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The Eurofighter Typhoon first entered service in the early 2000s, the product of a multinational European effort to produce a modern air superiority fighter.
Originally designed during the late Cold War to counter Soviet aircraft, the Typhoon’s role has been incrementally expanded, ensuring enduring relevance long after the Soviet threat disappeared.
A German Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon flies over Alaska during exercise Arctic Defender 24 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 8, 2024.
The US Army’s one-two punch on the battlefield during the Cold War was the M1A1 Abrams main battle tank and the M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV). Both platforms were supplied to Ukraine for its war against Russia and were operated mostly by the 47th Mechanized Brigade.
The M1A1’s performance in theatre has been less impressive than anticipated, for a number of reasons. One of those is that this tank was not supplied in sufficient numbers. Other complications, such as logistical support and less than adequate maintenance, also have arisen.
The Australian government is investing an initial amount of A$126.9m ($90.7m) to strengthen domestic production of solid rocket motors.
An Army infantryman at Fort Polk, Louisiana, cited the “cause” of white nationalism in online threats to attack a synagogue and kill “every single Jew,” according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday.
Spec. Jakob Marcoulier, 22, was charged April 23 with transmitting a threat in interstate commerce. The FBI obtained audio recordings of comments Marcoulier allegedly made on the messaging platform Discord in which he threatened to act in the coming months “if the Jews still have reign over our government,” the indictment stated.
When you hear about Russian subs and warships i
As far back as 2019, Air Force weapons developers said the fighter had received massive structural upgrades to its upper wing skin and fittings, upper and lower bulkhead, and canopy sill longeron.
These adjustments extended the F-16’s service life by up to 4,000 flight hours, increasing its operational capability from 8,000 to 12,000 flight hours.
F-16 Fighting Falcon National Security Journal Photo. Taken on 9/18/2025 Onboard USS Intrepid.
The U.S. war effort in Iran has created a real-world testing ground of U.S. military capabilities that might be needed in a potential future conflict with China.
While Iran and China differ greatly in scale and power, the current conflict can serve as a laboratory for refining tactics, technologies, and operational concepts that would be critical in a showdown with a more powerful adversary.
The U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team performs during the 2025 Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Air Show in San Diego, Sept. 27, 2025.
Hungary has turned the page. After 16 years of rule by Viktor Orbán, opposition leader Péter Magyar has emerged as the winner by a landslide. Ryan is joined by Sándor Ésik, the lawyer and writer behind the Hungarian Muse, to understand how Orbán built his “soft-authoritarian” system, how it failed to stave off Magyar’s challenge, and what comes next. Of course, Orbán was anti-Ukrainian, pro-Russian, and antagonistic towards the European Union, so they also discuss what a post-Orbán Hungary means on those fronts.
Here’s a fact that does not exactly inspire confidence, at least until we really dig into what this may or may not mean: China’s navy is now larger than the U.S. Navy.
That point is repeated so often that it has begun to stand in for analysis.
It shouldn’t.
Fleet size, taken on its own, tells us very little about the question that actually matters: whether the United States can bring effective naval power to bear in the Western Pacific when it needs to.
That is the issue on which any serious contingency in the region would turn.