The Treaty
Key Points and Summary – Recent Russian incursions—drones over Poland, MiG-31s into Estonia, suspected violations elsewhere—aren’t accidents; they’re deliberate gray-zone probes. -By using cheap...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – USS America, a conventionally powered Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier, served from Vietnam through Desert Storm before retiring in 1996. -In...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The SR-71 was retired in 1990 on cost and survivability grounds despite unmatched speed, altitude, and responsiveness. -Congress forced...
Ukraine War
Key Points and Summary – Russia emerges from Ukraine bloodied but adaptive: more drones, EW, glide bombs, and routinized long-range strikes; increased but stressed...
The Treaty
Key Points and Summary – Beijing faces overlapping clocks on Taiwan: political pressure to show progress as growth and demography worsen; uneven military readiness...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Su-75 Checkmate is being crowded out by war economics and operational reality. -Russia’s defense industry is focused on...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Desert Storm began with overwhelming coalition airpower—but not without loss. Guided by ground controllers, Iraqi pilot Zuhair Dawoud in...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – RIMPAC 2024’s SINKEX of ex-USS Tarawa marked LRASM’s coming-of-age: a carrier-launched, stealth cruise missile autonomously found and struck a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The F-35 is the planet’s best fighter precisely because it is more than a fighter: a stealthy, fused-sensor “quarterback”...