The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is the fighter jet of choice for the United States and 19 allied nations, including the United Kingdom and Israel. The UK’s Royal Air Force flies the F-35B Lightning II while the Israeli Air Force operates the F-35I Adir, Hebrew for “mighty” or “powerful,” an Israeli-specific variant of the F-35.
Following the outbreak of the 2026 conflict with Iran, the F-35 has made historic air-to-air kills with both nations.
On Mar. 3, 2026, the UK Ministry of Defence announced that the RAF’s F-35Bs made their first air-to-air kills.
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The U.S. and Israel have taken out a significant portion of Iran’s drone infrastructure and weapons launchers in Operation Epic Fury, resulting in what two top American defense officials said Wednesday is a noticeable reduction of deadly drone and missile deployments by Iranian military forces over a recent 24-hour timeframe.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine supplied updates at the Pentagon about the war against Iran and suggested that military activities will further intensify.
On Feb. 28, the United States and Israel launched major, ongoing strikes against Iran — including killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and many other senior officials. In response, Iran has launched strikes against U.S. military sites, Israel, and economic and civilian targets in Arab Gulf states. The scale of this war will have global consequences. As world leaders adjust to a new reality in the Middle East and what it means for their countries, we asked five experts to assess the international reaction.Read more below.
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Combined U.S. and Israeli air forces have established near-complete air superiority over Iranian airspace, as strikes continued into the sixth day of the renewed conflict that began Feb. 28, 2026.
The campaign follows the brief Twelve-Day War in June 2025, when Israel — later joined by limited U.S. support — targeted Iranian nuclear sites, missile facilities and air defenses. That earlier clash, which ended in a U.S.
The Army is granting more direct commissions to civilians in high-tech fields like cyber, artificial intelligence, and space. The majority will come in as company grade officers and will be assigned to operational units, officials said.
The plan to put these new soldiers in uniform is an expansion of a program that directly commissioned four Silicon Valley executives into the Army Reserve as lieutenant colonels last June. Those four joined a program the Army called “Detachment 201: The Army’s Executive Innovation Corps.
The US Army has awarded Yank Technologies a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract to further develop a wireless charging system for warfighter wearable batteries in Department of Defense (DoD) military vehicles.
In his 2025 article, “Start Making Sense, Strategy and Grand Strategy in the Trump Administration,” Joshua Rovner argued Trump’s flexible approach to a grand strategy could be a strategic problem in the event of war. A year later, amidst an escalating conflict in the Middle East, we asked Joshua to revisit his argument.
The Office of Budget Responsibility says an increase in defence spending is now “necessary” amid the geopolitical unrest.
Despite seeing phrases like “World War Three” trending online, we are not in a world war But it does raise the question: what actually constitutes a world war? #ww3 #middleeast #war