Read the latest articles from TWZ (Page 9)

Drones

Meet MORFIUS: The Drone Designed To Zap Other Drones

Lockheed Martin's new MORFIUS X-Rotor counter-UAS system hunts drones and can knock down dozens of them with its high power microwave payload.

Royal Australian Air Force

Australia’s MC-55 Electronic Warfare Jet Has Entered The South China Sea

The Peregrine’s first overseas deployment gives Canberra an extremely powerful new intelligence-gathering capability right in China’s backyard.

Unmanned

U.S. Not Prepared To Handle Drone Attack From Inside Homeland: NORTHCOM Deputy Commander

A top general in charge of protecting the U.S. gave a refreshingly frank but also troubling assessment of America's drone defenses.

Frigates

Poland’s Powerful New Frigate Marks Major Shift For Its Navy

The 7,700-ton Wicher signals Warsaw’s push to build a larger, much more capable fleet in the Baltic.

Anti-Satellite Capabilities

New Anti-Satellite Weapons Now Officially A Top U.S. Priority

"Our space assets need to shoot, move, and communicate just like the rest of the joint force," the head of U.S. Space Command says.

Drones

Drone Swarms Over Langley AFB Didn’t Surprise General In Charge Of NORAD

Retired General VanHerck said he warned even the Secretary of Defense that U.S. military installations were sitting ducks to such actions.

Iran

Iranian F-5s Bombing U.S. Forces In Kuwait Should Be A Wake-Up Call: Ex-USAF General

Retired NORAD commander gives new credence to the reported Iranian bombing mission and says it shows an urgent need for new thinking about air defenses.

F-15

Did Sensors On Iranian Drones Help Shoot Down F-15E?

A new account suggests Iran used drones to track the U.S. fighter and relay its position, speed, and direction to a missile team.

Space

U.S. Must Fuse Missile Warning And Defense To Defeat Future Threats: SPACECOM Deputy Commander

SPACECOM is working to dissolve traditional silos of operations and thinking in order to speed-up swatting-down increasingly complex missile threats.

War In Space

Golden Dome Missile Defense Shield At Risk Of Grinding To A Halt Due To Budget Impasse

The top officer in charge says "if they don't figure it out, there is no Golden Dome because there is no funding."

Ukrainian Army

Ukraine’s Latest Armor Donor? A Military Museum

Scouring the globe's arsenals to provide Ukraine with Soviet-designed materiel is nothing new, but sourcing systems from museums is less common.

MIM-104 Patriot

Army Downed More Than 1,400 Iranian Missiles And Drones During Epic Fury And 12-Day War

The Army's air and missile defense boss offered new context about how the service defended against Iranian threats in the two most recent Middle East conflicts.

Land-Based Ballistic Missile Defense

Hunt For New Mobile Missile Defense Radar Reinforced By Lessons From Iran War

A successor to the AN/TPY-2 radar has to be far easier to move in order to survive against the ever-growing threat of missiles and drones.

News & Features

What Do You Want From TWZ?

We want to know from all of our readers: how we are doing — so have at it!

Carrier Tracker

Where Are The Aircraft Carriers: August 11, 2026

More than 20 American warships, including two carrier groups, remain on station in the Middle East with less than a week left for negotiations under the U.S.-Iran memorandum.

U.S. Army

Avenger Surface-To-Air Missile System Protected Trump While Golfing

The danger to Trump from Iran has increased dramatically since he launched a war against that country.

Virginia Class

Navy Is Getting A Unique Virginia Class Seabed Espionage Submarine

One Block V Virginia class submarine will be unlike any other, capable of highly specialized intelligence and sabotage missions on the seafloor.

Indo-Pacific

Drone Sightings Are Happening At Diego Garcia, America’s Remote Strategic Island Outpost

The sightings highlight concerns about drone attacks from the sea, especially at a time of extreme hostility between Iran and the U.S.

E-6

Navy ‘Doomsday Plane’ Fleet To Almost Double In Size With New E-130Js

A much bigger fleet of smaller turboprop E-130Js is set to replace the smaller fleet of larger E-6B jets, but the Navy has also acknowledged risks.

Royal Navy

Chinese Components In Royal Navy’s New Drone Boat Raise Cyber Security Concerns

The issue highlights supply-chain risks amid growing concerns over Beijing’s cyber access to Western military capabilities.