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China

China’s Mysterious Spoofed GPS “Crop Circle” Has Something Interesting At Its Center

Something appears to be physically at the center of these anomalies and it isn't small.

China

New Type Of GPS Spoofing Attack In China Creates “Crop Circles” Of False Location Data

The eerie patterns are unlike anything experts have seen in previous GPS spoofing incidents, which have typically pointed to a single location.

Australia

Boeing Conducts Flight Test Of Surrogate Drones For Australia’s Loyal Wingman Program

The program is using lower-end jet drones to help demonstrate the concept that will eventually use stealthy fighter-sized drones.

U.S. Homeland

New Video Offers Sweeping Views Of Secretive Tonopah Air Base

The vantage point offers a reminder of just how sprawling the installation is and the video even includes what appears to be a mystery aircraft.

UAE

Russia Says UAE Could Help Build Su-57s As Gulf Nation Puts F-35 Ambitions On Hold

The Russians need a partner to help share the costs of the Su-57 program and are offering a similar deal to other potential customers.

Hollywood

The Mandalorian Is The Star Wars You’ve Been Looking For

It's a western or samurai yarn set in the rich Star Wars universe and it gets right everything that the new sequel films get wrong.

North Korea

Kim Jong Un Oversees Huge Gathering Of His Country’s Antiquated Air Combat Force

Although the actual benefits of such a spectacle are dubious at best, six MiG-29s were seen flying in the air at the same time.

Bunker Talk

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

We can talk about mysterious egg-shaped experimental planes, laser dazzlers, geopolitics, lost missile parts—you know, no big whoop.

Russia

Watch Russian Submariners Train To Escape A Burning Submarine Through A Torpedo Tube

Russia is no stranger to submarine fires and other accidents, including a blaze on the spy sub Losharik earlier this year that killed 14.

Light Air Support

USAF May Launch New Light Attack Aircraft Tests To Explore A Requirement It Already Has

The service says it only recently learned of the demand for "armed overwatch" capability, despite years of testing light attack aircraft in this role.

Lasers

Chilean Protestors Down Drone By Dazzling It With Dozens Of Laser Pointers (Updated)

The protestors were definitely onto something as laser dazzlers are quickly becoming a major component of drone defenses.

U.S. Homeland

State Department Has A Burning Building Simulator To Prepare Staff For The Next Benghazi

Personnel practice crawling to safety through dense smoke, as strobe lights flash and a sound system blasts recordings of gunfire and crying babies.

Russia

Russia Is Eying More Armed Icebreakers After Launching Missile-Toting Arctic Patrol Ship

The Ivan Papanin, the first of the Project 23550 icebreaking warships, is our first look at Russia's specialized Arctic naval force.

Russia

This Is How The Russian Military Tests If Its Vehicles Can Stand Up To A Nuclear Blast

The giant tube-like apparatus can create blast waves that mimic a nuclear denotation and are so powerful they can literally flatten vehicles.

Israel

Intact Seeker Section From An Iron Dome Tamir Interceptor Fell Into Gaza

Losing these sensitive components could represent a huge technological loss.

CH-47

This Is Our First Look At A CH-47 Chinook With Super Powerful T408 Engines

The new engines are larger and are encased in square nacelles. The extra power could allow the Chinook to better compete with Sikorsky's CH-53K.

U.S. Air Force

Air Force Updates Massive Ordnance Penetrator Bombs Amid New Iranian Nuclear Posturing

Iran is moving toward resuming significant uranium enrichment in its Fordo facility, which would be a prime target for the MOP in a conflict.

U.S. Homeland

Check Out These Exclusive Shots Of An F-117 Stealth Jet Arriving At The Reagan Library

The F-117 will join an F-14 Tomcat, a VC-137 "Air Force One" jet, and a VH-3 "Marine One" helicopter that already call the Reagan Library home.

CH-53K

Boeing To Flight Test CH-47 With Same Monster Engines Found On Sikorsky’s New CH-53K

A CH-47 with the upgraded engines could present an all-new challenge to the troubled CH-53K.

Israel

If An Israeli Stunner Missile Really Did Fall Into Russian Hands It Is A Huge Deal

A Stunner fell into Syrian territory without self-destructing in its first combat use, now a report says the Assad regime turned it over to Russia.