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On Monday, Ambassador Tina Kaidanow, who was a longstanding employee of the State Department before transitioning into her new role as senior adviser for international cooperation with the Defense Department, announced her resignation. Michael Vaccaro, the Pentagon’s Director for International Armaments Cooperation, will step in and fill the role until a replacement can be identified. […]
Earlier this week, China’s People’s Liberation Army-Navy received its second aircraft carrier — and the first that China built on its own. The announcement that China now has two operational aircraft carriers was seen by some as a dramatic uptick in China’s maritime capabilities. But as we’ve discussed on SOFREP before, the nation’s quickly growing […]
Utah Police conducting a welfare check at the residence of 75-year-old Jeanne Souron-Mathers, in the retirement community she lived in with her husband, made a gruesome discovery last month. Not only was Souron-Mathers dead, but they found the body of her husband, Paul Mathers, tucked inside a deep freezer she kept in the house’s utility […]
China’s People’s Liberation Army–Navy just reached a significant milestone in its efforts to develop a globally-capable “blue water” navy, as the nation’s second aircraft carrier entered service on Tuesday. China’s new carrier, dubbed the Shandong, is not only China’s first home-built vessel of its type, it also earns the nation a place in the elite […]
When the second “Top Gun: Maverick” trailer dropped earlier this week, it’s safe to say that most aviation nerds, like me, were dumbfounded by just how cool this three-decades-late sequel looks. But after the initial excitement wore off, some pressing concerns started to bubble to the surface. After months of hearing about how real this […]
The Vishnya-class spy ship has been traversing the international waters just off of America‘s Southeast coast for the better part of a week now, currently sailing south past the Carolinas and Georgia, toward Florida. As long as the vessel doesn’t come closer than 12 nautical miles to America‘s coastline, what it is doing is perfectly […]
Here in the United States, nuclear power is usually looked at in a negative light. As a result, America‘s nuclear power plants tend to be rather old, inefficient and expensive. The newest nuclear power plant in the United States was powered on sometime in the 1990s. There are others that have been in operation since […]
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles has becomes commonplace on the battlefields of today. But more often than not, the types of drones seeing widespread use in combat are of the high-flying, reconnaissance or air-strike launching variety. However, multiple programs all around the world have begun surfacing in recent months with the aim of using […]
As the first of its class (and perpetually troubled) super carrier USS Gerald R. Ford continues to steam toward completion and a second carrier’s (the USS John F. Kennedy) production continues, the U.S. Navy’s Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Michael Gilday, laid out his vision of how the Navy needs to shift its approach to […]
The hypersonic arms race going on between Russia, China and the United States has seen its fair share of legitimate developments happen alongside a flurry of international rhetoric that sometimes doesn’t seem quite so legitimate. Now, the head of Russian ship-maker United Shipbuilding Corporation, Alexei Rakhmanov, is claiming that all modern warships in the Russian […]
In the Netflix series, “Daredevil,” superhero-lawyer Matt Murdock has an, arguably, unfair advantage over criminals in court: He can use his heightened senses to measure changes in a person’s biometrics like heart rate, perspiration and temperature. Over the years, he’s developed a pretty attuned understanding of how these physiological responses correlate with things like nervousness […]
The Chinese Navy is currently amid a new effort to assess and train experienced naval aviators to serve in warship command roles in the nation’s still-developing blue-water navy. China’s second aircraft carrier, its first home-built vessel of this kind, is currently undergoing sea trials. Another is currently under production and more are planned for the […]