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SUMY, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 26: A destroyed car stands in a parking lot after a Russian missile attack on November 26, 2024 in Sumy, Ukraine. According to the acting mayor of Sumy, Artem Kobzar, the Russian army attacked the city with a missile. As a result of the strike, a residential multi-storey building was damaged and a parking lot was destroyed.
Ukrainian Air Force

Russia Launched The Largest Drone Attack On Ukraine Of The War

As most of Ukraine was under air raid warning, Russia vowed it is planning a response to ATACMS attacks in the Kursk region.

Still unidentified drones continue to be spotted around air bases in the United Kingdom that host American forces.
U.S. Air Force

British Troops Reinforce USAF Airbases Amid Mysterious Drone Incursions: Reports (Updated)

Unidentified drones continue to be spotted flying around a trio of airbases in the United Kingdom resulting in a growing response in manpower and equipment.

A U.S. Army High Mobility Rocket System (HIMARS).
China

Marine HIMARS Deployment To Southern Japanese Islands During Taiwan Crisis Detailed In Report

The U.S. Army's Multi-Domain Task Force and its long-range missiles would also purportedly deploy to the Philippines.

Ukraine used ATACMS missiles to hit an airbase in Russia for the first time.
Russia

ATACMS Hit Airfield In Russia For The First Time

Satellite imagery is inconclusive as to what damage was inflicted on the base, which no longer hosts large contingents of Russian aircraft.

An AH-64 helicopter hovers during a military drill July 28, 2003 in Yeounchun, South Korea. About 37,000 U.S. troops are stationed in South Korea under a security alliance forged after the 1950-53 Korean War.
AH-64

AH-64 Apache To Be Tested With Wing-Mounted AESA Radar

The U.S. Army is looking for an active electronically scanned array radar small enough to fit under the Apache's stub wing.

Mystery drones have appeared once again near US bases in the UK.
United Kingdom

Mysterious Drones Have Descended Again On U.S. Air Bases In The United Kingdom (Updated)

We also now know the drone incursions last week happened over multiple bases, not just RAF Lakenheath.

The U.S. Army has received the first of its new High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES) aircraft, based on the Bombardier Global 6500 bizjet. Set to supersede a varied fleet of turboprop intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms, HADES will fly higher, faster, and farther, and for longer periods, while carrying a bigger sensor payload.
Airborne Sensors

Army Gets Its First HADES Airborne Reconnaissance Jet

The Global 6500-based aircraft will be the first of a new line of crewed “deep sensing” intelligence-gathering platforms for the U.S. Army.

Ukraine has lost nearly half the territory it captured in Russia's Kursk Oblast.
Russia

Ukraine Lost Nearly Half The Territory It Captured In Russia: Report

Ukraine Situation Report: Ukraine's President Zelensky said Russia is trying to push his forces out of Kursk before Trump returns to the White House.

The U.S. Air Force staffs missile silos with officers ready to launch nuclear weapons in case of an attack on the United States.
Bunker Talk

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

Enjoy a cozy chat with friends.

A human controller flying in an L-39 Albatros jet ordered a pair of L-29 Delfin jets with artificial intelligence (AI) driven flight technology acting as surrogates for advanced drones to engage simulated enemy fighters in a series of recent flight tests.
Loyal Wingman

Skunk Works Tests See AI-Enabled L-29 Jets Fly Mock Air-To-Air Mission On Orders From Aerial Controller

Lockheed's test highlights ongoing work not just on expanding autonomous air combat drone capabilities, but how humans will interface with them.

U.S. Marine Corps
Sniper Rifles

Marines’ New Sniper Rifle Declared Fully Operational A Year Early

The versatile new rifle is based off a design adopted by U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in recent years.

An unspecified number of drones were spotted over RAF Lakenheath in England
Royal Air Force

Multiple Drone Incursions Just Occurred Over USAF Fighter Base In England

This is the latest incident involving groups of drones flying over sensitive U.S. military facilities.

Anti-aircraft missile system S-400 parade on Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square during the Victory Day ceremony devoted to the 71th anniversary of the end of World War II in St.Petersburg on May 9, 2016.
S-400

North Korea Getting New Air Defenses In Return For Supporting Russia In Ukraine: Official

Advanced surface-to-air missiles may be the first major Russian arms headed to North Korea in return for its support in the war in Ukraine.

While it has turned out that the RS-26-based Oreshnik that Russia fired at Ukraine was not a conventionally-armed ICBM, it still highlights the very real interest in, if not more active development and even potential fielding of, a weapon of that kind globally.
Tactical Ballistic Missiles

Conventionally Armed ICBM Concept Highlighted By Unprecedented Russian Missile Attack On Ukraine

Russia did not technically use an ICBM with conventional warheads to attack Ukraine, but it remains a weapon that could emerge globally.

SULYHIVKA, UKRAINE - MARCH 26: Emergency demining team carries out demining and destruction of explosives in Sulyhivka, Ukraine on March 26, 2024. A demining team works to destroy mines and other explosives in a remote area of the Kharkiv region. According to experts, it may take two or three years to completely clear this small area of explosives.
Russia

Anti-Personnel Landmines Included In U.S. Aid Package To Ukraine For First Time

The controversial landmines are being provided to Ukraine to help contain so-called Russian "meat wave" assaults.

A RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile vehicle during the rehearsals for the Victory Day Military Parade at the polygon, on April 18, 2022 in Alabino, outside of Moscow, Russia. About 12,000 soldiers and officers are expected to take pat at the Red Square Victory Day Military Parade, planned on May 9.
MRBMs/IRBMs

The Story Of Russia’s Secretive RS-26 Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile

The Oreshnik missile that Russia used today in Ukraine has roots in the supposedly defunct RS-26 Rubezh ballistic missile program.

Submarine launches tomahawk cruise missile.
Nuclear Attack Submarines (SSNs)

Pros And Cons Of The Navy’s Controversial Submarine-Launched Nuclear Cruise Missile

Will Trump returning to the White House put wind in the sails of the nuclear-tipped cruise missile program he started?

Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country's forces fired a previously unknown medium-range hypersonic missile called Oreshnik at Ukraine earlier today.
Land-Based Ballistic Missile Defense

Russia’s Experimental Ballistic Missile Used To Strike Ukraine Is Based On The RS-26 Rubezh

Details are emerging about Russia's new 'Oreshnik' ballistic missile and its genesis.

Ukraine claims Russia fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at the city of Dmipro.
Russia

Russia’s Unprecedented Ballistic Missile Attack On Ukraine: What We Know

Russia has used a more capable ballistic missile than ever before to strike Ukraine with what appear to be multiple warheads.

Ukraine's domestically developed Dovbush T10 drone has taken on a new role acting as a mothership for first-person view (FPV) kamikaze quadcopters.
Loitering Munitions

Watch A Ukrainian Uncrewed Aerial Mothership Launch Kamikaze Drones

Using uncrewed aerial platforms to launch and provide connectivity for first-person view drones help overcome many of the latter's deficiencies.