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The Royal Australian Air Force, or RAAF has experimented with a new rapidly laid temporary surface, making it easier to conduct expeditionary aircraft operations, something that is of increasing relevance across the Indo-Pacific region. The trial, which used a temporary surface known as Dura-Base, involved an RAAF F-35A stealth fighter at RAAF Base Tindal, in Australia’s Northern Territory.
F-35A

Australian F-35 Tests Expeditionary Base Concept

Dura-Base matting can be used for air base repairs as well as for helping establish austere operating locations across the Pacific.

A mysterious Chinese vessel with a large open flight deck, which TWZ was first to report on, looks to have made its maiden voyage.
People's Liberation Army Navy (China)

China’s Wacky And Puzzling New Aircraft Carrier Has Set Sail

With the curious carrier now at sea, more details about its design and purpose may begin to emerge.

Ukraine's top commander says a new offensive is the only path to victory.
Russia

Ukraine’s Top Commander Wants New Counteroffensive, Says It’s The Only Path To Victory

Ukraine would face serious challenges and take on significant risks pulling off another counteroffensive.

ideos purporting to show a Ukrainian drone attack on a Russian oil refinery may actually have been of a wayward civilian An-2 biplane.
Special Operations Aviation

An-2 Biplane Caused Major Scare When Russians Thought It Was A Long-Range Kamikaze Drone

The fear that An-2s could be converted into explosives-laden, deep-penetrating drones should come as no surprise.

The German arm of the European missile house described its RCM² remote carrier (RC) as a multidomain platform that is able to perform both kinetic strike and electronic warfare (EW) jamming and decoy roles in highly contested and denied airspace.
Unmanned

This Is MBDA’s Latest Vision For Its Cruise Missile-Like RCM² ‘Remote Carrier’

Somewhere between a missile and a drone, the remote carrier has been shown launching from air, land, and sea platforms.

The Virginia-class fast attack submarine USS Minnesota (SSN 783) arrives onboard U.S. Naval Base Guam, Nov 26. Minnesota, the first Virginia-class fast-attack submarine to be forward deployed to Guam, joins four Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarines forward deployed in the Pacific. Regarded as apex predators of the sea, Guam's fast-attack submarines serve at the tip of the spear, helping to reaffirm the submarine forces' forward-deployed presence in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Justin Wolpert)
Virginia Class

Submarine Presence In Guam Gets Boost With Its First Forward-Based Virginia-Class

Stationing the USS Minnesota in Guam brings persistent, forward-based Virginia class capabilities to the Western Pacific.

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.