Daily Archives: Jul 4, 2026

Image Credit to Wikimedia Commons It started with a leak hundreds of leaked internal Rostec documents, posted to the web by the Black Mirror hacker collective, that spelled out export information defense analysts had long speculated about. Hidden in the tables was customer code "364," a reference for Iran, on...

A $47,000 helicopter knob that could be made for $15 is not a rounding errorit is a symptom of a deeper malaise in US military procurement. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll’s blunt accusation that prime contractors have “conned” the Pentagon has jolted Washington’s defense circles, drawing attention to a decades-old...

Image Credit to Wikimedia Commons It is not usually that a small inland lake is the battleground for a wham of note in contemporary naval combat. But on the pre-dawn of October 4, Ukrainian commandos made Russia's Lake Onega in the republic of Karelia just that a battleground for one...