![Lockheed Martin has unveiled a new version of its Sniper targeting pod with added networking capabilities primarily designed to enable new connectivity between fourth-generation fighters and stealthy F-35s, but which also offers the ability to create localized 'kill webs' with various assets in the air and on the ground.](https://www.twz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/networked-sniper-pod-kill-webs.jpg?w=1589)
Networked Sniper Pod Will Let 4th-Generation Fighters Create ‘Kill Webs’ With F-35s
The new Sniper pod will let F-35s provide targeting data to ground-based missiles and create an active link with 4th-generation fighters.
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![NATO has selected AIrbus, Leonardo and Lockheed Martin Sikorsky to provide concept studies for the Next Generation Rotor Craft.](https://www.twz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Airbus-racer.jpg?w=800)
NATO Selects Three Companies For Next-Generation Rotorcraft Concept Study
Airbus Helicopters, Lockheed Martin Sikorsky, and Leonardo are now on contract to help NATO pick a new helicopter.
![A new picture offering the best look to date at a Ukrainian MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter armed with GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bombs has disclosed the use of a special pylon with a mysterious feature in front.](https://www.twz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/mig-29-ukraine-sdb-mystery-pylon.jpg?w=800)
First Look At Mystery Weapon Pylon Ukrainian MiG-29s Use To Carry Small Diameter Bombs
A previously unseen pylon on an SDB-armed MiG-29 has a fairing in front that might be part of an electronic countermeasures suite.
![The U.S. Air Force is planning to retire its remaining RQ-4 Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance drones by the end of the 2027 Fiscal Year. The service says it has become clear that the RQ-4s would be overly vulnerable in any future conflict against a peer or near-peer adversary, but it’s not clear what aircraft (or other assets) might fill the resulting capability gap. This only adds to the growing evidence that a top-secret, high-flying, stealth spy drone, commonly referred to as the RQ-180, or variants or derivatives thereof, is getting close to entering service, if it isn’t already being employed operationally on some level.](https://www.twz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RQ-180_topshot.jpg?w=800)
Air Force Chief Hints At Existence Of Clandestine Spy Aircraft
The statement from Secretary Frank Kendall again suggests that the Air Force has advanced airborne reconnaissance capabilities waiting in the wings.
![Russia is gaining ground in its effort to capture the key logistics hub of Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast.](https://www.twz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ukraine-trench.jpg?w=800)
Ukraine Situation Report: Russia Advancing Toward Key Logistics Hub
The Donetsk Oblast city of Pokrovsk, a bulwark against a Ukrainian collapse in the region, is a main target of Russian forces.
![Greece has made good on its promise to buy F-35 stealth fighters, confirming today that it will buy an initial batch of 20 of the aircraft at a cost of around $3.5 billion. The decision is an important step in the modernization of the Hellenic Air Force, which has recently inducted other new combat aircraft types, while plans to retire older jets have also been unveiled. The move also has a particular resonance in terms of Greece’s tense relations with regional rival Turkey, which was booted out of the F-35 program, after buying Russian-made S-400 air defense systems.](https://www.twz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Hellenic-Air-Force-F-35.jpg?w=800)
Greece Buying F-35s Widens Qualitative Gap With Turkey
F-35s will fly alongside Rafales and F-16s in a modernized Hellenic Air Force.
![US Special Operations Command has been tasked to lead the so-called "left-of-launch" fight against drones before they can get airborne or maybe are even produced in the first place.](https://www.twz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/socom-left-of-launch-counter-drone-ops.jpg?w=800)
Destroying Drones Before Launch Is Becoming A Major Mission For U.S. Special Operators
U.S. special operators might be sent to interdict drone components and sabotage production, as well as raid launch sites.
![A jet ski loaded with explosives, and presumed to be of Ukrainian origin, has been found off the Turkish coast near Istanbul. The modified jet ski likely joins a growing fleet of Ukrainian kamikaze drone boats that have been notably effective in disrupting Russian Navy activities in the Black Sea, in the process sinking or damaging multiple warships.](https://www.twz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Jet-ski-drone-turkey.jpg?w=800)
Explosives-Packed Jet Ski Drone Appears Off Turkish Coast
The adapted commercial jet ski bears many of the hallmarks of Ukraine’s growing fleet of kamikaze drone boats.
![F-15EX and J16, both two seaters, but one uses the second crewman in a different capacity than the traditional weapon system officer role.](https://www.twz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/j16-F15eX-wso.jpg?w=800)
USAF Should Look At China’s Future Multi-Crew Fighter Model For F-15EX
The F-15EX's currently empty rear cockpit needs to be taken advantage of by adding a new kind of second crewmen, an Air Mission Commanding Officer.
![Chinese H-6-series aircraft have flown off the coast of Alaska for what appears to be the first time in an important show of force along with Russian Tu-95 Bear bombers.](https://www.twz.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/H6-Alaska.jpg?w=800)
Chinese H-6 Missile Carrier Jets Appear For The First Time Off Alaska (Updated)
The arrival of Chinese H-6s off American shores is a major, but not unexpected landmark in China's power projection evolution.
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