Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Operation Epic Fury, aka Operation Roaring Lion, i.e., the joint U.S.-Israeli military operation against the theocratic terrorist regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran...
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Operation Epic Fury, aka Operation Roaring Lion, i.e., the joint U.S.-Israeli military operation against the theocratic terrorist regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran...
Iran operates an undersea fleet of roughly 4 to 6 diesel-electric attack submarines armed with weapons, yet very little is known about how many...
New Countermine System Aims to Flip Script for U.S. Naval Allies: One aspect of naval warfare that the United States and its allies must...
Iran Has Threatened to Mine the Entire Persian Gulf — The Houthis Could Extend Mining to the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait Just...
An Amphibious Assault on the Strait of Hormuz Won’t Look Like Iwo Jima — It’ll Come From the Air With F-35Bs, Ospreys, and 82nd...
China’s Sea Mines Are Even Better and More Plentiful Than Iran’s Sea mines are a fact of life in the Strait of Hormuz. The...
Former Pentagon expert Kris Osborn examines the surprising redemption of the Littoral Combat Ship. Once criticized for its lack of blue-water survivability, the LCS...
Summary and Key Points: As of March 21, 2026, the Strait of Hormuz has become the primary laboratory for the U.S. Navy’s most advanced...
Iran has more than 5,000 naval mines and a doctrine built around closing the Strait of Hormuz — and the U.S. Navy's only minesweeping...
Jack Buckby, a New York-based defense analyst and British researcher, evaluates the shift toward asymmetric mine warfare in the Persian Gulf. CBS News reports...