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A further barrage of ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones was aimed at Kyiv on Tuesday.
Ukraine’s air force said Russia had launched ballistic missiles and dozens of the newer jet-powered drones at the city of 3 million.
Putin in June 2021 Russian State Media Photo
Putin Back in 2023. Image Credit: Russian Federation
The weapons are faster and fly higher than the propeller-powered Shahed-type drones that have been a staple of Russia’s long-range attacks.
The United States Navy’s shipbuilding crisis continues to compound. Unable to reliably build new warship classes domestically, the Navy had been unwilling (and legally barred by Congress) to procure new warships from foreign partners.
The Navy attempted to partner with an Italian shipbuilder with strong ties to the US defense industrial base, Fincantieri, for the Constellation-class, but the effort ended in total failure. The need for new warships, however, has not gone away.
Constellation-Class Frigate U.S. Navy. Image Credit: Industry Handout.
U.S.-Iran Mediators Working On A Deal – Mediators are reportedly pressing ahead with efforts to bring the war with Iran to an end, but disagreements over Iran’s nuclear future remain the main sticking point, according to two U.S. officials who spoke to The Associated Press.
New reports suggest that mediators are continuing to work on a potential deal to end the conflict.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has issued a 30-day statewide disaster declaration amid rising diesel prices in the Lone Star State.
Diesel prices across the country have reached record highs in recent weeks, largely due to Iran’s ongoing closure of the Strait of Hormuz and repeated attacks on oil refineries in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict.
B-1B Lancer Bomber U.S. Air Force Display. Image Credit: National Security Journal.
B-1B Lancer Bomber. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Gov. Abbott’s declaration comes just five weeks before Texas votes in the forthcoming gubernatorial election.
The Kremlin has found a new way to fill its trenches. It’s shopping for Americans.
According to a New York Post report now making the rounds, Russian recruiters are offering U.S. citizens, including former American service members, a signing bonus of about $26,000 plus a monthly salary to fight in Ukraine.
A U.S. M1A1 Abrams tank needed for training the Armed Forces of Ukraine awaits offloading at Grafenwoehr, Germany, May 14, 2023. The M1A1 training is expected to last several weeks and will include live fire, crew qualification, maneuver, and maintainer training.
Iran claims that its attacks in the Strait of Hormuz have pushed American forces away from its coastlines, despite Washington’s insistence that more than one billion barrels of crude oil have passed through the region under its military protection.
19 large ships exited the strategic waterway last week, according to Kpler trade tracking data obtained by Reuters.
The French Marine Nationale aircraft carrier FS Charles De Gaulle (R91), and the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) are underway in formation in the Red Sea, April 15, 2019. The John C.
President Donald Trump is signaling that the United States does not intend to settle the Iran war with any sort of return to the prewar status quo. Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump said the US is going to “win” the war. “We’re going to win,” Trump said. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s going to be one way or the other.” The remarks come as the diplomatic track appears increasingly uncertain. The question now is what Trump would deem a sufficient victory.
It doesn’t often fall to the Secretary of the Treasury to make belligerent threats to the nation’s foreign adversaries, but Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent did just that this week.
Appearing on Fox Business’ “Sunday Morning Futures” program over the weekend, as the New York Post reported, Bessent said Iran will likely run out of things to trade within two weeks, forcing the Islamic Republic into a favorable deal.
STRAIT OF HORMUZ (May 1, 2012) The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), left, and the guided-missile cruiser USS Cape St.
President Donald Trump came back into office in 2025, after promising to bring an end to Russia and Ukraine’s war, possibly as soon as his first day in office. Weeks later, the president and Vice President JD Vance dressed down Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, implying to him that he couldn’t win the war and should accept peace. Trump had even mocked Zelensky for wearing casual clothes to the meeting.
In the year and a half since then, as with most things, Trump has gone back and forth between differing public positions.
During World War II, two regiments of Marines played a legendary game of American football on Guadalcanal while training for the upcoming invasion of Okinawa. For many, it would be the last game they ever played.