The US is quietly warning its Middle East partners about the cost of stocking up on Chinese-made weapons

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Chinese President Xi Jinping with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh in December 2022.

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The iconic flying boat that helped hunt down Axis warships during World War II is getting a new lease on life

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A Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina patrol bomber in an undated photo.

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The US Army is rushing to rearm its electronic warriors after watching Russia and Ukraine jam each other's drones

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A couple looks at a wrecked Russian SPR-2M mobile jamming vehicle in Kyiv in June 2022.

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A fierce naval battle 35 years ago shows how destructive another US showdown with Iran could get

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US Navy guided-missile frigate USS Hawes leads a reflagged tanker and two US warships in a convoy in the Persian Gulf in October 1987.

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The British navy is teaming up with the US to build a new 'Dreadnought' for a totally different battle at sea

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The Royal Navy battleship HMS Dreadnought in 1907.

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US Special Operations Command is working on a new mini-sub to carry SEALs to their targets in style

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A Dry Combat Submersible leaves Lockheed's facility in Palm Beach, Florida for open-water sea trials, which were completed in March 2023.

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As the drone battle in Ukraine unfolds, the US Army is scrambling to get its soldiers a new one-way tank-buster

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A US Marine launches a Switchblade drone during an exercise in California in September 2020.

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How Saudi Arabia and UAE learned to stop worrying and love Turkey's Bayraktar drones

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Bayraktar's Akinci drone on display at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport on April 29.

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Russia's army has learned to plug its frontline defenses in Ukraine with convicts, marines, and special-ops troops

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Russians called up as part of the partial mobilization go through military training in Rostov in October 2022.

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China's sprawling spy agencies are designed to root out the 'five poisons' at home and abroad, British intelligence says

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A security guard next to a jet engine turbo-fan at the China Aviation Expo in Beijing in September 2005.

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