Daily Archives: Dec 17, 2025
The 5 Most Disastrous Fighter Jets of the Cold War
What happens when revolutionary ambition meets engineering reality? In the cutthroat environment of Cold War fighter development, the outcome could be spectacular occasionally for all the wrong reasons. Although the period resulted in epochal aircraft that dominated aerial warfare, it also created planes that underperformed in performance, safety, or...
Putin’s Drone Gambit and NATO’s High-Tech Countermeasures
A swarm of low-cost drones costing €10,000 or less per unit has reliably shut down major European airports, entered the airspace of NATO, and flown over military bases from Poland to Belgium. Such incursions, broadly suspected by Western leaders to be part of the hybrid warfare program of Russia,...
Can Russia’s Pacific Fleet Tip the Indo-Pacific Naval Balance?
The sail of three Russian Pacific Fleet ships out of Vladivostok this week a Udaloy-class frigate modernized, a Project 20385 corvette, and a Soviet-tanker can look puny alongside U.S. carrier battle groups. But the deployment serves to underscore Moscow's determination to maintain its presence as an active naval player...
