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Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:01:28 +0000

Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia Have Formed a Defense Pact. Why It Matters More Than It First Appears On August 7, 2026, an event took place in Mecca that would […]

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Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:18:25 +0000

The Last Days of the Warthog: Why the A-10 Will Keep Flying Even Though Its Era Is Already Over It was designed around a massive seven-barrel cannon and built to […]

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Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:05:52 +0000

Coupe or Fastback? Where the Sportiest Car Silhouette Came From — and Why People Keep Confusing the Two Put two 1965 Ford Mustangs side by side. One is the classic […]

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Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:57:08 +0000

Russia’s Railways Are Caught in a Strange Trap: Freight Is Falling, but Pressure on the System Is GrowingRussia’s railway system has found itself in what appears t […]

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Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:32:50 +0000

How China Spent More Than a Decade Preparing for an Oil War — and Why It Helped Stabilize the Global MarketWhen the Strait of Hormuz was effectively blocked, many […]

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Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:20:08 +0000

A Power Plant the Size of a City in Space: Why Iceland Could Receive Solar Energy Directly From OrbitA solar power station in orbit, a giant receiving antenna on […]

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Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:34:18 +0000

How One Family Built an Empire from Spain to India: The Rise and Fall of the Umayyad Dynasty In the mid-eighth century, the name of the Umayyads was known from the […]

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Fri, 17 Jul 2026 07:51:43 +0000

America's New Drone Fighter Fires AIM-120 for the First Time: Why the YFQ-44A Could Redefine Air Combat Air combat is entering a new era. The U.S. unmanned fighter […]

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Fri, 17 Jul 2026 07:37:07 +0000

Why Aircraft Carriers Still Aren’t Dead: The Drone Age Has Changed the Rules, But Not the Kings of the Sea After every major war or high-profile conflict, the same […]

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Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:02:43 +0000

Mirror Armor: How an Eastern Breastplate Became the Symbol of the Russian Warrior Some pieces of armor are instantly recognizable, even to people with little […]

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Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:51:45 +0000

Russian Tu-142 Drops Sonobuoys Near British Carrier Group: What Happened in the Norwegian Sea? The latest encounter between Russian military aviation and NATO […]

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Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:58:47 +0000

The New Marine One Will Finally Retire a Legend: The Story of the VH-3D Sea King Presidential Helicopter For more than half a century, American presidents have […]

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Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:44:56 +0000

Canada Chooses Germany's Type 212CD Submarines to Rebuild Its Undersea Fleet After years of evaluating competing designs, Canada has officially selected Germany’s […]

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Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:30:59 +0000

Hearing a Drone Before Seeing It: Why Belarus Developed the Scanner 2.1 Acoustic Detection System Over the past few years, unmanned aerial vehicles have […]

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Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:24:23 +0000

China Has Tested a Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile in the Pacific. Why This Launch Matters Far More Than It Appears Twenty years ago, Chinese ballistic […]

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Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:02:55 +0000

Jaguar Mk IX. When a British Luxury Sedan Could Outrun a Sports Car Today, it is difficult to imagine a full-size luxury sedan capable of carrying government […]

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Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:03:52 +0000

The Heart of the Icebreaker Rossiya: Why the RITM-400 Nuclear Reactor Was Developed When people talk about nuclear-powered icebreakers, attention is usually […]

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Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:22:46 +0000

The Conroi: The Brotherhood of Younger Sons That Built the Age of the Crusades Imagine France at the end of the eleventh century. In the castle of a powerful […]

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Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:22:20 +0000

ALTO NG: The Small Aircraft That Shapes Future Fighter Pilots When people think about military pilot training, they usually picture advanced jet trainers such as […]

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Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:02:10 +0000

From Crimea to Afghanistan: The Revolver That Followed the British Empire for Three Decades In the nineteenth century, every great power had a weapon that became a […]

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Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:13:26 +0000

The Trench Terror: Why Germany Demanded the Ban of the Winchester 1897 The First World War gave rise to many weapons that have since become symbols of the […]

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Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:45:36 +0000

MAZ-7907: The Wheeled Leviathan Built for Nuclear War In the history of engineering, there are machines that impress with their specifications. There are machines […]

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Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:28:40 +0000

The Robot Looking for a Crossing: Why Sweden Is Buying Sonobot 5 Naval Drones for Its Army When people hear the term “military drone,” they usually think of str […]

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Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:14:43 +0000

Flying Arsenal: Why France Is Turning A400M Transports into Carriers for Cruise Missiles and Drones For decades, military transport aircraft had one basic role: […]

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Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:52:17 +0000

The End of the Open Apron Era: Russia Begins Building Massive Shelters for Strategic Bombers Just a few years ago, strategic bombers were considered among the most […]

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Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:45:55 +0000

Neptune-2: What Could Ukraine’s New Cruise Missile Become with MBDA’s Involvement? Ukraine’s Neptune missile has long outgrown its original role as a purely a […]

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Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:08:55 +0000

The New Air Force One Is Getting Closer: The VC-25B Bridge Has Joined the Presidential Airlift Group For more than three decades, the symbol of American […]

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Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:32:38 +0000

The Pistol from the Future That Nobody Wanted to Buy: The Story of the Whitney Wolverine The history of firearms is full of designs that were ahead of their time. […]

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Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:36:56 +0000

FN Arka Challenges the Market Leaders: Belgian Firearms Manufacturer FN Herstal Enters the Assault Rifle Segment On the eve of the Eurosatory 2026 exhibition in […]

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Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:28:27 +0000

GM-94: The Russian Grenade Launcher That Truly Has Almost No Equal When manufacturers claim that their weapon has “no analogues,” such statements are usually met with a healthy dose of skepticism. In the modern world of […]

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Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:03:42 +0000

Sikorsky CH-37 Mojave: The Giant That Arrived a Few Years Too Late Aviation history is full of aircraft that looked revolutionary when they first appeared, only to […]

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Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:56:12 +0000

“The Flying Barrel”: The Restored Grumman F3F-2 Carrier-Based Biplane Fighter The Last American Navy Fighter of the Biplane Era The history of military aviation is […]

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Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:13:43 +0000

How the Empire of Charlemagne Died: The Fall of the Most Powerful Dynasty of the Middle Ages On Christmas Day in the year 800, an event took place in Rome that […]

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Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:07:45 +0000

Airbus U145: A Helicopter Without a Pilot. Airbus Turns the Proven H145 Into an Autonomous Flying Truck While most drone developers are focused on small fixed-wing […]

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Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:03:20 +0000

FCAS Crashes Before Takeoff: Why Europe Lost Its Sixth-Generation Fighter ProgramOne of the most ambitious defense projects in modern European history has […]

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Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:01:10 +0000

Empire of the Forests: How the Iroquois Built the Most Powerful Confederacy in North America When we hear the word “Indians,” we often imagine small tribes of hun […]

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Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:21:18 +0000

Is the RCH 155 Already in Ukraine? Germany’s “Ghost Howitzer” Unexpectedly Reappears at a Canadian Defense Show Sometimes the most interesting military stories emerge […]

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Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:19:28 +0000

The Last Celebration of an Empire: What Really Happened at the Famous Russian Ball of 1903? February 1903. Only two years remained before the Revolution of 1905. […]

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Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:24:30 +0000

Dominique Larrey: The Surgeon Who Taught Armies How to Save Their Soldiers History usually remembers generals. Napoleon, Suvorov, Wellington, Kutuzov—the men w […]

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Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:18:32 +0000

The Aircraft Without an Airfield: How the Harrier Became the West’s Most Unusual Combat Jet In June 2026, the U.S. Marine Corps officially bid farewell to its last […]

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Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:24:23 +0000

The Pith Helmet: The Icon of the British Empire That Outlived the Colonial Wars Some pieces of military equipment become symbols of an entire era. A cuirass […]

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Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:51:47 +0000

Bronze Titans of the Trojan War: What Armor Did Achilles and Hector Really Wear? The release of the first trailer for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming adaptation of T […]

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Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:44:35 +0000

The Eyes of Special Operations Are Leaving Service: Why the U.S. Is Retiring the U-28 Draco In June 2026, U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) confirmed what […]

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Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:26:23 +0000

Davy Crockett: The Nuclear Shotgun of the Cold War The Cold War produced countless unusual weapons. Some became symbols of their era, others disappeared into the […]

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Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:34:10 +0000

The Pentagon Wants To Track Aircraft From Space: SpaceX Wins Contract To Build A New Orbital Surveillance NetworkFor decades, military aviation has relied on […]

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Sun, 31 May 2026 16:41:50 +0000

The New Javelin Is Lighter, Smarter, and Sees Farther: The U.S. Army Is Giving Its Most Famous Anti-Tank Weapon a New Lease on Life At first glance, the news appears […]

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Sat, 30 May 2026 17:17:13 +0000

Whites Only: How Rhodesia Created Its Own R-76 Submachine Gun In the history of small arms, there are many weapons that emerged not because of massive government […]

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Sat, 30 May 2026 16:45:45 +0000

The Vehicle Designed Around an Aircraft: The Story of the M1161 Growler Light Strike Vehicle Most military vehicles are developed according to a fairly […]

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Fri, 29 May 2026 13:00:11 +0000

M249 SAW: How a Belgian Machine Gun Became One of the Symbols of the U.S. Army If you ask someone to name the most recognizable small arms used by the U.S. military […]

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Fri, 29 May 2026 11:28:02 +0000

Ragnarok: NATO’s New Self-Propelled Mortar That Aims to Replace Both Towed Mortars and Part of Self-Propelled Artillery At DSEI 2025 in London, German manufacturer Flensburger Fahrzeugbau Gesellschaft unveiled the new ACSV G5 Ragnarok self-propelled mortar. At first glance, […]