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Trump’s Threat To Strike Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain Bunker’s “Front Door” Underscores Targeting Challenges
Iran

Trump’s Threat To Strike Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain Bunker’s “Front Door” Underscores Targeting Challenges

Pickaxe Mountain is Iran's hardest-to-reach facility and Trump saying he may take a "shot right in the front door" wasn't likely just small talk.

Canada’s Bombardier Defense announced today that its Global 6500 had been selected for South Korea’s second special mission aircraft program. The aircraft have been acquired by Korean Air, which will modify them for the electronic warfare role. Specifically, these will be standoff jammer (SOJ) aircraft, intended to disrupt enemy electromagnetic signals from a safe distance.
Republic of Korea Air Force

South Korea To Get Huge Electronic Attack Boost With Global 6500 Jammer Jets

Korean Air will modify the two Global 6500 jets, drastically enhancing Seoul’s sovereign electronic warfare capability.

A scathing new War Department Inspector General's report found several problems at the General Dynamics munitions plant in Mesquite, Texas.
Artillery

New $500M Artillery Shell Plant Failed To Produce Any 155mm Parts

A scathing new Pentagon Inspector General report found problems at the plant delayed the Army's 100,000 round-per-month goal.

TWZ’s weekly carrier tracker monitoring America’s flattop fleet, including deployed Carrier Strike Groups (CSG) and Amphibious Ready Groups (ARG)
Carrier Tracker

Where Are The Aircraft Carriers: July 13, 2026

The blockade is back on tomorrow with more than 20 U.S. Navy ships on station and available in the region.

French President Emmanuel Macron says Ukraine is in line to get a license to produce Aster 30 missiles domestically.
Land-Based Ballistic Missile Defense

Ukraine Getting License To Build Aster 30 Anti-Missile Interceptors

French approval for Ukraine to build Aster 30s follows a similar announcement from President Trump about Patriot interceptors.

The Directorate General of Armaments (DGA), the French government defense procurement and technology agency, announced the successful integration of the 68mm laser-guided rockets on the Rafale. The tests began in February.
Rafale

Rafale Fighter Adds Cheap Drone Killing Rocket To Its Armory

France has integrated laser-guided 68mm rockets onto its fighter, giving it a far cheaper option for Shahed-type threats.

The U.S. Army has announced that its future fleet of ME-11B High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES) aircraft will be based at Fort Hood in Texas.
Q-1

New Jets, Drones Will Transform Fort Hood Into Army’s Aerial Intel Hub

The Army's aerial reconnaissance forces are at a watershed moment after the service ditched its fleet of turboprop surveillance aircraft.

A robotic boat glides through the darkness, reaches an occupied shoreline, and releases an armed ground robot that rolls inland to fight without a single soldier setting foot on the beach. While this sounds like a scene from a future war, it recently played out in southern Ukraine, reflecting Kyiv’s rapid embrace of uncrewed systems as it seeks to counter Russia's invasion. Described as the first of its kind anywhere in the world, the operation took place on the Russian-occupied Kinburn Spit in Ukraine's southern Mykolaiv region, according to Ukraine’s 123rd Separate Territorial Defense Brigade, which carried it out on an unspecified recent date.
Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs)

Ukraine Lands Armed Robot Ashore In Russian-Held Territory Via Drone Boat

Described as a first of its kind, the mission could be a glimpse of what’s to come for amphibious operations.

The U.S. used kamikaze drones boats for the first time in combat.
Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs)

Kamikaze Drone Boats Used By U.S. In Combat For The First Time (Updated)

After being the key to Ukraine running the Black Sea Fleet out of Crimea, the Pentagon made its first kamikaze drone boat strike.

Ukraine says it has attacked nearly 50 ships in the Sea of Azov over the past five days.
Russia

Ukraine Claims Scores Of Russian Ships Struck In Sea Of Azov

The long-range drone attacks are targeting Russian oil tankers, adding to that nation's burgeoning war-induced energy woes.

Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, provides command and control of air power throughout Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and 17 other nations. The CAOC is comprised of a joint and coalition team that executes day-to-day combined air and space operations and provides rapid reaction, positive control, coordination, and de-confliction of weapon systems. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Joshua Strang)
Bunker Talk

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

It's not fear, it's patience.

The U.S. Air Force has officially decided that the B-21 Raider will be flown by a crew consisting of two pilots, just like the B-2 is today.
B-21

USAF Decides Against Flying B-21 Raiders With Just One Pilot

The Air Force has made a formal decision about how the B-21 will be crewed as it pushes to start fielding the bombers next year.

The U.S. Navy is evaluating new ways to ensure it can still conduct carrier landing touch-and-go training, at least in the virtual realm, as it moves ahead with plans to replace its T-45 Goshawk fleet.
U.S. Navy

Carrier Qualifications Still Happening For A Few Navy Fighter Pilots In Training

E-2 pilots and foreign student pilots still need to do carrier qualifications, but huge changes to the naval aviation training landscape are looming.

Russian Ilyushin Il-76, carrying the first batch of equipment of S-400 missile defense system, arrives at Murted Air Base in Ankara, Turkey on July 12, 2019 as S-400 hardware deployment started. Following protracted efforts to purchase an air defense system from the U.S. with no success, Ankara signed the supply contract in April 2017 to purchase the Russian S-400s.
F-35

Russia Confirms Talks With Turkey Over Fate Of S-400s Amid F-35 Push

Ankara is reportedly eyeing the transfer of the Russian-made SAM systems to a Gulf country in a bid to have Washington lift its F-35 embargo.

Ten F-22 Raptors arrived at RAF Fairford on Friday from Ovda Air Base in Israel, where they took part in Operation Epic Fury.
F-22

F-22 Raptors Arrive In England After Deployment To Israel For Iran War

The F-22s are part of a larger retrograde of airpower out of the CENTCOM region while at the same time the prospects of renewed fighting grow.

The U.S. Navy's Nimitz class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has been underway for 210 straight days – well over half a year – in support of Operation Epic Fury and the subsequent blockade of Iran.
U.S. Navy

Supercarrier USS Abraham Lincoln Passes 200 Consecutive Days At Sea Mark

The flagship of Carrier Strike Group 3, which is currently operating in the Middle East, left port in Guam in December 2025.

Apparently for the first time, an image has appeared showing a Chinese J-15T carrier-based fighter launching while carrying four anti-ship missiles. The photo offers the clearest indication so far that China’s rapidly evolving carrier force is overcoming one of its longstanding operational constraints: getting heavily loaded strike fighters airborne from its flattops.
People's Liberation Army Navy (China)

Chinese J-15 Fighter Seen Launching From A Carrier With Four Anti-Ship Missiles For First Time

The catapult-equipped Fujian is now unlocking the J-15T’s strike potential.

Why Does The F-47’s Design Look So Different Than What Many Expected?
F-47

Why Does The F-47’s Design Look So Different Than What Many Expected?

Most sixth-gen fighter concepts have been tailless deltas, and China is pursuing that planform, but Boeing's F-47 went a very different direction.

A Tomahawk cruise missile flies toward Iraq after being launched from the AEGIS guided missile cruiser USS San Jacinto March 25, 2003 in the Red Sea.
Land

Germany To Buy Ground-Launched Tomahawk Missiles

The planned purchase marks a major shift in NATO‘s conventional strike posture as allies respond to the threat from Russia.

Strikes on Iran as exchanges of fire enters third day after breaking ceasefire.
Iran

Renewed Attacks Between U.S. And Iran Stretch Into Third Day (Updated)

The future of U.S.-Iranian peace talks remains very uncertain after a crescendo of tit-for-tat strikes.