On July 9, 1962, the United States detonated a 1.4-megaton thermonuclear device approximately 400 kilometres above the...
North America
North America dominates global defense with U.S. spending near $886 billion in 2025 (~37 % of world total) and Canada investing $29 billion (~1.3 % GDP), boosting toward NATO’s 2 % goal. The region leads in AI, cyber warfare, missile systems, space-based assets, and defense-industrial innovation.
AI has gone from experimental military software to operational warfare. U.S. Central Command said it had used...
The AIM-7 Sparrow was one of the most important radar-guided air-to-air missiles of the Cold War. It...
Lockheed’s SR-71 Blackbird posed an unusual engineering challenge to Cold War air-defense systems. It was not stealthy...
The U.S. Army ODIN database sounds like an archive. Actually, it’s a lot more than that. ODIN,...
People often cite the U.S. military-industrial complex as evidence of an economy sustained by war. That view...
The SR-71 titanium story is still one of the most biting ironies of the Cold War. In...
The XA103 from Pratt & Whitney is more than an upgrade to the F119 or F135. It...
Canada’s decision to scrap its indigenous fighter programme, the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow, and buy the McDonnell...
For the vast majority of the public, the lethality of a beyond-visual-range (BVR) missile is distilled into...