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Loyal Wingman

The Rise Of X-BAT

Shield AI's highly ambitious plan to disrupt the autonomous combat aircraft market with its VTOL stealth drone.

U.S. Space Force

Lockheed To Test Golden Dome Space-Based Missile Interceptor In Orbit By 2028

Space-based interceptors are a key part of the Golden Dome missile defense vision, but are also one of its most challenging.

Frigates

Singapore Launches Its Biggest And Most Capable Warship Ever

Planned as hybrid frigates and drone motherships, the Multi-Role Combat Vessels will be able to project naval power further, and for longer, than previous Singaporean warships.

T-45

Walk-Around Tour Of Beechcraft’s M-346 That’s Vying To Become The Navy’s Next Jet Trainer

We got a close look at the M-346, which Textron and Leonardo have teamed up to offer the Navy as a replacement for the T-45 Goshawk.

Gripen

Sweden Pushes Ahead With Future Fighter Program

Crewed or uncrewed, or both, Sweden’s next-generation air combat program just got an important boost.

Anti-Ship Cruise Missile

Venezuela’s Supersonic Anti-Ship Missiles Are A Real Threat To American Warships

Fired by Su-30MK2V Flankers, the Russian-supplied Kh-31 anti-ship missiles are still a danger to U.S. warships operating near Venezuelan shores.

F/A-18E/F

Troubled Infrared Pod For Navy Super Hornets Gets New Vote Of Confidence

Lockheed Martin has secured a deal for full-rate production of IRST21 sensors to go into Navy pods that have suffered reliability and other integration issues.

UCAVs

China’s Huge ‘GJ-X’ Stealth Drone Appears To Have Been Spotted In The Air For The First Time

The massive 'cranked kite' planform flying-wing was first spotted on the runway at China's drone test base near Malan just a couple of months ago.

Bunker Talk

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

It's like living in a submarine, but you are going nowhere.

Air

Soviets Tested ICBM Silo Defense System That Showered Incoming Warheads With Clouds Of Metal Darts

Russia got as far as testing the terminal hard-kill active protection-like system for protecting its ICBMs from incoming ballistic missile barrages.

Loyal Wingman

U.S. Army’s Vision For Loyal Wingman Drones To Fly With Its Helicopters Is Taking Shape

The Army is following the other services' Collaborative Combat Aircraft efforts as it looks to team its rotorcraft with highly autonomous drones.

XQ-58

Ragnarok Mini-Cruise Missile With Big Range Targets $150K Price Tag (Updated)

Kratos has unveiled its low-cost cruise missile that it says can fly a whopping 500 nautical miles while carrying an 80-pound payload.

Air

Army “Absolutely Needs” Drones Like Russia’s Shahed-136: 25th Infantry Division Commander

The commanding general of the Hawaii-based 25th Infantry Division is the latest U.S. Army senior officer to push for long-range one-way attack drones.

U.S. Army

New Surface-To-Air Missile Enters Army Mid-Tier Air Defense Competition

The Army is seeking to expand the capabilities of the Enduring Shield system, which currently fires AIM-9X Sidewinders.

Helicopters

The Lessons U.S. Army Aviation Is Learning From The War In Ukraine

U.S. Army general tells us how the war in Ukraine has changed Army aviation's future and what lessons are best left unheeded.

B-52

B-52 Bombers Just Flew For Hours Off Venezuela’s Coast (Updated)

The B-52 sorties are a major show of force aimed at Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro as U.S. forces further step up operations in the Caribbean.

C-32

C-32A Carrying Hegseth Makes Emergency Landing In England After Rapid Descent

The head of the Pentagon was heading back to Washington from a NATO conference in Brussels when the emergency was declared.

Leonardo DRS Spells Out Its Latest Approach To Counter-UAS For The U.S. Army

Branded Content: The Air Defense Light Variant packs layered counter-UAS and short-range air defense capabilities into a highly mobile JLTV.

M1 Abrams

M1E3 Abrams Next-Gen Tank “Pre-Prototype” To Be Delivered By End Of Year

The Army wants a platoon of prototypes very quickly to prove out its lighter-weight hybrid-electric Abrams tank concept.

Mojave Drone Walk-Around Tour

Branded Content: We got all the details on Mojave, and the Gray Eagle STOL program it's leading into, from General Atomics at AUSA.