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Bringing Back Steam Catapults On Carriers Is A Huge Risk
Trump has long railed against electromagnetic catapults and elevators, but changing course now will be costly and could have huge impacts on a strained force.
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Bunker Talk: Let’s Talk About All The Things We Did And Didn’t Cover This Week
I have no idea if it’s day or night anymore.
Army To Use Robinson R66 For Its New Helicopter Pilot Training Concept
The R66 will be part of a fundamentally different, contractor-run approach to producing Army helicopter pilots.
Hunt For New Lower-Cost Strike Missile With 1,000-Kilometer Range Underway By U.S. Army
Affordable High Speed Strike missiles could offer an important new way to hold enemy air bases, air defense nodes, and other high-value targets at risk.
Rheinmetall Launches New Containerized Loitering Munition From Moving Truck
The ability to launch multiple loitering munitions from an unassuming container while on the move opens up tactical possibilities.
U.S. Launching International One-Way Attack Drone Task Force In The Middle East
Task Force Falcon Strike will combine allies’ air, sea and underwater one-way drone operations.
Meet MORFIUS: The Drone Designed To Zap Other Drones
Lockheed Martin’s new MORFIUS X-Rotor counter-UAS system hunts drones and can knock down dozens of them with its high power microwave payload.
U.S. Not Prepared To Handle Drone Attack From Inside Homeland: NORTHCOM Deputy Commander
A top general in charge of protecting the U.S. gave a refreshingly frank but also troubling assessment of America’s drone defenses.
New Anti-Satellite Weapons Now Officially A Top U.S. Priority
“Our space assets need to shoot, move, and communicate just like the rest of the joint force,” the head of U.S. Space Command says.
Drone Swarms Over Langley AFB Didn’t Surprise General In Charge Of NORAD
Retired General VanHerck said he warned even the Secretary of Defense that U.S. military installations were sitting ducks to such actions.
Army Downed More Than 1,400 Iranian Missiles And Drones During Epic Fury And 12-Day War
The Army’s air and missile defense boss offered new context about how the service defended against Iranian threats in the two most recent Middle East conflicts.
Hunt For New Mobile Missile Defense Radar Reinforced By Lessons From Iran War
A successor to the AN/TPY-2 radar has to be far easier to move in order to survive against the ever-growing threat of missiles and drones.
Jet-Powered JDAM Production Is A Go For The U.S. Navy
Putting JDAM-LR into production will give the Navy an important new stream of lower-cost standoff munitions for its carrier air wings.
Australia’s MC-55 Electronic Warfare Jet Has Entered The South China Sea
The Peregrine’s first overseas deployment gives Canberra an extremely powerful new intelligence-gathering capability right in China’s backyard.
Iranian F-5s Bombing U.S. Forces In Kuwait Should Be A Wake-Up Call: Ex-USAF General
Retired NORAD commander gives new credence to the reported Iranian bombing mission and says it shows an urgent need for new thinking about air defenses.
Did Sensors On Iranian Drones Help Shoot Down F-15E?
A new account suggests Iran used drones to track the U.S. fighter and relay its position, speed, and direction to a missile team.
Poland’s Powerful New Frigate Marks Major Shift For Its Navy
The 7,700-ton Wicher signals Warsaw’s push to build a larger, much more capable fleet in the Baltic.
Where Are The Aircraft Carriers: August 11, 2026
More than 20 American warships, including two carrier groups, remain on station in the Middle East with less than a week left for negotiations under the U.S.-Iran memorandum.
Navy Is Getting A Unique Virginia Class Seabed Espionage Submarine
One Block V Virginia class submarine will be unlike any other, capable of highly specialized intelligence and sabotage missions on the seafloor.
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