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Navy’s Future E-130J TACAMO ‘Doomsday Plane’ Seen In New Rendering
C-130

Navy’s Future E-130J TACAMO ‘Doomsday Plane’ Seen In New Rendering

The Navy has awarded a nearly $3.5B contract to Northrop Grumman to lead the work on crafting its next 'Doomsday planes.'

PLA Navy is expanding its reach warns the DoD.
China

Pentagon Warns Of China’s Increasing Capacity To Project Naval Power Far From Home

Increasingly advanced warships, new basing, and a massive shipbuilding industry are giving China's navy the ability to conduct ambitious, longer-range operations.

Bill Kennedy, 436th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron transit alert, marshals a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Dover Air Force Base, Del., April 26, 2015. The aircraft is loaded with 69 members of the Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue Team, their supplies and equipment, and six K-9s, to assist Nepal with rescue operations after the country was struck by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake.
C-17

New Jersey Base Confirms Multiple Past Drone Incursions… By Contraband Smugglers

Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst has provided details of how it has dealt with persistent drone problems involving contraband smuggling.

Swedish defense firm Saab has presented concepts for a potential new-generation crewed fighter and a series of drones that would be intended to work alongside it.
Gripen

These Are Saab’s Concepts For Its Next Generation Fighter, Drones

Saab is hoping to draw upon “common DNA” to develop a family of crewed and uncrewed future combat aircraft.

China’s H-20 Stealth Bomber Unlikely To ‘Debut’ Until 2030s, According To U.S. Intel
H-20

China’s H-20 Stealth Bomber Unlikely To ‘Debut’ Until 2030s, According To U.S. Intel

China also continues to pursue a smaller regional stealth bomber aircraft in parallel to the H-20 program.

Top Pentagon officials offered new insights into the state of play on the battlefield, the role of North Korean troops there and how it will be paid for.
North Korea

Pentagon’s Assessment Of North Koreans Fighting In Kursk, Rate At Which Ukraine Is Losing Ground

Top Pentagon officials offered their latest insights into the state of the conflict and how the U.S. will help fund it until Trump takes office.

GAO says the cruiser modernization effort was terribly ran and brought with issues.
U.S. Navy

Navy’s Cruiser Modernization A Lesson In How Not To Run Such A Program: GAO Report

For the cost of adding relatively short extra service life to its three modernized cruisers, the Navy could have nearly bought two brand-new destroyers.

New satellite imagery shows the continued withdrawal of Russian forces from its Khmeimim Air Base in Syria. Russia is also massing units at its Tartus naval base in the country, which also points to plans for their impending departure.
Syria

Satellite Imagery Shows Ramp-Up In Russian Forces Massing At Bases In Syria For Withdrawal

Russia appears to be accelerating its pull-out of forces and materiel from Syria with the final fate of critical bases still in question.

A new targeted strike involving the use of the secretive AGM-114R9X Hellfire missile, which features an array of pop-out sword-like blades rather than a traditional high-explosive warhead, looks to have occurred in northwestern Syria.
AGM-114 Hellfire

Secretive Bladed AGM-114R9X Hellfire Missile Looks To Have Reemerged In New Syria Strike

U.S. forces have been taking advantage of Syria's newly permissive airspace to launch strikes amid concerns about resurgent terror groups.

Camp Pendleton drone incursions have occurred in recent days.
U.S. Homeland

Multiple Drone Incursions Confirmed Over Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton (Updated)

This is the first Marine Corps facility to acknowledge drone incursions during the recent wave of sightings at bases across the country.

A view of the scene after Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, chief of Russia's Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Defense Troops, and his assistant were killed in an explosion in Moscow, Russia on December 17, 2024. The blast was caused by an explosive device planted in an electric scooter, Svetlana Petrenko, spokesperson for the Russian Investigative Committee, said in a video statement on Telegram.
Nuclear

Russian General Accused Of Using Chemical Weapons Assassinated By Ukraine

Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov was killed one day after Ukrainian state prosecutors charged him in absentia with the alleged use of chemical weapons in Ukraine.

There is growing, but still circumstantial evidence that a Syrian Airlines Il-76 Candid cargo plane currently at Russia's Khmeimim Air Base in Syria is one that appeared to go missing in the final chaotic moments of Bashar Al Assad's regime.
Il-76

The Mystery Of The Syrian IL-76 Cargo Jet That Went Missing As Assad Fled

The aircraft was tracked after leaving Damascus entering into a dive over western Syria before disappearing on the night Assad's regime fell.

North Korean Troops in Kursk, Russia are now fighting more actively on the front.
North Korea

North Korean Troops Launched Large-Scale Combat Operations In Kursk: Officials

Months after arriving in Russia, the North Koreans are now taking on a larger role in defending against Ukraine's Kursk invasion.

The Russian Khmeimim Air Base in Jabla in Latakia, Syria on December 15, 2024. With the Baath regime's collapse, Russia continued to transfer its troops from Damascus, Homs and other cities across Syria to the base.
Syria

Future Of Russia’s Bases In Syria Remains In Flux, Libya Possible Alternative

As Russian forces continue to move out of their two major bases on the coast of Syria, it’s unclear whether the move is permanent or not.

A video and pictures have emerged showing testing of Chinese high-flying and high-speed uncrewed air vehicles related to a design called MD-22, including aerial releases from a TB-001 drone and a high-altitude balloon.
Air-Launched Hypersonic Missiles

China Launches Hypersonic Test Planes From Drones, Balloons

The vehicle designs are related to China's MD-22 hypersonic military aircraft concept that emerged in 2022.

Taiwan has received its first batch of M1A2T Abrams main battle tanks as it continues its drive to modernize its armed forces, which face an expanding military threat from Beijing. While the upgrade for the Republic of China Army (ROCA) — which was still operating 1950s-era M41A3 Walker Bulldog light tanks until the last couple of years — is obvious, there are still questions over how suitable the big and heavy Abrams is for the island’s defensive requirements.
M1 Abrams

M1A2 Abrams Tanks Arrive In Taiwan

The latest M1 Abrams version finally gives Taiwan a modern tank, but there are questions about its suitability for the island’s unique needs.

Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio is the latest U.S. military installation to report drone overflights.
U.S. Air Force

Drone Incursions Closed Wright-Patterson Air Force Base’s Airspace Friday Night

Wright-Patterson AFB, a high-profile base that's home to critical Air Force units, is the latest installation to deal with mysterious drones.

Solid Steel Bunker Door - Access to an abandoned bunker
Bunker Talk

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

Bunker door was stuck again, now it's open.

A recently released video from the cockpit of a Ukrainian Air Force Su-27 Flanker provides an unprecedented close-quarters view of the fighter lobbing GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bombs (SDB) toward a Russian target.
Su-27

Cockpit Video Of Ukrainian Su-27 Lobbing GBU-39 Small Diameter Bombs

The Flanker popped up from low altitude to launch a salvo of the U.S.-supplied precision-guided glide munitions against a Russian target.

Yachts are increasingly getting counter-drone systems
Naval Electronic Warfare

Counter-Drone Systems For Yachts Are Growing In Popularity

The growing threat of surveillance and even attacks by drones are pushing the richest among us to equip their yachts with counter-drone tech.