Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Last week, the tried-and-true USS Nimitz aircraft carrier completed an important mission. The historic flat-top had been assigned to the Southern Command area of...
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Last week, the tried-and-true USS Nimitz aircraft carrier completed an important mission. The historic flat-top had been assigned to the Southern Command area of...
For the first time, China has released footage of its DF-17 hypersonic missile launching, filmed during a desert exercise simulating waves of strikes. Flying...
For more than a decade, America's X-37B spaceplane has quietly circled the Earth for months, even years, at a time, running classified experiments that...
America won the Moon race in 1969, then mothballed the rockets that got it there, leaving only disassembled Saturn Vs in museums. Now it...
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...