- December 6th, 2025
The United States Navy has awarded Pratt & Whitney a contract valued at up to $1.6 billion to sustain the F135 propulsion system that powers all variants of the F-35 Lightning II, the world’s largest and most widely deployed fifth-generation...
The United States has issued an urgent demand to the Lebanese government for the immediate return of an intact GBU-39B Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) discovered in Beirut, triggering a geopolitical confrontation that now spans Washington, Tel Aviv, Tehran, Moscow, Beijing,...
Australia’s prestigious Lowy Institute has, for the first time, formally designated India as a ‘Major Power’ in its newly released Asia Power Index 2025, marking a significant milestone for New Delhi’s strategic rise. Ranked overall as the third most powerful...
Trump’s Tariff Gambit Backfires as Global F-35 Orders Collapse, Threatening USD 100 Billion in Sales
US President Donald Trump’s unpredictable tariff crusade—framed domestically as a strategy to revive American jobs—appears to be delivering the opposite effect for one of the country’s biggest defense manufacturers. Lockheed Martin, builder of the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter, is...
Corruption in the military is increasingly emerging as a global concern, with scandals and procurement scams surfacing across continents. From battlefield-dependent Ukraine to the strategic might of China and the United States, and from struggling democracies like Romania to rising...
China is rapidly narrowing the military technology gap with the United States across almost every major domain — from fifth-generation stealth fighters to 100,000-ton supercarriers equipped with electromagnetic aircraft launch systems (EMALS). Yet one critical barrier has remained firmly out...
The United States Army is rapidly transforming its combat-proven AH-64E Apache attack helicopter into one of the world’s most versatile counter-drone platforms, following the success of a rare and highly specialized live-fire exercise known as Operation Flyswatter. Conducted at Marine...
The United States and China held a new round of working-level maritime security talks in Hawaii this week, marking a cautious but significant step toward rebuilding military-to-military communication channels strained by months of trade tension and regional frictions. According to...
The Group of 20 (G20) leaders’ summit in Johannesburg adopted a landmark declaration on Saturday (Nov 22), emphasizing urgent climate action, renewable energy targets, and support for heavily indebted developing economies. But the document’s path to approval has exposed one...
The evolving geopolitical landscape of the Middle East has reached a pivotal inflection point with Washington’s announcement of the United States–Saudi Arabia Strategic Defense Agreement, a sweeping pact that includes approval for Riyadh to acquire the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning...
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