Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
In April the U.S. Army pivoted away from Lockheed Martin's Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon, the "Dark Eagle," whose $35–40 million-per-missile cost made it nearly impossible...
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In April the U.S. Army pivoted away from Lockheed Martin's Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon, the "Dark Eagle," whose $35–40 million-per-missile cost made it nearly impossible...
President Trump called Taiwan's $14 billion U.S. weapons package a "bargaining chip" he was holding over China, leverage he could trade for concessions from...
The US has reportedly approved the first-ever export of the AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile (JATM) to Australia as part of a $31.6 billion...
Australia has test-fired its first domestically built GMLRS rockets, becoming the only country outside the United States to make them. But the rounds are...
China continues to defy expectations with its massive military buildup. As the Americans tut-tut about whatever overpriced and underperforming manned system, like the F-47...
Canada is just weeks from a decision that could become the most expensive procurement in its history: choosing the submarines that will guard its...
In the 1980s Israel built a fighter to rival the American F-16, the Lavi, and it flew beautifully. It never entered service. Washington had...
America's sixth-generation F-47 may be the most advanced fighter ever built, and could cost up to $300 million each. But in a war over...
China's J-20 "Mighty Dragon" is the only fifth-generation fighter in service built without a gun, a deliberate bet that stealth and long-range missiles have...
Iran's first danger after sanctions relief isn't the first Russian jet or Chinese radar it buys, argues scholar Andrew Latham. It's the workshop that...