Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Daryl Caudle told Congress this month that the Trump-class nuclear-powered guided-missile battleship will use the A1B nuclear reactor — the same one that powers the Ford-class aircraft carrier. The lead ship will be named the USS Defiant. The Navy considered conventional propulsion to speed delivery but ultimately returned to nuclear, with Caudle saying nuclear is the exact right answer. Existing Ford-class reactor plant components — steam generators, pressurizers, reactor coolant pumps — will carry across.
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In future fights, deployed troops could be resupplied with critical supplies by a six-wheeled vehicle that is small enough to be transported in an MV-22B Osprey, so it can go places larger vehicles can’t reach, according to Polaris, which is developing the vehicle for the military.
The Polaris MRZR Alpha 6×6 can carry up to 3,000 pounds of cargo, which is about 1,000 pounds more than what can be carried by the Marine Corps’ four-seat version of the vehicle, said Erin Telander, defense program manager for Polaris.
Israel’s F-16I Sufa — Storm in Hebrew — is a heavily modified two-seat F-16D Block 50/52 built by Lockheed Martin and customized by Israeli defense industries for the Israeli Air Force. The Sufa can reach Iran or Libya without refueling thanks to Israeli-designed conformal fuel tanks that extend its range by 50% and let it carry 50% more weapons. Israel operates more than 360 F-16s — second only to the U.S. Air Force globally. Half of the aircraft’s avionics are Israeli, including the Elisra SPS 3000 self-protection jammer and Elbit’s DASH IV helmet.
Rear Admiral Mike Brookes testified to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission in March that Beijing is building an undersea Great Wall of sensors — integrating air, surface, seabed, and undersea systems into a networked architecture designed to track American submarines and push them out of contested waters. China’s Blue Ocean Information Network combines a seabed sensor grid with satellite imagery from the Ocean Star Cluster, smart buoys, wave gliders, autonomous underwater vehicles, and the Deep Blue Brain data integration system.
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China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force has deployed the upgraded J-20A stealth fighter to the 41st Air Brigade at Wuyishan Air Base in Fujian province, directly across the Taiwan Strait from the island. The brigade replaced its 1960s-era J-7s with baseline J-20s in 2023, and the J-20A introduces China’s long-awaited WS-15 engine — providing more thrust, longer range, better supercruise, and ending Beijing’s dependence on Russian AL-31 powerplants.
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In 2025, Choong-Koo Lee wrote, “Putting the Screws on the Partnership Between North Korea and Russia,” where he argued that the United States and South Korea should work together to weaken Pyongyang and Moscow’s military relationship. A year later, we asked him to revisit his arguments.Image: The Kremlin via Wikimedia CommonsIn your 2025 article, you argued that the United States and South Korea should work together to limit the deepening military relationship between Russia and North Korea. How has the U.S.
NASA’s Galileo spacecraft launched aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis on October 18, 1989 and reached Jupiter on December 7, 1995 after a six-year journey involving gravity-assist flybys of Venus and Earth. It became the first spacecraft to orbit an outer planet. Galileo’s atmospheric probe endured deceleration forces of nearly 228 Gs and temperatures of 15,000°C while measuring winds exceeding 400 mph inside Jupiter. The orbiter found strong evidence of a global liquid-water ocean beneath Europa’s ice and revealed Io as the most volcanically active body in the Solar System.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has frozen the broader Lockheed Martin F-35A purchase, committing to only 16 of an originally agreed 88 jets in a 2023 deal worth roughly C$19 billion. Ottawa is reportedly weighing Saab’s JAS 39 Gripen-E as an alternative with potential domestic assembly. The Pentagon paused U.S. participation in the Permanent Joint Board on Defense on May 18 — the bilateral forum created under the 1940 Ogdensburg Agreement that laid groundwork for NORAD.