Steve Balestrieri

The safest place on a Ukrainian battlefield may now be underground. As The Atlantic recently reported, the drone saturation over Ukraine has driven both armies beneath the bloody battlefields.

Drake Maye's interception and the Patriots' 16 missed tackles proved costly in a 30-24 loss to the Bears, ending their win streak.

Eight months into the war with Iran, oil spills are spreading across the Persian Gulf, and one analyst warns the bigger danger is to the desalination plants most residents rely on for drinking water. Bahrain says it has only about four days of water in reserve if its plants go down.

The carrier Theodore Roosevelt is headed to the Middle East, due by the end of November, giving Trump options as he weighs Iran strikes.

The "Big Stick" is heading back to the Middle East. The Pentagon is sending the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) carrier strike group and the 13th

The Positional Report Card breaks down the 30-24 loss to the Bears Drake Maye's strong play, Henderson's struggles, and other NFL news.

An F/A-18F Super Hornet from VFA-41, the “Black Aces,” returned to NAS Lemoore on Oct. 1 with a broken submarine silhouette and the words “Sub Buster” under its cockpit, above bomb icons from Operation Epic Fury. The Aviationist believes it is the first submarine kill ever worn by a Super Hornet; the likely victim is one of Iran's three Kilo-class boats, bombed in port. VFA-41 expended 426 munitions, including 44 air-to-air missiles.

On August 14, 2025, a Ukrainian sniper team killed two Russian soldiers with a single 14.5mm round at 4,000 meters, 2.49 miles, the bullet passing through the window of the building they were holed up in. The rifle, a Snipex Alligator built in Kharkiv by XADO, is rated to 2,000 meters. A drone and AI ballistic software corrected the shot, and the team almost certainly fired a series of rounds first.

China's carrier Liaoning and three escorts, two Type 055s and a Type 052D carrying 288 vertical launch cells between them, are circling the southern Philippines while the USS Theodore Roosevelt leads Keen Sword, the US-Japan exercise running October 19–29 in the Philippine Sea.

Dassault's Rafale F5, the Super Rafale, is France's answer to the F-35 after the Franco-German FCAS program fell apart.