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Is the U.S. Navy still number one at sea? A 2026 ranking pits America’s shrinking fleet against China’s surge, Russia’s ...
12/15/2025

Is the U.S. Navy still number one at sea? A 2026 ranking pits America’s shrinking fleet against China’s surge, Russia’s subs, and rising Asian naval powers.

Key Points and Summary – The last year has underscored how central sea power remains, from the South China Sea to the Black Sea. -This piece ranks the world’s top five navies going into 2026, weighing not just hull numbers but industrial depth, modernization, and real combat power. -South Korea....

The F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter Has Just 1 Job
12/15/2025

The F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter Has Just 1 Job

Key Points and Summary: The F-22 Raptor was built to address a specific Cold War problem: guaranteeing U.S. air superiority against the most advanced Soviet fighters and air defenses. -That problem never really went away. -Despite production being cut to just 187 jets and the line closed in 2009, th...

The ‘New’ Air Force B-52J Bomber Is Getting Rolls-Royce Engines
12/15/2025

The ‘New’ Air Force B-52J Bomber Is Getting Rolls-Royce Engines

Key Points and Summary – The B-52J is not a new bomber, but a radical rebuild of an icon. -By re-engining the B-52H with Rolls-Royce F130s and adding modern AESA radar, digital avionics, and expanded standoff weapons, the Air Force is turning an early-Cold War airframe into a 21st-century missile ...

The Brazilian Army Has Restored 17 M60A3 Patton Tanks for Operational Deployment on Western Border
12/15/2025

The Brazilian Army Has Restored 17 M60A3 Patton Tanks for Operational Deployment on Western Border

Key Points and Summary – Brazil’s Army has returned 17 stored M60A3 TTS Patton tanks and three M88A1 recovery vehicles to full service under “Operation Patton 2025,” boosting the combat power of units along the country’s western frontier. -The refurbished tanks will reinforce the 20th Armo...

Math problem.
12/15/2025

Math problem.

Key Points and Summary – The British Army’s Challenger 3 is a deep rebuild of Challenger 2, not a clean-sheet “next-gen” tank. -Built by Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land, it gets a new turret, NATO-standard 120mm L55A1 smoothbore gun, modern digital fire control, better sights, and full battlefi...

The B-21 Raider Bomber Problem That Has the U.S. Air Force Cringing
12/15/2025

The B-21 Raider Bomber Problem That Has the U.S. Air Force Cringing

Key Points and Summary – The B-21 Raider is racing toward operational service with sixth-generation stealth, nuclear capability, and the potential to launch hypersonics and control Loyal Wingman drones. -Critics worry that by the time it enters the force around 2030, advanced Russian and Chinese a...

K3: The New Hydrogen-Powered Tank That Looks Like a B-21 Raider Bomber
12/15/2025

K3: The New Hydrogen-Powered Tank That Looks Like a B-21 Raider Bomber

Key Points and Summary – South Korea’s K3 is a next-generation main battle tank concept that breaks sharply from traditional armor design. -Developed with Hyundai Rotem as a successor to the K2 Black Panther, it centers on a hydrogen fuel-cell and hybrid-electric drive, promising silent mobility...

Probe Launched After 3 U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighter Pilots at Germany Base Complain of Laser Incidents
12/15/2025

Probe Launched After 3 U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighter Pilots at Germany Base Complain of Laser Incidents

Key Points and Summary – U.S. Air Force F-16 pilots near Germany’s Spangdahlem Air Base recently reported multiple blue-laser illuminations on approach, triggering a joint U.S.–German investigation. -The incidents echo a spike in laser strikes on NATO aircraft across Europe and follow earlier ...

More Than 80 Years Later, Audie Murphy’s Medal of Honor Action Is Something Out of a Movie
12/15/2025

More Than 80 Years Later, Audie Murphy’s Medal of Honor Action Is Something Out of a Movie

Key Points and Summary – Audie Murphy rose from poor Texas farm boy to America’s most decorated World War II soldier, earning the Medal of Honor for a one-man stand against German forces at Holtzwihr, France. -Fighting from a burning tank destroyer, he held off an assault long enough to save his...

The U.S. Navy Sent a Fleet of Aircraft Carriers and F-35 Fighters Right Into China’s Backyard
12/15/2025

The U.S. Navy Sent a Fleet of Aircraft Carriers and F-35 Fighters Right Into China’s Backyard

Key Points and Summary – The United States has surged naval power into the Western Pacific, deploying two carrier strike groups and an amphibious assault ship as China expands its own carrier operations. -USS Abraham Lincoln and USS George Washington are operating with F-35C-equipped air wings und...

France Wins. America Lost.
12/15/2025

France Wins. America Lost.

Key Points and Summary – France’s compact Rubis-class nuclear attack submarines were built for quiet anti-submarine and strike missions, but a 2015 exercise in the Atlantic showed just how dangerous they can be by sinking an aircraft carrier in a drill with the U.S. Navy. -The Rubis-class boat S...

Japan has quietly turned its Izumo-class ‘helicopter destroyers’ into F-35B carriers, reshaping its naval strategy as Ch...
12/15/2025

Japan has quietly turned its Izumo-class ‘helicopter destroyers’ into F-35B carriers, reshaping its naval strategy as China’s blue-water fleet grows.

Key Points and Summary – Japan has quietly restored carrier aviation by converting its Izumo-class “helicopter destroyers” into F-35B aircraft carriers, its first since 1945. -Initially sold as ASW and disaster-relief platforms, Izumo and Kaga have been structurally rebuilt with reinforced dec...

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