This matters because by 2019 South Korea is the 10th largest defense manufacturer in the world. That’s up from 13th a few years earlier. In 2024 South Korea was number 8 with a 2.8 percent share of ...

F-16s and other manned aircraft are still needed to find and attack other targets even if the pilots’ radio communications are jammed as pilots can adapt to unexpected situations. There are now ...

The M777 is, at four tons, the lightest 155mm towed howitzer ever fielded. A crew of five fires regular rounds to 24 kilometers and RAP rocket assisted projectiles to 40 kilometers. M777 fire control ...

China needed the food, but Russia already had markets in the Middle East, Africa and Europe. The situation changed in 2014 and 2022 when Russian aggression resulted in economic sanctions that included ...

F-35B Lightning II attached to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 225, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, dispenses flares ...

As Egypt expands its influence in North Africa, it continues to bump into rebellious Tuaregs, who are not alone in opposing Egyptian influence, While Egypt has the largest economy in North Africa, the ...

During the twenty five years the camps existed, several hundred thousand North Koreans spent some time in those camps and thousands died while there. This might seem unbelievable, but enough North ...

Russia continues to use manpower to do the work of the machines every other armed force uses. Clinging to archaic logistical practices means that supplies reach Russian troops more slowly, and often ...

November 9, 2024: Russian forces in Ukraine have, over the last few months, been suffering ammunition shortages and increasingly unreliable railroad deliveries. Part of the reason for this was the ...

November 6, 2024: Ukraine wants peace and NATO membership to discourage future Russian aggression. Russia wants to absorb Ukraine into a revived Russian empire. When the Soviet Union collapsed and ...

November 7, 2024: Russia is using million dollar Kh-22 air launched cruise missiles to attack Ukrainian and foreign ships carrying grain from Ukrainian ports to customers worldwide. Ukraine exports 70 ...

November 7, 2024: The Russian Black Sea fleet disappeared from the Black Sea in 2023. Russian warships are still in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov extension in the northeast, and the more distant ...