KEY INTELLIGENCE Danish Intelligence Assessment: The Danish Defense Intelligence Service warns Russia perceives a closing "window of opportunity" before Europe...
Read moreDetailsKEY INTELLIGENCE Unmanned systems suffered catastrophic attrition, with 47 MQ-9 Reapers and one MQ-4C Triton lost to enemy fire and...
Read moreDetailsIncrement 1 Context: The USAF currently has two drone fighters entering active production: the FQ-44A Fury and the FQ-42A Vengeance....
Read moreDetailsElements of 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines evaluated the belt-fed Knight's Armament Company Light Assault Machine Gun alongside 3rd Ranger Battalion....
Read moreDetailsKEY INTELLIGENCE Severe Fleet Attrition: Iranian and proxy forces have destroyed over 58 MQ-9 Reapers in two years, eliminating more...
Read moreDetailsFirst Manned Down: Houthi air defense units downed a Royal Saudi Air Force F-15 combat aircraft over northern Yemen using...
Read moreDetailsBOTTOM LINE UP FRONT The M2A4 Bradley’s Evolution to Robotic Mothership The traditional doctrine of mechanized infantry is undergoing a...
Read moreDetailsNATO Border Probe: A Russian drone struck a cargo truck just 800 meters from the Polish border at the Yahodyn-Dorohusk...
Read moreDetailsStrait of Hormuz Interdiction: An Iranian commercial vessel was struck and disabled by an unknown projectile off Qeshm Island, resulting...
Read moreDetailsKEY INTELLIGENCE Threat Spectrum: The proposed GBAD system must kinetically defeat targets ranging from commercial Group 1 quadcopters to Group...
Read moreDetailsDeveloped during the final desperate months of World War II, the Horten Ho 229 remains one of the most visually...
Read moreDetailsThe Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress was the blunt-force instrument of the Allied daylight strategic bombing campaign over Europe. Tasked with...
Read moreDetailsBOTTOM LINE UP FRONT Advanced Fire Control: The Sperry K-4 automatic computing gunsight calculated gravity, wind speed, aircraft velocity, and...
Read moreDetailsBOTTOM LINE UP FRONT Unmatched Stand-off Firepower: The 88 mm KwK 43 L/71 gun achieved 100% test accuracy at 1,000...
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