The United States Army is set to begin conducting irregular two-week-long special forces exercises on January 23rd which will practice tackling a “numerically superior enemy” using guerrilla tactics. Known as Robin Sage, the drills will take place in North Carolina simulating insertion of special forces into a “politically unstable” country […]
Following its commissioning in March 2021, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy’s second Type 055 Class destroyer the Lhasa has been declared ready for combat. This came after months of training for a range of missions which included practicing missile strikes, anti submarine warfare, defence against weapons of mass […]
From December 2021 a number of Western media outlets began reporting that Iran and Russia were on the verge of signing a $10 billion security and defence cooperation agreement which would see high end Russian hardware including 24 Su-35 fighters, two units of S-400 air defence systems, and a military […]
The first image is allegedly showing a Chinese J-20 fifth-generation fighter flight testing the long-awaited WS-15 engine have been released, following multiple indications that the new engine is set to enter service by 2025. The WS-15 was previously tested on a number of larger non-combat airframes, and its integration onto […]
Another work week down! And a long weekend ahead of us to boot. You simply love to see it. Phew. Take a breath. Make some tea. Lie down. Pet your dog, or maybe get a dog if you don’t have a dog, and don’t have allergies. I don’t know. SEE […]
Evidence continues to pile up that Google is hopping on the foldable phone train soon. A new report from 9to5Google this week said Google’s rumored foldable device, which could launch by the end of 2022, may be called “Pixel Notepad” and come in at a more reasonable price point than […]
Bradley Cooper is the latest Late Show guest to take on Stephen Colbert’s signature Q&A gauntlet, the “Questionert”. For the right participant, the late night host’s rapid-fire battery of innocent yet piercingly personal questions paints a fuller picture of the answerer than a million bog-standard “So how did you get […]
Sometimes a phone can do pretty much everything right and still be sorta hard to recommend. That’s where I’m at with the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE. Samsung’s latest (the FE stands for “Fan Edition”) is somewhat of reimagining of last year’s Galaxy S21. On paper and, for the most part, […]
In the midst of the latest COVID-19 surge, I’d like to propose a controversial notion: The present moment is the best place to be. While many of us are experiencing a version of personal hell that we’d love to instantaneously escape — a breakthrough infection, dodging maskless shoppers at the […]
Around the turn of the 21st century, a new age of galactic discovery began. Through the latest telescopes on land and in space, astronomers started spotting a wealth of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets. In our Milky Way galaxy, scientists have confirmed over 4,480 exoplanets, with thousands of […]