Iron Command

F-22 vs J-20: America's 187-Plane Problem An Iron Command intelligence assessment. Full sourced brief at ironcommand.co. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scXvlAcmgT4

America's 11-Year Missile Gap An Iron Command intelligence assessment. Full sourced brief at ironcommand.co. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO_N1iqJASk

China's New Drone Carrier Has Something No US Warship Does An Iron Command intelligence assessment. Full sourced brief at ironcommand.co. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVEW1vV-WKc

China Built 13 Destroyers. America Fired the Guy Who Tried to Catch Up. An Iron Command intelligence assessment. Full sourced brief at ironcommand.co. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR64Q3Cq-68

America Builds 1.3 Submarines a Year. It Promised Australia Five. An Iron Command intelligence assessment. Full sourced brief at ironcommand.co. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PCsmJMUTgE

China Made 300,000 Tonnes of Magnets. America Made 1,300. An Iron Command intelligence assessment. Full sourced brief at ironcommand.co. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w16u8cE79YU

China Has 40 Frigates. America Has Zero. It Cancelled the Fix. An Iron Command intelligence assessment. Full sourced brief at ironcommand.co. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJjfCJG9WUo

Beijing's diplomacy around the Hormuz crisis has stopped being defensive. Three observable Chinese moves in the last few days show one architecture at work, and the read-across to Pacific chokepoints is what the analytical mainstream hasn't priced yet. This brief covers: 1. Beijing took the broker slot at Hormuz. Twenty-seven nations in the mission. Zero Chinese participation. Wang Yi positioned as the de-escalation channel. The Trump-backed ship-insurance facility has done $0 business — the market is voting with premium dollars. 2. Bilateral access went live. Iran's flag-discrimination transit screen is operational and Chinese-flagged tonnage clears first. USNI flagged the precedent could spread, and the ma...

The trailing 48 hours in the Indo-Pacific, summarised and assessed. For the first time since 1945, Japan has fired an offensive missile on foreign soil. Pacific Brief is Iron Command's Indo-Pacific intelligence briefing, published three times weekly with a confidence-graded Iron Command Assessment on every story. In this episode: 01. Xi to Trump at the Beijing summit. Taiwan is the most important issue in China-US relations. "Clashes and even conflicts" if mishandled. "Fire and water" between Taiwan independence and Strait peace. The US joint readout omits Taiwan entirely. 02. JGSDF Type 88 fires from Culili Point, Luzon — first Japanese offensive missile on foreign soil since th...

Episode title: Pacific Brief 01 — Australia's AUKUS Paradox, the Wedgetail Reversal, and Taiwan's Budget Cut Episode notes: The trailing 48 hours in the Indo-Pacific, summarised and assessed. Pacific Brief is Iron Command's Indo-Pacific intelligence briefing, published three times weekly with a confidence-graded Iron Command Assessment on every story. In this opening episode: 01. Australia's FY26-27 defence budget paradox. A$62.6B headline reads as a 1% nominal cut, but AUKUS Pillar 1 staffing surges 33%. The structural risk sits in the US submarine industrial base — Virginia-class production at ~1.2/yr against AUKUS need of ~2.2-2.3/yr. 02. Hegseth reverses the E-7 Wedgetail cancellation. An 11-month policy U-turn, tied to t...

Episode title: Pacific Brief 01 — Australia's AUKUS Paradox, the Wedgetail Reversal, and Taiwan's Budget Cut Episode notes: The trailing 48 hours in the Indo-Pacific, summarised and assessed. Pacific Brief is Iron Command's Indo-Pacific intelligence briefing, published three times weekly with a confidence-graded Iron Command Assessment on every story. In this opening episode: 01. Australia's FY26-27 defence budget paradox. A$62.6B headline reads as a 1% nominal cut, but AUKUS Pillar 1 staffing surges 33%. The structural risk sits in the US submarine industrial base — Virginia-class production at ~1.2/yr against AUKUS need of ~2.2-2.3/yr. 02. Hegseth reverses the E-7 Wedgetail cancellation. An 11-month policy U-turn, tied to t...

F-35A Lightning II vs Sukhoi Su-57 Felon — a full intelligence assessment from a former British military intelligence analyst. America's most networked stealth fighter against Russia's most advanced but limited-production platform. Compared across eight categories: stealth, sensors, firepower, kinematics, electronic warfare, network integration, combat record, and industrial sustainability. On paper, the Su-57 has the edge in speed, altitude, and raw kinematic performance. But the F-35's radar cross-section is over 300 times smaller, its sensor fusion creates unmatched battlefield awareness, and its network integration lets entire formations fight as a single system. Russia built just 28 Su-57s in six years. America pr...

Episode 2. A full intelligence assessment of the US Navy's Virginia-Class Block V against Russia's Yasen-M (Project 885M) — from a former British military intelligence specialist. America's quietest attack submarine against Russia's most heavily armed. Across six categories — stealth and acoustics, firepower, sensors and sonar, speed and depth, build quality, and fleet numbers — which platform actually wins, and why does the scoreline hide the most important number? The headline: 49 to 39 on the Iron Command scorecard. The Virginia wins four of six categories. The Yasen-M wins on weapons and on speed-depth. But the real contest, as I make the case in this briefing, isn't...

A head-to-head comparison of the US Navy's Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and China's Type 055 cruiser. We break down the weapons systems, sensors, doctrine, and real-world combat capability of both platforms — and deliver a clear verdict on which has the edge.