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S-400: How Russia's Most Feared Air Defense System Broke an Alliance, Met Its Match in Ukraine, and Became a Bargaining Chip
52+ min ago (510+ words) Feared on reputation, bought as defiance — and now possibly traded away in Ankara. The twenty-year arc of Russia’s most consequential weapons export. Meet the S-400. Russia’s S-400 Air Defense System. Image: Russian Military. S-400. Image Credit: Creative Commons. The S-400 is…...
Britain Just Named Its Drone Wingman: Storm Fighter Will Fly Into Combat With the Typhoon, F-35, and Tempest
5+ hour, 4+ min ago (479+ words) Storm Fighter, Storm Chrome, Storm Fire: Britain names its drone-wingman family and claims Europe's first sixth-generation air force is coming this decade....
32 years ago this week, 20 fragments of a shattered comet slammed into Jupiter with the force of 300 million atomic bombs — humanity had never watched two Solar System bodies collide, and a NASA probe happened to have a ringside seat
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (410+ words) On July 16, 1994, fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 began slamming into Jupiter for six days with the force of 300 million atomic bombs, throwing plumes up to 1,900 miles high and heating the atmosphere to 71,000°F — the first collision of two Solar System bodies…...
Russia unveiled the T-14 tank, the Su-57 stealth fighter, and the Su-75 Checkmate as world-beating weapons — a decade on, the count stands at a few dozen tanks, roughly 30 jets, and a Checkmate that has never flown, while it turns out cheap drones by the tens of thousands
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (255+ words) The T-14 Armata, Su-57, and Su-75 Checkmate were unveiled as Russia’s next-generation arsenal — a decade later the tank exists in dozens, the fighter at 2 to 4 a year, and the Checkmate has never flown, while cheap attack drones roll off production lines…...
China’s Drone Boats Could Overwhelm U.S. Aircraft Carriers in a Taiwan War
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (543+ words) China’s naval drone force is early but growing fast, and its sharpest edge isn’t firepower. Cheap, expendable craft, wave-powered surface drones that loiter for months, underwater vehicles mapping submarine routes, and a research ship that can launch drone swarms all…...
Russia’s Iskander-M Missile is Rewriting the Rules of Air Defense
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (480+ words) Russia’s Iskander-M has become one of the most effective weapons in the Ukraine war. The road-mobile ballistic missile uses depressed trajectories, radical maneuvering, decoys, and electronic countermeasures to defeat advanced air defense systems. It is now also being used in…...
Ukraine Has No Navy. It Just Drove Russia's Fleet Into Hiding and Forced It to Cage Its Own Submarines — and Every Navy on Earth Is Taking Notes
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (618+ words) Satellite images show Russia bolting counter-drone cages over its Black Sea submarines in port. Ukraine, which began the war with one warship, forced the retreat, and every navy is watching....
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is wider than Earth, carries winds above 400 mph and has raged for nearly two centuries — a storm no Category 5 hurricane can match
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (561+ words) Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is wider than Earth, has winds above 400 mph and has endured for nearly 200 years. Here is what keeps it alive....
'Rusty Dagger': The U.S. Air Force Built a Cheap Cruise Missile in Months Instead of Years. It Did It for Ukraine
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (791+ words) The Air Force took a cheap cruise missile called Rusty Dagger from contract to a live-warhead test in under 16 months, a program launched primarily to arm Ukraine with affordable long-range strike....
The U.S. Navy Is Turning Its Nuclear Attack Submarines Into Underwater Drone Motherships. It Took 3 Tries to Get Here
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (27+ words) The Defense Innovation Unit put L3Harris on contract in March for a system letting Virginia-class submarines launch and recover drones through standard torpedo tubes without surfacing....