Reverting to Steam Catapults Could Haunt the Navy for Decades
A proposal to abandon the Navy's electromagnetic launch system on future aircraft carriers and return to steam catapult technology carries...
Month: August 2026
How the Israel Air Force Rebuilt a Written-Off F-15 Into a Flying Jet
A specialized Israel Air Force maintenance unit has accomplished what Boeing's engineers and standard military logistics doctrine would have deemed...
US Navy Carrier Fleet Faces a Structural Readiness Crisis With No Near-Term Solution in Sight
The United States Navy's aircraft carrier fleet is confronting a readiness problem that years of deferred maintenance, strained shipyard capacity,...
Microsoft Scales Back China Operations as Geopolitical Pressure Reshapes Big Tech’s Asia Strategy
Microsoft is pulling back from China in ways that would have seemed unthinkable just a few years ago, according to...
Engineering Failure Left a US Navy Destroyer Adrift in Contested South China Sea Waters for Four Days
USS Benfold, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, was left unable to maneuver under its own power for approximately four days...
Israel Plans to Lock In Elevated Defense Spending — at a Steep Cost to Civilian Services
Israel's government is moving to institutionalize a significantly higher defense budget in the years ahead, according to reporting by Calcalist,...
Fewer US Warships Are Transiting the Taiwan Strait — and That Shift Is Drawing Scrutiny
The United States Navy is sailing through the Taiwan Strait less frequently than it once did, a trend that is...
Jet-Powered Shaheds Now Compose Most of Some Russian Drone Waves, Kyiv Official Warns
Russia has significantly shifted its drone attack composition toward jet-powered variants of the Shahed loitering munition, with a Ukrainian official...
Russia’s Jet-Powered Shahed Drones Now Dominate Some Attack Waves, Kyiv Says
Jet-powered variants of the Russian-employed Shahed drone now constitute as much as two-thirds of the unmanned aerial vehicles used in...
Ultra Maritime Puts Combined ASW and Counter-UUV Sonar Through Its Paces at a Live US Navy Exercise
Ultra Maritime has conducted live at-sea testing of an integrated sonar system designed to perform anti-submarine warfare and counter-unmanned underwater...
