Ukraine was also welcoming when it came to weapons or other military related items developed by individuals or groups of civilians. This was quite different from the situation in Russia, where the ...

The Ukrainian experience using naval drones to defeat the Russian Black Sea Fleet was unique. Ukraine had only surface-to-ship missiles when the war started, but eventually shifted to three new naval ...

The American 4,000 ton LST 100 is a hundred meters long and 16 meters wide. It has a top speed of 28 kilometers an hour and a range of 6,300 kilometers before needing refuelling and resupply. This ...

January 15, 2026: The Somali military recently over a number of M48 and M60 tanks. The military took possession of the tanks at dockside. Turkey also has some of its Mi16 aircraft stationed in Somalia ...

February 12, 2026: Since the Israeli and American airstrikes on Iran last June, the country has slid into chaos and endless protests. The unrest was slow to escalate into nationwide protests but that ...

India is making a multi-billion dollar effort to expand the Indian shipbuilding industry. Currently China builds 70 percent of commercial shipping while India builds only 7 percent. India is investing ...

American plants are also targets. In 2025, two citizens of the People's Republic of China were charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy to smuggle into the U.S. a fungus called Fusarium ...

February 11, 2026: Russian leader Vladimir Putin faces dire prospects in 2026. Russia has been fighting a war that is now longer than the one against the Germans in World War II. Unlike World War II, ...

December 31, 2025: Nearly four years of war in Ukraine have devastated the Russian civilian economy. This year, 75 percent of Russia’s regions report serious budget deficits and more enterprises are ...

December 27, 2025: Back in September Russian drones hit an American factory in western Ukraine and two European diplomatic facilities in the Ukrainian capital. Russian drones regularly fly over Poland ...

The rest of the North Korean navy consists of ten elderly frigates and corvettes. Another one of these was converted into a mine sweeper. The remainder of the fleet consists of about a hundred patrol ...

As the LSE blog and scores of other expert sources note, almost all 21st-century high-technology products (communications equipment, computers, electric motors, elite defense weapons and delivery ...