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Europe's flagship joint fighter program, FCAS, has collapsed over a Franco-German feud. France's answer: pour its money into the Rafale F5, an upgrade so...
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Europe's flagship joint fighter program, FCAS, has collapsed over a Franco-German feud. France's answer: pour its money into the Rafale F5, an upgrade so...
The United Kingdom’s Vanguard-class submarines are the Royal Navy’s persistent, continuous nuclear deterrent force at sea. A class of just four boats, one of...
America has the Abrams, Germany the Leopard 2, Britain the Challenger — and Italy has the Ariete, the tank NATO forgets and often mocks....
The US Army has officially received the next-generation Javelin anti-tank weapon system, featuring a new Lightweight Command Launch Unit (LW-CLU) that significantly improves range,...
NATO is not collapsing, but it is changing: some of its most important members want the alliance's protection while keeping a freer hand outside...
Europe's most ambitious fighter program is dead: the Franco-German FCAS collapsed after Paris and Berlin couldn't agree on control. Now eight German and Spanish...
France's brand-new nuclear carrier broke a propeller mid-Atlantic in 2000 and limped home on one screw. The fix: vintage propellers pulled off the 1960s...
A US Marine Corps F-35B flew the first Meteor missile tests — for America's allies. When integration completes, British and Italian F-35s will out-range...
On May 9, 2026, Russia held its annual Victory Day parade in Red Square. It was the shortest in the event’s history. Just 43...
The conventional wisdom in Washington is that the Iran ceasefire now frees up American diplomatic energy to refocus on the war in Ukraine—but that...