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2026
World’s Most Heavily Armed Submarines Fortified with New Anti-Drone Protection ‘Shield’ at Russian Navy’s Key Pacific Baseoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
US Army Quote of the Day by US Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower: “I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”original ↗
22 Sept 2026
Decades Later, General George C. Marshall’s Line ‘Don’t Look Back’ Just Might Be the Greatest Quote in All of US Army Historyoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
22 Sept 2026
The F-4 Phantom II Fighter’s Brute-Force Design Is Why Modern Air Forces Can’t Replace It in 2026 Even If It Is No F-15EX, F-16 or F-35 Stealth Fighteroriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
Russia’s T-14 Armata vs. the British Army’s Challenger 3: A Tank Showdown That Would Come Down to Just 1 Thing on the Battlefieldoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
‘Will Not Alter the Military Balance’: Saudi Arabia’s $24 Billion F-35 Approval Came With a Line for Israeloriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
‘Those Days Are Over’: US Air Force Says 38 Days of High-Intensity Combat with Iran in the Middle East Changed How It Will Fightoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: SIG Sauer Put 10 Rounds Into a Grip 1 Inch Wide in 2018. The P365 Was the Best-Selling Handgun in America That Year and the Next One, and Every Micro-Compact Since Has Been Answering It.original ↗
22 Sept 2026
Decades Later, General George Patton’s Best US Army Line On Courage Is Still the Greatest Military Quote in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
USS Abraham Lincoln is 305 days into a cruise that is now the second-longest U.S. aircraft carrier deployment since the Cold War and after Iran combat, 208 days straight at sea, and a one-day stop at Naval Base Guam the strike group is still weeks from San Diegooriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
Combat Veteran US Air Force F-117 Nighthawk ‘Stealth Fighter’ Joins the National Air and Space Museum Collection at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Centeroriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
Britain will cut steel on the first SSN-AUKUS in 2027 to replace the Astute-class and the same BAE Barrow yards must still finish Astutes, build four Dreadnought SSBNs, and fix a fleet that has at times had all five Royal Navy attack boats unavailableoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
Decades Later, Admiral William ‘Bull’ Halsey’s Line on Great Challenges and Ordinary Men Is the Greatest Navy Quote in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
Denmark’s F-35s landed in Greenland for the first time after flying from Keflavik with U.S. F-16s and Canadian CF-18s and the same week a Russian frigate fired flares at a Danish Fennec while Copenhagen Nuuk and Washington prepared a September 22 Arctic security dealoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The Smith & Wesson Model 442 Holds 5 Rounds of .38 Special and Weighs 15 Ounces. You Give Up 10 Rounds of 9mm and You Get a Gun That Does Not Jam.original ↗
22 Sept 2026
‘She Ran Out of Fuel’: The MiG-23 That Crashed Escaping From 2 AIM-54 Phoenix Missiles Fired By US Navy F-14 Tomcatsoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
44 Years Later, US Navy Admiral Hyman Rickover’s Line on Human Experience Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: My Father Brought a Karabiner 98k Home From World War II With Its Matching Numbered Bayonet. Germany Built 14,600,000 of Them, and Every One Had to Put 3 of 5 Shots Into an 8cm by 12cm Box at 100 Meters Before Leaving the Factory.original ↗
22 Sept 2026
France’s Leclerc Main Battle Tank Might Not Be the US Army’s M1 Abrams or the Challenge 2 In Terms of Combat Power, But It Can Still Pack A Punch on Any Battlefieldoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
European Intelligence Officials Forecast ‘Imminent’ Russian Attack on NATO in ‘Months, Not Years’original ↗
22 Sept 2026
Putin’s Giant Gamble: Another Ukraine War Mobilization Is Filled with Unknown Risks and An Angry Russia Simmeringoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The AK-47 Weighs 7.7 Pounds, Cycles at 600 Rounds a Minute, and Is Good to About 350 Meters. Between 40,000,000 and 100,000,000 Have Been Built. The Entire M16, M4 and AR-15 Family Totals About 20,000,000.original ↗
22 Sept 2026
The F-4 ‘Super’ Phantom Would Have Had New Engines and a Doubled Range: The F-15, F-16 and F/A-18 Fighters Made Sure It Never Flew Anywhereoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
‘Pivotal Meeting’: Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Donald Trump Will Meet Today. Here’s What’s on the Agenda to Try and End the Ukraine Waroriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
22 Sept 2026
Decades Later, Admiral Chester Nimitz’s Line About Leadership Is Still One of the Greatest US Navy Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
The New LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM Was Supposed to Cost $77,700,000,000. The Price Is Now 81 Percent More at $140,900,000,000 and the Air Force Is Sweatingoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
Centuries Later, Napoleon Bonaparte’s Line on Death Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes In all of Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
34 Years Later, General H. Norman “Stormin’ Norman” Schwarzkopf’s Line on War Is Still One of the Best Quotes in All of US Army Historyoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
16 Years Back, General James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis Declared that ‘PowerPoint Makes US Stupid’ and It Might Be One of the Best US Army Quotes Of All Timeoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
While Training in Anti-Missile Tactics, a US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird Crew Left a 5-Mile-Long Contrail in the Stratosphere After Dumping Fuel for 10 Seconds to See if the AB Would Ignite the Fuel Trailoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
The US Navy Dreamed Up a F-14 ‘Super’ Tomcat Fighter For Aircraft Carriers That Would Have Had A New Engine, Greater Range But Missing Stealthoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
A Fully Loaded with Bombs US Air Force F-4 Phantom Fighter Rolled Upside Down Underneath a Tanker at Night in a Thunderstorm To Get Separationoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
211 Years Later, the Duke of Wellington’s Line on the Art of War Is One of the Best Quotes In British Military Historyoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
81 Years Later, General George Patton’s Best US Army Line on Mourning the Dead Is Still the Greatest Military Quote in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
A US Navy Aircraft Carrier Tactical Action Officer Explains How Long it Takes for a Nuclear Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carrier to Go to Flank Speedoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
Beijing to Shanghai In Just 1800 Seconds: China Is Ready to Test Its New Supersonic TMS-10 Planeoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
‘My Heart Stopped’: A US Air Force SR-71 Pilot Recalls Doing a Blackbird Super Low Pass at a Speed of Just 152 Knotsoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
Royal Air Force F-4 Phantom Pilot Recalls Shadowing two Soviet Tu-95 Bears over France Because French Fighters Were Grounded for Bastille Day Celebrationsoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
21 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: SIG Sauer Introduced the P229 in 1992, and the Cartridge It Is Famous For Did Not Exist Until 1994. The Secret Service Carried It in .357 SIG for Decades and Switched to 9mm in 2019.original ↗
21 Sept 2026
Mars Climate Orbiter ran on pound-force seconds while NASA’s software expected newtons and over nine months that 4.45-to-one error put it 35 miles above Mars instead of 85 so on 23 September 1999 the $125 million spacecraft vanished and never called homeoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
236 Years Ago, General George Washington’s Line of War Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: You Can Build a Complete, Functioning Ruger 10/22 Rifle Today Without a Single Part Made by Ruger. No Other Rimfire Rifle Has an Aftermarket Like It.original ↗
21 Sept 2026
Ukraine Fired over 1,000 Drones at Targets in Russia and Moscow Was One of the Prime Targets in ‘Largest Attack’ on Capitaloriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The Gen 6 Glock 45 Ships With a Flat Trigger and an Optics-Ready Slide as Standard. Both Used to Be Aftermarket Work.original ↗
21 Sept 2026
The British Army’s General Dynamics Ajax Armored Fighting Vehicles Are Truly Circling the Drainoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
The US Air Force built a 15-foot fighter with no landing gear to live in a B-36 and after two hours and 19 minutes of flight it hit the mothership, shattered the canopy, belly-landed on a lakebed, and was cancelled in 1949 when aerial refueling made parasite fighters unnecessaryoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
Brazil’s Aircraft Carrier São Paulo spent 206 days at sea in 18 years and then Turkey refused the asbestos hull so on 3 February 2023 the Navy towed the former French carrier Foch 350 kilometers offshore and sank her after steam and fire had already killed sailorsoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: There Is Nothing Like the Smith & Wesson Model 642 Ultimate Carry Revolveroriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The Smith & Wesson Model 10 Revolver’s Double-Action Trigger Breaks at About 9.4 Pounds. That Is Not a Flaw. It Is Why the Gun Teaches You Something a Striker-Fired Pistol Never Will.original ↗
21 Sept 2026
21 Sept 2026
23 Years Later, General James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis and His Line on the Marines Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
The Royal Navy Has 2 65,000-Ton Queen Elizabeth-Class Aircraft Carriers That Crank Out 158,800 Horsepower Thanks to Rolls Royce Gas Turbines But Not All Is Well With These Warshipsoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
100,000-Ton US Navy Nimitz-Class Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Returns to the Fleet, Critical Systems Upgraded to Boost Battle Readinessoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
‘Unprecedented Attack’: Ukraine Just Fired 450 Drones at Moscow as Part of a Massive 1,600 Drone Assault on Russiaoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
South Korea’s K2 Black Panther Tank Weighs 56 Tons, Has a 1,500-Horsepower Diesel Engine and Can Move at 44 MPH. Some Experts Even Say It Might Be the Best Tank On Earthoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
246 Years Later, Captain John Paul Jones Best US Navy Line Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
‘We Learn a Lot from the Ukrainians’: One NATO Ally Is Learning a ‘Priceless’ Lesson On How War Is Changing and Even Destroyed Drones Over Clues About Russiaoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
People think Earth dies when the Sun becomes a red giant in five billion years — the more likely end is a billion years from now, when a star already 30 percent brighter than at birth pushes CO₂ too low for C3 plants, then a moist greenhouse strips the oceans of hydrogen and leaves a sterile Venusoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
One NATO Ally Has a Class of ‘Diesel’ Submarines That Was Able to Sink a A US Navy Nimitz-Class Nuclear Aircraft Carrier In a Simulation and Is Now About To Become Even More Powerful Thanks to New Upgradesoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
China Might Have Up to Five New Prototypes of the J-36 ‘NGAD’ Stealth Fighter Flying and They Keep Showing Them Off While the Boeing F-47 Is a Top Secret Mysteryoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
China Has Its Own Version of the US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle That Was Built from the Designs of 1 of Russia’s Best Fighters Still Flying Todayoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
The US Army’s New Light Tank Is Now in a Museum Behind the Gates of a Military Base After Planning to Spend $17,000,000,000 Only to Find Out It Was Too Heavyoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
No F-22, F-35, or J-20 Mighty Dragon: China’s J-10 Vigorous Dragon Fighter Summed Up in 4 Wordsoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
Sunday US Army Quote of the Day by General Dwight D. Eisenhower: “You do not lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership.”original ↗
20 Sept 2026
A US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3 Sonic Boom Shockwave from Indiana to New York Was Blamed on a Meteoriteoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
An SR-71 Blackbird Engine Exploded at Mach 2.88 Over Oklahoma. The Crew Landed It In Texasoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
The US Navy May Build Two Frigates Overseas After Constellation-Class Died at 12% Completeoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2026
‘Effectively Closed’: The Strait of Hormuz Oil and Gas Crisis Is Going from Bad to Even Worseoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2026
In 1976 Joersz and Morgan flew SR-71 61-7958 at 2,193.167 miles per hour, seven short of the 2,200 they wanted — fifty years later the FAI still lists it as the absolute speed record for a powered airplane, and the cockpit is open September 24–26 in Warner Robins, Georgiaoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2026
Britain Dropped Catapults on Queen Elizabeth-class Aircraft Carriers and Paid billions to Fly the F-35B Stealth Fighteroriginal ↗
19 Sept 2026
129 Years Ago, Teddy Roosevelt’s Line on Preparing for War Remains One of the Greatest Military Quotes in All of Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2026
The Unknown NATO Walrus-Class Submarines ‘Sunk’ a US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier and 7 Escort Vessels Back in 1999 in a Simulation and Come Armed with Torpedoes, Harpoon and Tomahawk Missilesoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2026
Not Made in the USA: Sweden Is Planning to Build A New AIP Submarine That Might Be One of the Most Quiet on Earth and Was Built Upon a Sub That Sunk a US Navy Aircraft Carrier in a Simulationoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2026
A Mach 3 SR-71 Blackbird’s Right Engine Came Apart in Midflight and Exploded over Maryland ‘Spewing Flaming Fuel and Titanium Pieces Around’original ↗
19 Sept 2026
‘It Was an Industrial Site’: I Served Aboard 57,500-Ton Iowa-Class Battleship USS Wisconsin and She Is a Floating History Lesson for the US Navy in 2026original ↗
19 Sept 2026
Move Over, B-21 Raider Bomber: The US Air Force B-1B Lancer and B-2 Spirit Won’t Be Retired Afteralloriginal ↗
19 Sept 2026
General Ulysses S. Grant’s Line About Winning in Battle Is One of the Most Underappreciated Quotes in All of US Army and Civil War Historyoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2026
19 Sept 2026
81 Years Ago, Admiral Chester Nimitz Best Line on Submarines Is Still One of the Greatest Quotes in US Navy Historyoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
124 Years Ago, Teddy Roosevelt’s Best Line on the Navy and War Is Still One of the Greatest Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
The US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird Burned Through 8,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel On the Way to Hitting Mach 3 and over 80,000 Feet of Altitudeoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
Only Two F-16XL Fighters Were Built. They Lost to the F-15E in 1984, Flew for NASA to 1999, and Retired in 2009. A Video Game Is Flying Them Again.original ↗
18 Sept 2026
Saudi Arabia Is Getting the F-35 Fighter. That Means Israel Could Get the F-47 NGAD Stealth Fighter Built by Boeingoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
Two of Taiwan’s Four Submarines Were Built During World War II. The Replacement Is at Sea on Trials, and Money for More Waits on the Result.original ↗
18 Sept 2026
‘Destroyed in 3 Minutes’: The 42,000-Ton HMS Hood Battlecruiser Was the Largest Warship in the Royal Navy and Carried 8 15-Inch Guns But Her Armor Was Thinoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
‘We Need Mach 3.5’: The US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird Reached Speeds That No One Ever Thought Possible When a Missile Tried to Destroy Itoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
Germany Got Its First F-35A Fighter in Fort Worth from Lockheed Martin. It Bought 35 for €10 Billion Partly So Its Pilots Can Keep Carrying American Nuclear Bombs.original ↗
18 Sept 2026