order issued on 13 August 2026 directs the Navy to replace the electromagnetic launch system on the fourth Ford-class carrier with steam...
Canada's Army modernization strategy, Inflection Point 2025, states that the Army's sole remaining armoured regiment has a single squadron of tanks that are both...
In April 1997, President Roman Herzog told Germany it needed a Ruck — a jolt — to break out of national lethargy and undertake...
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 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...
Northrop built two YA-9A prototypes for the Air Force's A-X competition. Between them they flew 123 times, totaling 307.6 flight hours, before the service...
Douglas built 2,960 A-4 Skyhawks between 1954 and 1979. The National Naval Aviation Museum counts 195 carrier-based Skyhawks lost to enemy fire in Vietnam...
The Marine Corps had more than 450 M1A1 Abrams tanks before Force Design 2030. It deactivated two active and one reserve tank battalion, cut...
Upgrades can’t make the jet stealthy or fifth-generation. But the F-16’s longevity demonstrates how important growth potential can be for keeping an aircraft relevant...
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...
Supply boats bring food and water. Wages arrive late or not at all. A union leader likens it to imprisonment, and one Indian sailor...
No vessel entered any of the three Ukrainian ports in the Odesa region on Wednesday, the first such day since the grain corridor opened...
Dr. Michael Rubin argues that Israel's targeted killing campaign against Palestinian militants a quarter of a century ago ultimately produced two decades of relative...
Since Khamenei took over in March, Iran's Supreme National Security Council has had three secretaries. Ali Larijani was killed in an airstrike a few...
Iran's strategy is to drag the war out. James Jay Carafano argues that protraction is the only card the IRGC holds, and that Trump...
Trump calls the strait "sort of open." Iran calls the arrangement "a new and different model." Last June, vague wording in a similar deal...
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.
North Korea has roughly 60 nuclear weapons and Kim Jong-un keeps demanding an exponential increase. Bruce Bennett works the problem backward, from Kim's objectives...
Xi's first Pyongyang visit in seven years, a ratified Russia pact, and a declaration that the arsenal is permanent: Andrew Latham on why the...
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...
Key Points – Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet has unveiled a forward-looking vision for the F-35 Lightning II, suggesting potential enhancements that could include...
Key Points – A significant F-47 fighter proposal from U.S. President Donald Trump to Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba could reshape Japan’s future air...
Key Points – The advanced F-35B Lightning II fighters operated by the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm will continue to...
A New Chapter for Forward-Deployed Naval Aviation in the Indo-Pacific – In a landmark event for U.S. naval aviation, F-35C Lightning II aircraft have,...
The Turkish Navy has marked a significant advancement in its undersea warfare capabilities with the launch of TCG MURATREİS (S-332), the third vessel in...
