NASA finds wreckage of lost Indian lunar lander on the moon

India’s Vikram lunar lander, a part of their broader Chandrayaan-2 moon mission, launched in July and was slated to touchdown on the moon’s surface on September 7 — effectively making India only the fourth nation in history to successfully land anything on the moon. Vikram successfully traversed the vast 238,900 miles to reach lunar orbit, […]

Turkey is now helping make Russian air defenses better at tracking US fighter jets

While Turkey’s decision to purchase Russia’s advanced S-400 air defense system may have cost them access to America’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, it’s are already moving ahead with testing the Russian weapon system against U.S. made F-16s. Some American officials have already voiced concerns over the possibility that Russia will gain access to target acquisition […]

SOCOM is testing a round that can shoot straight underwater

Contrary to what you’ll see in most action movies, bullets don’t actually travel through water very effectively at all. When a round impacts the water, it very literally impacts, often breaking apart or tumbling off of its trajectory because of the water’s density. As we’ve covered here at SOFREP before, it doesn’t take much water […]