Category Added in a WPeMatico Campaign
The U.S. government raised its oil price forecast on Tuesday as the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, and the conflict with Iran continues to drain global inventories.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration now expects Brent crude to average around $85 per barrel through the third quarter of 2026 and $86.81 across the whole year.
Oil Platform. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Generic Oil Tanker Image. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
The agency estimates that roughly 5.
FORT IRWIN, Calif. — Spc. Christopher Frank donned bright white goggles that stuck out against the desert valley. The scouts were surrounded by rocky hills like the ones they had been humping new drone gear up over the past few days. It would be over 100 degrees by the afternoon, and the soldiers were already covered in a thin film of dirt and sweat.
Frank sat on a bulky black case, looking through the first-person view headset. He told Sgt.
The United States and Iran are once again moving closer to an agreement that will reopen the Strait of Hormuz and pave the way to end the conflict, according to two regional governments involved in mediation efforts.
It’s not the first time such a claim has been made in recent weeks, but it is once again injecting some optimism into global oil markets and leaving Gulf governments hopeful that military action in the region may soon cease.
A B-2 Spirit soars after a refueling mission over the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, May 30, 2006.
On the night of 8-9 August, Ukrainian drones destroyed an Almaz-Antey S-400 missile launch assembly.
That unit had been used to cover the airspace over one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s palatial residences from long-range missile and drone strikes.
German soldiers assigned to Surface Air and Missile Defense Wing 1 fire the Patriot weapons system at the NATO Missile Firing Installation (NAMFI) during Artemis Strike Nov. 7 in Chania, Greece. Artemis Strike is a German-led multinational air defense exercise. German soldiers Over 200 U.S.
CDR Salamander / Substack
One of the least helpful aspects of the modern-day battleship debate is the fact it has been so highly politicized.
Whenever an announcement of a milestone comes up, the first thing that has to be done in the search for useful information is to filter out the rabid partisans on the left and right who will support or oppose anything strictly through a partisan lens.
DAYTON, Ohio — While the Air Force is increasingly turning to artificial intelligence for its sustainment and maintenance needs, service officials say most efforts remain in experimentation or market research as they determine where the technology can provide meaningful gains.
Leaders from multiple portfolios told reporters at the Air Force’s Life Cycle Industry Days that they believe AI has wide-ranging potential to improve the service’s fleet availability — including predictive maintenance, supply chain management and broader decision support.
Crimea continues to be the punching bag of the Ukraine war as Kyiv ramps up its operations to make life tough for the Russian Army in the peninsula.
Originally annexed in 2014, reclaiming Crimea has been one of Ukraine’s main goals since the beginning of the war.
Putin in June 2016 Image Credit Russian Federation Photo
Since 2025, Ukrainian drones have been constantly harassing the Russians in the region, striking radars, air defenses, military installations, and pretty much anything else within their reach.
A recent Barak Ravid exclusive in Axios quotes US President Donald J. Trump as “low-key negotiating” with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
To be clear, the Iranian side denies having anything close to a direct negotiating link to the American administration.
M109 Artillery Creative Commons Photo.
The Iranian claims have been confirmed by the likes of Pakistan, a country whose leaders are very close with both the Trump administration and the Iranian regime.
Remember when U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met in the Oval Office last year?
It was perhaps one of the most memorable and disconcerting episodes in the history of relations between the two countries.
Tim Murry, a foreign threats compound contractor, drives a T-72 battle tank into position to serve as adversary targets for a joint service exercise, Emerald Flag, at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., Nov. 30. Emerald Flag is a multi-service exercise aimed to unify information sharing across joint domain platforms. (U.S.
For Netflix, India is not just an important market for gaining subscribers, it’s now an “indispendible” investment. A new six-part series called “Operation Safed Sagar” is now streaming—and it’s said to be “a spectacle on the scale of ‘Top Gun.’”
Also Read: One of the world’s largest-ever tank battles was between India and Pakistan
To produce the new series, Netflix got unprecedented access to the Indian Air Force, filming air combat sequences at an altitude of 16,000 feet. To make it all happen, the streamer hired 1,200 local visual effects technicians.