Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Israel just disclosed that its elite Shayetet 13 naval commandos conducted an operation ‘thousands of kilometers’ from home with no backup and no viable...
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Israel just disclosed that its elite Shayetet 13 naval commandos conducted an operation ‘thousands of kilometers’ from home with no backup and no viable...
Summary and Key Points: Reuben F. Johnson, a veteran weapons analyst, evaluates the IDF’s March 3rd strikes on the Assembly of Experts in Qom...
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) entered Operation Epic Fury on March 1, 2026, not as a secondary partner, but as the primary regional "surgical"...
The opening 48 hours of Operation Epic Fury have done more than just degrade infrastructure; they have fundamentally severed the head of the Islamic...
Summary and Key Points: Israel’s F-16I Sufa is built on the F-16D Block 52 foundation, but it’s optimized for long-range, high-complexity strike missions. -Conformal...
F-15I Was Built for Long-Range Strikes—and the F-15EX Wasn’t: Summary and Key Points for This Article -The F-15 began as an air-to-air dominance fighter,...
Key Points: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have launched a major operation targeting remnants of the Syrian military following the fall of Damascus to...
Hezbollah is licking its lusty lips at the prospect of the bulk of the IDF becoming mired in a Fallujah-style ground war that consumes...
The nearly 50-year-old Merkava series of tanks has been a mainstay of Israel’s armored corps since its introduction to service. It could very well soon...
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said this week that the Israel Defense Forces is preparing for the next step in Operation Swords of Iron...