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Israeli Merkava Mk 3 tanks have recently begun emerging with improved defensive features against drones and improvised explosive devices that use magnets to stick the hulls of armored vehicles.
Israel

Israeli Merkava Tanks Get Improved Anti-Drone, Magnet Bomb Defenses

The threats the Israel Defense Forces are facing in Gaza are significantly transforming the look of its Merkava Mk 3 tanks.

F-35 SPEAR METEOR
F-35B

F-35 To Get Meteor, SPEAR 3 Missiles “By End Of Decade”

The new weapons will provide an especially lethal combination with the F-35’s stealth and forthcoming upgraded sensors.

The Bradley's gunner talks about learning lessons from video games to take out a Russian tank.
Ukraine

Video Games Helped Ukrainian Bradley Gunner Win Duel With Russian T-90M Tank

The gunner and driver of the Bradley seen in a wild battle with a Russian T-90M tank captured in a viral video explain how it went down.

Al Assad airbase was struck many militia projectiles on Jan 20, 2024
Iran

Massive Attack On Al Assad Air Base In Iraq, Airstrikes Hit Houthi Missiles (Updated)

The militia attack on Al Assad was the largest yet, meanwhile the campaign to preemptively strike Houthi missiles seems to be gaining steam.

A small group of shelterers knit and read the evening newspaper in this small section of an air raid shelter under the railway arches, somewhere in South East London. Makeshift beds have been constructed from crates and planks of wood. This photograph was probably taken in November 1940
Bunker Talk

Bunker Talk: Let’s Talk About All The Things We Did And Didn’t Cover This Week

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Houthi Anti-ship ballistic missile attack in Red Sea video capture.
Red Sea

Video Of Anti-Ship Missile Striking Ship During Red Sea Attack Surfaces

The video shows one of the Houthis' Iranian-derived anti-ship missiles impacting the bulk carrier M/V Zografia in the Red Sea.

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have agreed to create joint defensive fortifications along the borders with Russia and Belarus.
Eastern Europe

Baltics To Build Joint Fortifications Along Russian, Belarus Borders

Learning lessons from Russia's full-on invasion of Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will build joint border defenses.

Russian soviet-era anti-ship missile wreckage in Ukraine.
Russia

Russia Now Using Giant Soviet-Era Ground-Launched Anti-Ship Missile To Attack Ukraine

Use of the supersonic anti-ship missile — likely a 3M44 — for land attack highlights shortfalls in the Russian standoff missile inventory.

Composite image of the exterior and interior of a nuclear communications bunker
Cold War

Cold War Bunker Turned Mansion In Missouri Can Be Yours

The 1960s underground bunker has been fully renovated, allowing its owner to live out Armageddon in the lap of luxury.

Super Hornets from the aircraft carrier Dwight David Eisenhower struck Houthi missile installations today.
F/A-18E/F

Red Sea Ship Attacks Continue After Super Hornets Strike Missiles

This is the third day in a row that the U.S. has carried out preemptive attacks against Houthi missiles being prepared to launch.

Ukraine's drone attacks expand to St. Petersburg
News & Features

Ukraine Situation Report: Long-Range Drone Strikes Expand To St. Petersburg

A domestically produced long-range drone design struck the Russian city, as Ukraine promises a “new phase” in the conflict.

France says it will provide Ukraine with an additional 600 Hammer bombs by the end of the year.
Russia

These Are France’s ‘Hammer’ Rocket-Assisted Bombs Ukraine’s Getting

France is planning to send 50 of these advanced weapons to Ukraine every month, but what jet will launch them is still unclear.

New video shows a Ukrainian Bradley Fighting Vehicle mauling a Russian T-90M Breakout tank.
Ukraine

Armor Experts Breakdown Video Of Ukrainian M2 Bradley Mauling Russian T-90M Tank

Veteran armor experts explain the viral video showing Russia's top tank in Ukraine getting torn-up by a Bradley Fighting Vehicle.

Pakistani army soldiers travel on vehicles carrying ballistic missiles and a drone during the Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad on March 23, 2016. Pakistan National Day commemorates the passing of the Lahore Resolution, when a separate nation for the Muslims of The British Indian Empire was demanded on March 23, 1940.
Iran

Pakistan Strikes Back At Iran, Targeting Militants Near Border

Pakistan has become the first nation to openly strike targets within Iranian borders since the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s.

Germany's Bundestag voted down a proposal to send Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine.
Germany

Germany Votes Down Taurus Cruise Missiles For Ukraine

While the Taurus news is a blow to Ukraine, France has said it will provide another 40 SCALP-EG cruise missiles to Kyiv.

Red Sea
Red Sea

New Strike On Houthi Missiles In Yemen Launched By U.S.

The U.S. strike today is the fourth against Houthi targets in Yemen and comes after another commercial ship was hit.

Flight testing of the B-21 Raider at Edwards Air Force Base in California is now underway.
B-21

B-21 Raider Flight Testing Now Underway

The first B-21 is now flying test sorties from Edwards Air Force Base, where it arrived after its maiden flight late last year.

WWII U-boats pictured amid the ruins of the Elbe II U-boat shelter
WWII

How Entombed U-boats Were Re-discovered Decades After WWII

Forgotten in the decades following World War II, the Nazi U-boats were re-discovered in their crumbling concrete bunker in the 1980s.

The Biden administration announced its last Presidential Drawdown Authority package for Ukraine, which included Sea Sparrow RIM-7 missiles.
Russia

‘FrankenSAM’ Systems Are Now Shooting Down Drones In Ukraine

Systems blending Western and Soviet parts, including repurposed air-to-air missiles, offer Ukraine added air defenses it desperately needs.

As part of a £2.35 billion investment into upgrading Typhoon, a European Common Radar System (ECRS) Mark 2 Radar developed by Leonardo UK features a unique multi-functional array (MFA) which will allow Typhoon to simultaneously detect, identify, and track multiple targets in the air and on the ground plus perform electronic warfare tasks.
Typhoon

British Eurofighter Finally Gets Advanced Swashplate AESA Radar

The long-awaited ECRS Mk 2 radar for the Royal Air Force promises to be a game-changer for the Eurofighter Typhoon.