Tag: U.S.

What You Need To Know: In the global race for lithium, crucial for electric vehicle batteries, the US may have struck gold. A recent study in Science Advances reveals the McDermitt Caldera, a volcanic crater on the Nevada-Oregon border, likely holds an unprecedented 20 to 40 million metric tons of...

What You Need to Know: In a bid to counter China's growing influence in the Indo-Pacific region, the United States and Australia have announced plans to bolster their defense cooperation. They will collaborate on manufacturing guided missiles and rockets over the next two years. The two countries revealed the news this past...

In an interview with CNN, Jake Sullivan, the US President's National Security Advisor, revealed that the United States is facing ammunition shortages in its own arsenals while providing military aid to Ukraine. Sullivan mentioned that after assuming office, the Biden administration discovered that the stock of 155-mm munitions, which is...

Early on Monday, regulators took control of the struggling First Republic Bank (FRC), marking the second-largest bank failure in the United States. Deposits and the majority of its assets flowed to JPMorgan Chase in an effort to alleviate the concerns surrounding the U.S. banking system's stability. This event represents...

According to U.S European Command, today Russian Su-27 fighter aircraft struck the propeller of an ISR MQ-9 drone, forcing it down over the Black Sea. Reportedly before this, more than one Su-27 had dumped fuel and flew in front of the drone: "Several times before the collision, the Su-27s...

Lockheed Martin just produced a missile that has gone faster than 5 times the speed of sound. The Air Force reported on Monday that the first operational prototype of the Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) hypersonic missile had successfully completed a test from a B-52H Stratofortress. Hypersonic weapons have the...