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DARPA’s New X-Plane Aims To Maneuver With Nothing But Bursts Of Air
Unmanned

DARPA’s New X-Plane Aims To Maneuver With Nothing But Bursts Of Air

Being able to eliminate traditional moving control surfaces could fundamentally change how planes, especially stealthy ones, are designed.

Error, Malfunction, Sabotage Investigated As Possible Fatal Ukrainian Helicopter Crash Causes (Updated)
Russia

Error, Malfunction, Sabotage Investigated As Possible Fatal Ukrainian Helicopter Crash Causes (Updated)

The Airbus H225M helicopter crashed in the town of Brovary, near Kyiv, with Ukraine's Interior Minister onboard.

Maryinka
Russia

Ukraine Situation Report: The Urban Hellscape That Is Maryinka

The pulverized city of Maryinka in Donetsk Oblast, where Ukrainian forces are still holding on, has been a battleground for nearly a decade.

Army Wants Supersonic Cruise Missile Interceptor For Its New Air Defense System
U.S. Army

Army Wants Supersonic Cruise Missile Interceptor For Its New Air Defense System

The Army wants Enduring Shield to knock down cruise missiles, drones, and artillery rockets, and will pair it first with AIM-9X Sidewinders.

Mi-28 Missile
Russia

Russia’s Mi-28NM Attack Helicopter Seen Using New Anti-Armor Missile In Ukraine

Recent imagery also shows the advanced Mi-28NM variant of the Havoc attack helicopter, which is apparently only in limited use so far.

Kh-22 Ukraine
Russia

Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Says It Has No Defense Against Russia’s Kh-22 Missiles

Russia's horrific Kh-22 missile attack on a Dnipro apartment complex highlights the need for better air defense systems, Ukraine says.

Meet The Tanks And Other Armor The U.K. Is Sending To Ukraine
Ukraine

Meet The Tanks And Other Armor The U.K. Is Sending To Ukraine

Challenger 2 tanks, Bulldog APCs, and AS-90 self-propelled howitzers will bolster Ukraine's mechanized capabilities with more modern assets.

Navy exploring modifications that would turn ESBs into drone motherships
U.S. Navy

Navy’s Huge Expeditionary Sea Bases Could Become Drone Motherships

Among the proposed modifications is a rotary launch-and-recovery system for large unmanned underwater vehicles and a drone flight deck.

POSEIDON TORPEDO production
Russia

Russia Has Built Its First Production Batch Of Poseidon Nuclear Torpedoes: Report

The Poseidon ultra long-range nuclear-powered, nuclear warhead-equipped torpedo is one of Russia's so-called 'super weapons.'

Challenger 2 tank
Russia

Ukraine Situation Report: Movement To Give Kyiv Western Tanks Gains Steam

An announcement is anticipated about British Challenger 2 tanks heading to Ukraine while French AMX-10 RC armored vehicles will soon arrive.

Bunker
Americas

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

You know the drill.

Tic Tac UAP Incident Included In Newly Released Range Incursion Reports
U.S. Navy

Tic Tac UAP Incident Included In Newly Released Range Incursion Reports

The recently released Navy 'range fouler' reports are heavily redacted, but still contain new details and insights.

People's Army of Vietnam trains with RC planed during military exercise
Indo-Pacific

Vietnamese Soldiers Train With Radio-Controlled ‘Adversary’ Planes

The planes are supposedly being used as a low-cost and convenient way to emulate actual aircraft during small-scale local exercises.

JAGM-MR
Air-To-Ground

How Lockheed Doubled The Range Of Its Joint Air-To-Ground Missile

The new JAGM-MR can not only hit targets at much greater standoff range, but it also adds an additional infrared guidance option.

Stryker patrol
Russia

This Is What Stryker Armored Vehicles Could Bring To The Fight In Ukraine

Strykers, even with their known limitations, could provide Ukraine with a host of desperately needed capabilities, especially when combined with other forces.

ODNI report
U.S. Homeland

Highly Anticipated Government Report On UFOs Very Thin On New Details

The new report, which has been delayed for months now, offers little substantive detail on the government's cataloged UAP reports.

Ukraine Situation Report: Tank Deals Should Be Approved Says Germany’s Vice Chancellor
Germany

Ukraine Situation Report: Tank Deals Should Be Approved Says Germany’s Vice Chancellor

The second most senior official in Berlin says other countries should be allowed to send German-made tanks to Ukraine if they want.

NAVCENT's unmanned AI Task Force 59
U.S. Navy

Navy’s Task Force 59 To Keep Tabs On Iran With Armada Of Drones

TF59 and its regional allies hope to deploy a fleet of 100 unmanned vessels by this summer as it works toward building a 'Digital Ocean.'

SOUTH KOREAN MISSILE
South Korea

South Korea Now Openly Discussing Arming Itself With Nuclear Weapons

With confidence in the U.S. nuclear umbrella shaken, Seoul is increasingly eyeing a direct counter to the North’s nuclear weapons program.

Swiftsure
Royal Navy

How A British Submarine Spent Hours Under A Russian Aircraft Carrier

A Cold War British nuclear sub sneaked into a Soviet naval exercise and took closeup underwater pictures of Russia’s new aircraft carrier.