Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
China, despite aggressively exporting a wide variety of military hardware, is unlikely to ever export the J-20 Mighty Dragon stealth fighter. While international interest...
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China, despite aggressively exporting a wide variety of military hardware, is unlikely to ever export the J-20 Mighty Dragon stealth fighter. While international interest...
An aircraft carrier's reach is its air wing's combat radius — and China's missiles now outrange it. To strike, a carrier must sail into...
Beijing calls its largest warship a destroyer. Washington calls it a cruiser. At 13,000 tons and 112 launch cells, the Type 055 is bigger...
China is racing toward nine aircraft carriers by 2035, the fastest carrier buildup since World War II. But a carrier never fights alone —...
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...
The MQ-25 Stingray just cleared Milestone C, moving the world's first carrier-based autonomous aircraft toward the fleet. It isn't a fighter or a bomber...
Russia's T-14 Armata was hailed as the future of tank warfare. In Ukraine it's almost absent — too valuable to risk — while the...
For years the West dismissed China's fighters as second-tier. Then the J-10CE reportedly beat the Eurofighter Typhoon in all nine simulated engagements — and...
The Ticonderoga-class cruisers were the most heavily armed surface warships America ever built — 122 missile cells each. Congress forced the Navy to keep...
After more than $12 billion and a string of failed tests, the US Army is finishing the first battery of Dark Eagle — America's...