There is a dispute inside the U.S. government over exactly how much China is spending on defense. Last year worldwide defense spending reached a new high of $2.46 trillion. As it has been since World ...

Two F/A-18F Super Hornets fly overhead during the VX-31 change of command ceremony at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake on ...

May 11, 2025: A major economic weapon against Russia is economic sanctions. These were first implemented in 2014 after Russia seized Crimea and portions of two east Ukraine provinces. Russia has ...

Since the Russian invasion in 2022 through the end of December 2024 there were 177 Ukrainian prisoners of war killed. In the first three months of 2025 at least 25 captured Ukrainian soldiers have ...

May 12, 2025: In 2024 Ukraine used HIMARS missiles equipped with cluster munitions. Each 300 kg missile contains 644 submunitions. When a submunition explodes, it will wound or kill anyone within ...

Two years ago a Russian espionage effort in Britain ran afoul of local incompetence and mixed signals from the FSB. It all began after the Russian invasion of Ukraine when Russia ordered the revival ...

By then North Korea was providing newly manufactured shells for Russian guns that could not get close enough to the front to be useful. North Korea also provided ballistic missiles and troops, so the ...

May 8, 2025: The Ukraine war disrupted Russian manufacturing activity as production shifted to military needs. The large number of Russian men mobilized for the war caused labor shortages. Then there ...

May 8, 2025: The U.S. Navy is seeking to adopt useful lessons from the Ukrainian experience using naval drones to defeat the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Ukraine had only surface-to-ship missiles when the ...

In 2024 APKWS was adapted for use by aircraft. Seven APKWS are carried in LAU-131A rocket pod. Warplanes can carry two, four or more pods per mission and deal with the drone swarms the Russians often ...

May 10, 2025: In addition to sending military and economic aid to Ukraine, NATO nations have also, since 2014, been imposing ever more effective economic sanctions on Russia. While economic sanctions ...