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Key Points: The Russian Su-35 Flanker-E and American F-16 Fighting Falcon represent contrasting strengths in air combat, with upcoming Ukrainian-Russian engagements likely to test...
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Key Points: The Russian Su-35 Flanker-E and American F-16 Fighting Falcon represent contrasting strengths in air combat, with upcoming Ukrainian-Russian engagements likely to test...
Who’s up next for the toughest job in the world? Secretary of Defense is probably the single most difficult job in the US government,...
Key Points: Iran is upgrading its Cold War-era M60 Patton tanks to bolster its military amid potential threats from Israel or a Sunni coalition....
Key Points: Australia’s AUKUS plan for acquiring eight nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) is fraught with challenges, including delays, cost overruns, and doubts about U.S....
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...