Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Key Points: The F-35 Lightning II, despite its staggering $2 trillion lifecycle cost, remains essential for U.S. and allied military readiness. While the aircraft...
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Key Points: The F-35 Lightning II, despite its staggering $2 trillion lifecycle cost, remains essential for U.S. and allied military readiness. While the aircraft...
Key Points: The Royal Navy’s HMS Talent, a Trafalgar-class submarine, survived a collision with an ice flow in 2015, suffering significant damage, including a...
Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan is playing with and stoking fires in Syria. Following the major military offensive mounted by the Salafi-jihadist forces of Hayat...
Key Points: The USS America, a Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier, was deliberately sunk in 2005 during a “SinkEx” live-fire exercise to study its survivability...
Key Points: The AGM-158 JASSM (Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile) now has an Extreme Range (XR) variant, unveiled by Lockheed Martin. -With a range of...
Key Points: In news you might have missed before the Thanksgiving holiday, U.S. Marine Corps’ F-35C, the carrier variant of the Lightning II, saw...
Key Points: A captured German Leopard 2A6 tank is now being dissected at Russia’s Uralvagonzavod tank factory, offering Moscow intelligence to enhance its T-90...
Not Enough Missiles: The U.S. defense industrial base is under pressure as munitions supplied to Ukraine, the Middle East, and allies have thinned stockpiles, raising...
Key Points: South Korea has ordered its first 20 KF-21 Boramae fighters from Korea Aerospace Industries for $1.41 billion, with delivery expected by 2026...
Key Points: The Vespa 150 TAP, a French military adaptation of the iconic scooter, was an inventive solution for post-WWII urban and airborne combat....