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Bunker Talk: Let’s Talk About All The Stories We Didn’t Report On This Week
Bunker Talk

Bunker Talk: Let’s Talk About All The Stories We Didn’t Report On This Week

We can talk about the chemical warfare, wrecked Raptors, geopolitics, torn-up treaties, strategy—you know, no big whoop.

Navy Rushes To Get Littoral Combat Ships Anti-Ship Missiles They Desperately Need (Updated)
U.S. Navy

Navy Rushes To Get Littoral Combat Ships Anti-Ship Missiles They Desperately Need (Updated)

The service is accelerating plans to give the ships more firepower, but serious questions remain about the ships' capabilities.

B-2 That Made Emergency Landing In Colorado Had Engine Out, Couldn’t Talk To Tower: Audio
B-2

B-2 That Made Emergency Landing In Colorado Had Engine Out, Couldn’t Talk To Tower: Audio

The stealth bomber—one of only 20 in existence—made an emergency landing at Colorado Springs Airport with its #4 engine offline.

Belgium Decides To Join The F-35 Club Over Competing Offers For European Fighter Jets
Europe

Belgium Decides To Join The F-35 Club Over Competing Offers For European Fighter Jets

Belgian authorities say the Joint Strike Fighters offered the best value, but NATO nuclear weapon sharing requirements may have been a factor, too.

What Pulling Out Of The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty Means And What Comes Next
NATO

What Pulling Out Of The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty Means And What Comes Next

The Russians are violating the deal, but ditching it could strain America's relations with its allies and kick off an expensive arms race.

Sky Penis Soars Again? Navy T-34 Appears To Have Made A Phallic Flight Over The Salton Sea (Updated)
U.S. Navy

Sky Penis Soars Again? Navy T-34 Appears To Have Made A Phallic Flight Over The Salton Sea (Updated)

The plane's peculiar track appears to represent a wing-borne wang.

Boeing’s Troubled New KC-46 Pegasus Tanker Just Flew Across The Pacific Ocean To Japan
KC-46

Boeing’s Troubled New KC-46 Pegasus Tanker Just Flew Across The Pacific Ocean To Japan

Just as yet another target delivery date may be emerging, the KC-46 has hopped across the Pacific to visit its first export customer.

U.S. Carrier Enters Arctic Circle For The First Time in 28 Years As New Cold War Heats Up
U.S. Navy

U.S. Carrier Enters Arctic Circle For The First Time in 28 Years As New Cold War Heats Up

The region is notorious for rapid changes in weather conditions, frigid temps, rough seas, high winds...and Russian submarines.

Navy Wants New ‘Seawolf-Like’ Attack Submarines To Challenge Russian And Chinese Threats
USS Jimmy Carter

Navy Wants New ‘Seawolf-Like’ Attack Submarines To Challenge Russian And Chinese Threats

The boats would be a key part of the service's plans to revitalize its anti-submarine capabilities, but at a price of more than $5 billion each.

U.S. To Offer Surplus Oliver Hazard Perry Class Frigates To Ukraine: Reports
Ukraine

U.S. To Offer Surplus Oliver Hazard Perry Class Frigates To Ukraine: Reports

Although far from new, the ships would offer Ukraine a huge and desperately needed boost in naval capabilities.

Canada Chooses BAE-Lockheed Proposal To Build Frigates Based On U.K.’s Type 26 Design
Canada

Canada Chooses BAE-Lockheed Proposal To Build Frigates Based On U.K.’s Type 26 Design

The Canadians have already spent more than a decade working to identify a replacement for their aging Halifax-class frigates.

Let’s Discuss The Murder Of Jamal Khashoggi And Its Geopolitical And Strategic Ramifications
Saudi Arabia

Let’s Discuss The Murder Of Jamal Khashoggi And Its Geopolitical And Strategic Ramifications

The bizarre and tragic incident is jarring, but what comes next could have dramatic implications on an entire region.

US, South Korea Cancel Another Big Combat Exercise As Ties Between Seoul and Pyongyang Grow
North Korea

US, South Korea Cancel Another Big Combat Exercise As Ties Between Seoul and Pyongyang Grow

Canceling exercises could help negotiations with the North moving forward, but also could hurt the readiness of US and South Korean forces.

Japan Is Taking A Two-Step Approach To Fielding Its First Operational Hypersonic Weapons
Japan

Japan Is Taking A Two-Step Approach To Fielding Its First Operational Hypersonic Weapons

The Japanese are rushing to develop the weapons amid concerns about increasing Chinese encroachment on their territorial claims.

U.S. General Narrowly Escapes Brazen Taliban Attack, But It’s Still A Huge Blow To War Effort
U.S. Army

U.S. General Narrowly Escapes Brazen Taliban Attack, But It’s Still A Huge Blow To War Effort

The attack is both devastating and embarrassing for the Afghan and U.S. governments, who insist the insurgents are losing the initiative.

USAF Frantically Stole Parts From One RC-135 To Get Another Airborne To Spy On A Missile Launch
RC-135

USAF Frantically Stole Parts From One RC-135 To Get Another Airborne To Spy On A Missile Launch

The swap meant the missile monitoring mission went ahead as planned, but it forced the service to delay another intelligence-gathering sortie.

Lt. Col. Seth ‘Jethro’ Nehring Was USAF F-15 Pilot Who Died In Su-27 Crash In Ukraine
F-15

Lt. Col. Seth ‘Jethro’ Nehring Was USAF F-15 Pilot Who Died In Su-27 Crash In Ukraine

Members of the California Air National Guard's 144th Fighter Wing were in Ukraine for the first time ever to train when the accident happened.

Russia Rages At Pentagon Plans To Build U.S. Made Derivatives of Soviet-Era Small Arms
Russia

Russia Rages At Pentagon Plans To Build U.S. Made Derivatives of Soviet-Era Small Arms

The United States sends these weapons to allies and uses them for its own purposes, but is tired of relying on foreign suppliers.

Ukrainian Su-27UB Flanker Crashes, Reportedly Killing Ukrainian and U.S. Pilots Onboard (Updated)
Ukraine

Ukrainian Su-27UB Flanker Crashes, Reportedly Killing Ukrainian and U.S. Pilots Onboard (Updated)

The jet had been taking part in the Clear Sky 2018 multi-national training exercise which included F-15C/Ds from the California Air National Guard.

UAE Contracted An American Hit Squad to Kill Political Figures And More in Yemen
UAE

UAE Contracted An American Hit Squad to Kill Political Figures And More in Yemen

The revelations expose a worrying new dimension to the conflict in Yemen and could have consequences outside that country.