L Todd Wood and former Special Mission Unit Commander Pete Blaber discuss the Iran conflict, and how Europe is pushing for war with Russia as the Ukraine conflict may be coming to an end.
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Russian forces attempted to shoot down a real stork with an FPV interceptor drone on the southern front.
The stork narrowly escaped by entering a sharp spin at the last moment to evade the attack.
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Summary and Key Points: Congress and the Pentagon are reviewing the Ford-class aircraft carrier program — including whether the CVN-80 and CVN-81 block buy actually delivered the promised savings before authorizing a future CVN-82 and CVN-83 block.
-The Ford-class supply chain involves over 2,000 specialized sub-vendors, and abruptly canceling the line would collapse the U.S. carrier industrial base. Designing, testing, and certifying a clean-sheet replacement would take 10 to 15 years before the first steel is cut.
Everyone is again talking about a potential deal between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran that will end the war and see the Strait of Hormuz, which remains closed despite a (shaky) ceasefire being in place, reopened to all civilian shipping.
Yet again, it seems, the world has amnesia. We’ve all been down the false path of peace talks between the Trump administration and Tehran. Every time, it has yielded no results whatsoever (other than keeping the Strait of Hormuz closed).
One of the first things I did when I moved to a new home just south of Orlando after leaving national security think tank-land in DC was to make as many contacts in the space community as I could. I have been fortunate to meet a number of past and present SpaceX employees, and I have to say they are some of the smartest and most fascinating people I have ever met. In fact, my uncle worked for NASA, helping design and maintain the Space Shuttle back in the 1980s and 1990s.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has the world’s largest arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons and has rattled his nuclear saber quite often since the war in Ukraine started, and as he keeps trying to use nuclear blackmail against the West.
Western intelligence and security analysts generally view the actual deployment of those weapons as highly unlikely. However, he keeps repeating it, trying to unnerve the West, but it has had the opposite effect.
MiG-31 Russian Air Force. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Su-33 Flanker from Russia. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
The MITRE Corporation confirmed that insiders are reviewing its archives to comply with a recent production request from Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., who pressed the not-for-profit organization for dozens of assets that would reveal whether it currently has or previously possessed information on unidentified anomalous phenomena and associated unexplained technologies.
Summary and Key Points: The United States Navy originally planned a fleet of 29 Seawolf-class attack submarines, but only 3 were built before the program was canceled following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
-Each Seawolf used HY-100 steel, which allowed the boat to operate at greater depths and could carry as many as 50 Tomahawk cruise missiles. The cancellation directly contributed to the Navy’s current submarine deficit.
Summary and Key Points: Ukrainian drone strikes have knocked out 25 percent of Russia’s oil refining capacity, forcing Moscow to ban diesel and aviation fuel exports. Since February 2022, Ukraine has carried out 158 strikes against Russian oil refineries and hit 24 of its 33 major facilities.
-Russia’s average refining rate in April fell to 4.69 million barrels per day — the lowest level in more than 16 years.
The 11th Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) concluded on May 22. Held every five years, the conference offers an opportunity to evaluate the treaty’s implementation, respond to technological and geopolitical developments, and reinforce states’ commitment to the treaty. For the third time in a row, the conference failed to reach consensus on a final document.We asked five experts for their perspectives on what the conference achieved — or failed to achieve.Read more below.