Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Synopsis: Russia’s post-Soviet arms exports to China were a pragmatic bargain: Moscow needed hard currency and industrial survival, while Beijing needed a rapid modernization...
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Synopsis: Russia’s post-Soviet arms exports to China were a pragmatic bargain: Moscow needed hard currency and industrial survival, while Beijing needed a rapid modernization...
Summary and Key Points: AUKUS plans to deliver Virginia-class submarines to Australia are portrayed as increasingly strained by U.S. production limits and the Navy’s...
Summary and Key Points: The B-21 Raider is positioned to replace aging B-2s and B-1Bs, but the planned buy of 100 bombers may be...
Summary and Key Points: The Air Force is pursuing roughly $50 million in FY 2026 funding to add External Heavy-Stores Pylons to the B-1B...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Air Force’s B-21 Raider program achieved a significant milestone in September 2025 with the addition of a second...
China’s lesser-known bomber effort—dubbed JH-XX by U.S. intelligence—appears designed to complement the H-20 with a smaller, tactical stealth strike aircraft. A 2019 DIA report...
While legendary platforms like the XB-70 Valkyrie were doomed by advancing air defenses, the U.S. Air Force’s new B-21 Raider is designed to defeat...
B-36 Peacemaker: The 10,000-Mile Bomber Built for a World Without Britain In the early days of the Second World War, Nazi Germany had the...
Summary and Key Points: A B-52 Lost in Greenland Carrying Nukes -Greenland’s renewed political spotlight intersects with an older, darker episode: the January 1968...
Synopsis and Key Points: China’s long-rumored H-20 stealth bomber appears to be moving closer to reality, promising China’s first dedicated strategic bomber and a...