The Navy retired the F-14 Tomcat from active duty in 2006, but lawmakers are once again feeling the need for speed.
The Senate recently passed the Maverick Act, which would send three retired Navy F-14 Tomcats to a museum in Alabama for preservation, with at least the ambition of getting at least one back in the air.
Sponsored by Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.), the bill would authorize the Navy Secretary to transfer the Navy’s last three surplus Tomcats to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville.

Let’s be clear: if the German high command had any respect for American generals at the outset of World War II, they would never have declared war in the first place. But as we all know, respect is earned and not issued, so it took a little time for the United States to earn respect on the battlefield.
By then, however, it was too late for Nazi Germany.
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History may remember the most audacious personalities and events, while some figures end up quietly stealing the spotlight through bravery and determination. James Doolittle was both.

This isn’t the far-right “Nazi” of the modern era: we’re talking about an AI-driven database that helps you search for Nazi Party family members by name. These are the original Nazis; the German National Socialists you see get beaten down every time you rewatch “Band of Brothers.”
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Prominent German weekly newspaper Die Zeit has taken the German Federal Archives’ entire catalog of 8.2 million NSDAP (Nazi Party) documents and used AI to make the all of the Nazi member rolls publicly searchable.

You loved them in “Top Gun.” You mourned them in Midnight Hammer. It’s been 20 years since the F-14 officially retired from American service, leaving the operational Tomcats solely on Iranian airfields.
Also Read: Aviation nerds are mourning Iran’s F-14 Tomcats
Because the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) is the F-14’s sole user, the United States has been notoriously stingy about Tomcat parts, airframes, or other components, for fear that they might end up smuggled to Iran.
No longer.
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Saab has unveiled a new Russian tank-killer round for the Carl-Gustaf M4 recoilless rifle, intended to defeat explosive reactive armour.

Patria has signed MoUs with three Czech state enterprises related to the Czech Armed Forces’ plans to acquire a new 8×8 wheeled armoured vehicle.

The Coast Guard will finally have a dedicated c

Heeeeeeeeeere we go again. Same old SIG again. Well, sort of.
On April 29, 2026, former North Myrtle Beach Police Department (NMBPD) Sgt. William Norton filed a federal lawsuit against SIG Sauer, Inc. after an incident in which he alleges his SIG M400 duty rifle accidentally discharged.
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The incident in question occurred on May 25, 2025 as Norton and other law enforcement officers responded to a mass shooting in Little River, South Carolina.

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Designed by Northrop Grumman and subsidiary Scaled Composites, the unmanned XRQ-73 features an ultra-quiet propulsion system powered by electricity from a gas turbine

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The Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles the U.S. military fired during Operation Epic Fury take months to put on contract and years to produce.Whether driven by U.S. military operations or support to partners, the challenge of quickly replenishing U.S. munitions is not new. Exquisite munitions often take an exquisite amount of time to manufacture and deliver. Defense officials, in turn, frequently want to compress that time as much as possible, seeking to restock fast and mitigate future risks.The Russo-Ukrainian War has illuminated the challenge of accomplishing this feat.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy has deployed Su-30MK2 long range fighter aircraft for operations over Huangyan Island in the South China Sea. The aircraft escorted H-6L bombers as part of a major show of force to demonstrate China’s effective jurisdiction over the island’s territorial waters and airspace, with its strategic location and disputed status making such operations strategically vital.

For nine months in 2024 and 2025, I had an additional duty — monitoring an inbox that connected potential direct commission candidates with the Army’s individual branches. I served on the Army Reserve’s senior leadership team, helping to stand up a brokerage between mid-career professionals and the decentralized branch pipelines that controlled direct commission slots.

It would be odd to see a TOC Mahal in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Often spotted at U.S. Army Combat Training Center rotations or large home-station exercises, TOC Mahals are sprawling tactical operation centers (TOCs) made from a series of connected tents, vehicles, and generators. They typically have maps posted at entrances to help people find their way through a labyrinth of desks, chairs, television screens, and cables. Most division command posts, many brigade command posts, and truly exceptional battalion command posts meet the criteria of a TOC Mahal.

The United States Air Force has deployed additional F-22 Raptor fifth generation fighter aircraft to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, just days after the deployment of F-22s to Basa Air Base in the Philippines for joint exercises with local forces simulating operations against Chinese forces.Kadena Air Base is a particularly sensitive facility due to ongoing tensions with China in the Taiwan Strait, with the Japanese island providing one of the closest locations for a potential response by Washington and Tokyo to contingencies in the area.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has notched the first flight of the XRQ-73, a reconnaissance drone designed to demonstrate hybrid-electric propulsion technologies for future autonomous systems.
The flight occurred in April at Edwards Air Force Base, California, in collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory and prime contractor Northrop Grumman, DARPA announced Wednesday.

An RAF C-17 joins Canada’s Operation Boxt

Military processing stations are slimming down on the number of applicants they review with a prescreening process that flags any of 28 medical conditions that are generally considered disqualifying for service.
U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command, MEPCOM, officials announced Monday that they are implementing a new policy that cuts applicants earlier in the recruiting process. If an applicant has at least one of 28 identified medical conditions, they will not be invited for a physical exam with a doctor, which is required before joining the service.

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A recent Defense Department Inspector General’s report found that military shipments of rifles and other weapons were stored for as long as a week in a warehouse with no overnight guards and no security system to detect break-ins.
The Air Force agreed with the IG’s finding and said fixes are planned for the facility, located at Travis Air Force Base, California. Travis is a major mobility hub in the Air Force with military cargo shipments of all kinds routinely routed through the base. The base handled 50,000 tons of cargo in 2020, according to an Air Force press release.

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A Navy F-18 Super Hornet disabled an Iranian-flagged commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz, according to U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM. The ship was warned to stop, said U.S. officials, as part of a U.S.-imposed blockade on the strait in recent weeks, before the jet attacked.
The incident happened about  9 a.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, a CENTCOM news release says. According to the U.S. military, the MT/Hasna, an Iranian-flagged oil tanker traveling unloaded, ignored multiple warnings from U.S. forces, the news release says.

The Pentagon’s Chief Digital and AI Office is eager to expand its deployment of a new task automation platform — the “CDAO Wingman” — that’s designed to help defense and military users develop and scale their own digital assistants to offload document-heavy workflows and repetitive, compliance-driven functions.

The Army, along with nine major defense companies, will embark on a series of “hackathons” later this month in an attempt to create a common operating system across the service’s disparate platforms.
The Army called the effort “Right to Integrate,” according to a Tuesday press release, which will include a “sprint” to shed conflicting information silos that have historically been a fixture of “exquisite warfighting systems” the service has purchased from industry. The integration of these platforms “frequently failed,” the service said.

As U.S. forces prepare for future war with massive casualty rates, chaplains like Capt. Alec Correa are training to face the most existential parts of war, the moments between life and death.
Correa, a chaplain for the 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment, recently competed in a training event at Camp Humphreys, South Korea, similar to Best Unit Ministry Team competitions held in the U.S. The contests put Unit Ministry Teams, or UMTs, of a commissioned chaplain and enlisted religious affairs specialist, through events ranging from field medical care to administering Last Rites.

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In 2025, Collin Meisel and Mathew Burrows wrote, “Russia Can Afford to Take a Beating in Ukraine,” where they argued Russia was able to absorb the blows Ukraine was delivering and could continue fighting for a while. A year later, we asked Collin and Mathew to revisit their assessments.Image: The Kremlin via Wikimedia CommonsIn your 2025 article, you argued that due to its sheer size — in service-capable population, economy, and munitions production capacity — Russia can absorb more of a hit throughout this war than Ukraine can.

Norway will acquire 54 Leopard 2A8 NO-variant main battle tanks, with 37 units to be built at a newly-opened facility in Levanger.

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The Pentagon plans to require service members to complete cybersecurity training once every three years, DefenseScoop has learned, a move that will scrap an annual mandate and is set to upend the Army’s recent shift to a five-year requirement. 
In a Sep. 30 memo, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the military to “restore mission focus” by reducing, consolidating or eliminating a slew of mandatory courses, such as cybersecurity training, that he said were distracting from the military’s core job of fighting wars.

Renk Group has recorded its highest ever order intake for an opening quarter, reporting €582.3m ($680.9) in the first quarter of fiscal 2026 (Q1 FY26), up from €548.6m in the corresponding period last year.

Lockheed Martin and Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence have jointly unveiled Lithuania’s first HIMARS launchers.

The Dining-In is a military custom that predates the Air Force, the military, even the United States. There are many versions of the same even, whether that branch calls it Mess Night, Regimental Dinner, or something else. Though other branches hold these, this is one of the oldest traditions of America’s second-youngest branch of military service.
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This most traditional form of Air Force unit social events is held at any unit level—Wing, Group, or Squadron.

The Chief of Staff’s Bible is a tradition literally as old as the Air Force itself, but one very few have ever even heard of.
On his first days in office, the general in charge of the newly formed United States Air Force bought a Bible that’s been a part of every swearing in ceremony for Chiefs of Staff for nearly 80 years.
And in it contains the signature of all of the Air Force’s top general officers—the Chiefs.
“No documented history of the Bible exists,” Ann Stefanek, Media Operations Officer at Air Force headquarters told We Are The Mighty.

An army might run on its stomach, but let’s be real: what’s actually going in its stomach is equally important. Armies don’t run on bread alone. When Napoleon said that famous line, his army was running on wine, brandy, and vinegar. Luckily (or unluckily, for those who love a good pickleback) military food and beverage has evolved.
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Just before midnight on Nov. 24, 2025, New Castle County police officers conducting a routine property check in Wilmington’s Canby Park spotted a white Toyota Tacoma parked after hours. What initially appeared to be a standard traffic stop uncovered a detailed terror plot. The suspect — a University of Delaware student — was found in possession of a converted machine gun, more than 100 rounds of ammunition, body armor, and a handwritten notebook mapping out a planned attack on the campus police department, including entry points, escape routes, and the name of a specific officer.

Three days into the Iran war, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said the quiet part out loud: The Revolutionary Guard’s Qods Force has long carried out plots around the world and now intended to deploy those capabilities against the U.S. homeland. The United States, a Qods Force statement carried on Iranian television warned, “will no longer be safe” as the Qods Force targets Americans within the homeland and abroad. “The enemy should know that their happy days are over and they will no longer be safe anywhere in the world, not even in their own homes.” U.S.

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The Chinese People’s Liberation Army has moved the new Z-20T assault helicopter into air-ground training, reflecting a growing reliance on the new aircraft which is poised to revolutionise its airborne assault capabilities. Developed as the first heavyweight combat helicopter type in Chinese service, the Z-20T which was designed to complement the Z-10 attack helicopter, and made its first public appearance during a military paradeon September 3, 2025. The aircraft combines an airlift capability with integrated firepower in a single airframe.