9+ mon, 2+ day ago  (517+ words) February 7, 2026: 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....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (385+ words) February 19, 2026: This year Ukraine developed the 4x4 wheeled Zmiy Droid 12.7 ground robot. Weighing about half a ton, the Zmiy chassis is built to survive drone attacks and anti-personnel mines....

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (341+ words) The Germans called their offensive Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein. They concentrated 406,000 men and 1,200 tanks and assault guns for the attack. These were organized into 13 infantry divisions, 7 armored divisions and one armored brigade. By December 24 the Allies had 541,000 men organized into…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (692+ words) February 1, 2026: The South Korean KF-21 jet fighter will enter service next month, and delivery of the first 40 Block 1 air superiority aircraft will be completed in 2028. After that, 80 Block 2 ......

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (617+ words) November 23, 2025: Sweden and Norway recently delivered half a dozen 20-ton Combat Boat 90 vessels. These boats cost $2.6 million each. Nearly 300 of these boats have been built since the first ......

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (121+ words) by Graham M. Simons Barnsley, Eng.: Air World Pen and Sword / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2025. Pp. 304. Illus., plans, tables, biblio., index. $54.95. ISBN: 1526787318 Simons brings his vast knowledge of aviation history to bear on the B-36, a strategic bomber that was not only the largest…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (648+ words) December 6, 2025: The Aegis Combat Control system has been around since the 1970s, the first ships had it installed for testing. By the 1990s Aegis was the standard radar, fire control system on new ......

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (728+ words) December 28, 2025: While Russia was an early user of Iranian Shaheed drones against Ukraine, the Ukrainians developed more drone innovations and out-produced the Russians, until now. After more than a ......

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (377+ words) Cambridge, Ma.: Belknap Pres of the Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. xviii, 374. Maps, notes, biblio., index. $45.00. ISBN: 0674986512 "Of that Byzantine Empire the universal verdict of history is that it constitutes, without a single exception, the most thoroughly base and despicable form…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (183+ words) Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. viii, 1152. Illus., maps, appends, gloss., notes, biblio., index. $45.00. ISBN: 0197549322 The Empire that Survived Thirty seven chapters are divided into ten logically organized sections: Part One: A New Empire Part Two: Dynastic Insecurities and…...