The war between the United States and Iran appears to have restarted, this time mostly taking the form of a standoff over the Strait of Hormuz.
According to Fox News, the U.S. has launched new strikes on Iran, while also launching a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s IRGC, in turn, has threatened to shut down other waterways.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Ken Wilsbach takes off in an F-22 Raptor from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, May 13, 2026.
Elevated by its new status as an official Pentagon Field Activity, the Defense Innovation Unit is maturing with funding and permanence under the leadership of its new director, Owen West, who welcomes the pressure his team is under to speedily deliver “measurable” weaponry and combat power to the U.S. military.
“This could be my last job — I don’t care. I just want to make sure that we get drones in the hands of troops, and we build up a capability in space that cannot be matched for 10 years by our enemies,” West told DefenseScoop.
A premature newborn with elevated lead levels, a child who missed nearly half the school year because of mold-related illness, and families reporting electrical fires, flooding and cockroaches infesting kitchen appliances.
These are among the allegations outlined in a scathing new report released by U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff’s office, which details accounts from military families living in privatized housing at Fort Stewart and Fort Benning who say unsafe living conditions put their health and safety at risk.
The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) says it carried out strikes on Iran for 90 minutes early Wednesday afternoon between 1330 and 1500 hours, as the US tries to exert control over the critical Strait of Hormuz.
The strikes followed attacks overnight, which Tehran said killed at least seven military personnel in the southeast of Iran.
ARABIAN SEA (Dec. 14, 2018) The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis transits the Arabian sea with the Essex Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU). The John C.
BAE Systems has completed integration and deployment testing for its Anti Threat System (BATS), a counter-drone technology developed by the company’s Digital Intelligence business.
Russian Attack On Odesa Targets Port Infrastructure: Russian forces have struck port and residential infrastructure across Ukraine’s southern Odesa and Mykolaiv regions, killing three people and injuring at least six others.
The attack on Odesa hit a residential seven-story building, killing three people and leaving three more with moderate wounds, city military administration chief Serhiy Lysak said on Telegram. The wounded were transported to a nearby hospital.
T-80 Tank from Russian Army. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Ukraine has claimed that in the past nine days its drone attacks have hit 116 Russian ships in the so-called “ghost fleet,” according to the General Staff in the Sea of Azov.
These massive drone swarms have been the primary weapon during the ongoing wave of attacks against Crimea as Ukraine tries to expose Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, as unable to defend the peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014.
Neptune Missile. Image Credit: Government of Ukraine.
Kratos has received approximately $400m in funding from the US Department of War to support hypersonic and security-related programmes.
The Ukrainian Navy said it sank a Russian FSB patrol boat near Novorossiysk, a Russian city on the Black Sea.
“The Ukrainian Navy destroyed the Russian FSB border patrol ship Izumrud,” the Ukrainian Navy wrote on its Telegram channel. “Ukrainian sailors sank the 2nd-rank border patrol ship using a Sargan-3000 unmanned maritime system near Novorossiysk. There are casualties and injuries among the ship’s crew.”
Su-34 Fullback. Creator: Vitaly V. Kuzmin. Credit: Vitaly V.
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