Author: Michael

The up-and-coming Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider 6th-generation stealth bomber is not a supersonic warplane; ditto for (1) its immediate predecessor, the pre-merger Northrop B-2 Spirit (the original stealth bomber), and (2) the septuagenarian B-52 “Stratosaurus” (unofficially AKA the “Stratosaurus”).

Indeed, the only member of the US Air Force’s strategic bomber triumvirate that flies in excess of Mach 1 is the B-1B Lancer (aka “the Bone“).

A second B-21 Raider, the nation’s sixth-generation stealth bomber, joins flight testing at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Sept.

The United States Air Force and United States Navy will have to keep their current fighter fleets in service longer than anticipated, following new information that their upcoming sixth-generation fighter will not enter service according to previously established timelines.

During comments given as part of the McAleese Defense Programs Conference last month, Representative Rob Wittman, a republican from Virginia, said that the Navy’s F-47 will not be “available” to the Air Force until the mid-2030s. Air and Space Forces Magazine was the first to report on the development.

HMS Prince of Wales sailed from Portsmouth for

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In a flagrant display of insubordinate Marxist ideology, the U.S. Air Force Academy terrazzo was overun last Friday with hundreds of females from a USAFA affinity group for women that literally threatened the Secretary of War during the ongoing conflict in Iran.
Apparently up to 500 women showed up for the event which was reportedly sponsored by the Academy and USAFA AOG.

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The British Army wants to double its lethality

India has demonstrated a new Infantry Fighting Vehicle family known as the Vikram VT21 Advanced Armoured Platform.

The B-1B Lancer was first developed in the 1970s and was designed to penetrate Soviet airspace at high speeds and high altitudes in order to deliver devastating nuclear strikes. However, today the strategic landscape is completely different.

Over time, both China and Russia have begun fielding advanced air defense systems such as the HQ-9 and the S-400, thereby reducing the likelihood that the B-1B could penetrate their airspace. Despite this, the USAF retains 45 B-1Bs in its inventory.

Babcock has presented its Toyota-based General Logistics Vehicle as a proposed replacement for the British Army’s outgoing Land Rover fleet.

Inside a sprawling facility known as Arsenal-1, traditional rules of the defense industry are being dismantled one airframe at a time. April 2026 has arrived and technicians are proof-testing a $1 billion bet that America can still manufacture military power at a scale and speed that rivals the commercial sector. Standing at roughly half the size of an F-16, the Anduril YFQ-44A Fury is the centerpiece of this industrial experiment.