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Russia

What We Know About Ukraine’s Mass Drone Assault On Russian Bombers

New details are emerging about how Ukraine pulled-off its highly-coordinated drone strike operation at multiple airbases in Russia.

Tu-160

What Ukraine’s Unprecedented Drone Attack Means For Russia’s Bomber Force

Russia is currently in no position to replace large losses of its strategic bombers and future operations will likely be impacted by force protection needs.

Russia

Russian Strategic Bombers Destroyed In Unprecedented Wide-Scale Drone Attack (Updated)

The attacks that went after the heart of Russia's strategic aviation capabilities and one arm of its nuclear deterrent should serve as a global wake-up call.

Lasers

Chinese Laser Weapon Is Claimed To Be In Russian Service

Video of a purported Chinese laser system in use by Russia appears extremely similar to one Beijing has already provided Iran.

J-36

China’s J-36 Very Heavy Stealth Tactical Jet Photographed Head-On For First Time

The imagery underscores just how large the J-36 is and all but confirms it features a side-by-side crew arrangement under a huge bubble canopy.

Bunker Talk

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

Everyone is welcome as long as it's less than three people.

Russian Air Force

Weaponized Russian Jet-Powered Target Drone Shot Down Over Black Sea: Ukraine

Russia's purported conversion of target drones into strike weapons or decoys isn't much of a surprise.

F-15

F-15E Armed With Drone Killing Laser-Guided Rockets Appears In Middle East

With 42 rockets and eight missiles, an F-15E now has 50 air-to-air engagement opportunities, not including its gun.

F-35

Trump Offers F-47 Sixth-Gen Fighter To Japan: Reports

Fears about delays to the Global Combat Air Program appear to be pushing Japan toward considering alternatives, including more F-35s.

F-16

What We Just Learned A More Advanced “Ferrari” F-35 Could Include

Pilot optional capability, new coatings, and significant airframe changes could go into a 'fifth-gen-plus' F-35, but many questions remain.

China

Taiwan To Hold Major Drone Boat Test Exercise As It Falls Behind In Fielding This Critical Capability

A demonstration set for next month seeks to help shape Taiwan's future sea drone plans.

Airborne Radar

Army To Retire All Of Its Turboprop Surveillance Planes By The End Of The Year

The Army is buying new business jets for aerial surveillance, but may only get six of them after ditching its much larger fleet of turboprops.

Lasers

Israel’s Iron Beam Laser Air Defense System Has Downed Enemy Drones

The high-power laser is the latest addition to Israel’s densely-layered air and missile defense array.

E-7

Saab GlobalEye Set To Challenge Boeing E-7 As Canada’s New Radar Plane

Saab hopes that its Canadian bizjet-based offering will edge out rival Boeing, which seems like a real possibility amid political tensions with the United States.

FIM-92 Stinger

Everything We Learned About Lockheed’s QuadStar Missile Aimed At Replacing FIM-92 Stingers

Lockheed's QuadStar and a design from Raytheon are vying to win the Army's Next-Generation Short-Range Interceptor competition.

Russia

Inside Ukraine’s Fiber-Optic Drone War

Ukrainian commander gives us new details on the advantages and limitations of using fiber optic cables to control FPV attack drones.

F-4

F-4 Phantoms Sought By Private Space Launch Company Starfighters International

The ex-South Korean F-4s would be used to launch small satellites into orbit in a far more flexible manner than what's currently offered.

Avenger

Hybrid-Electric GHOST Strike-Recon Drone In The Works For USAF

General Atomics, which previously talked openly about work on stealthy hybrid-electric drones, received a nearly $100 million GHOST contract.

Helicopters

Claims Swirl Over Supposed Ukrainian Attack On Putin’s Helicopter

While no one disputes Putin was in Kursk on May 20th, what happened or didn't happen while he was there is a major point of contention.

Drones

First Flight For Quarterhorse Prototype That Aims To Lead To A Reusable Hypersonic Jet

The first flying Quarterhorse is the next step in an ambitious program to test high-speed and hypersonic reusable aircraft designs.