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Ukrainian Neptune Cruise Missile Lands In Russia Largely Intact

The remains of a Ukrainian-developed R-360 Neptune ground-launched cruise missile have reportedly washed ashore on Russia’s Sea of Azov coastline. This looks to be the first look at any part of one...

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Letter From The Editor: Welcome To TWZ

To all our incredible readers, welcome aboard TWZ.com!  Today is truly a special day. I’m ecstatic to formally announce that The War Zone is finally its own site. Not only that, but we are under a new...

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How The Army’s New M10 Booker Light Tank Will Actually Be Used

It is sometime in the future and the U.S. is at war. The 82nd Airborne Division has been ordered to conduct a Joint Forcible Entry into enemy territory. After the paratroopers seize an airfield and...

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Massive New Air Combat Exercise Underway Along The California Coast

The War Zone recently spoke with the commander of Nellis Air Force Base’s 57th Wing, Brig. Gen. Richard Goodman about the latest developments at the famed installation. He explained how Nellis’s role...

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Iranian-Backed Militia Group Wants A Timeout As U.S. Retaliation Looms

As the Biden administration ramps up plans to respond to a deadly attack on U.S. forces in Jordan on Sunday, an Iranian-backed militia group responsible for numerous strikes on U.S. troops in the...

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MQ-20 Avenger Tests Previously Unseen Air-Launched Effects Drone

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), has revealed that it has developed, built, and in-flight released a brand new and hitherto unknown small uncrewed aerial system (SUAS) as the...

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Ukraine Situation Report: Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb’s Arrival...

The Ground Based Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB), promised to Ukraine last February, could arrive on the battlefield as soon as Wednesday, Politico reported on Tuesday. The U.S. Army oversaw the testing...

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Does The Navy’s New Constellation Class Frigate Have Enough Vertical Launch...

As the U.S. Navy continues to wend its way toward acquiring its first batch of Constellation class frigates, a major question remains: is 32 vertical launch system cells enough for these ships?...

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U.S. Carries Out First Preemptive Strike On Houthi SAM

U.S. forces for the first time destroyed a Houthi surface-to-air missile preparing to launch Wednesday, a U.S. defense official told The War Zone. The incident took place at about 3:30 p.m. local...

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Phalanx CIWS Downs Houthi Missile Dangerously Close To Destroyer: Report

For the first time since they began swatting down Houthi missiles and drones fired into the Red Sea region, a U.S. warship had to use its Mark 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) against an...

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Ukraine Sinks Russian Navy Missile Corvette In Drone Boat Attack

A dramatic new view released by the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Directorate (GUR) shows several of its uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) strike and sink the Russian Tarantul-III class missile...

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Drone Boat Swarm Vision Laid Out By DoD

The Pentagon is looking for help to turn a vision of future fleets of hundreds of low-cost highly autonomous drone boats able operate collaboratively to intercept “noncooperative” ships into a...

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Iranian Proxies Scatter Ahead Of Looming U.S. Retaliation Strikes

Four days after a deadly drone attack on U.S. troops in Jordan, plans are leaking out about the expected American response, sending many of the intended targets scrambling for cover.  “U.S. officials...

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Navy Looking For Counter-Drone Systems That Can Be Rapidly Added To Its Ships

If your company has a system in production that can counter aerial drones and could start integrating it onto a warship within 12 months of getting a contract, the U.S. Navy is interested. The urgency...

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Ukraine’s Air Defense Decoys Keep Getting Better

Ukraine’s latest fake military equipment has been rolled out onto the battlefield and they are some of the most realistic we’ve seen since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Measures to...

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Over 85 Targets Hit In U.S. Retaliation Strikes Against Iranian Proxies, IRGC...

The U.S. has launched its much-anticipated strikes in retaliation for the drone attack that killed three U.S. soldiers in Jordan on Jan. 28, a U.S. official confirmed to The War Zone. Breaking: this...

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Land Attack Capability Axed On AGM-158C LRASM Anti-Ship Missile

The U.S. Navy has completely abandoned plans to acquire a subvariant of the AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missile with the added ability to strike targets ashore, according to a newly released...

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Bunker Talk: Let’s Talk About All The Things We Did And Didn’t Cover This Week

A warm welcome to the very first TWZ.com Bunker Talk! For those of you who are new to The War Zone, Bunker Talk is a weekend open discussion post for the best commenting crew on the net, in which we...

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Ukraine Situation Report: Czechs Call For Sourcing Shells For Ukraine From...

With Ukraine in desperate need of new stocks of ammunition to feed its prodigious use of artillery, the Czech Republic has reportedly called on its European allies to cast the net wider and look for...

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U.S. Airstrikes Obliterated Munitions Storage Compound In Syria

The morning after the aerial strikes on Iranian-backed militias and IRGC-related targets in Syria and Iraq there are questions about what the effort achieved, especially as it was telegraphed five...

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