Daily Archives: Dec 16, 2025

Can it at the same time represent national pride as a keen reminder of strategic weaknesses? Russia's Su-35 "Super Flanker" has that question on military strategists' minds globally. This 4.5-generation fighter has been at the center of combat losses, tense global confrontations, as well as a high-stakes arms sale...

Sanctions are now no longer a diplomatic nicety, but an instrument of warfare. In moving to blacklist Rosneft and Lukoil, two of Russia's top oil producers, the United States was making a dramatic turn in leveraging economic pressure on Moscow following deadly strikes in Ukraine that killed seven civilians....

Can a neighboring object from outside the Solar System be more than a comet? That tantalizing question now powers one of the most daring observation campaigns in planetary defense history. The International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN), a United Nations–sanctioned collective of space agencies and astronomers, has launched its first-ever...