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Type 076 seen carrying loyal wingman drone mockup or prototype.
China

Chinese Loyal Wingman Drone Design Appear Set For Deck Trials

Mockups or not, several drones have appeared dockside at the yard that built China’s super-sized Type 076 amphibious assault ship, which is in dry dock nearby.

Ukraine has expanded its uncrewed surface vessel attacks to the Dnipro River.
Ukrainian Navy

Ukraine Now Using Drone Boats To Attack Russian Riverine Targets

Ukraine's drone boat attacks on the Dnipro River mark an expansion of Kyiv's campaign against Russian targets on or near the water.

China has shown an cargo ship packed with launchers, radar, and close-in-weapon systems.
People's Liberation Army Navy (China)

Chinese Cargo Ship Packed Full Of Modular Missile Launchers Emerges

China has packed a deck of a medium-sized cargo ship with 60 containerized vertical launch cells, radar, and close-in weapons.

Boys at a Dr Barnardo's home have fun in the air raid shelter they built themselves at Christmas, 17th December 1940. (Photo by David Parker/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Bunker Talk

Bunker Talk: Silent Night Edition

Here's to awkward moments under the mistletoe.

Shenyang J-35
People's Liberation Army Air Force (China)

Chinese Fighter Jet Exports Set To Grow Significantly

Pentagon report highlights how the trifecta of FC-31, J-10C, and JF-17 is helping China establish itself as an increasingly major player on the fighter market.

The presence of U.S. special operations forces is growing in the Caribbean.
South America

CV-22B Osprey, MC-130J Commando II Special Ops Aircraft Deploy To Puerto Rico

The U.S. special operations forces build-up in the Caribbean is accelerating.

INDOPACOM will hire contractor amphibious aircraft for new pilot program in Pacific.
Indo-Pacific

Pentagon To Contract Fleet Of Seaplanes For The Pacific

The lack of an American amphibious aircraft capability has become more glaring as the possibility of a conflict with China looms larger.

The U.S. Navy has confirmed to TWZ that construction of the first two Trump class "battleships" is not expected to start until the early 2030s.
U.S. Navy

Trump Class Battleship Construction Won’t Begin Until 2030s

With Trump class ship construction many years off, the survival of a program to build such large and expensive warships is even more questionable.

President Donald Trump has rolled out plans for new Trump class warships for the U.S. Navy.
U.S. Navy

What We Know About The Trump Class “Battleship”

The USS Defiant would be the first Trump class battleship, but major questions remain about affordability and logic of such a massive design.

A U.S. Air Force EC-130H Compass Call electronic warfare plane was seen landing in Puerto Rico.
C-130

EC-130H Compass Call Electronic Warfare Plane Joins Growing U.S. Force In Caribbean

The EC-130H, one of just a handful still flying, gives the U.S. additional capability to disrupt Venezuela's air defenses and communications.

The U.S. Navy has confirmed to TWZ that the armament package for its first "flight" of its new FF(X) frigates will not include a built-in Vertical Launch System (VLS).
U.S. Navy

Navy’s New Frigate Will Not Have A Vertical Launch System For Missiles

FF(X) will initially have the same armament installed as the Littoral Combat Ships, relying on uncrewed platforms and modular payloads for expanded capability.

Two Russian Flanker series fighter jets have been damaged in an overnight arson attack on the military airfield at Lipetsk in the region of the same name in southwest Russia. According to the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine (GUR), the raid was launched by “a representative of the resistance movement in Russia.” If that’s the case, it underscores the varied tactics being used to strike Russian military aircraft on their bases, coming soon after two separate drone attacks on Belbek Air Base in Russian-occupied Crimea.
Su-30

Sabotage Attack On Russian Su-30 Fighters Shown In Video

The attack was executed by "Russian partisans," Ukraine claims, and happened 200 miles from the border.

The U.S. Air Force has formally designated Northrop Grumman’s Project Talon drone as the YFQ-48A and described it as a "strong contender" to be part of its future Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) fleets.
Drones

YFQ-48A ‘Fighter Drone’ Designation Given To Northrop Grumman’s Talon By USAF

The USAF says the Talon drone is a "strong contender" in its Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, Increment 2 of which has now kicked off.

F-35A Joint Strike Fighters from the Vermon Air National Guard's 158th Fighter Wing have arrived in Puerto Rico for Operation Southern Spear.
F-35A

USAF F-35As Have Arrived In The Caribbean

The F-35As bring enhanced capabilities to Operation Southern Spear, and are the first USAF fighters deployed for it. 

The Marine Corps is seeking to bolster its supply of FPV drones.
Unmanned

Marines Seeking 10,000 First-Person View Drones At $4K A Pop

The USMC just issued a call for 10,000 FPV drones to be delivered in one year, a small step toward fielding this capability across the force.

F-117 combat debut in Panama happened 36 years ago today.
F-117

The F-117 Nighthawk First Went To War 36 Years Ago Today

With clear parallels to the U.S. standoff with Venezuela today, it's worth remembering the F-117's combat debut over Panama in 1989.

220203-N-PI330-1018 Camp Shelby, Mississippi (February 3, 2023) Seabees, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 (NMCB 133), go to bunkers during a simulated missile strike on Camp Shelby, Mississippi, February 3, 2023. NMCB 133 is at Camp Shelby, Mississippi conducting a field training exercise operating as part of Navy Expeditionary Combat Command conducting the advanced phase of the force readiness training plan (FRTP). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Andrew Waters/Released)
Bunker Talk

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

We leave the Christmas lights up all year down in here.

The Navy is eyeing distributed construction to help speed up delivery of the FF(X) frigates.
U.S. Navy

This Will Be The Navy’s New FF(X) Frigate

The Navy is leveraging the Coast Guard's Legend class National Security Cutter to plug the gap left by axing the Constellation class frigate.

In a significant escalation of the ‘tanker war’ between Russia and Ukraine, which has so far played out mainly in the Black Sea, Ukrainian aerial drones have struck a tanker belonging to Russia’s so-called ‘shadow fleet’ in the Mediterranean.
Mediterranean

Ukraine Strikes Russia-Linked Tanker In The Mediterranean With ‘Bomber Drone’

The Ukrainian drone attack on the tanker, part of the Russian shadow fleet, is the first one of its kind outside of the Black Sea.

A U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft appeared near the Venezuelan coast today
South America

E-3 Sentry Joins U.S. Combat Aircraft Tracked Off Venezuelan Coast

The E-3 radar jets have been noticeably absent as of late from the flurry of trackable U.S. military aircraft flying near Venezuela's airspace.