Steve Balestrieri is a National Security Columnist. He has served as a US Special Forces NCO and Warrant Officer before injuries forced his early separation. In addition to writing on defense, he covers the NFL for PatsFans.com and his work was regularly featured in the Millbury-Sutton Chronicle and Grafton News newspapers in Massachusetts.
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Key Points – Israel’s F-35I Adir, a specially modified variant of Lockheed Martin’s stealthy F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, gives the Israeli Air Force (IAF)...
The Russian Kirov-class Battlecruisers were the largest and heaviest surface vessels, not aircraft carriers, on the sea during the Cold War. Russia initially planned...
Key Points: Clearer photos of China’s Shenyang J-50 sixth-generation fighter concept, first seen in December 2024, show a tailless, twin-engine, lambda-wing design with features...
Key Points – The US Navy’s decade-long effort to develop a ship-based electromagnetic railgun (EMRG), costing $500 million, was ultimately unsuccessful, leading to the...
Key Points: The US Army’s M10 Booker armored vehicle program is criticized as a prime example of a flawed requirements process. -Initially intended as...