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Saudis Cleared To Buy Hundreds More AMRAAM Missiles They’ve Been Using To Shoot Down Drones
Saudi Arabia

Saudis Cleared To Buy Hundreds More AMRAAM Missiles They’ve Been Using To Shoot Down Drones

Royal Saudi Air Force fighter jets have been using AIM-120 missiles to shoot down Houthi drones regularly for years now.

Likely Drone Attack On U.S. Power Grid Revealed In New Intelligence Report (Updated)
U.S. Homeland

Likely Drone Attack On U.S. Power Grid Revealed In New Intelligence Report (Updated)

An apparent attack on a power substation in Pennsylvania underscores the very real threat drones pose to domestic critical infrastructure.

Germany Still Can’t Give Up Its Marder Infantry Fighting Vehicles After Half A Century
Germany

Germany Still Can’t Give Up Its Marder Infantry Fighting Vehicles After Half A Century

The latest upgrade for the Marder armored vehicle might be the last, but it's still going strong in Germany and elsewhere.

Australia Could Push To Acquire Retired US Navy Los Angeles Class Nuclear Submarines
Australia

Australia Could Push To Acquire Retired US Navy Los Angeles Class Nuclear Submarines

Ex-Prime Minister floats using retired U.S. or U.K. nuclear submarines to bridge the gap until Australian-built ones can enter service.

Marine Corps Rejects Reports That It ‘Surrendered’ To British Forces During Exercise
U.S. Marine Corps

Marine Corps Rejects Reports That It ‘Surrendered’ To British Forces During Exercise

The U.K. Royal Marines that reportedly trounced a U.S. Marines Corps unit were actually fighting right alongside other American Marines.

Israel Begins Testing Giant Radar Blimp For Spotting Low-Flying Missiles
Israel

Israel Begins Testing Giant Radar Blimp For Spotting Low-Flying Missiles

As cruise missile and drone threats proliferate in the region, Israel is trying to succeed where the U.S. failed with its own radar blimp concept.

China’s New Ballistic Missile Subs Could Strike The U.S. Without Sailing Into The Pacific
China

China’s New Ballistic Missile Subs Could Strike The U.S. Without Sailing Into The Pacific

The ability to launch their ballistic missiles from the South China Sea or Bohai Sea would be a huge capability increase for China's SSBN force.

Video Shows U.S. Destroyer’s Very Intimate Standoff With Iranian Vessels Over Seized Oil Tanker (Updated)
Iranian Navy

Video Shows U.S. Destroyer’s Very Intimate Standoff With Iranian Vessels Over Seized Oil Tanker (Updated)

Iran's raid on an oil tanker resulted in an incredibly close encounter between its gunboats and a U.S. Navy destroyer.

Rare Pod Simulated AIM-120 Missile Engagements During Massive War Game
Targeting Pods

Rare Pod Simulated AIM-120 Missile Engagements During Massive War Game

The pod was used to collect data on multiple AIM-120 engagements during an exercise that spanned from California to Florida.

The Navy Isn’t Prepared To Face The Growing Diesel Submarine Threat
Diesel-Electric Submarines

The Navy Isn’t Prepared To Face The Growing Diesel Submarine Threat

A veteran submarine hunter explains how the proliferation of ever more capable diesel-electric submarines is a major problem for the U.S. Navy.

U.S. Marines ‘Storm’ Israeli Beaches As Part Of A Major Exercise
U.S. Navy

U.S. Marines ‘Storm’ Israeli Beaches As Part Of A Major Exercise

The three-week-long exercise highlights ever more public ties between U.S. and Israeli forces in the face of regional threats, especially from Iran.

This Is The Damage Done To That Huge Container Ship That Clogged The Suez Canal
Egypt

This Is The Damage Done To That Huge Container Ship That Clogged The Suez Canal

The Ever Given took one heck of a beating getting un-stuck from the Suez Canal and is finally getting fixed in China.

Glitzy Northrop Grumman Ad Teases Totally Notional New Long-Range Stealth Fighter (Updated)
NGAD

Glitzy Northrop Grumman Ad Teases Totally Notional New Long-Range Stealth Fighter (Updated)

While it doesn't give away sensitive details, the ad points to Northrop Grumman's ambition to build the next-generation air dominance tactical jet.

The Navy’s Stealth Destroyers Will Have Their Deck Guns Replaced With Hypersonic Missiles
U.S. Navy

The Navy’s Stealth Destroyers Will Have Their Deck Guns Replaced With Hypersonic Missiles

The doomed 155mm guns ended up being too expensive to shoot. Now they will be ripped out and replaced with missile launchers at an unknown cost.

Hundreds Of South Korean And U.S. Warplanes Are Conducting A Secretive Exercise In Korea
South Korea

Hundreds Of South Korean And U.S. Warplanes Are Conducting A Secretive Exercise In Korea

The unpublicized maneuvers are being staged in the wake of a spate of potentially destabilizing missile developments on the peninsula.

Secret RQ-180 Stealthy Unmanned Spy Plane Spotted Over Area 51
RQ-180

Secret RQ-180 Stealthy Unmanned Spy Plane Spotted Over Area 51

This was the third photographic encounter with the mysterious RQ-180 flying wing drone, leaving little doubt as to its existence.

What Looks Like The Tail Of A Global Hawk Clone Just Appeared On A Truck In Iran
Iran

What Looks Like The Tail Of A Global Hawk Clone Just Appeared On A Truck In Iran

While Iran has a history of knocking off American drone designs, even realizing a crude emulation of an RQ-4 would be a significant task.

USS Connecticut Smashed Into A Seamount, May Have Ripped Off Sonar Dome
Seawolf Class

USS Connecticut Smashed Into A Seamount, May Have Ripped Off Sonar Dome

An official picture of USS Connecticut in Guam, where the Navy continues to assess the damage from its recent collision, has also emerged.

Inside The Navy’s Top Aggressor Squadron That Is About To Trade Its Hornets For Super Hornets
U.S. Navy

Inside The Navy’s Top Aggressor Squadron That Is About To Trade Its Hornets For Super Hornets

The Navy's "Fighting Omars" aggressor squadron will receive its Super Hornets in 2021. Here's how they plan to use them.

U.S. Navy Adversary Unit Reveals Super Hornet Masquerading As Russia’s Top Fighter
U.S. Navy

U.S. Navy Adversary Unit Reveals Super Hornet Masquerading As Russia’s Top Fighter

Navy adversary squadron VFC-12 has unveiled a newly painted F/A-18E that looks like a Su-57 Felon as it commences the overhaul of its fleet.