Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Key Points and Summary – In the 1970s and 80s, the U.S. Navy considered converting Iowa-class battleships into “battlecarriers” equipped with flight decks for...
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Key Points and Summary – In the 1970s and 80s, the U.S. Navy considered converting Iowa-class battleships into “battlecarriers” equipped with flight decks for...
Synopsis and Key Points: U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II stealth fighters played a pivotal role in Operation Absolute Resolve on January 3, executing...
Synopsis: Boeing has confirmed that the U.S. Air Force’s new F-47 sixth-generation fighter has already entered production, a milestone achieved rapidly due to a...
Synopsis: In a rare personnel move, U.S. Army Master Sergeant Jeremy Chambers was directly promoted to the rank of Captain, bypassing the standard Lieutenant...
Synopsis: On January 7, 2026, U.S. forces, supported by the UK, seized the Russian-flagged tanker Marinera in the North Atlantic following a pursuit that...
Key Points and Summary – The X-44 MANTA was a radical NASA-Lockheed Martin concept from the 1990s designed to fly without vertical tails, relying...
Key Points and Synopsis: In a 1981 NATO exercise, a Canadian Oberon-class diesel-electric submarine shocked the world by “sinking” the U.S. Navy supercarrier USS...
Key Points and Summary – General George S. Patton is often remembered for his fierce WWII leadership, but his early life was defined by...
Synopsis: Despite the invention of autopilot in 1912 by Lawrence Sperry, U.S. Naval Aviators generally refuse to use it for landing on aircraft carriers....
Synopsis: Sun Tzu, the influential military strategist born circa 544 BC, is best known for The Art of War, a text still taught in...