Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – The Soviet Union’s Alfa-class (Project 705 Lira) submarine, introduced in 1971, was a revolutionary hunter-killer boat designed for high-speed interception. -Its...
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Dollars and Sense
The EIA raised its oil forecast as the Hormuz disruption drains global inventories, with July's shut-in topping one in every twenty barrels the world...
The Treaty
Trump declared the "Immediate, Complete, and Total" opening of the strait on August 1. Days later Iran's foreign ministry is still describing a reopening...
The Treaty
Trump calls it a chess game and says he's only semi-negotiating. Meanwhile the demands Iran once reserved for nuclear talks are attached to the...
Ukraine War
The alliance's mutual-defense clause has been triggered once in seventy-six years, after 9/11. It was written before cyberwarfare existed, and that ambiguity is exactly...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said on TV this week that he found it “very difficult” to reach the country’s Supreme Leader. But that might...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
A top German General says Russia is preparing to launch a wider war as it fights a full-scale conflict in Ukraine. The Kremlin, he...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Trump's Ankara promise to license PAC-3 production to Ukraine has stalled over the missile's Ka-band seeker — technology so sensitive it has never been...
Ukraine War
Putin threatens to answer European ship seizures 'anywhere,' even the Pacific — while just nine of up to a thousand shadow tankers sit held.
Ukraine War
Zelensky called the overnight strikes on Novorossiysk a 'unique operation' against the Russian fleet's last major Black Sea stronghold — the port it fled...
Ukraine War
Putin's week of victory promises collided with secret funerals in Moscow. A major general was buried in a closed, guarded ceremony; state registers point...
The Treaty
A rebel missile strike on a commercial vessel at Bab el-Mandeb killed crew members and rescuers Wednesday — a turn the AP says risks...
The Treaty
Pakistan and Qatar say a US-Iran arrangement is taking shape, with Iran and Oman reportedly agreed on coordinates for a temporary Hormuz navigation system....
The Treaty
Nobody can say what has actually been agreed. Some reports have Iran collecting tolls under the framework; others call that a non-starter. Meanwhile Tehran's...
Dollars and Sense
A US MH-60 put two Hellfires into the steering gear of the Panama-flagged Vela Nova as it tried to run the Hormuz blockade —...
Dollars and Sense
President Trump told Axios the United States is 'only semi-negotiating' with Iran, shifting to a strategy of waiting Tehran out while the blockade takes...
Dollars and Sense
Both sides now want to be paid. Tehran demands reparations for war damage; Trump says Iran should compensate the families of protesters it killed...
North Korea Talk
Ukraine's defense intelligence says Russian missile factories exceeded July's production targets across the board, even as Moscow leans on ballistic missiles from Pyongyang and,...
North Korea Talk
More than 120 Shahed-style drones flew as well, and Kyiv says they were upgraded jet-powered versions of the Iranian design. Russia has now taken...
North Korea Talk
Through its long war against Ukraine, Russia has received reinforcements from North Korea. Now, more of that is on the way. According to The...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – The General Dynamics F-111 “Aardvark,” born from the 1960s TFX program, was a groundbreaking tactical strike aircraft and the first production...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – The USS United States, a post-WWII “supercarrier” designed to launch heavy strategic bombers, represented a bold vision for naval air power...