Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary: A new GAO report says the F-35’s Block 4 modernization is at least five years late and $6B over estimates....
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Ukraine War
When Putin admitted Russia's fuel shortages, he meant to look like a state in control. Instead he confirmed what Ukraine has quietly engineered: not...
The Treaty
For four years Putin projected nothing but confidence. This weekend that cracked: he admitted Russia faces a fuel deficit as Ukrainian drones torched yet...
Ukraine War
Ukraine has done real damage deep inside Russia — burning refineries, hunting fuel convoys, turning the rear into a battlefield Moscow can no longer...
Ukraine War
Crimea is the territory Putin prized above every other conquest — and right now it's blacked out, rationing fuel, and under emergency rule his...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The ceasefire that ended the latest U.S.-Iran war is looking dangerously thin. Tehran has warned that any further American strike would violate the agreement's...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The nightly drone and missile barrages have reached Moscow often enough that Putin is now reinforcing the air defenses around the capital with new...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Iran's economy is buckling. Inflation has hit its highest level since 1942, food prices have more than doubled, the rial is collapsing toward record...
Ukraine War
Crimea was the prize of Putin's empire — seized without a shot in 2014, the "unsinkable aircraft carrier" anchoring Russia's war in the south....
Ukraine War
It's an admission that would have been unthinkable a year ago: the Kremlin says Russia, one of the world's biggest exporters of refined fuel,...
Ukraine War
Ukraine's deep-strike campaign just escalated past the refineries. Overnight, Kyiv hit the Dubna space-communications center outside Moscow — Russia's largest such complex and a...
The Treaty
After a weekend of strikes across the Persian Gulf, the U.S. and Iran just agreed to stand down and meet in Doha on Tuesday....
The Treaty
Hours after U.S. aircraft struck Iranian missile sites and coastal radar over attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, Trump issued a warning Tehran can't...
The Treaty
Shipping is "literally caught in the crossfire," one analyst says, as the U.S. and Iran battle for control of the Strait of Hormuz. After...
Dollars and Sense
The fight over the Strait of Hormuz has moved off the water and into the wording of diplomatic statements. Months after Iran’s blockade of...
Dollars and Sense
Oil just posted its worst quarter in five years, sliding all the way back to where it traded before the U.S. and Israel struck...
Dollars and Sense
The Strait of Hormuz was finally reopening — then two tankers were attacked, the U.S. struck Iran again, and shipping collapsed from 70 crossings...
North Korea Talk
North Korea stalled, negotiated, and built the bomb anyway — and its 2022 doctrine orders everything launched if its leaders are ever struck. Kim...
North Korea Talk
The recent North Korea–China summit highlights Beijing’s increasing concern over Moscow’s growing influence in Pyongyang. Since the Ukraine war began, Russia and North Korea...
North Korea Talk
Manila, Philippines – On the occasion of his visit to Pyongyang, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping has received one of the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Planet Labs imagery reviewed by The War Zone reveals a large, dark flying-wing drone at China’s Malan test base...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The B-58 Hustler was the world’s first operational Mach 2 bomber, built when the Air Force believed speed and...