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China’s island outposts in the China Seas might have a major weakness.

Britain is Thinking of Buying Leopard Tanks from Germany Adopting the German-built Leopard 2 could be the right move for the United Kingdom—as it could allow it to invest in other areas of defense. Heres What You Need To Remember: The British have two options - try to upgrade some of their older Challenger tanks, or buy new Leopards from Germany. The irony of Britain, the country that invented the tank, buying from Germany, against whom that invention was targeted, has been noted. More than ...

These aging American-made fighters are still being used by Tehran. Key point: The F-4 is old, but it may actually be more agile than Americas modern F-35s. Would that actually matter in a dogfight? Amid escalating tensions between Iran and the United States, in part resulting from U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision unilaterally to withdraw the United States from the 2015 deal limiting Iran’s nuclear program, the U.S. armed forces have deployed a wide array of ships, planes and other we...

Fort Worth and Qinzhou and Changde both turn to face Fort Worth. Apparently they want to fight. I’ll oblige them. Both LCSs are under orders to engage the enemy as soon as they come close enough to fire their Griffin surface-to-surface missiles. Between the two of them, they have 30 Griffins. At four miles, Qinzhou with her 57-millimeter gun. Qinzhou immediately returns fire with her 76-millimeter gun, lightly damaging Fort Worth. Unfortunately, Fort Worth’s Rolling Airframe missile ...

With zero recent combat experience, the PLAs doctrine and training in some cases is inadequate, Global Times reported. Heres What You Need To Remember: China, despite boasting an impressive army and weapons program, has not actually gone to war in forty years. This is a good thing, but it means that their soldiers lack realistic training - a problem that PLA strategists have increasingly acknowledged. A surprising article in Chinese state media makes a rare admission of a serious weakness in ...

Don’t take it seriously. Heres What You Need to Remember: The tire pressure for an F-4 fighter is 265 PSI. For an F-15, it’s 305 PSI. If the Qaher 313 can safely roll on tires inflated to just 50 PSI, it means it probably weighs no more than a fifth of what an F-4 does per unit of volume. Tensions have escalated in the Persian Gulf region in the aftermath of U.S. president Donald Trump’s decision unilaterally to withdraw the United States from the agreement limiting Iran’s nuclear prog...

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