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Laura Loomer Once Called Ukraine ‘Full of Nazi Apologists’ — This Week She Apologized and Met Zelensky
Published: July 24, 2026 17:00
Zelensky met Raytheon executives in Kyiv, saying Ukraine is moving to co-produce Patriot missiles under plans he discussed with Trump — though waiting lists run years, per the Kyiv Independent. He also sat for an interview with Laura Loomer, whose clip…
Iran Went After the Energy Routes and Russia Is Now Going After the Food, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Says
Published: July 23, 2026 21:52
No vessel entered any of the three Ukrainian ports in the Odesa region on Wednesday, the first such day since the grain corridor opened in 2023, and Maersk has moved operations to Romania. Ukraine's foreign minister accuses Moscow of holding global food…
Russia’s National Guard Is Rewriting Its Civil Defense Rules to Handle Dangers at Home Before the ‘Call-Up’ Is Announced
Published: July 23, 2026 17:11
The Kremlin appears to be preparing a new mobilization, according to an ISW assessment, with the Duma opening military contracts to people carrying unexpunged criminal convictions and the national guard rewriting its civil defense rules for dangers at…
A Rare Russian Su-57 Felon Stealth Fighter Has Just Crashed And Looks Destroyed
Published: July 23, 2026 14:09
A Russian Su-57 stealth fighter crashed during a training flight in Moscow Oblast, with the pilot ejecting safely after witnesses say he steered the aircraft away from housing toward an open field. Russia has built only a few dozen of the jets, and the…
Russia Brings World’s Most Heavily Armed Nuclear Combat Ship Back After Nearly 30 Years — It Might Already Be Obsolete
Published: July 23, 2026 10:56
Russia has moved the nuclear-powered battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov into final sea trials after nearly three decades out of frontline service. The rebuilt ship may carry the largest missile magazine afloat — and arrives just as Ukraine has shown how…
Ukraine Has Declared War on Russia’s Shadow Fleet and Smashed 13 Vessels in the Last Two Days
Published: July 22, 2026 23:33
Ukraine says it struck thirteen more vessels from Russia's sanctions-dodging shadow fleet across the Azov and Black Seas in forty-eight hours, part of a campaign Kyiv calls kinetic sanctions. Analysts say the strikes have driven war-risk insurance sharply…
Zelensky Has Found a Euphemism for the Strikes Burning Russian Warehouses — He Calls Them Ukraine’s Long-Range Sanctions
Published: July 22, 2026 16:49
A second wave of Ukrainian strikes hit logistics hubs run by Wildberries, Russia's answer to Amazon, in the Krasnodar and Stavropol regions, the BBC reported. Zelensky touted the campaign in a post citing drone components and navigation gear, while Ukraine…
Russia’s Best Harvest in Years Is Grinding to a Halt — and Farmers Fear Kyiv’s Drones Could Cost It Ten Million Tons of Wheat
Published: July 21, 2026 23:16
Ukraine's long-range drone strikes on Russian refineries have spread the fuel crisis into the countryside just as harvest begins, one analyst argues, with farmers warning diesel shortages could cost the world's top wheat exporter up to ten million tons —…
Russia Staged a Live-Fire Drill off England Just Hours Into the New PM’s Term — and Analysts Say Moscow Is Sizing Him Up
Published: July 21, 2026 22:51
A Russian frigate staged a live-fire exercise in the English Channel just off Plymouth on Andy Burnham's first day as prime minister, an act UK officials called "performative and irresponsible" — and analysts say Moscow timed it to gauge how the untested…
China’s Best Aircraft Carrier-Based Fighter Exists Only Because of One Unfinished Jet That Russia Left Behind in Ukraine
Published: July 20, 2026 22:45
China's J-15 'Flying Shark' — the fighter that made its carriers viable — exists because Beijing bought an unfinished Su-33 prototype left in Ukraine after the USSR collapsed, Brandon Weichert writes. Russia had refused to sell the jet, fearing China would…
Russia Has Taught Its Missiles to Swerve Past Ukraine’s Best Defenses in Their Final Seconds — and They’re Getting Through
Published: July 20, 2026 22:17
Russia has modified its ballistic missiles to dive and maneuver in the terminal phase, evading Ukraine's interceptors, Reuben Johnson reports — a shift one Ukrainian official calls a 'game-changer.' After one of the war's largest ballistic barrages on…
The first spacecraft ever sent to another planet reached Venus in 1961. It had been dead and silent for three months by the time it arrived
Published: July 20, 2026 22:03
Summary and Key Points: In February 1961, the Soviet Union launched Venera 1, the first spacecraft ever sent from Earth toward another planet. Built with solar panels, sun sensors, and a single course-correction engine, the probe was meant to fly past…
Mediators Just Handed Iran a Formal Proposal for a Ten-Day Ceasefire — and Tehran’s Own Spokesman Confirmed Diplomacy Is in Motion
Published: July 20, 2026 17:00
Mediators have passed Iran a proposal for a ten-day ceasefire, Reuters reports, and Tehran's foreign ministry confirms diplomacy is moving — even as strikes continue. An LA Times analysis argues Trump, the anti-forever-war president, now owns one: 50,000…
Ukraine Is Stockpiling Home-Built Interceptors to Down Russian Ballistic Missiles — a Task Experts Call ‘the Champions League’
Published: July 20, 2026 16:33
As Russia runs at a record pace of ballistic missile attacks, the NYT reports Ukrainian firm Fire Point is stockpiling home-built interceptors — a task one expert calls 'the Champions League of missile manufacturing.' Nine European nations have endorsed…
The Competition for Ukraine: Germany Buys the Future, Poland Holds the Door
Published: July 20, 2026 11:44
Berlin is positioning to become Kyiv's chief postwar patron. Andrew Michta on the German-Polish competition for Ukraine — and why the strained Warsaw-Kyiv partnership cannot be allowed to collapse.
On 5 March 1982, Russia’s Venera 14 lander reached the surface of Venus, ejected the protective cap from its camera lens, photographed the surrounding terrain — and then lowered its mechanical soil-testing arm directly onto the discarded lens cap, returning a clean measurement of the compressibility of Soviet plastic instead of Venusian rock.
Published: July 18, 2026 12:19
Venus melts lead, crushes machines under ninety atmospheres, and rains sulfuric acid, which is why Soviet engineers built the Venera landers like submarines and gave them a design life of thirty-two minutes. On 5 March 1982, Venera 14 touched down, blew…
Russia Put a $2 Compass on Its Attack Drones to Beat Ukraine’s Jammers. It’s the Fourth Fix in Six Months
Published: July 18, 2026 11:48
A Ukrainian defense advisor reports Russia has mounted a simple magnetic compass on its cheap Molniya attack drones, read by the onboard camera, to keep flying through jamming. It's the fourth jam-proof fix on this airframe in six months, and the speed of…
Golden Dome Could Cost $1,200,000,000,000 — or $185,000,000,000. Nobody Knows, Because Nobody Has Defined the Mission
Published: July 18, 2026 07:33
$175 billion, $185 billion, or $1.2 trillion — the price of Golden Dome depends on a question Washington hasn't answered: which war is the shield for?
S-400: How Russia’s Most Feared Air Defense System Broke an Alliance, Met Its Match in Ukraine, and Became a Bargaining Chip
Published: July 17, 2026 19:32
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.
Britain Just Named Its Drone Wingman: Storm Fighter Will Fly Into Combat With the Typhoon, F-35, and Tempest
Published: July 17, 2026 15:26
Three new combat drones, one day of announcements, and a claim no European air force has made before. Here's what Britain's Storm Fighter program is — and the six-month-old drone that made it possible.
Flying the F-15C: What It Was Actually Like Inside the US Air Force Fighter That Never Lost
Published: July 17, 2026 15:17
Every pilot's account begins with the push — a jet that could out-climb its own weight, straight up. As the last F-15Cs head for the boneyard, here's what it was actually like inside the purest fighter America ever built.
The US Military Just Emptied a Third of Its Deepest Missile Magazine Into Iran — and the Pentagon’s Own Wargames Say the Next War Empties It in Days
Published: July 17, 2026 14:39
More than a thousand Tomahawks have gone into Iran — the largest expenditure in the weapon's history, against an adversary with broken defenses. The Pentagon's own wargames already priced a China war. Set the two numbers side by side, and the deepest…
Russia Can Afford the Ukraine War. It May Not Be Able to Afford Peace
Published: July 17, 2026 11:59
Growth at 0.4 percent and a blown deficit look like pressure toward peace. Latham's case: four years of war built a political economy with constituents, from defense-plant wages to 10-million-ruble debt relief, and peace would send more than a million…
81 years ago today, a 21-kiloton test in the New Mexico desert gave humanity the power to destroy itself — and in the eight decades since, no two nuclear-armed powers have ever fought a full-scale conventional war against each other
Published: July 16, 2026 23:29
On July 16, 1945, in a stretch of New Mexico desert called the Jornada del Muerto, scientists of the Manhattan Project detonated a plutonium device code-named Gadget. Some had theorized the blast might ignite the atmosphere itself; instead, it yielded…
28,000 Ton Mistake: Russia’s Admiral Nakhimov Nuclear Battlecrusier Took Almost 30 Years to Refit Could Get ‘Schooled’ by Cheap Drones and Missiles
Published: July 16, 2026 15:04
The Soviet Union built the Kirov-class to sink American carriers with sheer missile weight. Russia has one hull left, and after a decade of modernization it carries new radar, electronic warfare, refurbished reactors, and more than 170 launch cells for…
Russia’s Iskander-M Missile is Rewriting the Rules of Air Defense
Published: July 15, 2026 17:44
Russia’s Iskander-M short-range ballistic missile is proving highly effective at evading advanced Western air defenses like Patriot. Through high-speed maneuvering, decoys, electronic countermeasures, and coordination with drone swarms, the system is…
Ukraine Is Using Drones That Cost a Fraction of a Ship to Cripple Vessels Worth Millions — 116 in Nine Days, Kyiv Says
Published: July 15, 2026 17:35
Ukraine says its drones damaged or disabled 116 Russian-linked vessels in nine days in the Sea of Azov — a claim it hasn't independently verified. The campaign targets logistics, not warships: cheap unmanned systems crippling million-dollar assets, forcing…
Russia’s Submarines Are Still NATO’s Biggest Threat — But Serious Cracks Are Showing
Published: July 15, 2026 13:27
Russia’s surface fleet has been exposed as weak. Its submarine force, however, remains the most capable and dangerous part of its military — the one NATO planners still treat with real respect. But in 2026, even Russia’s undersea arm is showing dangerous…
Russia’s ‘New’ Lada-Class Submarines Are So Bad the First Boat Took 13 Years to Build and Was Scrapped
Published: July 14, 2026 19:46
The Lada-class was Russia's entry into fourth-generation submarines and the planned replacement for the Cold War Kilo-class. Twenty-eight years in, the program counts three boats: the lead ship scrapped after 13 years of building, the second delayed by a…
Gas Prices Just Rose for the First Time in Eight Weeks — and GasBuddy Explained It in Five Words: ‘Iran Is the Reason Why’
Published: July 14, 2026 19:13
U.S. gas prices rose for the first time in eight weeks — 'Iran is the reason why,' per GasBuddy's Patrick De Haan — while China's crude imports fell to a decade low, a pullback credited with preventing an oil spike. Asia's refined-fuel imports hit a record…
Only One Russian Gas Refinery Had Escaped Ukraine’s Drones This Year — Last Night, 930 Miles From the Border, It Burned
Published: July 14, 2026 18:13
Ukrainian drones set two major Russian refineries ablaze overnight — including Salavat in Bashkortostan, the last gas refinery untouched in 2026 — while Russia struck a refinery in Odesa. Moscow now plans to import 400,000 tons of gasoline a month as…
After 9 Years and $1 Billion, Russia’s Aircraft Carrier Is Getting Scrapped. It’s a Monument to Everything Wrong With Its Navy.
Published: July 14, 2026 17:58
The Admiral Kuznetsov has been out of service since 2017. Its dry dock sank beneath it, a 70-ton crane fell onto the flight deck, fires broke out below deck, and a shipyard chief was arrested for embezzlement. Now Russia's only aircraft carrier is headed…
After 27 Years and $5 Billion, Russia’s Giant Battlecruiser Is Back. It’s a Monument to Everything Wrong With Its Navy.
Published: July 13, 2026 22:59
After 27 years and roughly $5 billion, Russia has returned the nuclear battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov to the sea, packed with 80 strike cells that can fire Zircon hypersonic missiles. On paper it is the most powerful surface combatant afloat. It also…
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
Published: July 13, 2026 18:33
This summer, satellite photographs showed Russia bolting lattice cages over the conning towers of its Black Sea submarines, hiding their masts from Ukrainian drones inside their own port. Ukraine began this war with a single warship, which it scuttled in…
‘Rusty Dagger’: The U.S. Air Force Built a Cheap Cruise Missile in Months Instead of Years. It Did It for Ukraine
Published: July 13, 2026 17:13
The U.S. Air Force just compressed a weapons program that normally takes the better part of a decade into a matter of months, fielding a cheap, mass-producible cruise missile called Rusty Dagger. The purpose was not, at first, American: the program was…
Ukraine Just Hit More Than a Quarter of Every Ship in the Sea of Azov in Four Days — and Russia Shut the Whole Corridor Down
Published: July 13, 2026 15:41
Ukrainian drones struck more than a quarter of all vessels in the Sea of Azov in a 96-hour stretch, forcing Russia to close the corridor into Monday. Russian military bloggers are blaming the Kremlin's 'blatant carelessness.' Hours before his death, Sen.…
The U.S. Air Force Wants Its F-15s to Hunt Stealth Fighters With the Radar Off
Published: July 13, 2026 14:38
The Air Force has opened the search for a next-generation infrared eye for its F-15s, asking industry who can build a modern Infrared Search and Track system. It's market research, not yet a program, but the timing tells the story: the F-15EX buy has…
High-Energy Lasers: The U.S. Military Wants New 500-kW Systems for Cruise Missile Defense Against Iran, Russia, and China
Published: July 11, 2026 11:41
The story racing around the internet says the Pentagon just launched a $627 million laser program. The reality is bigger and more interesting. On July 9 the Defense Department picked two vendors, nLIGHT and Lockheed Martin, under the Joint Laser Weapon…
Russia’s New T-72B3A Tank Has One Job: Survive Ukraine’s Drone War
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Published: July 10, 2026 23:36
Russia is reportedly fielding a new T-72B3A equipped with the Arena-M active protection system. The upgrade targets missiles and FPV drones, though experts question whether its limited countermeasures will survive repeated attacks.
Russia’s Air Force Gets New Su-34 and Su-30SM2 Combat Jets Amid Heavy Losses
Published: July 10, 2026 22:40
On July 9, Russia's state defense conglomerate Rostec announced fresh deliveries of Su-30SM2 fighters and Su-34 fighter-bombers, complete with factory-test boilerplate and a glowing pilot testimonial. What it did not include was a number. Independent…
Nazi Germany Built a Rocket Fighter That Hit 620 MPH in 1941. It Killed More of Its Own Pilots Than the Enemy
Published: July 10, 2026 22:08
The first Komet flew in 1941 and shattered every speed record of its age, exceeding 620 mph before the jet engine even existed. For about seven minutes the Messerschmitt Me 163 outflew anything the Allies had. Then its fuel ran out and it became a glider,…
Canada Keeps Asking Whether It Needs Aircraft Carriers. It’s the Wrong Question
Published: July 10, 2026 11:35
What if Canada had aircraft carriers in 2026? It would look impressive, visit useful ports, and let ministers speak. It would also do little about the waters where Canada's security is most exposed. The carrier question only becomes useful aimed away from…