The attack delayed the completion of Russia’s second icebreaker by years. At the same time Russia is having problems building new icebreaker ships because of Ukraine War economic sanctions. Despite ...

China is using 64 well-equipped oceanographic research vessels, the majority of which were built within the past 15 years. This modern fleet is larger than the U.S. Academic Research Fleet, the ...

Iran has a lot of naval mines and could, if they were desperate enough, use them to block the Strait of Hormuz and block all oil exports, including Iran’s. Iran has been developing new ways to deploy ...

Recently American defense contractors successfully launched a Hellfire missile from the new Grizzly launcher in a three-meter high cargo container. The Grizzly system is based on the M299 missile ...

In recent South Asian crises, velocity matters more than military power. Velocity means how rapidly responsibility is assigned, actions are authorized, limited operations are executed, and a dominant ...

April 13, 2026: The Ukraine war has alarmed NATO nations and forced them to rely on Ukrainian experience in defeating Russian air and missile attacks. Russian air attacks involve nearly a thousand ...

With Delta, Ukrainian soldiers can detect a target and pass that data to an attack drone operator, who then destroys the target. The Delta system software dramatically reduces the time between ...

April 12, 2026: North Korea launched two destroyers in 2025, with two more coming in succeeding years. By 2030 North Korea will have twelve of these ships in service. Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy builds 1 ...

The recent attacks on Iran included Lucas, a cheaper American made drone similar to the Iranian Shahed-136. Lucas was developed and put into production within 18 months, an unprecedented, for the ...

April 12, 2026: the U.S. Navy is increasing its production of the Hammerhead anti-submarine mine system. This mine is designed to detect, classify, and engage submarines and can be deployed by ...