Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy decommissioned all four Avenger-class mine countermeasures ships from Bahrain in September 2025 — USS Devastator, USS Dextrous, USS Gladiator, and USS...
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Ukraine War
A Fox report details a 'dangerous new front': the executives and engineers behind drone technology are being hunted. A Russian FPV-drone boss was critically...
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...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
A senator's letter to the Pentagon raises water contamination, plumbing failures and mail that never arrives, and asks whether the Navy can sustain this...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Saudi Arabia's Red Sea pipeline hit its seven-million-barrel ceiling in the first quarter. The Emirati route to Fujairah is about half built and would...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Ukraine Might Have Found A Sneaky Way To Slowdown Russia’s Missile Attacks on Kyiv Night After Night
During his meeting with the head of Ukraine’s diplomatic posts abroad, Zelensky called out for closer coordination of sanctions among allied countries.
Ukraine War
Interceptor deliveries have fallen to a fraction of last year's while Russia fires roughly twice as many ballistic missiles a month. Poland's declassified ledger...
Ukraine War
Moscow is rerouting to the Baltic, the Caspian and overland — but the Azov route was already restricted in July, and Novorossiysk had stopped...
Ukraine War
The company was founded after the 2022 invasion and claims responsibility for around three-fifths of Ukraine's long-range strikes. It is also behind Freyja, the...
The Treaty
Pakistan again says a US-Iran arrangement is taking shape — but the author notes Islamabad was optimistic before the last deal, which collapsed days...
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....
Dollars and Sense
Governments hold around 900 million barrels of emergency oil between them. Beijing alone holds an estimated 1.4 billion and is drawing on it cautiously,...
Dollars and Sense
It grounded beside an archipelago whose waters were declared a nature reserve last year, home to Arabian Sea humpback whales and Socotra cormorants. Salvage...
Dollars and Sense
Gulf governments are no longer waiting for an answer. A new crude line at Fujairah, an $8.2 billion gas expansion in Abu Dhabi, an...
North Korea Talk
Roughly 9,500 are already there. Reuters reports North Korean supplies have at times covered around half of Russia's frontline munitions, and the next contingent...
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...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
‘A Combat Warplane’: The Dassault Rafale Fighter Doesn’t Care About the F-22 or F-35 Stealth Fighter
The Dassault Rafale is a French-built multirole fighter aircraft developed by Dassault Aviation to fulfill a wide variety of combat missions within a single...
The Treaty
U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio told reporters this week that Cuba poses a national security threat to the United...