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Three Russian MiG-31 Foxhounds intruded into Estonian airspace.
Russian Air Force

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

Italy, Sweden and Finland scrambled fighters after the Foxhounds flew into Estonian airspace for about 12 minutes.

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.
Polish Air Force

Boeing 737 Countermeasure Flare Release Captured In Stunning Photos

It’s not every day that you see a Boeing 737 airliner spitting out infrared countermeasures in a dramatic display of pyrotechnics.

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.
Fighters

Germany Considers Split From France On Next Generation Fighter

Disagreements over Future Combat Air System workshare mean Germany is also looking at teaming up with the UK or Sweden on its future crewed fighter.

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

New Quick Reaction Force Will Counter Military Base Drone Incursions

Soon, teams of counter-drone experts and sensors, electronic warfare systems, and drone interceptors will rush to bases being swarmed by drones.

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.
Unmanned

Large Stealth Flying Wing Appears At Chinese Test Base

It's the second largest Chinese flying wing drone we have seen and follows a broader trend in the country's stealthy uncrewed aircraft developments.

Plane spotters in Fort Worth, Texas, caught a glimpse of something rare yesterday, one of the U.S. Air Force's four E-4B Nightwatch jets flying completely stripped of paint and with much of its skin covered in a green zinc chromate coating.
E-4

Rare ‘Naked’ E-4B ‘Doomsday Plane’ Spotted Flying In Texas

One of just four E-4Bs, critical flying command posts that can be used to order nuclear strikes, was photographed stripped of its normal white-and-blue paint job.

NATO is testing an airship to see if it can provide maritime domain awareness.
Airborne Sensors

Bus-Sized Uncrewed Airship Being Tested By NATO As Maritime Surveillance Platform

The trials comes amid a growing need for systems that can provide a persistent capability to monitor oceans and other bodies of water.

Spain recently launched the first of its new F110 class frigates, also known as the Bonifaz class. This impressive warship is notable for its combination of high-end anti-submarine warfare and anti-air warfare functions on what is a relatively small hull. As such, it makes a very interesting comparison with the U.S. Navy’s troubled Constellation class, which has grown in weight, amid questions about the level of capabilities that it offers.
Frigates

All You Need To Know About Spain’s New F110 Frigate

The first of the F110 frigate class, Bonifaz, was recently launched, with delivery to the Spanish Navy planned for 2028.

Taiwan has officially rolled out a new anti-ballistic missile system called Chiang Kung, or Strong Bow, which it says is now in production.
Land-Based Ballistic Missile Defense

Taiwan Just Unveiled Its Own High-Altitude Anti-Ballistic Missile System

Taiwan is looking to its Chiang Kung system to help extend the reach of its defenses against China's ever-growing ballistic missile arsenal.

AIM-120 AMRAAM
Polish Air Force

Poland Investigating Whether Its F-16’s AIM-120 Missile Destroyed A Home

Officials are looking into a report that the missile failed after being launched at a drone, slamming into a residence instead.

U.S. military aircraft employed GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bombs (SDB) and laser-guided 70mm Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II (APKWS II) rockets as part of the operation to strike Iranian nuclear facilities earlier this year.
F-22

Pentagon Moves To Replace Weapons It Used In Operation Midnight Hammer

Beyond the B-2s and their Massive Ordnance Penetrator bunker busters, we are still learning more about Operation Midnight Hammer.

The Chinese aviation industry has been developing an expanding array of flying-wing uncrewed aircraft, including as uncrewed combat air vehicles (UCAV) and high-altitude intelligence-gathering platforms, often in cooperation with state-run research institutions.
Unmanned

New Chinese Flying Wing Drone Design Emerges

The uncrewed aircraft, which carries the logo of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was spotted ahead of an airshow in northeastern China.

Peru has received approval to buy 12 F-16C/D Block 70 jets, which would make it the fourth South American operator of the Lockheed Martin fighter. If the acquisition goes ahead, it will also confirm the Peruvian Air Force’s move away from Russian-made combat aircraft, which currently make up a significant proportion of its fleet. These aircraft are now increasingly hard to support and, in general, Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has had a serious impact on its arms exports.
F-16

F-16 Cleared To Be Peru’s Next Fighter

Washington has approved a potential F-16 to Peru, a country struggling with an aging fleet of Russian- and European-made fighters.

U.S. President Donald Trump claims third drug boat attack in a message to Maduro.
South America

Trump Says Another Drug Running Boat Has Been Destroyed

Hostilities continue to escalate in the Caribbean as the Trump administration names a new target on its list of drug trafficking countries.

A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor has achieved what is, according to missile manufacturer Raytheon, the longest known AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) shot. Exactly how far away the fighter was from its target when it fired the radar-guided is unclear, but the milestone points both to the continued development of the AMRAAM’s capabilities as well as the growing focus, across the U.S. military, on extended-range air-to-air missiles to keep pace with developments in China and Russia.
F-22

F-22 Raptor Scores “Longest Known” AIM-120 AMRAAM Shot

Manufacturer Raytheon continues to get longer reach out of its AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, while its AIM-260 successor waits in the wings.

13 September 2025, Puerto Rico, Ceiba: US Marines park a Lockheed Martin F-35B fighter aircraft at Roosevelt Roads Naval Station. The transfer of US fighter aircraft to the outlying area is linked to the increasing tensions between the United States and Venezuela. Photo: Kendall Torres Cortés/dpa (Photo by Kendall Torres Cortés/picture alliance via Getty Images)
U.S. Navy

Historic Shuttered Navy Base Back In Action For Caribbean Counter-Drug Mission

In 2004, the Navy disposed of the former Naval Station Roosevelt Roads in Puerto Rico, but current events have seen it awaken once again.

Image of a Royal Air Force Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, seen here flying over RAF Lossiemouth. In a training flight conducted over the Moray Firth a Poseidon (P-8A) aircraft operated by 120 Sqn, based at RAF Lossiemouth, dropped a recoverable exercise variant of the Mark 54 Lightweight Torpedo, simulating an attack on a submarine. At just under 3m long and 32cm in diameter, the Mk 54 torpedo is small and light enough that five can be carried in the Poseidon's internal weapons bay. the high-explosive warheads on the live torpedoes pack a devastating punch sufficient to destroy enemy submarines that the Poseidon crew can locate and track using state-of-the-art equipment. The successful release of a torpedo is the latest milestone in the rapid development of the Poseidon in RAF service. Five Poseidon MRA1s are based at RAF Lossiemouth with a further four set to be delivered by the end of this year. The station, which is situated in close proximity to one of the aircraft's most frequent area of operations, is benefiting from a multi-million pound investment programme bringing significant economic benefits to the Highlands & Islands and Morayshire communities. The Poseidon is fitted with advanced, state-of-the-art, Anti-Submarine Warfare and Anti-Surface Warfare sensors which will provide global protection to UK, NATO and our Allies' submarines and warships in an increasingly dangerous world.
P-8

British P-8 Poseidon Flies Unusual Overland Mission Along Polish Border

As NATO fighters flew their first Eastern Sentry missions, a British P-8 monitored Russia-Belarus military drills along the Polish border.

The last MC-12W Liberty turboprop surveillance aircraft under U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command's (AFSOC) umbrella have been retired.
Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC)

Last Special Operations MC-12W Surveillance Planes Retired

The MC-12Ws were retired to make way for OA-1K light attack planes, but some worry this risks creating an aerial intelligence-gathering gap.

The U.S. Army’s Typhon ground-based missile system has, for the first time, been deployed in Japan, in what’s being seen as a clear message to China. The system, which can fire Tomahawk cruise missiles and SM-6 multi-purpose missile, is a growing feature of U.S. military activities in the Indo-Pacific region, with a first live-fire exercise having taken place in Australia in July, as you can read about here.
U.S. Army

Army Deploys Typhon Missile System To Japan For The First Time

Typhon brings the means to rapidly deploy Tomahawk cruise missiles and SM-6 missiles, giving the ability to put targets at risk up to 1,000 miles away.

F-35B Puerto Rico
F-35B

F-35s Arrive In Puerto Rico For Counter-Drug Operation

The aircraft join an armada of eight ships and 4,500 Marines deployed to fight cartels and deliver a message to Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.