US-China military competition

China’s J-36 is emerging as a potential long-range stealth fighter and airborne command platform, with implications for Pacific force posture, tanker dependence and competition with…

The US Navy’s AIM-424 Malice could transform carrier defence by allowing F-35C and F/A-18E/F fighters to engage Chinese long-range strike aircraft before they launch anti-ship missiles…

The US Navy’s decision to delay SSN(X) procurement until 2040 creates a potentially critical undersea warfare gap as Seawolf numbers decline, Virginia-class production struggles and China…

New footage showing China’s J-36 executing a high-alpha pitch-over, near-vertical dive and sharp recovery challenges assumptions that the enormous tailless sixth-generation fighter would…

A secretive Block V Virginia-class nuclear submarine will become America’s dedicated seabed-warfare mothership, sacrificing additional Tomahawk capacity to access undersea cables, deploy…

The United States is preparing one of the biggest military-industrial transformations in decades as the Pentagon launches a massive competition to build up to 300,000 low-cost kamikaze…

A Chinese defence technology firm has claimed that its AI-powered signal-intelligence platform detected radio emissions from four U.S. B-2 stealth bombers over Iran during Operation Epic…