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People's Liberation Army Navy (China)

All Three Chinese Aircraft Carriers Were At Sea For The First Time

More signs of China's naval power projection capabilities rapidly evolving, with two operational carriers and one undergoing trials all out to sea at the same time.

F-16

Aggressor F-16 Fleet Set To Be Slashed By Air Force

Planned cuts to F-16s at Nellis Air Force Base point to a looming aggressor gap and raise questions about the Viper fleet's overall health.

Israel

Hezbollah Converted Soviet Tu-143 Jet Recon Drone Into Cruise Missile Says IDF, Just Like Ukraine

Israel has distributed video of a strike on what appears to be a Tu-143 hidden in a home in Southern Lebanon.

F-16

AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon To Equip Ukraine’s F-16s: Report

JSOW was always the most likely standoff munition to equip Ukraine's donated F-16s and it can provide precision attack capabilities over about 70 miles.

Bunker Talk

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

It's bunker time!

Loyal Wingman

What American Fighters And Their Drone Wingmen Fighting Chinese Jets Might Look Like

A recent Collins Aerospace video offers an interesting take on how fighters will control and otherwise work together with future drones.

Israel

Israeli Airstrikes In Lebanon Intensify

Multiple Hezbollah commanders were reportedly killed in an airstrike on Beirut, as the possibility of a wider conflict looms large.

F/A-18

How EA-18G Growler’s Next Generation Jammer Actually Works And The Future Of Offensive Electronic Warfare

Raytheon's Chuck Angus talks Next Generation Jammer, the state of play in offensive electronic warfare and how it might look in the future.

Loyal Wingman

Collaborative Combat Aircraft Program ‘Ingesting’ Modular Chassis Concept Pioneered By XQ-67 Drone

The USAF is very interested in the idea of a common 'chassis' with landing gear and core systems that can equip different CCA airframes.

Around The Globe

How Israel Turned Hezbollah’s Pagers Into Exploding Trojan Horses

It's becoming clear that Israel executed a highly complex, years-long espionage operation unlike any we have seen before to weaponize Hezbollah's communications against them.

AC-130

AC-130J Ghostrider Gunships Will Keep Their 105mm Howitzers, For Now

With a pivot to the Pacific and needing to keep the AC-130 relevant, its armament may change, but its Howitzer will stay put for the time being.

B-21

B-21 Ground Test Airframes Join Flying Pre-Production Raider

The B-21 Raider test force is growing as trials accelerate with an operational date by the end of the decade still the goal.

Israel

More Electronics Explode In Lebanon As Israel Declares ‘New Phase’ Of War

The detonation of thousands of devices along with other developments may be a precursor to a full-on Israeli military operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

B-21

New Look At B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber Flight Testing Released

B-21 Raider testing is progressing at Edwards Air Force Base ahead of the planned fielding of the bombers toward the end of the decade.

KC-135

Work Toward KC-135 Tankers That Fly Themselves, Uncrewed Cargo Aircraft Pressing Ahead

Autonomous tankers and cargo aircraft could be key in a high-end fight with China, which is working on its own drone airlifters.

Russia

Massive Russian Weapons Depot Still Burning After Ukrainian Drone Attack

Strikes in the Tver region targeted warehouses full of rockets and missiles, reportedly including some delivered to Russia by North Korea.

Loyal Wingman

Skunk Works’ Losing Loyal Wingman Drone Was Very Stealthy “Gold Plated” Design

Lockheed Martin is now exploring optionally expendable designs to propose in an attempt to win the second round of the CCA program.

Air

Link 16 Coverage From Space, Laser Communications Relays Make Major Advances

The Space Development Agency is seeing major promise during testing of new low-cost Link 16 datalink, laser communications, and missile tracking satellites.

Unmanned

General Atomics Says Its Collaborative Combat Aircraft Is Like A Bic Lighter

General Atomics gave us a close look at their XQ-67 and CCA designs and some new insights into how they balanced affordability capability into an optimal package.

Middle East

Hezbollah’s Exploding Pagers Could Be As Monumental A Cyber-Espionage Operation As Stuxnet

We live surrounded by networked devices equipped with packs full of potential energy, possibly offering adversaries an unprecedented vector for kinetic attacks.