TWZ. Where the cutting-edge of military technology, tactics, strategy, and geopolitics collide.
Confessions Of An SR-71 Blackbird Pilot
What it was like to sit at the controls of the Skunk Works' legendary Blackbird while hurtling over hostile territory at Mach 3.3.
Latest News
-
U.S. Intel Warns China’s Space-Based Directed Energy Weapons Could Soon Threaten Satellites
Battlefield space is heating up as the DIA warns that China could use orbital directed energy weapons to take down satellites by the end of the decade.
-
China’s CE-25A Electric Commuter Airliner Demonstrator Emerges
The 19-seat aircraft features an unusual array of ducted fans, and the technology behind it could have implications beyond civilian aviation.
-
Ethiopia Gets 12 Russian Su-35 Fighters, Eyes S-400 Air Defenses
The Ethiopian leader says the multirole fighter jets arrived a year ahead of schedule, with four S-400 batteries also planned under the deal.
-
Hardened Shelters Critical To Survival Of USAF’s Tanker Fleet: Study
An independent assessment calls for new action to prevent critical aerial refueling assets from being neutralized before they even get in the air.
-
Where Are The Aircraft Carriers?: October 27, 2026
The Makin Island amphibious ready group pulls into Yokosuka a week behind the Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group, as the carrier’s jets conduct a simulated strike during exercise Keen Sword 27.
-
This Serbian Truck Carries A Truly Massive Mortar
The TSMB M-25 represents a modern attempt to combine great destructive potential with very high mobility.
-
British Type 31 Frigate Variant Offered To The U.S. Navy
Babcock is looking to pitch its Arrowhead 140 design for an American frigate requirement, potentially in partnership with a major U.S. shipbuilder.
-
Ground-Launched Rusty Dagger Low-Cost Cruise Missile Seen For The First Time
The first public look at the missile in a surface-launched configuration comes as its manufacturer expands production.
-
The Army’s Plan For Employing LUCAS Kamikaze Drones Against Its Adversaries
A vision of Army units launching long-range one-way attack drones at enemy warships and ballistic missiles in the Pacific and Europe is taking shape.
-
Ukraine’s StarGate Drone Now Evacuating Wounded Soldiers
The purpose-built aerial CASEVAC platform is claimed to have completed two battlefield evacuations in a week, including a mission under electronic attack.
-
USAF Orders ARRW Hypersonic Missile Into Production, The Same Weapon It Nearly Cancelled
The fortunes of the AGM-183A, which is now set to arm B-52 and B-1 bombers, have now been fully reversed.
-
Britain’s Final Plan To Kill Argentina’s Super Étendards Attack Jets
Britain’s last bid to destroy Argentina’s fleet threatening Exocet anti-ship missile-armed combat jets during the Falklands War.
-
How The U.S. Army’s ‘Navy’ Aims To Go More Autonomous With Its Vessels In The Pacific
The Army wants to buy up to 100 new USVs and add autonomous capabilities into existing crewed vessels.
-
Ghost Shark Uncrewed Submarine Shown Launching Aerial Drones For The First Time
New video shows a 12-tube drone launcher and two deployable masts in action, offering new insights to what Ghost Shark can do and how it could be used.
-
Ghost Shark Extra-Large Uncrewed Underwater Vehicles’ Payload Bay Seen For First Time
Ghost Shark will deploy aerial drones, lay mines, and execute seabed resupply missions as part of Australia’s new undersea arsenal.
TWZ YouTube
Check out the latest on all things defense from TWZ’s YouTube channel.
More Latest News
-
Last-Ditch Meeting In Iran Seeks To Stave-Off A Restart Of All-Out Fighting In The Region
The meeting between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Iran took place as the U.S. and Israel are spinning-up for a new round of strikes.
-
Bunker Talk: Let’s Talk About All The Things We Did And Didn’t Cover This Week
How long are we going to be locked in here?
-
On The Brink Of Epic Fury Round Two?
Israeli Air Force operations, ship movements, ominous messaging and more point to the possibility that the war with Iran is about to erupt again.
-
Denmark To Buy Anthem Munitions, Joint Strike Missiles In Dual Long-Range Strike Push
The ground- and air-launched weapons will give Denmark all-new options for striking deep behind enemy lines as NATO reinforces its Baltic flank.
-
USAF Confirms Bombers Could Have A Major Air-To-Air Combat Role
Bombers are now being viewed as another potential air-to-air asset on top of growing the fighter fleet and establishing a CCA force.
-
Four KJ-3000 Radar Jets At Chinese Factory Point To Serial Production
The KJ-3000 is the most capable of China’s rapidly expanding airborne early warning and control aircraft fleet.
-
A-4 ‘Super’ Skyhawks Playing The Bad Guys In European Skies
The A-4 Skyhawk, first flown seven decades ago, is famed for its role as a Cold War ‘red air’ aggressor, and it lives on doing that mission to this day in Europe.
-
Construction Of Iran’s “Eagle 44” Underground Airbase Hasn’t Stopped Despite War
Satellite imagery depicts new construction and cleared wreckage after strikes at an Iranian airbase with underground hangars and taxiway tunnels.
-
Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet Spotted Carrying New AIM-174B And AIM-260 Long-Range Missiles Together
The image of the VX-31 Super Hornet gives us a glimpse of what’s soon to appear in the fleet, and the two missiles will also be joined by the AIM-424 Malice.
-
Any Decision To Buy New-Build F-16s Not An “Urgent” Priority: USAF
A top USAF general said new F-16s are “maybe the lazy” route, but are an option as the service strives for 1,509 combat-coded fighters by 2035.
-
Retired KC-10 Extender Tanker Has Risen From Boneyard To Fly Again
The ex-USAF KC-10 is now headed for a second career in the private sector with Omega Air Refueling.
-
Alaska’s HAARP Site Now Being Used To Test New Air Force Over-The-Horizon Radar Tech
The pursuit of over-the-horizon radars to watch over the strategic High North could point to a new role for the HAARP site.
-
We Finally Know The B-21 Raider’s True Wingspan
We don’t have to endure bizarrely small size estimates for the B-21 anymore.
-
Second Chinese Submarine Drone Mothership Emerges
It is a scaled-down version of the first and was built by Guangzhou Shipyard International, which is well-known for pumping out special use vessels.
-
Where Are The Aircraft Carriers?: October 17, 2026
USS Theodore Roosevelt arrives in Japan ahead of exercise Keen Sword, while the U.S. once again positions two aircraft carriers in the Middle East.
-
F-22 Pilot Controls FQ-44 Fighter Drone From The Cockpit For The First Time
This is a key milestone as F-22s will be the Air Force’s first aerial ‘quarterbacks’ for Collaborative Combat Aircraft drones.
TWZ — previously known as The War Zone — has become an essential resource for the defense industry, the national security community, and the interested public at large since it was launched in 2016.
From its early beginnings to the present day, TWZ’s purpose remains the same.
The site stands at the nexus of military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. As a full-spectrum defense news and analysis website, TWZ covers the air, sea, land, space, and cyber domains of warfare, with an infusion of geopolitical context and technological analysis to offer readers deeper, yet easy-to-consume, insights than what they will find anywhere else….
