Chinese Hackers Steal Sensitive Data on US Submarines

Chinese Hackers Steal Sensitive Data on US Submarines

Sensitive data about U.S. submarine research has been hacked from an unnamed government contractor by Chinese hackers working for China’s Ministry of State Security or MSS. Included in the loss were six hundred fourteen gigabytes of data which were stolen, including submarine communications data and information on a secretive project known as Sea Dragon. The Washington […]

Iran Seeks Help From China After US Sanctions

Iran Seeks Help From China After US Sanctions

Politics makes for some strange bedfellows. This weekend, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani heads to China to participate in a Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit. Will China, insistent on pushing the United States on every turn, improve ties with the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism? The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a regional security bloc led by China […]

Lockheed Martin awarded $928 million to help US catch up in hypersonic missile race

Lockheed Martin awarded $928 million to help US catch up in hypersonic missile race

Every so often, a new kind of weapon comes along that fundamentally shifts the way humans conduct warfare: bows extended the range of the battlefield, airplanes created air support, and the atomic bomb made “total war” too terrible to conduct with the regularity of conventional warfare. Increasingly, hypersonic missile platforms are beginning to look like […]

Image of China’s long rumored ‘stealth drone’ surfaces on Chinese internet

Image of China’s long rumored ‘stealth drone’ surfaces on Chinese internet

For around a decade, rumors have swirled about China’s advanced unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) with the most-metal of names, the Dark Sword. It’s been no secret that the Dark Sword has been in development, but for the most part, that development has been slow going. Artist’s renderings, scale models, and a whole lot of […]

US B-52 Bombers Fly by Chinese Contested Spratly Islands

US B-52 Bombers Fly by Chinese Contested Spratly Islands

Tensions in the South China Sea increased on Tuesday after the US sent two US B-52 bombers flew within the vicinity of the contested Spratly Islands, according to a statement from US Pacific Air Forces, which oversees air operations in the region. The flyover came days after Secretary of Defense James Mattis called Beijing out […]

US Navy’s Littoral Combat Ships will now be armed with a powerful new anti-ship missile

US Navy’s Littoral Combat Ships will now be armed with a powerful new anti-ship missile

The U.S. Navy has officially announced that its growing fleet of littoral combat ships (LCSs) will be armed with Norway’s Naval Strike Missile, an over-the-horizon anti-ship platform already in service in Norway’s Navy. Last month, SOFREP reported that the same missile platform is also being converted to sit within the F-35’s internal weapons bays, allowing […]

Top Gun 2 is going to need some bad guys, here are some top contenders

Top Gun 2 is going to need some bad guys, here are some top contenders

Late last week, Tom Cruise broke the internet with a single image overlaid with the words, “Feel the need.” The line, of course, alludes to the famous bit of dialogue between Cruise’s Maverick and his Radar Intercept Officer/best friend Goose (“I feel the need — the need for speed!”) but perhaps the most memorable moment […]

US Tells China They Have Experience Taking Down Small Islands

US Tells China They Have Experience Taking Down Small Islands

The war of words between the United States and China has been amped up even more when on Thursday a Pentagon official stated while the US will seek common ground with China on North Korea and other issues, they will continue to protect their interests. And the message was clear on what the United States […]

North and South Korea Agree to Hold Military, Red Cross Talks

North and South Korea Agree to Hold Military, Red Cross Talks

While the on-again, off-again summit meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un is still in flux, the divided Korean states, both North and South have agreed to conduct military and Red Cross talks later this month. They are trying to finally end the war that began 68 years ago and hopefully set the table […]

Trump pulled out of the North Korean summit, here are the likely outcomes

Trump pulled out of the North Korean summit, here are the likely outcomes

On Thursday, it was announced that President Donald Trump was calling off his planned summit with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un. This meeting was meant to quell the impending threat of nuclear war, but for now, those hopes have been cast aside. In a letter addressed to Kim Jong Un, President Trump explains that […]

Congressman Mike Rogers says Air Force is still failing to address space defense

Congressman Mike Rogers says Air Force is still failing to address space defense

Republican Congressman Mike Rogers was among the first to champion the cause for a dedicated space branch of the military, aiming to offset the rapidly development capability gap between American orbital defenses and foreign offensive capabilities. Both China and Russia have had dedicated space-based military branches in operation since 2015, while the United States continues […]

US Disinvites China from Pacific Military Exercise

US Disinvites China from Pacific Military Exercise

The continuing escalation of tension between the United States and China has been ratcheted up even more with the U.S. disinviting the Chinese from participating in an upcoming international naval exercise to be held off Hawaii. Among other things, the U.S. is upset of China’s militarization of small islands in the South China Sea. China’s […]