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Work At Underground Test Site A New Indicator Of Possible Strikes On Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain Bunker
Pickaxe Mountain presents immense targeting challenges and that's where a key test range in New Mexico comes in to play, just as it did for Midnight Hammer.
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Houthis’ Stranglehold On Strategic Bab Al-Mandab Strait Grows Stronger
The capture of the port of Mokha and possibly the islands of Perim and Zuraq can give the Houthis key points of control over the Red Sea and the Strait.
Ukraine’s New Shershen SAM Can Fire A Wild Mix Of Adapted Air-To-Air Missiles
The system’s open architecture could let Kyiv mix and match interceptors as its missile inventory evolves.
Operational F-15EXs Drop Live Bombs For The First Time
The first unit to get the F-15EX is already moving away from its exclusive air-to-air mission roots.
Navy Destroyer Packs New ‘Piggy-Backed’ Point Defense System That Combines 30mm And .50 Cal Guns
The Mk 38 Mod 4 offers a major capability boost, especially against drones, and is now installed on at least one destroyer.
Ukraine Carried Out Its Deepest Drone Strike On Russia Ever
The strike hit an energy processing plant 1,700 miles from the Ukrainian border in Russia’s gas-rich Arctic region.
Where Are The Aircraft Carriers?: September 9, 2026
The Navy is applying lessons learned from recent marathon carrier cruises to the USS Theodore Roosevelt, which conducted an unreported maintenance availability ahead of deployment.
USAF Wants MQ-9 Reaper Successor At A Fraction Of The Cost At $10M Each
The USAF has aggressive cost and schedule goals for new drones to succeed the MQ-9 fleet that has suffered major losses.
EA-37B Flew Along Kaliningrad Border As Part Of “Specialized” Recon, EW Flight Package
The USAF’s new EA-37B Compass Call electronic warfare jet was part of a larger NATO package that flew along the doorstep of Russia’s strategic military outpost.
Air Force Wants Family Of Expendable Target Drones That Can Mimic Everything From Stealth Fighters To UAV Swarms
With rapidly evolving threats around the globe, the USAF’s target drones need to start making leaps to catch up and a new family of systems is wanted for this.
Army Now Testing Anthem Long-Range Strike Weapon Built for Mass Production
Serial production of the relatively crude but cheap weapon is slated to begin in Texas next year, with plans to also build the weapon in Germany and Israel.
Site Expansions Underpin Lockheed Martin’s Munitions Production Ramp
Branded Content: Bigger sites, advanced manufacturing techniques, and boosting the workforce are key industry commitments to increased munitions production.
Army Widens Stinger Surface-To-Air Missile Replacement Search
Lockheed and Raytheon are developing competing Stinger replacements now, but the Army wants to put additional designs to the test next year.
Hermeus Unveils Air-Launched Ramjet Test Vehicle for High-Speed Experiments
The ramjet-powered vehicle could give researchers and developers a new way to put hardware into sustained high-Mach flight environments.
First Look At General Atomics’ Wildfire, Its Successor To The MQ-9 Reaper (Updated)
The USAF is hunting for new lower-cost armed drones to perform the same missions as the MQ-9 in the wake of huge Reaper losses.
Trump Threatens Canadian Jets At The Center Of Army Aerial Surveillance Plans
Threatening to block Bombardier sales in the U.S. is different than actually following through with it, but Canada also has a vote.
Everything We Know About The U.S. Navy’s Submersible Drone Iran Just Captured
Anduril’s Dive-LD uncrewed underwater vehicle falling into Iranian hands is significant, but the system was designed to be risked in contested waters.
USS Abraham Lincoln Is Getting A Badly Needed Scrubbing While In Thailand
The ship pulled into Thailand earlier this week caked in rust and algae after 286 days at sea.
The Three Foreign Frigates Being Studied For Possible U.S. Navy Service
Modern Japanese, South Korean, and Turkish frigate designs have emerged as possible contenders to meet increasingly urgent Navy demands.
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Saudi’s Remaining Energy Lifeline To The World Under Threat After Successful Houthi Strikes (Updated)
Having the Strait of Hormuz and energy exports via the Red Sea shut down at the same time has long been a top fear for global oil markets.
Russia’s New Stealthy Lower-Cost Air-Launched Standoff Weapons On Display In Egypt
Moscow is pitching a new generation of precision weapons abroad, even as the war that produced them complicates their export prospects.
China’s Huge WZ-X Stealth Drone’s Strange Wing Configuration Confirmed
New photos of the WZ-X airborne give us a clearer view of the aircraft’s unique wing design.
Ukrainian Sea Drones Strike Russian Black Sea Resort Town Of Sochi For The First Time
Ukraine Situation Report: The strike on Sochi’s port highlights the increasing reach of Kyiv’s drone boat attack campaign.
First USAF F-15EX To Be Based In Japan Departs Boeing’s St. Louis Plant
The first F-15EX bound for the Japanese base comes as the program grapples with future sustainment concerns.
How Drone Detection Is Evolving To Counter Smaller, Faster, And Swarm Threats
Branded Content: Leonardo DRS explains how tactical radars form a central element of a layered counter-UAS threat detection system.
UK Government Commits To Boom Refueling For RAF Tankers
The next-generation Tempest fighter is driving the Royal Air Force to add a capability it currently lacks.
Missile Shortage Has Now Hit Ukrainian F-16 Force
The shortage is so acute that the air force frantically tracks incoming missile shipments and waits to see whether they arrive before Russia’s next aerial barrage.
Iranian Oil Tankers In The Cross Hairs Of New U.S. Campaign
At least two Iranian oil tankers were struck by the U.S. as part of Trump’s new tanker-for-a-tanker policy.
USS Abraham Lincoln Looks Like It’s Been Through Hell After 286 Days At Sea
We got our first good look at the Lincoln as it pulled into port in Thailand for its only liberty call of its entire cruise and after sustaining high-tempo combat ops for months.
Israeli LORA Ballistic Missiles Fired From German Frigate
LORA could give Germany’s navy a way to strike highly defended and hardened targets hundreds of miles inland.
Chinese Cargo Ships Clandestinely Gather Signals Intelligence: Report
It should not come as too much of a surprise that China is using its massive commercial fleet to spy around the globe as they go about their business.
Germany Formally Accuses Russia Of Attempted Drone Strike On Ukrainian An-124 Cargo Jet
The news comes as Germany’s power grid is also targeted, with separate incidents pointing to a widening threat in Germany and beyond.
Where Are The Aircraft Carriers?: USS Abraham Lincoln Escorted To Thailand As The Middle East Heats Up
The Navy pulled a cruiser from the George Washington Carrier Strike Group to escort USS Abraham Lincoln into the South China Sea under unclear circumstances.
Navy Sounds Like It Now Wants The Air Combat Drone It Notoriously Passed Over A Decade Ago
A carrier drone with a heavy weapons capacity, long reach, and the ability to operate in heavily contested airspace is just what the junked X-47B was designed to offer.
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