Modern Day Marine 2025

The U.S. president says Tehran reached out to try to negotiate a deal, something that Iran has vehemently denied.

After keeping a very low profile, a video has emerged apparently showing a Saab 340 airborne early warning and control aircraft over Ukraine.

With two Amphibious Ready Groups heading to the Middle East, there is increasing speculation that the U.S. will try to seize Iran’s strategic Kharg Island.

Bunker time, baby!

Joseph Votel offers insights on securing Iran’s uranium, seizing Kharg Island, dwindling stocks of missile interceptors, and how long Epic Fury will last.

Retired Army General Joseph Votel offers unique insights into what it will take to wrestle the Strait of Hormuz from Iran’s clutches.

India has an urgent need for new combat aircraft but the European next-generation fighter offerings may not be the answer.

The F-35 was flying a combat mission over Iran when it was forced to divert to a U.S. airbase.

A-10s are executing one of the lesser-known missions they’ve trained to do for decades, hunting down Iranian fast attack boats and mine layers in the strait.

Spotters in Greece have caught an especially good look at what appears to be a particularly secretive drone.

The attack on the South Pars gas field puts Iran’s energy production, which is critical to funding the Iranian government, in the crosshairs.

Two of three Littoral Combat Ships assigned to Middle Eastern minesweeping duties have made another move in the opposite direction.

The GBU-72/B sits between the common 2,000lb bunker buster and the far more powerful 30,000lb GBU-57/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator.

One carrier was already tired before it had a fire, another saw its service life extended for the second time, while the delivery of a third is delayed.

A day after allies pushed back on his demand they send warships to the strait, Trump declared “WE DO NOT NEED HELP FROM ANYONE!”

The E-2D is America’s most capable platform for spotting drones and other low-flying Iranian threats that are wreaking havoc on Gulf Arab States.

In a world of increasingly homogeneous-looking military aircraft designs, the platypus-like Kawasaki EC-2 is a radical outlier.

Germany on Monday flatly rejected Trump’s demand that NATO allies send naval vessels to help protect shipping in this strategic waterway.

A Pentagon report says the new pods are still having significant teething issues even though they are being used in active conflicts.

The Iranian government’s Airbus A340 had been part of an exodus of Iranian state-operated aircraft to Oman amid Israeli airstrikes last year.

Trump says he’s not ready to make a deal while Israel says it still has thousands of targets to hit.

Two of the three Littoral Combat Ships that had taken over the minesweeping role in the Middle East have just appeared in Malaysia.

Should have gotten a Generac!

An FBI alert about the possibility of armed drones launched from a ship reflects real dangers even if the immediate threat is not credible.

The flotilla of Navy ships with Marines and their vehicles packed aboard will bring a very flexible set of capabilities to Operation Epic Fury.

Waves of Iranian Shahed drone attacks across the Middle East have spurred widespread interest in Ukrainian interceptors.

ATACMS and PrSM ballistic missiles have played a key role in destroying Iran’s Navy from afar.

U.S. Central Command says two aircraft were involved in the incident and that a search and rescue effort is currently underway.

Escorting oil tankers in the strait is an incredibly high-risk mission, and might not even be enough to ensure their safe passage.

The Trump class “battleship” has breathed new life into the Navy’s railgun ambitions, which it previously shelved after hitting technical hurdles.