The Bunker

This week in The Bunker: Military-industrial coziness is never a good thing; the F-35 has opted to keep its own lousy nervous system instead of getting a transplant; tracking the U.S. bucks bound for Ukrainian; and more.

This week in The Bunker: Plane talk about four key Air Force aircraft running into fiscal, fixability, and political turbulence; a $64 million drone misses the runway; Mel Brooks goes to war; and more. No Bunker next week!

This week in The Bunker: a deadly drone from a rinky-dink contractor heads to Ukraine; a big contractor proposes linking up various U.S. missile-defense systems; the Army may be wasting up to $22 billion on soldiers’ super-goggles; and more.

This week in The Bunker: U.S. weapons stocks shrink as the Pentagon sends more arms to Ukraine, risking a wider war with Russia; “The sky is falling,” the Pentagon warns about space warfare; micro-nuke reactors for the battlefield; and more.

This week in The Bunker: Amid the Russo-Ukrainian war, a big chunk of House Republicans backs Putin over NATO; a nuclear-missile tug of war; despite a $813 billion budget request, the military says it needs more money; and more.

This week in The Bunker: the Air Force fighter built for a threat that never was; Army’s top general warns his service is becoming a family business; hunger in the ranks; rebelling against widespread Confederate names; and more.

This week in The Bunker: Back in the 1980s, the Pentagon hyped the Soviet threat so loudly that we spent unneeded billions; now that we can see how bad their Russian progeny is…well, we’re going to spend unneeded billions again; and more.

This week in The Bunker: That Russian hypersonic-missile attack in Ukraine doesn’t appear quite as advertised; a Ukrainian battle tactic offers a warning for the U.S. Navy; new woes for the F-35 fighter and Zumwalt destroyers; and more.

This week in The Bunker: The U.S. walks a fuzzy line, trying to help Ukraine battle Russia without starting World War III, as it says “no” to warplanes and no-fly zones; the “every inch” rhetoric; Germany buys a pig in a poke; and more.

This week: The Russian invasion of Ukraine appears to show the Russian military might not be all it’s cracked up to be, and how wrong pre-invasion reports of its prowess were; a new tack on the military’s continuing suicide epidemic; and more.

This week in The Bunker: A nuclear-megatonned megalomaniac forged by the Cold War KGB, and how little the Pentagon and NATO can do to thwart him; the Navy continues to be at sea when it comes to building ships; and more.

This week in The Bunker: A trio of good-news tales on hardware and hypersonics, balanced by more business-as-usual when it comes to missile defense and sexual assaults; stealthy NATO; and more.