The UK’s National Armaments Director (NAD) Group has awarded a £20m ($26m) contract to Lockheed Martin UK for the delivery of the advanced hypersonic target programme, Project Bowline.
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Yemen’s Houthis Are Turning the Gate of Tears Into the Iran War’s Second Oil Front: Yemen’s Houthis have turned Bab el-Mandeb, the narrow Red Sea passage often translated as the “Gate of Tears,” into the Iran war’s second oil front. NBC News reported that Houthi forces attacked Saudi-linked tankers after declaring a blockade on shipping connected to the kingdom, threatening the route Riyadh expanded when Hormuz became too dangerous.
Saudi authorities confirmed that Encelia was struck and caught fire near Jizan, although its crew escaped injury.
Trump Says Iran Will Pay for the Next Houthi Attack: President Donald Trump says another Houthi attack on commercial shipping will bring major American retaliation against both the group in Yemen and Iran. The warning issued July 23 makes Tehran responsible for future Houthi action and moves the Red Sea closer to the center of the U.S.-Iran war.
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The Post 9/11 wars have shown the limits of America’s military might against insurgents, terrorist groups, and other enemies that fight in the shadows instead of in force-on-force battles.
Yet with the Iran war, the U.S. military is once again waging a largely conventional campaign against an enemy that excels in unconventional tactics, as the Pentagon has long known.
The need to develop secure 5G battlefield networks is increasingly critical, with electronic warfare effectors saturating the digital domain.
Ukraine’s ongoing strike campaigns against Russia’s shadow fleet have become one of the more significant facets of the war’s developing economic dimension.
What began initially as a broader effort to push the Russian Black Sea Fleet away from the Ukrainian coast has gradually expanded into a strategy aimed at the commercial shipping network that facilitates the flow of illicit Russian oil despite Western sanctions on Russian energy products.
Oil Tanker. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
The campaign has severe ramifications.
Ukraine’s ongoing strike campaign against Crimea has seen hundreds of munitions rain down on targets across the peninsula.
Fuel depots, ammunition dumps, key transportation nodes and military-relevant targets, including air defense batteries, have erupted into flame, causing an acute fuel shortage in Crimea, occupied by Russian forces since 2014.
A High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) with the 1st Battalion, 181st Field Artillery Regiment fires toward a designated target at Yausubetsu Training Area, Hokkaido, Japan on Sept. 20, 2023. U.S.
Trump’s Approval Falls to 36% as Republicans Face a Midterm Warning: President Donald Trump’s job approval has fallen near the lowest point of his second term, giving Republicans another warning as the November midterm elections approach. A USA Today report on the latest survey highlighted a widening gap between the president’s support and opposition.
The Economist/YouGov poll conducted from July 17 through July 20 found that 36 percent of Americans approved of Trump’s job performance and 60 percent disapproved. The net rating of minus 24 was near his second-term low.
As the last Marines awaited rescue from Vietnam on April 30, 1975, they gathered on the rooftop of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. Tired and nervous, they engaged in idle chatter. A primary topic of conversation was whether anyone was coming to get them before the city fell to the North Vietnamese.
Maj. Jim Kean, their commanding officer, had his doubts until two of his Marines spotted a contrail in the sky, journalists Bob Drury and Tom Clavin chronicled in the 2011 Smithsonian magazine article, “Last Men Out.
Ukraine and Russia Have Turned a 30-Kilometer Strip Into a Drone Kill Zone: Ukraine and Russia have transformed a broad band around their 1,200-kilometer front into a zone where persistent drone observation makes ordinary movement highly dangerous. A Reuters reconstruction published July 23 describes a contested strip that can extend roughly 15 kilometers behind each side’s forward positions, although terrain, weather, and the quality of local drone units change its depth.
The result is a battlefield built around concealment rather than concentration.