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F-35A

F-35A Joint Strike Fighters Deploying To Caribbean (Updated)

The F-35s from the Vermont Air National Guard will join the growing U.S. force massed in the Caribbean aimed largely at the Maduro regime.

Unmanned

China’s High-Flying Swarm Mothership Drone Has Flown

The Jiutian is a heavy lifter with a large modular payload area that could be used for many missions, including the delivery of swarms of smaller drones.

U.S. Navy

Crew Optional Designs Could Be Barred By Law From Navy’s Drone Ship Program

Congress's annual defense policy bill includes a major restriction on the Navy's Modular Surface Attack Craft program plans.

Unmanned

American-Made Shahed-136 Kamikaze Drone Clones Being Tested By Marines

It's increasingly clear that the Pentagon has big hopes for LUCAS, ones that will likely span the services.

Ukrainian Army

If Zelensky’s Claim Of Using Homegrown Ballistic Missile For First Time Is True, It’s A Big Deal

Ukraine has long pined for a missile of its own of this kind to provide a potent means of striking targets deep inside Russia without restrictions.

EA-18G

EA-18G Growlers Deploying To Puerto Rico An Indicator Of What’s To Come (Updated)

The Growlers are not a standard show of force, with the jets offering capabilities that would be key in any future strikes in the region.

MiG-29

Poland’s Last MiG-29 Fulcrums Being Lined Up For Transfer To Ukraine

Poland plans to hand over its final MiG-29s to Ukraine, with drone and missile technology heading in the other direction.

M1 Abrams

M1 Abrams Tank Armed With Switchblade Drones Tested By Army

Loitering munitions are already revolutionizing the battlefield, and the U.S. Army is finally testing launching them from its main battle tank.

H-6 Bomber

Joint Chinese-Russian Bomber Patrol Sends Japanese, South Korean Fighters Scrambling

The latest Chinese-Russian joint aviation exercise comes amid growing tensions between Beijing and Tokyo.

EA-18G

F/A-18 Super Hornets Were Just Tracked Flying Deep Inside The Gulf Of Venezuela (Updated)

Openly sending fighters over a gulf bounded by Venezuelan territory on three sides is a new escalation in the pressure campaign against the Maduro regime.

Russian Air Force

There’s Likely No Way Back For Russia’s An-22 Turboprop Heavy Transports After Fatal Crash

The An-22 that crashed was reportedly the last airworthy example of what was once the world’s heaviest aircraft.

MQ-28

MQ-28 Ghost Bat Has Fired An AIM-120 AMRAAM Missile

Australia has ordered another six Ghost Bat drones, as it progresses toward an operational capability for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft.

Indo-Pacific

Navy Recovers Crashed Super Hornet, Seahawk From Bottom Of South China Sea

The aircraft from the carrier USS Nimitz had both crashed on the same night within a half-hour of each other.

E-7

E-7 Wedgetail Radar Jet Program Cancellation Reversal Advances In Congress

Lawmakers are pushing back on Pentagon plans to buy E-2 Hawkeyes instead of E-7s, as the Air Force looks to push more capabilities into space.

C-130

Congress Wants To Know If The C-130 Hercules Could Be The USAF’s New ‘Doomsday Plane’

The National Defense Authorization Act demands info on what replaces the 'Looking Glass' ICBM-launching flying command post once the Navy retires the E-6B.

Russia

Shift In Ukraine Support In Congress’s Proposed Pentagon Budget

The measure, if passed, would provide only a small fraction of what Ukraine received in direct military aid under the Biden administration.

F/A-XX

In Limbo F/A-XX Naval Fighter Gets ‘Full Funding’ Nod From Congress, But There’s A Catch (Updated)

The Pentagon had wanted to put F/A-XX on ice to prioritize the USAF's new F-47 fighter, causing concerns due to the looming China threat.

Indo-Pacific

Thai F-16s Bomb Targets Along Disputed Cambodian Border

A Trump-brokered ceasefire between the two Southeast Asian countries has rapidly and violently collapsed.

Bunker Talk

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

The food won't last forever.

U.S. Navy

This Will Be The Navy’s New Medium Landing Ship

The Navy hopes to have the first Medium Landing Ship built by 2029 and avoid chronic issues that have plagued its recent shipbuilding efforts.