The U.S. Navy has decided to base their new FFX frigate on the current Coast Guard Legend-class cutter. Ten Legends entered service between 2008 and 2024. Two more are being built. The 4,700 ton ...

In any event, protesting Putin’s war won’t do anything. Even if Putin were to die, his successor would have no incentive to change anything, except maybe end the war in Ukraine. At the moment that’s ...

January 3, 2026: Shortly after World War II ended in 1945, the United States military, then the largest in the world, was told to create overseas commands to look after American interests and military ...

Russia is having problems building new icebreaker ships because of the Ukraine War related economic sanctions. Despite the sanctions, Russia wants to build as many as 17 nuclear powered icebreakers.

Most non-Chinese shipping have adopted Starlink for its superior speeds compared to traditional maritime satellite systems. Starlink provides better navigation, communications, and logistics ...

Ukraine has asked European nations to cooperate in shutting down the Russian Shadow Fleet. About two-thirds of Russian oil smuggling shadow fleet ships move through the Baltic Sea. If Denmark and the ...

Four years of Ukrainian long range drone attacks on targets throughout western Russia have had a cumulative impact. It was obvious that Ukraine needed a locally produced drone that was free of any ...

One notable side effect of the Ukraine War is the international impact of the use, and abuse of drones. Ukrainian soldiers and civilians invented drone warfare and continue improving drone technology, ...

European firms have long been producing world-class tanks, artillery, combat aircraft and electronic systems, but depended on the United States for more complex systems. Now European manufacturers are ...

January 6, 2026: China has committed to training of thousands of foreign police in a series of well publicized events. These include instruction of protective services, counterterrorism, gendarmerie ...

December 30, 2025: The war in Ukraine will soon enter its fifth year. Off the battlefield, one of the hardest hit entities is the Russian economy from economic sanctions by NATO countries. At first ...

Russia’s war in Ukraine has now gone on longer than the World War II war with Germany. The current war has cost Russia 1.4 million men killed, disabled or missing. Only a few hundred civilians have ...