- February 22nd, 2026
The United States quietly achieved a major technical and industrial milestone last year when it successfully reverse engineered a critical subcomponent of the 30,000-pound GBU-57/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), the Pentagon’s most powerful conventional bunker-buster bomb. By leveraging technology originally...
The United States military is moving to replenish its stockpile of the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bunker-buster bombs, following their high-profile use against Iran’s nuclear facilities during “Operation Midnight Hammer” in June 2025. Recently published, partially redacted US Air...
US-Iran crisis: Another round of aircraft carrier deployments and ultimatums, another set of dire predictions about imminent war in the Middle East. Yet here we are again, watching Washington and Tehran engage in a ritualized choreography of brinkmanship that has...
China’s understated unveiling of a new underwater commando craft in Saudi Arabia is drawing fresh attention to how Beijing is fusing special operations warfare with an increasingly assertive global arms-sales strategy. Earlier this month, the South China Morning Post reported...
The United States Navy is redirecting its newest and most advanced aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, from the Caribbean Sea to the Middle East as tensions with Iran sharply escalate, marking a dramatic operational pivot that will see...
The U.S. Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), is set to extend its deployment once again, this time heading to the Middle East, according to multiple sources close to the Pentagon and the White House. The decision follows...
Iran has been reinforcing an underground complex carved into a mountain near one of its most sensitive nuclear facilities, according to newly analysed satellite imagery, raising fresh questions about Tehran’s intentions at a time of escalating tensions with the United...
In a significant show of force, the United States Air Force (USAF) initiated the redeployment of a large contingent of F-15E Strike Eagles from RAF Lakenheath in the United Kingdom to the Middle East in mid-January 2026. The aircraft, many...
As tensions between the United States and Iran continue to escalate, preliminary reports indicate that the Pentagon may deploy a second aircraft carrier strike group (CSG) to join the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East, a move that would...
The Pentagon, one of the world’s largest buyers and sellers of military hardware, is undertaking one of the most ambitious overhauls of its acquisition and arms transfer systems in decades. After years of false starts and reform pledges that yielded...
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