More from Thomas Newdick (Page 2)

F-16

USAF F-16s Back On Alert Duty In Aleutian Islands For First Time In Decades

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 30, 2026

Japan Air Self Defense Force

Japan To Assemble AMRAAM Missiles As U.S. Moves To Dramatically Boost AIM-120 Production

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 29, 2026

Transports

China’s CE-25A Electric Commuter Airliner Demonstrator Emerges

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 28, 2026

Flankers

Ethiopia Gets 12 Russian Su-35 Fighters, Eyes S-400 Air Defenses

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 28, 2026

Mortars

This Serbian Truck Carries A Truly Massive Mortar

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 27, 2026

Search And Rescue

Ukraine’s StarGate Drone Now Evacuating Wounded Soldiers

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 27, 2026

U.S. Navy

British Type 31 Frigate Variant Offered To The U.S. Navy

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 26, 2026

Air-To-Ground

Denmark To Buy Anthem Munitions, Joint Strike Missiles In Dual Long-Range Strike Push

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 23, 2026

Airborne Radar

Four KJ-3000 Radar Jets At Chinese Factory Point To Serial Production

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 22, 2026

Land Attack Cruise Missiles

Ground-Launched Rusty Dagger Low-Cost Cruise Missile Seen For The First Time

By Thomas Newdick, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Oct 22, 2026

F/A-18E/F

Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet Spotted Carrying New AIM-174B And AIM-260 Long-Range Missiles Together

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 21, 2026

Royal Australian Navy

Ghost Shark Uncrewed Submarine Shown Launching Aerial Drones For The First Time

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Oct 21, 2026

NATO

Finland To Build A Million Landmines As Russian Threat Looms

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 20, 2026

Royal Australian Navy

Ghost Shark Extra-Large Uncrewed Underwater Vehicles’ Payload Bay Seen For First Time

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Oct 20, 2026

MQ-28

Germany Drops Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat Rapid Procurement Plan

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 19, 2026

Search And Rescue

Aerial Drones Appear To Be Picking Up Wounded Off The Battlefield In Ukraine

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 19, 2026

Royal Canadian Air Force

Canada’s Snowbirds Say Farewell To The CT-114 Tutor Jet

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 16, 2026

C-130

First C-130J For Navy’s New E-130J Phoenix II Ballistic Submarine Communications Fleet Delivered

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 16, 2026

North Korea

North Korea’s ‘Hunchback’ Submarine Makes First At-Sea Appearance For Missile Tests

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 15, 2026

Drones

Army Explains How Merops Interceptor Drone Became Program Of Record In Just 142 Days

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 14, 2026

F-35C

F-35C Makes First Arrested Landing Aboard A Ford Class Carrier

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 14, 2026

U.S. Army

Sikorsky’s Nomad 100 VTOL Drone Is Now Quad-Packed In A Container For Rapid Deployment

By Howard Altman, Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 14, 2026

M2/3 Bradley

Bradley’s Old TOW Launchers Get New Teeth With Spike Missile Adapter

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 13, 2026

Drones

Specter Jet-Powered Drone Aims At Low Cost, Multi-Mission, Single Use

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 13, 2026

MIM-104 Patriot

PAC-3 Edge Will Be The Most Capable Patriot Interceptor Ever

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 12, 2026

XQ-58

European U740 Variant Of The XQ-58A Valkyrie Has Flown

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 12, 2026

U.S. Army

Anduril Unveils Steelfin Family Of Modular Surface-To-Air Missiles

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 12, 2026

B-52

B-52 To Get Stealthy AGM-158C Long-Range Anti-Ship Missiles

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 9, 2026

F-35A

U.S. Makes F-35 Push As Portugal Weighs F-16 Replacement

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 8, 2026

U.S. Army

Blackbeard Hypersonic Missile Shown Being Fired From Ground Launcher

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 8, 2026

Diesel-Electric Submarines

British Commandos Emerge From German Submarine During Major NATO Exercise

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 7, 2026

SR-71

Could NASA’s SR-71 Blackbird Be Modified To Reach Mach 4?

By Howard Altman, Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Oct 7, 2026

Short-Range Air Defense Systems (SHORADS)

Glaring Holes In UK Air Defense Take Center Stage In New “Britannia Shield” Proposal

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 6, 2026

F-16

First F-16 Block 72 Has Flown

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 6, 2026

Manned ISR

Spain Picks Airbus A321 For New Electronic Intelligence Aircraft

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 5, 2026

Germany

Germany Is Finally Giving Its F125 Frigates Some More Teeth With IRIS-T SLM Surface-To-Air Missiles

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 2, 2026

F-16

Taiwan’s First F-16 Block 70s Have Finally Arrived

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 2, 2026

Ukraine

Ukraine Claims First Combat Use Of FP-7 Ballistic Missile

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 1, 2026

F/A-18E/F

AIM-260 JATM Missile Spotted On Australian Super Hornet

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 1, 2026

F-16

Ukraine’s F-16 Fleet Is In A Readiness Crisis

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 30, 2026

Russian Army

Mystery Shoulder-Fired Surface-To-Air Missile Appears In Russian Service

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 28, 2026

Baltic Sea

Latvia To Order Anduril’s Barracuda Cruise Missile For Long-Range Strike Capability

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 25, 2026

F-35

F-35 Canopy And Weapons-Bay Door Loss To China: Separating Fact From Fiction

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Sep 24, 2026

A-10

The A-10 Era Is Over At Nellis AFB

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Sep 24, 2026

Artillery

This Is Taiwan’s New 105mm 8×8 Mobile Gun System

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 24, 2026

Royal Air Force

Video Shows RAF Hawk T2 Trainer Crew Ejecting Before Jet Crashes (Updated)

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 23, 2026

SR-71

Did NASA’s Administrator Just Tease An SR-71 Blackbird Follow-On X-Plane? (Updated)

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Sep 23, 2026

French Navy

France’s Modular Rampart Point Defense Launcher Has Gone To Sea

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 22, 2026

Land-Based Conventional Hypersonic Weapons

North Korea Tests New Hwasong-11Ma Hypersonic Missile

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 22, 2026

People's Liberation Army Navy (China)

Chinese Next-Generation Submarine Developments Spotted In New Satellite Imagery

By Joseph Trevithick, Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 22, 2026

Miniature Air-Launched Decoy (MALD)

ADM-160 Miniature Air Launched Decoy Wreckage A Reminder Of Ongoing Spying On Iran’s Air Defenses

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Sep 21, 2026

VH-92

Marine One VH-92A Makes First Operational Use Of New White House Helipad

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 21, 2026

Baltic Sea

German Forces Surge Onto Baltic Island In First-Of-Its-Kind NATO Drill

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 18, 2026

Nuclear Attack Submarines (SSNs)

Japan Opens The Door To Acquiring Nuclear-Powered Submarines

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 18, 2026

F-16

New-Build F-16s For The USAF Is An Idea That Won’t Go Away, For Good Reason

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Sep 17, 2026

Collaborative Combat Aircraft

How The USAF Is Preparing For European Allies To Join The Collaborative Combat Aircraft Club

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 16, 2026

F-15

Houthis Claim Saudi F-15 Kill Over Yemen

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 16, 2026

F-35

Israel Is Bringing SPICE 1000 Standoff Weapon To The F-35

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 16, 2026

AGM-158 Joint Air-To-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM)

Lockheed Flexes To Modular AGM-158 JASSM Missile Concept

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 15, 2026

Collaborative Combat Aircraft

YFQ-44A Fury Has Been Fit Checked With Air-To-Ground Munitions

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 15, 2026

Collaborative Combat Aircraft

Anduril’s YFQ-44A Fury CCA Has Flown Alongside F-35s

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 14, 2026

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia Appears To Have Used Its Secretive Stash Of Ballistic Missiles For The First Time

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 14, 2026

Rafale

France Accelerates Rafale F5 Upgrade After Collapse Of FCAS Next-Gen Fighter Project

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 11, 2026

Short-Range Air Defense Systems (SHORADS)

Ukraine’s New Shershen SAM Can Fire A Wild Mix Of Adapted Air-To-Air Missiles

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 10, 2026