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Israel’s Newest Submarine Has a Sail So Big Nobody Will Say What’s Inside It
The INS Drakon was handed to the Israeli Navy in July 2026, described by its German builder as the last of the Dolphin AIP submarines. Photographs suggest otherwise. Its sail...
China’s New J-35 Stealth Fighter Showed Up Covered in Mirrors, and Nobody Knows Why
Images circulating since August 15 show China's J-35 stealth fighter with a mirror-like finish. The obvious guesses are a new radar-absorbent coating, a trick of the light, or an artefact...
Russia’s Su-57 Felon Stealth Fighter Just Went to War in Ukraine and That Comes with Some Clear Risks
While the platform is combat-tested, it doesn’t mean the Su-57 Felon is flying regularly in the most dangerous pockets of Ukraine for the Russian Air Force.
Trump Just Put Iran on Autopilot and America’s Enemies Should Worry
American forces struck Iranian positions preparing to fire mine-carrying missiles into the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran answered with a handful of missiles that reportedly caused no damage. What does the...
General Dynamics Land Systems Delivered its XM30 Wolf Infantry Fighting Vehicle to the US Army
Survivability drove the requirement. In an environment where cheap drones hunt armored vehicles constantly, the Army specified active protection systems, modular armour and signature-management technology as design features rather than...
The Mirage 2000 Is No F-15EX Eagle II, F-22, or F-35: But in Ukraine War It Proved to Be a Real Powerhouse
A Mirage 2000 aircraft went down over Volyn Oblast on July 22, 2025 during a combat mission. Ukraine attributed it to equipment failure, and Russia never claimed it.
A Russian MiG-25 Foxbat Could Hit Could Hit Mach 2.83 and Broke the Record at 123,523 Feet in the Sky
The record for the highest absolute altitude still belongs to Fedotov and the MiG-25 Foxbat from the USSR.
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: There Is Nothing Like the Remington 870 Shotgun
The Remington 870's journey from a 1950s hunting shotgun to a mainstay of American military arsenals reflects a broader truth about effective weapon design: simplicity and reliability often outlast complexity...
Russia’s ‘Black Hole’ Kilo-Class Submarine Is Now Being Replaced: New Lada-Class Submarine Is Being Built
The first submarine of this class, the Sankt-Peterburg, was laid down in December 1997 and launched in 2004. Complications from its propulsion system arose during testing, forcing the Russian Navy...
A Chinese J-16 Went Head-to-Head With J-10C, J-11B, JF-17, J-7, and Mirage III Fighters and Won the Dogfights over Pakistan
Among the capabilities reportedly demonstrated during the 2019 exercises was electronic attack: J-16s jamming the radars of the fighters flying against them. A large aircraft generates the power and cooling...
I Was a US Army Special Forces NCO: The I Loved Firing the M79 ‘Thumper’ Grenade Launcher As It Always Delivered and 350,000 Were Built
Visiting a training range, the SOCOM commander saw the M79s and lit up, remembering his time advising Vietnamese Ranger battalions. Offered a few rounds, he bet his aide - and...
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The M249 Light Machine Gun SAW Could Deliver a ‘Base of Fire’ Like Nothing Else
The M249 plastic ammunition box was the problem nobody writes about. In thick vegetation it announced the gunner long before anyone saw him.
The Lockheed Martin SR-72 ‘Son of Blackbird’: It Could Hit Mach 6 and 80,000 Feet But No One Really Knows If It Exists
The complete SR-72 Darkstar guide: the 2013 reveal, Lockheed's statements, the 2018 vanishing, the Top Gun mockup, and where the Mach 6 program stands now.
Silent Anvil: The US Navy Wants a New Torpedo That Glides to the Target Before It Ever Touches the Water
The Navy released a request for information on August 25 for the Silent Anvil Air-Launched Torpedo. The idea is to release the weapon from an aircraft a long way from...
S-400: Russia’s Air Defense Shield That the Ukraine War Proves Has Quite a Few Holes
Satellite imagery in August showed four S-400 launchers destroyed at Gelendzhik. The next day Ukraine said boat-launched drones burned two more in Crimea. The system those strikes were hunting is...
20 Decommissioned Royal Navy Submarines Have Sat in Dock Since 1992 Because the UK Had No Way to Dispose of Them.
As the British Royal Navy faces a real shipyard crisis and a shrinking submarine fleet, it is decommissioning its first retired nuclear-powered attack submarine, HMS Swiftsure, at the Rosyth Dockyard...
40,000 Tons of Power: US Navy Midway-Class Aircraft Carrier USS Coral Sea Had a Special Armored Flight Deck
One of the most interesting periods for the American aircraft carrier fleet came when the force transitioned from its World War II-era designs to Cold War-era designs intended to handle...
Voyager 2 Reached Uranus in January 1986 and Neptune in August 1989. Four Decades Later it Remains Humanity’s Only Close Look at Either Planet
In 1977, NASA launched two spacecraft during an ultra-rare window of celestial mechanics that humanity would not experience again for roughly 175 years. The window occurred when Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,...
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The Army Swapped the M1911 for the M9 Beretta in 1985. It Was a Downgrade.
Set every argument about triggers and safeties aside and one thing settles it: the M9 has no modularity and no integrated rail. There is nowhere to mount a light, a...
80,000-Ton Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Kitty Hawk Collided with Russian Nuclear Attack Submarine Moving at 15 Knots: Pieces of the Submarine Stuck to the Carrier’s Hull
At around 10:05pm on March 21, 1984, a Soviet nuclear attack submarine surfaced almost directly beneath an American supercarrier in the Sea of Japan. Kitty Hawk was steaming with 85...