News &amp; Features (Page 8)

Posted on Jul 15, 2025

The USS Connecticut, one of the U.S. Navy's prized Seawolf class nuclear attack submarines, is set to finally return to service late next year.

Submarine USS Connecticut Severely Damaged In Pacific Crash To Return To Service In 2026

Posted on Jul 15, 2025

A U.S. Air Force F-15EX Eagle II, assigned to the 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., taxis on the runway after landing to participate in exercise Resolute Force Pacific 2025 at Andersen AFB, Guam, July 11, 2025. REFORPAC is a large-scale contingency response exercise, which prepares service members to maintain readiness and execute missions under stress.

Japan

F-15EX Arrives In Japan For The First Time As Part Of Massive Pacific Exercise

Posted on Jul 15, 2025

Taiwanese forces, including personnel armed with Stinger shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles, have used the subway to maneuver around the capital city of Taipei as part of a major annual exercise for what looks to be the first time.

China

Taiwanese Troops Train To Use Subway To Their Advantage During Chinese Invasion Of Taipei

By Joseph Trevithick, Howard Altman

Updated on Jul 15, 2025

Ukraine will receive additional Patriot batteries, U.S. President Donald Trump announced Monday.

Russia

Trump Announces Deal To Send More Patriot Air Defense Batteries To Ukraine

Posted on Jul 14, 2025

Footage from a recent Russian bombardment of the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi provides us with what is likely our best look so far at a Kh-101 cruise missile fitted with a cluster warhead. While Russian forces have made extensive use of a variety of cluster munitions in the conflict, resulting in many civilian deaths and serious injuries, it’s notable that the relatively high-end Kh-101 is also now being used in this capacity, suggesting it is finding favor as a terror weapon as Moscow steps up its campaign against cities across Ukraine.

Ukraine

Cluster Warhead Version Of Russian Kh-101 Cruise Missile Caught On Camera

Posted on Jul 14, 2025

Step Toward Blocking E-7 Wedgetail Radar Jet Program Cancellation Taken By Congress

Posted on Jul 11, 2025

Bunker Talk: Let’s Talk About All The Things We Did And Didn’t Cover This Week

Posted on Jul 11, 2025

Russia

Russia May Finally Abandon Its Cursed Aircraft Carrier

Posted on Jul 11, 2025

An Antonov-124 Ruslan was spotted over Kyiv on Friday, the first such sighting since the all-out war began.

Russia

Lumbering An-124 Condor Cargo Jet Appears In Kyiv’s Highly-Restricted Airspace

Posted on Jul 11, 2025

Drones

Super Quiet Special Operations Drones Being Modified To Launch Smaller Drones

Posted on Jul 11, 2025

Drones

Pentagon Just Made A Massive, Long Overdue Shift To Arm Its Troops With Thousands Of Drones

Updated on Jul 11, 2025

Iran

GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator’s Results From Iran Strike Will Inform Its Future: Defense Officials

Updated on Jul 10, 2025

A column of mysterious vehicles, each of them covered by a notably large, box-like structure, passing through the Chinese capital recently, poses something of a mystery. At this stage, we know next to nothing about what kinds of vehicles are concealed beneath these bizarre carapaces, although it’s more than conceivable that they have some military or military-related purpose.

Mysterious Vehicles Rolling Through Beijing Spur Speculation Of New Chinese Tank

Updated on Jul 10, 2025

Image of HMS Vengeance returning to HMNB Clyde, after completing Operational Sea Training. The trials were conducted in Scottish exercise areas. HMS Vengeance is the fourth and final Vanguard-class submarine of the Royal Navy. Vengeance carries the Trident ballistic missile, the UK's nuclear deterrent.

NATO

UK And France To Join Forces For Nuclear Deterrence

Posted on Jul 10, 2025

M240 Medium Machine Gun Successor Now Being Sought By U.S. Army

Posted on Jul 10, 2025

An annual U.S. Navy wishlist sent to Congress reportedly includes $1.4 billion that would help keep its dreams of a next-generation carrier-based combat jet alive.

Navy Puts Gutted F/A-XX Next Generation Fighter Program In Wishlist To Congress: Reports

Posted on Jul 10, 2025

The U.S. Air Force is moving ahead to add new external pylons onto its B-1B Lancer bombers after years of experimentation.

B-1B To Finally Get New External Pylons Drastically Expanding Missile Carriage Potential (Updated)

Updated on Jul 9, 2025

The Los Angeles class fast attack submarine USS Newport News made a historic visit to Iceland, marking the first time a nuclear-powered submarine made a visit to the island nation.

Arctic

U.S. Navy Nuclear Submarine Has Docked In Iceland For The First Time Ever

Updated on Jul 9, 2025

Russia

Largest Russian Long-Range Drone Onslaught Of The War Rains Down On Ukraine

Posted on Jul 9, 2025

The Pentagon is brushing off concerns that it is running low on Patriot interceptors.

Russia

Patriot Missile Stockpile Concerns Grow, Pentagon Claims It Has Enough

Updated on Jul 8, 2025

While the J-20S was officially unveiled at the Zhuhai Airshow last year, there are rumors that it might be publicly unveiled as an operational PLAAF asset in September of this year, when the PLAAF marks the 80th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in World War II.

China

China’s Two-Seat J-20 Stealth Fighter Poised To Enter Operational Service

Updated on Jul 8, 2025

Lasers

German Surveillance Plane Targeted By Chinese Warship’s Laser In Red Sea Points To Disturbing Pattern

Posted on Jul 8, 2025

Boom On KC-46 Tanker Just Broke Off During F-22 Refueling Mission (Updated)

Updated on Jul 8, 2025

The U.S. Navy has canceled a variant of its Razorback uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) designed to be launched and recovered via a standard submarine torpedo tube.

Navy Cancels Nuclear Submarine Torpedo Tube-Launched And Recovered Underwater Drone (Updated)

Posted on Jul 8, 2025

An unknown containerized launcher able to fire the same suite of artillery rockets and ballistic missiles as the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) and M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) seen at the U.S. Army’s Fort Bragg earlier this year has been identified.

Mysterious Guided Rocket Launcher Disguised In A Shipping Container At Fort Bragg Identified

Posted on Jul 8, 2025

South Korea

South Korea Canceling AH-64 Apache Order A Sign Of What’s To Come

Posted on Jul 8, 2025

China

How Russia Could Complicate U.S. Efforts To Defend Taiwan

Posted on Jul 7, 2025

The U.S. Air Force is exploring new options to help with the development of improved fuzes for the 30,000-pound GBU-57/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bunker buster bomb.

New Fuzes For GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators Requested By USAF

Posted on Jul 7, 2025

The unique RF-5E Tigergazer reconnaissance aircraft operated by the Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF) has been stood down from service. The retirement of Taiwan’s RF-5Es comes after the country bid farewell to its F-5E Tiger II fighters at the end of 2023, after almost half a century of operations. With high levels of tension between Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China, the ROCAF’s future tactical reconnaissance needs will be handled by drones and pod-equipped F-16 fighters.

Taiwan

Taiwan’s RF-5 Tigergazer Reconnaissance Jets Have Retired

Posted on Jul 7, 2025

Red Sea

First Red Sea Attack On Commercial Shipping Since December Launched By Houthis (Updated)

Updated on Jul 7, 2025

China

China’s Mysterious Ekranoplan Seen In Full For First Time

Updated on Jul 5, 2025

A US Air Force F-15C Eagle, assigned to the California Air National Guard's 144th Fighter Wing, prepares to refuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker, assigned to the Air Force Reserve's 452nd Air Mobility Wing during the 2023 March ARB Airshow Media Day on 04/21/2023. The F-15 has a special paint job commemorating 10,000 flight hours with the 144th Fighter Wing. (US Army Reserve Photo by Staff Sgt. Steven Lewis)

Bunker Talk: 4th Of July Weekend Edition (Part 2)

Posted on Jul 5, 2025

Bunker Talk: 4th Of July Weekend Edition (Part 1)

Posted on Jul 3, 2025

Russia

Ukraine’s Uncrewed Surface Vessels Are Now Launching Bomber Drones To Attack Crimea

Posted on Jul 3, 2025

Drones

F-22 Raptors Will Be First To Control ‘Fighter Drone’ Collaborative Combat Aircraft

Updated on Jul 3, 2025

Los Alamos scientist Gary Stradling gives us his exclusive insights into the Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb.

Iran

Los Alamos Scientist’s Insights On The GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator

Posted on Jul 3, 2025

US is halting some deliveries of weapons to ukraine

Russia

Fears Of Disaster Brewing For Ukraine As U.S. Halts Weapons Shipments Over Stockpile Concerns

Posted on Jul 2, 2025

The U.S. Air Force's F-22 Raptor stealth fighters are set to get an array of new "viability" upgrades to help protect them from emerging threats and otherwise ensure their continued relevance in future conflicts.

New F-22 Upgrade Package To Keep The Jets Viable Laid Out

Posted on Jul 2, 2025

Drones

KC-135 Tankers Set To Get Drone Launchers

Updated on Jul 2, 2025

Drones

A-10 Warthog Already Has The Capability To Use Laser-Guided Rockets To Shoot-Down Drones

Updated on Jul 1, 2025

The U.S. Army wants its armored vehicles to begin sporting top attack armor protection by 2027.

Israel

Army Wants Cope Cage-Like Armor To Protect From Drone Attacks On Its Tanks

Updated on Jul 1, 2025

Japan

Railgun Installed On Japanese Warship Seen In New Photos

Posted on Jul 1, 2025

The U.S. Army wants to see if a startup founded three years ago by former SpaceX employees can deliver a lower-cost ground-launched missile, dubbed Blackbeard, capable of engaging targets hundreds of miles away at hypersonic speeds.

Blackbeard ‘Cheap’ Hypersonic Strike Missile Being Developed For U.S. Army (Updated)

Posted on Jul 1, 2025

Russia

Fight On Ukraine’s Northern Border Sees Elite Troops Poured In From Both Sides

Posted on Jun 30, 2025

Russia

M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle Appears In Russia With Locally Made 30mm Cannon

Posted on Jun 28, 2025

U.S. Air Force members of Goodfellow Air Force Base wait in the second floor of the launch control center for their turn to see the silo inside the underground portion of the Lawn Atlas Missile Base in Lawn, Texas, Dec 3, 2020. In 2008, LAMB was a recorded Texas Historic Landmark. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Abbey Rieves)

Bunker Talk: Let’s Talk About All The Things We Did And Didn’t Cover This Week

Posted on Jun 27, 2025

Iran

Israel Vows To Maintain Air Superiority Over Iran

Posted on Jun 27, 2025

For the first time, at least publicly, the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force are seeking funds – nearly $670.5 million in total – to support procurement of AIM-260A Joint Advanced Tactical Missiles (JATM) for operational use in its latest annual budget request.

AIM-260 Air-To-Air Missile Funding To Start Production Sought In New Budget

Posted on Jun 27, 2025

The Pentagon’s proposed Fiscal Year 2026 budget fully commits to the U.S. Air Force's F-47 sixth-generation stealth fighter, while effectively shelving the U.S. Navy's plans for a next-generation carrier-based F/A-XX combat jet.

Pentagon “All In” On Air Force’s F-47, Puts Navy’s F/A-XX On Ice

Posted on Jun 27, 2025

F-15EX will have 129 aircraft in its fleet under trump.

Procurement

F-15EX Planned Fleet Size Grows To 129 Jets

Updated on Jun 26, 2025

Iran

Largest Patriot Missile Salvo In U.S. Military History Launched Defending Al Udeid Air Base Against Iranian Attack

Updated on Jun 26, 2025

The Pentagon has shared extensive new information about the use of 30,000-pound GBU-57/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bunker buster bombs in recent strikes on Iran, a mission it says was 15 years in the making.

Iran

Everything We Just Learned About The GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator Strikes On Iran

Updated on Jun 26, 2025

Iran

Claims Swirl Over Extent Of Damage From Attacks On Iranian Nuclear Facilities (Updated)

Updated on Jun 25, 2025

NATO

Royal Air Force Goes Nuclear With F-35A

Posted on Jun 25, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding the Marine One presidential helicopter and departing the White House on June 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. Less than 12 hours after announcing a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, Trump is traveling to the Netherlands to attend the NATO leaders' summit.

Iran

Turbulent Start To Iran-Israel Ceasefire But It’s Holding, At Least For Now

Posted on Jun 24, 2025

Iran

GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator Successor In The Works

Posted on Jun 24, 2025

Iran

Israel-Iran Ceasefire Is Now In Effect (Updated)

By Howard Altman, Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 24, 2025

Iran

Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Site Likely Sealed Up Before B-2 Strikes

Updated on Jun 24, 2025

Iran

Israel Strikes Key Iranian Command And Control Sites In Tehran (Updated)

Updated on Jun 23, 2025

Iran

Iran Launches Ballistic Missile Revenge Strike On Al Udeid Air Base In Qatar (Updated)

Updated on Jun 23, 2025

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Air Force Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine have now briefed TWZ and other reporters on the historic strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities last night, dubbed Operation Might Hammer.

Iran

B-2 Strikes On Iran: What We Know About Operation Midnight Hammer (Updated)

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway, Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jun 22, 2025

Iran

U.S. Has Attacked Iran’s Nuclear Facilities (Updated)