U.S. Marines depart amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli (LHA 7) by helicopter and transit over the Arabian Sea to board and seize M/V Touska. The Marines rappelled onto the Iranian-flagged vessel, April 19, after guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111) disabled Touska’s propulsion when the commercial ship failed to comply with repeated warnings from U.S. forces over a six-hour period.
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The electronic intelligence (ELINT) capability supports long-range sensing for integrated air defense systems, providing ground commanders with…
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The tour groups moving through the USS Kearsarge as part of the city’s first Fleet Week are getting a glimpse of the amphibious assault ship at its finest.
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Navy sailors’ “perfect” Red Sea defense tactics and advanced weapons now offer potent solutions against escalating drone swarm threats at sea.
Joseph Trevithick, The WarZone
Army officials have shared new details about plans to launch extremely long-range drones from the service’s forthcoming ME-11B High Accuracy Detection and…
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy deployed the aircraft carrier Liaoning to sail through the Taiwan Strait on April 20, marking the first transit of the waterway by a carrier warship since the beginning of the year. The deployment has been assessed to be a response to the Japan Maritime Self Defence Force’s deployment of the Murasame class destroyer JS Ikazuchi to itself transit the strait on April 17, which Beijing referred to as “a deliberate provocation.
Think of a violin made by a master craftsman: beautiful, precise, capable of extraordinary performance, but impossible to produce quickly or cheaply. It takes time, rare expertise, and materials that cannot be sourced at scale. You would not equip an entire orchestra with instruments like that. Yet that is essentially what the United States has attempted with its tactical air fleet.The F-35 program’s total lifetime cost is projected to exceed two trillion dollars, the most expensive Major Defense Acquisition Program in history. The United States plans to purchase thousands of them.
The Franco-German-Spanish Future Combat Air System (FCAS) next generation fighter program is facing an imminent collapse, according to recent reports by Reuters. As China and United States, followed several years behind by Russia, are currently the only countries have their own fifth generation fighters into serial production, European states have been left increasingly heavily reliant on the U.S. F-35 as the only NATO-compatible option for a fully up to date fighter type.
In Sept. 2025, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a mutual defense pact, formalizing what decades of quiet cooperation had already made real. The defense pact signed in Riyadh was presented in official communiqués as a natural deepening of bilateral ties. It was that, but it was also something larger: The latest installment in a pattern that has persisted for half a century and that continues to confound the logic of power politics.