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The Iran Strait of Hormuz Crisis May Have Changed the Global Economy Forever: For more than three months, the Strait of Hormuz crisis has exposed one of the world’s biggest economic vulnerabilities.

Before the conflict began, roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil moved through the strait, but when tanker traffic slowed, and the crisis escalated, it became obvious – particularly to Asian and European economies – that the old system was not safe.

Indian Ocean (January 6th, 2021)The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) steams in the Indian Ocean, Jan. 6.

Peace With Iran? Current State of Talks & the Chance It All Goes Wrong: After months of war, threats, and a failed ceasefire, the United States and Iran look like they may finally be closing in on an agreement that could see the Strait of Hormuz opened and the fighting in the Gulf region come to an end.

But even now, with mediators claiming that the memorandum of understanding (MOU) is nearly finished, the deal remains unsigned, and it remains entirely possible that the regime in Tehran will return to the delay tactics it has used to derail talks before.

Norway’s Senop and Nammo Raufoss have developed a thermal weapon sight intended to work with a broad range of firearms.

The Swedish Air Force launched Gripen C/D lightweight fighters to intercept Russian military aircraft operating near the country’s airspace over the Baltic Sea, with separate incidents occurring in the southern and northern parts of the Baltic on the same day. The Russian aircraft involved were identified as a Su-34 strike fighters and the type’s direct predecessor the Su-24M.

The Algerian Air Force has received its first Su-34M long range strike fighters, with footage published on June 13 showing their arrival in the country. Although Su-34Ms with Algerian markings were previously seen in Russia, the aircraft arriving in the African country has an entirely different colour scheme, with its ocean blue camouflage contrasting sharply with the prior desert orange.

DNI de-classifies one of the mysteries of the universe

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One of the early bizarre issues of the Russian invasion of Ukraine was the reference to U.S. Bio-Labs in Ukraine.
DNI Director Gabbard has de-classified files to show that yes, the U.S. had Bio-Labs in Ukraine.

In early 2022, after the Russian invasion began, I thought people citing Bio-Labs were unhinged conspiracy extremists until I looked at the U.S. Embassy Kyiv website.
Right on the front page was the reference to U.S. funded Bio-Labs in Ukraine.

U.S. Southern Command carried out a “swift and lethal kinetic strike” to kill Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, the head of the Tren de Aragua street gang, President Donald Trump announced Friday evening.
The strike is the apparent first announced military operation inside Venezuela since Operation Absolute Resolve, the Jan. 3 attack on Caracas that saw U.S. forces capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Russian military analysts have engaged in a heated debate regarding the performance of the Su-57 fifth generation fighter program and the capabilities of the aircraft itself, with a statement by President Vladimir Putin referring to the fighter as the most capable in the world appearing to have sparked this discussion. Military analyst Maksim Kalashnikov, one of Russia’s more prominent defence commentators, strongly disputed the president’s statement, claiming that the Su-57’s limited operations evidenced that it was not comparable to the U.S. F-35.

Out near the Rocky Mountains, Ben Meager found a good spot to park his robot vehicle. It was the best place to park in a lot packed with some of the defense industry’s newest tech, but it also happened to sit next to a counter-drone turret he’d been eyeing for more than a year.
Meager had made renderings of the turret, an autonomous machine gun drone killer made by Allen Control Systems known as “the Bullfrog.” He thought it could fit on top of his company’s small, ruggedized ground robot to help blow swarms of unmanned aerial systems out of the sky.

In an effort to align IT and cyber responsibilities, senators are proposing to create a new Undersecretary of Defense for Cyber, Information, and Networks position within the Pentagon.
The language to create the new role is included in the Senate Armed Services Committee’s draft of the fiscal 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), according to a summary of the bill. A committee staffer told reporters Thursday that the undersecretary would serve in a dual-hatted role as both Defense Department chief information officer and principal cyber advisor to the secretary of defense.