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Around The Globe

Our Most Detailed Look Yet At China’s Type 055 Super Destroyer

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 3, 2022

Taiwan Strait median line
Air

Fears Grow Over Provocative Chinese Drills Set To Encircle Taiwan

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 3, 2022

Chinese Military Drills Will Surround Taiwan As Punishment For Pelosi Visit
Air

Chinese Military Drills Will Surround Taiwan As Punishment For Pelosi Visit

By Thomas Newdick, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 2, 2022

How The CIA’s Hit On Terror Kingpin Zawahiri Went Down
Afghanistan

How The CIA’s Hit On Terror Kingpin Zawahiri Went Down

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 2, 2022

Al Qaeda Leader Ayman Al Zawahiri Killed In U.S. Drone Strike (Updated)
Afghanistan

Al Qaeda Leader Ayman Al Zawahiri Killed In U.S. Drone Strike (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 1, 2022

China Makes New Threats As Rumors Swirl That Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit Is Imminent (Updated)
Air

China Makes New Threats As Rumors Swirl That Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit Is Imminent (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 1, 2022

Man Falls From Cargo Plane After Botched Landing Near Fort Bragg In Bizarre Incident
Air

Man Falls From Cargo Plane After Botched Landing Near Fort Bragg In Bizarre Incident

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 30, 2022

Global Hawk Retirement Points Again To RQ-180 Waiting In The Wings
Air

Global Hawk Retirement Points Again To RQ-180 Waiting In The Wings

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 28, 2022

This Is Why A NASA WB-57F Canberra Jet Is In South Korea
Americas

This Is Why A NASA WB-57F Canberra Jet Is In South Korea

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 27, 2022

Senate Intel Committee Wants ‘UAP’ Investigators To Focus On Ones That Are ‘Not Man-Made’
Americas

Senate Intel Committee Wants ‘UAP’ Investigators To Focus On Ones That Are ‘Not Man-Made’

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 27, 2022

Taiwan Strait Airbase Upgraded
Air

Chinese Airbase Right Across From Taiwan Operating Again After Major Upgrades

By Joseph Trevithick, detresfa_, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Jul 26, 2022

‘I Never Had To Look Up’ Before: Top U.S. Special Ops General On Drone Threat
Air

‘I Never Had To Look Up’ Before: Top U.S. Special Ops General On Drone Threat

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 25, 2022

Our Best Look Yet At China’s J-35 Carrier-Capable Stealth Fighter
Air

Our Best Look Yet At China’s J-35 Carrier-Capable Stealth Fighter

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 22, 2022

Aircraft From Area 51 Are Flying In Latest Air Force Red Flag Exercise
Air

Aircraft From Area 51 Are Flying In Latest Air Force Red Flag Exercise

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 22, 2022

Giving A-10 Warthogs To Ukraine Isn’t Off The Table
A-10

Giving A-10 Warthogs To Ukraine Isn’t Off The Table

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 21, 2022

Claims Swirl Around The Fate Of Russia’s Last Huge Typhoon Class Submarine
Around The Globe

Claims Swirl Around The Fate Of Russia’s Last Huge Typhoon Class Submarine

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 20, 2022

Mysterious Pod Carried By Air Force Reaper Drone That Crashed In Romania
Air

Mysterious Pod Carried By Air Force Reaper Drone That Crashed In Romania

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 20, 2022

KC-46 single pilot operations
Air

Single Pilot KC-46 Tanker Operations Eyed By Air Force For Major Conflicts

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 18, 2022

Artist's conceptions of a pair of new drone designs that BAE Systems unveiled at the RIAT 2022 air show.
Air

New Unmanned Combat Aircraft Designs Revealed By BAE Systems

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 15, 2022

A Northrop Grumman AN/APG-83 radar installed on an F-16 Viper fighter jet.
Air

New Radars Are Giving Old Air Force F-16s Capabilities Like Never Before

By Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Jul 15, 2022

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Air

New B61-12 Bomb’s Precision Unusable By Some Nuclear Strike Jets

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 14, 2022

Graphics depicting possible basing concepts for the Cold War-era MX missile program overlaid on top of a rendering of the Air Force's future LGM-35A ICBM.
Air

Firing ICBMs From Lakes, Tunnels Considered Before Air Force Picked New Missile

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 14, 2022

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Air

Nearly Complete Invictus Armed Scout Helicopter Looks Wicked In New Photos

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 13, 2022

A depiction of an F-35A Joint Strike Fighter flying together with various different drone designs as part of a distributed manned-unmanned team.
Air

Vision For Future Manned-Unmanned Air Combat Laid Out By Skunk Works

By Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Jul 12, 2022

A picture of an Airbus Zephyr S drone in flight with an inset showing flight tracking data from July 11 with various numbers, letters, and other items 'written' in it.
Air

Airbus’s Zephyr Drone Looks To Have Just Broken A Huge Aviation Record

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 12, 2022

The Airbus Zephyr S solar-powered high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft.
Air

Zephyr Drone Has Been Flying For 17 Days From Arizona To Belize

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 1, 2022

A ZEV Technologies OZ9 Combat pistol
Americas

U.S. Nuclear Convoy Guards’ New Pistol Looks Right Out Of John Wick

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 30, 2022

A General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) light tank prototype.
Armies

The Army Just Selected Its First Light Tank In Decades

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 29, 2022

NGAD Northrop Grumman
Air

Next Generation Air Dominance ‘Fighter’ Is Still Being Competed

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 28, 2022

A HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) launcher belonging to the Wisconsin Army National Guard's Battery B, 1st Battalion, 121st Field Artillery conducts a fire mission May 6 at a military base in Afghanistan. Battery B recently completed its deployment and arrived at Fort Bliss, Texas, where it will complete several days of demobilization requirements before returning to Wisconsin.
Americas

Ukraine Situation Report: Patrol Boats, More HIMARS In New U.S. Aid Package

By Dan Parsons, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 24, 2022

An artist's conception of a US Air Force EC-37B Compass Cal jet, with an existing EC-130H Compass call aircraft depicted in the background.
Air

Congress Pushes For More Air Force EC-37 Electronic Warfare Jets

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 23, 2022

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Air

Ukrainian Fighter Pilots Call B.S. On Need For Gray Eagle Drones

By Oliver Parken, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 22, 2022

A satellite image of Ukraine's Zmiinyi Island, or Snake Island, in the Black Sea, which Russian forces currently occupy, taken on June 21, 2022. The red circles highlight areas that appear to have been hit in Ukrainian strikes.
Around The Globe

Ukrainian Strikes On Russian-Occupied Snake Island Confirmed In Satellite Imagery

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 21, 2022

Maps and pictures showing various Chinese and Russian naval vessels that have been sailing around Japanese territory in June 2022.
Around The Globe

Burst Of Chinese, Russian Naval Activity Tracked In Waters Around Japan

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 21, 2022

A Hawker Hunter takes off during Northern Edge, May 20, 2019, from Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. Northern Edge is an exercise showcasing the lethality of joint forces and the capabilities of U.S. forces in and around the Indo-Pacific region.
Aggressors

Hawker Hunter Aggressor Jet Crashes Off North Carolina (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick, Howard Altman

Posted on Jun 20, 2022

A U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II aircraft from the Vermont Air National Guards 134th Fighter Squadron alongwith another one (unseen) is seen on the tarmac after landing at the international airport Petrovec near Skopje, on June 17, 2022 as they practice Agile Combat Employment concepts while supporting NATOs collective defense throughout Southeastern Europe.
AIM-120 AMRAAM

U.S. F-35As Brandish AIM-120 Missiles During Visit To North Macedonia

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 17, 2022

experience of multiple, intensive air combat sorties in the safety of a training environment.
Air

Navy’s Peculiar Plan To Retire EA-18 Growlers Is Up In The Air

By Tyler Rogoway, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 17, 2022

A version of an apparent General Dynamics Land Systems promotion shot of the company's Next Generation Abrams tank that has been brightened and sharpened to reveal additional details.
Armies

Next Generation M1 Abrams Tank Teased By General Dynamics

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 16, 2022

A satellite image showing Tinian International Airport on the island of Tinian on June 6, 2022, with construction work visible on the northern side of the facility.
Air

Construction Of Airbase On Tinian Island In Case Guam Gets Knocked Out Has Begun

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 15, 2022

A satellite image showing China's still-under-construction Type 003 aircraft carrier at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai on June 14, 2022.
Around The Globe

New Chinese Aircraft Carrier’s Dry Dock Is Flooded, Launch Imminent

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 14, 2022

A picture showing a Ghost Robotics Vision 60 quadrupedal unmanned ground vehicle equipped with a Nautical Autonomous Unmanned Tail emerging from a river, along with an inset showing it swimming in the water.
Drones

Military ‘Robot Dogs’ Can Now Be Equipped To Swim (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 13, 2022

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Around The Globe

Australia Was Poised To Get Virginia Class Nuclear Submarines Says Former Defense Minister

By Thomas Newdick, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 10, 2022

A full-size mockup of the fictional Darkstar hypersonic aircraft that Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works helped create for the 2022 movie Top Gun: Maverick.
Aggressors

Darkstar Mockup From Top Gun: Maverick Looks Wicked In New Video

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 10, 2022

A picture of a unique and highly-modified Boeing 727 that Raytheon uses as testbed, with an inset showing online flight tracking data regarding an unusual flight the aircraft performed around the islands of Saipan and Tinian in the western Pacific in June 2022.
Air

Radar-Toting 727 Testbed “Voodoo 1” Appears Over Saipan

By Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Jun 9, 2022

An MV-22B Osprey takes off from Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton, California, Oct. 10, 2019.
Air

Marine MV-22 Osprey Crashed Near El Centro In Southern California (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 8, 2022

Tankers off southern california with USS Nimitz
Air

Mysterious Exercise Off Baja Brought Nellis AFB, USS Nimitz Aircraft Together

By Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Jun 8, 2022

A picture showing an odd array of commercial hardware reportedly recently donated to a Russian combat aviation unit.
Air

‘Crowdfunded’ Aid For Russian Jet Squadron Looks Like Someone Raided A Home Depot

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 7, 2022

A US Air Force RC-135U Combat Sent electronic intelligence aircraft photographed at Kadena Air Base on the Japanese Island of Okinawa in 2009.
Air

U.S. RC-135U Spy Plane Just Surveilled China’s Strategic Southern Coast

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 6, 2022

KC-46A aircraft assigned to the 157th Air Refueling Wing perform an elephant walk formation on the runway at Pease Air National Guard Base, Sept. 8, 2021.
Air

KC-46 Tanker’s Recent “97 Percent” Milestone Isn’t The Whole Story

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 5, 2022

Ukrainian troops sit on an armoured vehicle as they move back from the front line near the city of Sloviansk in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas on June 1, 2022.
Americas

Ukraine Situation Report: Russia Controls Fifth Of Country After 100 Days

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 3, 2022

Artwork depicting the Darkstar stealthy hypersonic aircraft, a fictious design that Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works created for the movie Top Gun: Maverick.
Aggressors

Skunk Works On How They Brought Top Gun: Maverick’s Darkstar To Life

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 3, 2022

Pictures reportedly showing an array of drones on the deck of the Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong.
Around The Globe

Chinese Aircraft Carrier Seen With A Fleet Of Drones On Its Deck

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jun 2, 2022

Soldiers seen moving on a tank and vehicles in the outskirts of the Lysychansk, close to Severodonetsk. Lysychansk is a city on the high right bank of the Donets River in the Luhansk region.
Americas

Ukraine Situation Report: Battle Over Critical Eastern City Becomes Brutal Street Fight (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on May 31, 2022

The Freedom-class littoral combat ship USS Sioux City (LCS 11), homeported at Naval Station Mayport, Jacksonville, Fla., arrives at the Marathi NATO Pier Complex in Souda Bay, Greece, to undergo scheduled preventative maintenance in May 2022..
Around The Globe

Navy Finally Sends Littoral Combat Ship To Middle East

By Howard Altman, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on May 31, 2022

Ukrainian servicemen wave as they move with an armored vehicle toward the frontline at a checkpoint near the city of Lysychansk in the eastern Ukranian region of Donbas, on May 23, 2022, amid Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Americas

Ukraine Situation Report: Russian Forces Advance In Key Eastern Cities

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on May 28, 2022

Chinese drone ship, Zhu Hai Yun
Around The Globe

China Launches Drone Ship That Acts As A Mothership For More Drones

By Oliver Parken, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on May 27, 2022

U.S. Soldiers launch rockets from an M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), at Daecheon, South Korea, Sept. 21, 2017.
Americas

The Reality Of What HIMARS Rocket Artillery Systems Can And Can’t Do For Ukraine (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on May 27, 2022

Clips from a video that is said to show an apparent missile launch, possibly from a submarine, in the South China Sea, as seen from a Cathay Pacific Boeing 777 airliner.
Armies

Mysterious South China Sea Missile Launch Claimed To Be Caught By Airliner (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on May 26, 2022

Ukrainian servicemen are seen in the trenches as fighting against Russian troops continues near to the Cherkaske City, on eastern Ukraine, May 3, 2022.
Americas

Ukraine Situation Report: Russian Forces Break Through In Parts Of Donbas

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on May 25, 2022

A screengrab from a video of the damaged USS Connecticut arriving in San Diego in December 2021 following the underwater collision two months earlier.
Around The Globe

The Story Of How The Submarine USS Connecticut Crashed

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on May 24, 2022

A screengrab from a video of the damaged USS Connecticut arriving in San Diego in December 2021 following the underwater collision two months earlier.
Around The Globe

Navy Releases Report On Submarine USS Connecticut’s Underwater Crash

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on May 23, 2022

A Danish Navy shore-launched Harpoon missile launcher.
Anti-Ship Cruise Missile

Harpoon Anti-Ship Missiles Headed To Ukraine From Denmark

By Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on May 23, 2022

Russian servicemen stand guard at the destroyed part of the Ilyich Iron and Steel Works in Ukraine's port city of Mariupol on May 18, 2022, amid the ongoing Russian military action in Ukraine.
Americas

Ukraine Situation Report: Russia Says Mariupol Steel Plant Standoff Is Over

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on May 21, 2022

A picture showing the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov inside a new drydock at the 35th Shipyard in Murmansk overlaid on a satellite image of the drydock.
Amidral Kuznetsov

Russia’s Cursed Aircraft Carrier Is Finally In A Drydock That Can’t Sink

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on May 20, 2022