More from Thomas Newdick (Page 13)

U.S. officials are urging Israel to scale down its war against Hamas.
Israel

Israel-Gaza Situation Report: U.S. Military Leaders Push For Scaled-Back Campaign

By Howard Altman, Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 20, 2023

Concept art of reusable Chinese spaceplane.
China

China’s Spaceplane Has Released Multiple Mystery Objects In Orbit

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 19, 2023

F-15EX To Be Based At Kadena Air Base In Japan: Report
F-15

F-15EX To Be Based At Kadena Air Base In Japan: Report

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 18, 2023

Ukraine's attacks across the Dnipro River have been bloody and futile, troops told The New York Times
Russia

Ukraine Situation Report: Troops Question Dnipro River Assault

By Howard Altman, Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 16, 2023

AEW&C aircraft in North Korea.
North Korea

North Korea May Be Building An Early-Warning Radar Plane

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 15, 2023

Indian Rafale in flight.
News & Features

Saudis Eye France’s Rafale Fighter

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 14, 2023

05 December 2023, Romania, Constanta: A German Eurofighter takes off from Mihail Kogalniceanu airfield near Constanta (Romania). The German Air Force is currently supporting NATO member Romania with Eurofighter combat aircraft and a defense system against small unmanned aerial vehicles in the NATO program "Enhanced Air Policing South". The Bundeswehr contingent consists of a total of 150 soldiers.
News & Features

NATO Fighters Scrambled As Russian Drone Violates Romanian Airspace

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 14, 2023

A wrecked, burned-out car lies in the yard of a high-rise residential building in Dniprovskyi district after a missile explosion on December 13, 2023 in Kyiv, Ukraine. For the second night in a row, Russia is attacking Kyiv with ballistic missiles. All ten missiles were intercepted by Ukrainian Air Defense Forces. However, fallen missiles' fragments resulted in destruction in Darnytskyi, Dniprovskyi and Desnyanskyi districts of Kyiv.
Russia

Ukraine Situation Report: Ballistic Missiles Target Kyiv After Biden Meeting

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 14, 2023

This Is Exactly How The Latest Ballistic Missile Defense Test Worked
U.S. Homeland

This Is Exactly How The Latest Ballistic Missile Defense Test Worked

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 13, 2023

QSRA (NASA-715) carrier trials onboard Kitty Hawk off San Diego, CA (Quiet Short-Haul Aircraft is a modified C-8A)
NASA

NASA’s Quiet Short Takeoff And Landing Test Jet Is Up For Sale

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 12, 2023

Russian Assault Avdiivka
Russia

Ukraine Situation Report: Renewed Large-Scale Assault On Avdiivka

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 12, 2023

Utility workers are cleaning up the aftermath of an attack against the backdrop of a damaged car, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on December 8, 2023.
Russia

Ukraine Situation Report: Cruise Missile Strikes Return To Kyiv

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 8, 2023

Royal Navy Activates First F-35B Unit, Big Decisions On Type’s Future Loom
Royal Navy

Royal Navy Activates First F-35B Unit, Big Decisions On Type’s Future Loom

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 8, 2023

Artist concept of future German Navy F126 class frigate.
Germany

Work Starts On Germany’s Biggest Warship Since World War II

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 7, 2023

An Israeli Air Force F-16 launches the IMI Systems Rampage standoff missile.
India

Indian Navy MiG-29s Get Israeli Rampage Standoff Weapon

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 6, 2023

Originally, the ROCAF also expected to receive 144 F-16Vs, produced as conversions of its existing F-16A/B jets, but this number has since been reduced to 141 through attrition in its existing Viper fleet.
Taiwan

Taiwan’s Final Upgraded F-16V Completes Test Flights

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 6, 2023

Boeing Exits Air Force’s ‘Doomsday Plane’ Competition (Updated)
E-4

Boeing Exits Air Force’s ‘Doomsday Plane’ Competition (Updated)

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 5, 2023

Concerns about a border conflict between Guyana and Venezuela over a disputed territory are growing.
South America

Fears Of Venezuela Invading Guyana Grow

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 4, 2023

Stratolaunch Roc aircraft conducts a captive-carry test flight with the Talon-A hypersonic vehicle.
U.S. Homeland

World’s Largest Plane Is One Step Closer To Launching A Hypersonic Vehicle

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 4, 2023

View of Su-25 attack jet decoy soon through optics of a Lancet loitering munition.
Loitering Munitions

Ukrainian Su-25 Struck By Lancet Drone Was An Elaborate Decoy

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Dec 1, 2023

Thank you, Government of Canada, for selecting up to 16 P-8 Poseidon aircraft for the RCAF. Together with our Canadian industry P-8 partners, we'll continue to deliver prosperity to Canada.
News & Features

P-8 Poseidon Officially Chosen By Canada

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 30, 2023

This versatile, self-deployable aircraft offers increased speed and range over other rotary-wing aircraft, enabling Air Force Special Operations Command aircrews to execute long-range special operations missions. The CV-22 can perform missions that normally would require both fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft. The CV-22 takes off vertically and, once airborne, the nacelles (engine and prop-rotor group) on each wing can rotate into a forward position.
V-22

Calls For V-22 Osprey Grounding In Japan After Fatal Crash

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 30, 2023

Ukrainian soldiers of the 57th Brigade collect the remains of a powder charge from D-20 artillery at their fighting position, in the direction of Kupiansk, in Kharkiv, Ukraine on November 27, 2023.
Russia

Ukraine Situation Report: Storms Held Up Russian Assault On Avdiivka

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 29, 2023

A CV-22 Osprey from the 21st Special Operations Squadron flies in support of exercise Resolute Dragon 22 over Kamifurano Maneuver Area, Hokkaido, Japan, Oct. 11, 2022. Resolute Dragon 22 is an annual bilateral exercise designed to strengthen the defensive capabilities of the U.S.-Japan Alliance by exercising integrated command and control, targeting, combined arms, and maneuver across multiple domains.
V-22

CV-22B Osprey Tilt-Rotor Crashes Off Japanese Coast

By Thomas Newdick, Howard Altman

Posted on Nov 29, 2023

FCAS NGF
Europe

Belgium Joins European Next-Generation Fighter Program

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 28, 2023

Hamas hands over 11 Israeli hostages to Red Cross officials
Israel

Israel-Gaza Situation Report: Ceasefire Extended 48 Hours, More Hostages Freed

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 28, 2023

The USS Mason responded to an emergency call from an oil tanker that was fired upon by Houthi anti-ship ballistic missiles that missed.
U.S. Navy

Claims Swirl Around Apparent Missile Attack On U.S. Destroyer (Updated)

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 27, 2023

Air defense work outside the city on November 25, 2023 in Kyiv, Ukraine. According to the country's air force, more than 70 Iranian-made Shahed drones targeted the Kyiv area overnight, although most all were intercepted by air defenses.
Russia

Russia Launches Largest Mass Drone Attack On Ukraine Yet

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 25, 2023

Ukraine trench
Russia

Ukraine Situation Report: Soldier Describes “Zombie” Warfare In Avdiivka

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 25, 2023

24 November 2023, Palestinian Territories, Rafah: Red Cross vehicles, believed to be carrying hostages abducted by Hamas militants during the October 7th attack on Israel, arrive at the Rafah border, amid a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in the southern Gaza Strip
Israel

Israel-Gaza Situation Report: First Hostages Released After Ceasefire Begins

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 24, 2023

Iranian Shahed-238 drone at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) aerospace achievement exhibition at Ashura Aerospace Science and Technology University, in Tehran, Iran on November 19, 2023.
Iran

Iran’s Jet-Powered Shahed Drone Could Be A Problem For Ukraine

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Nov 22, 2023

M55 Spy Plane may be headed for Ukraine war operations
Cold War

Soviet-Era M-55 Spy Plane May Be Headed To Support The War In Ukraine

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 21, 2023

Israeli soldiers deploy near southern Israel's border with the Gaza Strip on November 20, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant Hamas group.
Israel

Israel-Gaza Situation Report: Deal To Release Hostages “Closer Than Ever”

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 20, 2023

Drone capture shows the detonation of a purported standoff guided version of the RBK-500 cluster bomb in Ukraine.
Russia

Russian Glide Bomb Kits Now Adapted For Cluster Munitions: Reports

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 20, 2023

MBDA will supply CAMM for the Swedish Navy’s five Visby class corvettes, which will deploy them from MBDA’s Sea Ceptor naval air defense system.
Europe

Sweden’s Stealth Visby Corvettes To Get New Air Defense Missiles

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 18, 2023

Mojave Drone lands on aircraft carrier
Unmanned

Mojave Drone Flies From British Aircraft Carrier

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 17, 2023

Turkey wants Eurofighter typhoons, but Germany objects to the deal.
News & Features

Turkey Is Trying To Buy Used Eurofighter Typhoons

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 17, 2023

A first-person view drone races to destroy a Russian Bukhanka van in Ukraine.
News & Features

Ukraine Situation Report: First Person Video Drone Relentlessly Hunts Down A Russian Van

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 16, 2023

Concept artwork of the NATO E-7A Wedgetail AEW&C aircraft in flight.
E-3

E-7 Wedgetail Radar Jet Chosen By NATO To Replace Aging E-3

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 15, 2023

Official rendering of F-35 carrying two external LRASM missiles.
U.S. Navy

Navy Looks To Arm F-35 With Four New Missiles, Including Hellfire

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Nov 14, 2023

Russian air launched cruise missile
Russia

Takeaways From Russia’s Missile War On Ukraine

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 14, 2023

F-35 drops B61-12 during a test at Edwards AFB
F-35A

Dutch F-35s Gain Nuclear Strike Mission “Initial Certification”

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 10, 2023

B-21 has flown for the first time
B-21

B-21 Raider Has Flown For The First Time (Updated)

By Thomas Newdick, Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Nov 10, 2023

X-37B is heading into space on a Falcon heavy rocket.
X-37B

X-37B Headed Deeper Into Space With Falcon Heavy Rocket’s Help

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 9, 2023

Thanks to a new set of photos, we’ve got what’s probably our best look so far at the U.S. Navy’s Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block III, a radical overhaul of the Arleigh Burke class destroyers that leaves the warships looking very different indeed.
U.S. Navy

Destroyer Looks Radically Different After Electronic Warfare Upgrade

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 8, 2023

Five Dutch F-16s are on their way to Romania. Romanian and Ukrainian pilots are being trained there.
Ukraine

Ukraine Situation Report: Dutch F-16s For Ukrainian Training Arrive In Romania

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 7, 2023

A F-5 Fighter takes off during an annual drill at an air base in Taitung City, southeast Taiwan on January 30, 2018. Taiwanese troops staged live-fire exercises January 30 to simulate fending off an attempted invasion, as the island's main threat China steps up pressure on President Tsai Ing-Wen.
Taiwan

Taiwan Is Finally Saying Goodbye To Its F-5 Tiger II Fighters

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 7, 2023

The first image of an M1A1 Abrams tank in Ukraine may have emerged.
Russia

Ukraine Situation Report: This May Be Our First Image Of An M1 Abrams In-Country

By Howard Altman, Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 7, 2023

An Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache with unusual Hellfire missile marking attached.
AH-64

Israeli AH-64 Apache Appears With Mysterious Hellfire Missile

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 6, 2023

The Marines didn't want them, but Ukraine will find good use for the Assault Beaching Vehicle
News & Features

Ukraine Situation Report: M1 Abrams-Based Mine Clearing Vehicle Appears In-Country

By Howard Altman, Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 4, 2023

A new report claims that Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works has delivered a new secret intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft to the US Air Force.
U.S. Air Force

Secret Skunk Works Spy Drone Delivered To Air Force: Report

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 3, 2023

Israel F-35 shoots down Houthi cruise missile
Israel

Israel Scores F-35’s First Cruise Missile Kill

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 2, 2023

Rocket Artillery Russia
North Korea

Ukraine Situation Report: 1M North Korean Artillery Rounds Sent To Russia, Seoul Says

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 1, 2023

B-1B Bone
B-1

B-1B Bombers Just Made Historic Visit To Turkey

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 31, 2023

AH-64 Israel pod
Israel

Why Some Israeli AH-64 Apaches Have A Big Belly Bulge

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Oct 31, 2023

A U.S. Air Force KC-135 tail number 58-0109 with the nickname “Phantom 109” assigned to the Iowa Air National Guard is in front of the main hangar in Sioux City, Iowa on October 16, 2021. Crew Chiefs recently added nose art to the aircraft depicting a phantom riding along on the aircraft boom.
KC-135

“The Phantom” Is The Air Force’s Haunted KC-135 Tanker… Almost

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 31, 2023

Israeli tank moves into Gaza at night.
Israel

Israel-Gaza Situation Report: IDF Moving To Cut Off Gaza City From South

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 30, 2023

A missile strikes behind a minaret in Gaza on October 28, 2023 seen from Sderot, Israel.
Israel

Israel-Gaza Situation Report: Israel Officially Begins “Second Stage” Of The War

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 28, 2023

A People’s Republic of China J-11 pilot executed an unsafe intercept of a U.S. Air Force B-52 aircraft, which was lawfully conducting routine operations over the South China Sea in international airspace.
China

Chinese Flanker’s “Unsafe” Intercept Seen From B-52’s Sniper Pod

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 26, 2023

Israeli armoured vehicles take part in an operation, as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, at a location given as the northern Gaza Strip
Israel

Israel-Gaza Situation Report: Israeli Armor Rolls Into Gaza For “Targeted Raid”

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 26, 2023

Capt. Bob Peel, left, and Lt. Col. Tony Adamo, right, F-16 instructor pilots from the 162nd Fighter Wing, fly over the Grand Canyon while supporting Operation Noble Eagle’s air sovereignty alert mission.
Ukraine

Ukraine Situation Report: Ukrainian Pilots Have Begun F-16 Training In U.S.

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 25, 2023

Zelensky President of Ukraine, speaks during a live broadcast at the 6th German-Ukrainian Business Forum of the DIHK, the Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations and the German-Ukrainian Chamber of Industry and Commerce, 2023
Russia

Ukraine Situation Report: Zelensky Vows To Up The Pressure On And Around Crimea

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 24, 2023

Plan view of Swedish Gripen E with modified wing splinter camouflage
Gripen

Here’s Why Saab’s Gripen E Fighter’s Wing Suddenly Grew In Size

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 24, 2023

Ukrainian Armed Forces Grad MLRS rocket artillery BM-21
Russia

Ukraine Situation Report: Multiple Russian Attacks On Avdiivka Repulsed

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 23, 2023