News &amp; Features (Page 9)

Posted on Oct 8, 2025

C-130H Eight-Bladed NP2000 Prop Upgrade Plans Cut Short By USAF

Posted on Oct 8, 2025

The American subsidiary of Belgian gunmaker Fabrique Nationale (FN) has delivered new prototype rifles and machine guns chambered to fire the 6.5x43mm Lightweight Intermediate Caliber Cartridge (LICC) to the U.S. military.

FN America Delivers Guns Chambered In 6.5mm LICC For U.S. Military Testing

Updated on Oct 8, 2025

Two U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning IIs, assigned to the F-35A Lightning II Demonstration Team, fly in formation prior to conducting air-to-air refueling over Utah, July 1, 2025. The F-35A Lightning II is the Air Force’s most advanced multirole fighter, capable of conducting both air-to-air and air-to-ground missions.

Canada

Time Is Running Out For Canada’s Fighter Decision

Posted on Oct 8, 2025

Russia

Russian Nuke Plant Latest To Suffer War-Inflicted Damage

Posted on Oct 7, 2025

New Northrop-Colt 25mm Grenade Launcher Builds On Lessons From Failed XM25 “Punisher”

Posted on Oct 7, 2025

An employee holds a miniature of a 70mm rocket during a visit to the Thales production site in Herstal, on October, 3 2025. The company has also inaugurated a new ammunition production line at this site. Production has increased fivefold in recent years to meet the needs of the armed forces. (Photo by VIRGINIE LEFOUR / Belga / AFP) / Belgium OUT (Photo by VIRGINIE LEFOUR/Belga/AFP via Getty Images)

NATO

Thales Anti-Drone Rockets Now Being Used In Ukraine

Posted on Oct 7, 2025

Ukraine

New ‘Bulged’ Neptune Cruise Missile Variant Emerges In Ukraine

Posted on Oct 7, 2025

Details remain scant about an unspecified U.S. Air Force aircraft, widely believed to be a drone of some kind, which came down in southern Nevada not far from Area 51 nearly two weeks ago.

Drones

Mysterious Aircraft Crash Near Area 51 Just Got Weirder

Posted on Oct 7, 2025

The Ukrainian city of Kramastorsk was hit by a fiber-optic-controlled FPV drone for ther first time.

Russia

Russian Fiber-Optic Drones Are Now Reaching Into Ukrainian Cities Deep Behind The Lines

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Oct 6, 2025

North Korea

New North Korean Hypersonic Missile Unveiled At Pyongyang Arms Expo

Posted on Oct 6, 2025

Sikorsky has announced a whole family of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) drones, all using a tail-sitting design powered by twin proprotors. While the company has previously showcased and tested this ‘rotor blown wing’ configuration, the new Nomad family includes much larger aircraft, all the way up to a size broadly equivalent to the S-70 Black Hawk medium-lift helicopter and intended for a variety of naval and land-based missions.

Americas

Sikorsky Unveils Nomad Family Of Scalable VTOL Drones

Posted on Oct 6, 2025

Outside Shop-A-Rama, also known as Levittown Shopping Center (and later as Levittown Town Center), potential customers inspect a demonstration fallout shelter, Levittown, Pennsylvania, June 1962. (Photo by Jack Rosen/Getty Images)

Bunker Talk

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

Posted on Oct 3, 2025

China

China’s New ‘Drone Light Show In A Box’ Massive Swarm Launcher Speaks To Evolving Threats

By Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Oct 3, 2025

Denmark intelligence claims Russia is threatening its warships as part of a hybrid war against NATO.

Northern Europe

Russia’s Hybrid War Against NATO Ramping Up: Danish Intelligence

Howard Howard Altman

Posted on Oct 3, 2025

A Venezuelan Army truck carrying Russian missile launchers takes part in a military parade during celebrations for the Independence Day, in Caracas on July 5, 2025. (

South America

Status Of Venezuela’s Air Defense Capabilities

Posted on Oct 3, 2025

USMC’s Amphibious Assault Vehicle Retired After Over 50 Years Of Service

Posted on Oct 3, 2025

CBP says it has information about a "credible threat" that drones might attack agents during ongoing immigration protests.

U.S. Homeland

“Credible Threat” Of Drone Attacks Prompted Massive Chicago Airspace Restrictions, CBP Claims

Updated on Oct 3, 2025

Ukrainian officials are in Washington this week to hammer out details of a potential $50 billion drone deal.

Russia

Ukraine Deep In Talks To Sell U.S. Millions Of Drones

Posted on Oct 3, 2025

A U.S. Marine Corps plane captain assigned to the Marine Fighter Attach Squadron 225 (VMFA-225) signals to a pilot in a F35B Lightning II as it taxis on the flightline after landing in the U.S. Southern Command Area of Responsibility, Sept. 13, 2025. U.S. military forces are deployed to the Caribbean in support of the U.S. Southern Command mission, Department of War-directed operations, and the president’s priorities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Katelynn Jackson)

South America

F-35s Deployed To Puerto Rico Showcased In First Official Images (Updated)

Updated on Oct 2, 2025

U.S. Homeland

Massive Drone No-Fly Zone Imposed Over Greater Chicago Area (Updated)

Posted on Oct 2, 2025

Reports indicate that the United States has agreed to provide Ukraine with targeting intelligence for its long-range missile strikes against Russian energy infrastructure. For many months now, Ukraine has been waging a campaign to degrade Russia’s oil industry, depriving it of critical resources for its offensive in Ukraine as well as revenue from energy exports.

Russia

U.S. To Give Ukraine Intel For Attacks On Critical Energy Targets In Russia: Reports

Posted on Oct 2, 2025

The U.S. Army has handed the American division of the Belgian gunmaker Fabrique Nationale (FN) a contract for further development of its semi-automatic Multi-Purpose Tactical Launcher-30mm (MTL-30).

FN America’s Futuristic MTL-30 Grenade Launcher Moves Forward With New Army Contract

Posted on Oct 2, 2025

Russia

Russia Using Long-Range Drones To Attack Ukrainian Trains: Official

Updated on Oct 2, 2025

Is Trump’s Call For Putting Battleships Back In The Navy’s Fleet Even Feasible?

By Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway, Howard Altman

Updated on Oct 1, 2025

Arctic

Funds Shifted To Develop New LC-130J “Ski Bird” Polar Airlifters

Posted on Oct 1, 2025

Authorities in Turkey say fishermen found an explosive-laden drone boat 900 miles away.

Russia

Explosive-Packed Ukrainian Drone Boat Found 900 Miles Away In Turkey

Posted on Sep 30, 2025

South Korea

South Korea Has Chosen Its Next Airborne Early Warning Radar Jet

Posted on Sep 30, 2025

A design of a patch for the F-47 System Management Office (SMO) that has been circulating on social media was indeed created by members of that organization, but is still being refined and hasn't been formalized, the Air Force has confirmed.

F-47 ‘Phoenix’ Patch Authentic, Still A Work In Progress, U.S. Air Force Confirms

Posted on Sep 30, 2025

apan Maritime Self-Defense Force guided missile destroyer JS Chokai (DDG 176) steams in close formation as one of 40 ships and submarines representing 13 international partner nations during Rim of the Pacific 2016. Twenty-six nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft, and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 30 to Aug. 4, in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain the cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2016 is the 25th exercise in the series that began in 1971.

Japan

First Japanese Destroyer Heads To U.S. For Tomahawk Missile Modifications

Posted on Sep 30, 2025

Russia

Neptune Cruise Missiles Used To Strike Factory In Russia: Ukrainian Navy

Updated on Sep 30, 2025

The German air defense frigate Hamburg is among several assets deployed to protect Copenhagen during a wave of mystery drones over Europe.

NATO

Frigate, Radars, Troops Rushed To Copenhagen To Defend Against Mystery Drones

Posted on Sep 29, 2025

New pictures offer the best look to date at an Air Force HC-130J Combat King II combat search and rescue aircraft (CSAR) carrying an Angry Kitten electronic warfare pod.

Angry Kitten Electronic Warfare Pod Spotted Flying On HC-130J Combat Rescue Plane

Posted on Sep 29, 2025

For the Beacon program, Northrop Grumman has adapted the Model 437 Vanguard, adding digitally engineered wings and modifications for optionally autonomous flight. The first flight was achieved with a test pilot in the cockpit.

Artificial Intelligence

Scaled Composites’ Model 437 Vanguard Jet Is Now Flying As An AI Testbed

Posted on Sep 27, 2025

Cutaway display of a concrete masonry basement fallout shelter with an exercise bike, television and library, 1950s. (Photo by Pictorial Parade/Getty Images)

Bunker Talk

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

Posted on Sep 27, 2025

The U.S. Air Force is working to combine an aerial target designed to simulate ballistic threats and a liquid-fuel rocket motor into a new, lower-cost hypersonic missile dubbed Angry Tortoise.

Angry Tortoise Liquid-Fueled Hypersonic Missile In Development For USAF

By Joseph Trevithick, Hope Hodge Seck

Posted on Sep 26, 2025

Russia

Massive Change In Trump’s Stance On Russia Emerging

Posted on Sep 26, 2025

India

India’s Iconic MiG-21 Blasts Off Into Retirement

Posted on Sep 26, 2025

J-XDS images of china's new 6th generation stealth fighter

Is This Our Best Look At China’s Tailless J-XDS Stealth Fighter?

Posted on Sep 25, 2025

German defense startup Helsing has unveiled a new uncrewed combat air vehicle (UCAV), the CA-1 Europa. The company is targeting a first flight in 2027 for the UCAV, which looks very similar to the MQ-28 Ghost Bat. Boeing’s Australian subsidiary developed Ghost Bat first as a ‘loyal wingman’ drone for the Royal Australian Air Force, under the Airpower Teaming System. The U.S. Air Force has also now acquired at least one example ostensibly to support research and development and test and evaluation efforts.

Germany

Helsing’s CA-1 Drone Is An MQ-28 Ghost Bat Lookalike

Posted on Sep 25, 2025

U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Maurielle Pankau, a 183rd Air Component Operations Squadron intelligence analyst planner, participates in the Shadow Operations Center-Nellis Experiment 3 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, June 13, 2025. Experiment participants were challenged to use human-machine teaming to deliver decision advantage in scenarios marked by complexity, speed, and uncertainty. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jennifer Nesbitt)

Artificial Intelligence

Air Force AI Targeting Tests Show Promise, Despite Hallucinations

By Hope Hodge Seck

Posted on Sep 25, 2025

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon receives fuel from a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker over the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, May 25, 2025. Aerial refueling allows Fighting Falcons to extend their mission and guarantee war-winning airpower throughout the CENTCOM AOR. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Natalie Jones)

Middle East

Laser-Guided Rockets Now Primary Anti-Drone Weapon For USAF Jets In Middle East

By Joseph Trevithick, Howard Altman

Posted on Sep 25, 2025

India

India Just Launched A Ballistic Missile From A Train

Posted on Sep 25, 2025

Israel

New Info On How U.S. Military Was Caught Off Guard By Israeli Strike On Qatar

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Sep 24, 2025

Renderings from General Atomics offer new looks at how its air-launched LongShot drone might be employed from F-15 fighters, as well as B-52 bombers and C-17 cargo aircraft.

Drones

F-15 Depicted Launching LongShot Air-To-Air Missile Carrier Drone In New Renderings

Posted on Sep 24, 2025

Update from General Atomics from the show floor of Air, Space & Cyber 2025

We Talk YFQ-42A, LongShot, And 9M Flight Hours With General Atomics

By The War Zone staff

Posted on Sep 24, 2025

Taiwan

Jet-Powered Kamikaze Drone Kratos Is Developing With Taiwan To Fly Next Year

By Joseph Trevithick, Howard Altman

Posted on Sep 24, 2025

Leidos has raised the possibility of eventually integrating its Black Arrow, also known as the Small Cruise Missile, in the MQ-9 Reaper drone and the OA-1K Skyraider II light attack aircraft. The roughly 200-pound munition has, so far, been tested from C-130 variants but offers the kinds of capabilities that U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is increasingly looking at harnessing.

Drones

Tiny Black Arrow Cruise Missile Demonstrates A Whopping 400-Mile Range

By Thomas Newdick, Howard Altman

Updated on Sep 24, 2025

The crew of a U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle attempted to take down a long-range kamikaze drone with a Laser Joint Direct Attack Munition (LJDAM) precision-guided bomb after running out of missiles in the frantic midst of an all-out Iranian barrage aimed at Israel.

Iran

F-15Es Tried To Shoot Down Iranian Kamikaze Drones With Laser Guided Bombs

By Joseph Trevithick, Howard Altman

Updated on Sep 24, 2025

The U.S. Air Force is currently looking toward a single next-generation airlifter to supplant both the C-17A Globemaster III and the C-5M Galaxy, starting in the mid-2040s.

C-17 and C-5 Cargo Planes Will Be Replaced With One Aircraft: USAF

Posted on Sep 23, 2025

The Danish police are seen at Copenhagen Airport, in Kastrup near Copenhagen, on September 22, 2025. Danish police said on September 23, 2025 they did not know who was responsible for flying drones over Copenhagen airport the previous evening, but that they appeared to have been knowledgeable. "The number, size, flight patterns, time over the airport. All this together ... indicates that it is a capable actor. Which capable actor, I do not know," police inspector Jens Jespersen told reporters. The airport was closed for several hours before reopening early Tuesday, causing numerous delays and travel disruptions to 20,000 passengers, airport officials said.

NATO

Denmark Says Drone Incursions Were A Deliberate “Attack”

Posted on Sep 23, 2025

The Navy’s SM-6 missile has become an all-star of multi-role capability and a shining example of how repackaging existing systems with some new tech can garner grand results. The missile can shoot down air-breathing threats like aircraft and cruise missiles, it can swat incoming ballistic missiles in the terminal phases of flight, it can attack sea targets, and it even has a latent land attack potential. It is also network enabled and can engage targets well beyond the sensor reach of its launch platform using telemetry data-linked from a third-party platform, like a jet fighter. It does all this over long ranges, reaching out over 150 miles from its vertical launch cell aboard American destroyers and cruisers.

Germany

Germany To Build Uncrewed Missile-Toting Arsenal Ships For Its Frigates

Posted on Sep 23, 2025

When Anduril's YFQ-44A drone flies for the first time, it will do so in a semi-autonomous fashion as part of a broader plan to get the design to an actual operational state as fast as possible.

Drones

Anduril’s Fury Will Take Off For The First Time At The Touch Of A Button

Updated on Sep 22, 2025

Ukraine

Ukrainian Drones Strike Russia’s Rare Be-12 Flying Boats

Posted on Sep 22, 2025

Boeing has started production of the first F-47 sixth-generation stealth fighter for the U.S. Air Force, ahead of an expected first flight in 2028.

First F-47 6th Generation Fighter Now Being Built

Posted on Sep 22, 2025

Drones

Skunk Works Unveils Vectis Air Combat Drone That Puts A Premium On Stealth

Posted on Sep 21, 2025

Among the highlights of the recent Defense and Security Equipment International (DSEI) 2025 exhibition held in London was a new tank destroyer from Lockheed Martin and Germany’s Rheinmetall. The Fuchs JAGM, based on a well-established 6×6 armored vehicle, and armed with no fewer than 24 missiles, reflects a growing interest in anti-tank warfare, spurred in part by lessons of the war in Ukraine.

Germany

Fuchs JAGM Tank Destroyer Packs 24 Missiles Into A Single Vehicle

Posted on Sep 20, 2025

A view inside the bunker in the Chernobyl Nuclear power plant during a press tour of the locations depicted in The Chernobyl Series (HBO), in Chernobyl, Ukraine, on 7 June 2019. The Chernobyl Series (HBO) , which depicts the Chernobyl nuclear power disaster's aftermath, including the clean-up operation and subsequent inquiry, drives boom in tourists travelling to see the site of nuclear disaster. Tour agencies have reported up to a 40 per cent increase in bookings since the miniseries aired May 2019. On 2019 Ukraine marked the 33rd anniversary of Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The Chernobyl accident occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat, and regarded the biggest nuclear accident in the history. (Photo by STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Bunker Talk

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

Posted on Sep 19, 2025

Three Russian MiG-31 Foxhounds intruded into Estonian airspace.

Eastern Europe

Russian MiG-31s Busting Estonian Airspace Has Eastern Europe On Edge

Posted on Sep 19, 2025

Spectacular imagery showing military aircraft punching out flares is, by now, fairly familiar, but no less worth looking at. Much rarer, however, is to see a civilian airliner design doing the same thing. In this case, the Boeing 737 jetliner is in Polish Air Force service, but the captures are certainly highly unusual and bring attention to a lesser-known aspect of this aircraft, and other governmental and privately owned jets that are similarly outfitted with self-protection systems.

NATO

Boeing 737 Countermeasure Flare Release Captured In Stunning Photos

Posted on Sep 19, 2025

Cracks seem to be appearing in the pan-European Future Combat Air System (FCAS) program, at the heart of which will be crewed New Generation Fighter (NGF). Reports now suggest that Germany, one of the two major partners in FCAS, is looking at how it might kick France out of the program, amid long-running misgivings over workshare arrangements.

Germany

Germany Considers Split From France On Next Generation Fighter

Posted on Sep 19, 2025

A new Quick Reaction Force has been created to help counter drone incursions at U.S. military bases

Americas

New Quick Reaction Force Will Counter Military Base Drone Incursions

Posted on Sep 18, 2025

What looks to be a previously unseen low-observable flying-wing drone variant with a ‘cranked kite’ planform has emerged in a satellite image from China’s secretive test base near Malan in the country's far western Xinjiang province.

China

Large Stealth Flying Wing Appears At Chinese Test Base