Jen Judson, Defense News
The Missile Defense Agency’s budget request for fiscal 2026
Author: Michael
R. Cohen, A&SF
Nearly $39 billion—or 15.
Michael Marrow, Breaking Defense
Just two years after unveiling a new tanker strategy that would involve the development of a futuristic stealthy tanker, the Air Force is yet again shifting…
Aviationist
These are planned to “happen continuously to ensure the B-2 fleet remains operational until the B-21 is fielded.
Joseph Trevithick, The WarZone
A UK-Ukraine joint venture has formed to scale up the production of Raybird UAS, with an ambition to bring these systems into the UK military.
On a cold December night in 2022, coordinated attacks on two electrical substations in Moore County, North Carolina, left nearly 45,000 people without power for five days. Among them were thousands of military families — including mine — who lived in the county and worked at nearby Fort Bragg, many from the special operations community. The attack, carried out with gunfire, brought daily life to a standstill. One person, who depended on an oxygen machine, died because of the power outage.
Iran’s nuclear scientists and enrichment facilities have been subject to a lot of harassment, threats, and Israeli car bombs. While some of the attacks against the nuclear programs were deadly, others were designed to destroy enrichment equipment. Then, there are the computer viruses.
In 2012, a handful of scientists at more than one of the Iranian regime’s nuclear facilities were (probably) surprised to find a virus had taken over their computers, a virus that caused their computers to turn on at full volume, blasting the arena rock of iconic metal legends AC/DC.
Huh huh. Huh huh.
The Russian defence sector is on track to further significantly expand production of main battle tanks to reach a landmark output of 1,000 new tanks by mid-2028, and a staggering 3000 tanks by mid-2035, according to a recent assessment by the Conflict Intelligence Team. The Russian Army previously procured tanks at a very low rate averaging just one per year in the 2010s, although production remained at over 80 per year with the bulk of output being allocated to export markets.
The United Kingdom is currently pursuing a lobbying effort in South Korea seeking to partner with local industry in the development of a new fighter engine for the KF-21 fifth generation fighter. This partnership will leverage the expertise in fighter engine technologies of British engine and car manufacturer Rolls Royce, which was previously a partner with the American firm General Electric in the development of the F136 engine for the F-35 fighter, before this program was cancelled in the early 2010s.