The British Royal Air Force has clarified that the planned procurement of F-35A fifth generation fighters was not driven primarily by the requirement to carry U.S. B61-12 tactical nuclear bombs, despite the government’s announcement last year that the aircraft would restore an airborne nuclear role for the first time since 1998.
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Earlier this spring, Claude’s developers found the cyber potential of Anthropic’s model, Mythos 5, hazardous enough to pump the brakes on model release, creating the Project Glasswing collaboration to give cyber defenders the upper hand through controlled access to the model. Despite these efforts, the U.S. government stepped in on June 12, 2026, and forced Anthropic to take down Mythos and its safeguarded form, Fable 5 — an action the company disputed, calling the trigger a narrow, nonuniversal jailbreak.
In January, Robson Henry died at the age of 66. Chances are, you have never heard of Henry. He was not famous, rich, or powerful. In many ways, Henry was no different from the thousands of young men and women who, at the age of 18, chose to serve by enlisting in the U.S. Army. Nor does the fact that he stayed in the Army for the next 26 years, serving multiple tours of duty in the Middle East, meaningfully distinguish him.
A Russian Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft has successfully launched two Russian cosmonauts and one American NASA astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS), highlighting the resilience of U.S.-Russian cooperation in human spaceflight even as relations between the two countries remain strained. The mission, which lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carried NASA astronaut Anil Menon alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina. The spacecraft entered orbit before completing a fast-track rendezvous with the ISS approximately three hours later.
Boeing’s MQ-28 Ghost Bat unmanned stealth fighter has reached a major milestone in the evolution of unmanned air combat after successfully operating alongside multiple variants of the F-35 fifth generation fighter during the multinational Exercise Valiant Shield 2026 in the Western Pacific. The exercise marked the first time a Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), of which the MQ-28 is among the most advanced to have been developed outside China, has participated in a large-scale multinational Pacific exercise. This is thought to have provided the U.S.
The U.S. Marine Corps conducted High Mobility Artillery Rocket System Rapid Insertion (HIRAIN) exercise in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, which covers the Middle East region, demonstrating its growing ability to bolster its firepower in the region using tactical airlift assets. The exercise, conducted on July 3, saw Marines deliver an M142 HIMARS launcher aboard a KC-130J Super Hercules transport, rapidly unload the system at an austere location, execute a simulated fire mission, and then withdraw before an adversary could respond.
Finland has begun producing structural components for the F-35 fifth generation fighter, marking a significant milestone for the country’s defence sector and for the wider program. The production effort will see Finnish companies manufacture components for F-35s operated not only by the Finnish Air Force, but also by international customers, integrating Finland more deeply into the world’s largest known weapons program.
Ukrainian air defenses intercepted five ballistic missiles during another Russian bombardment overnight into Tuesday, July 14.
It was one of Ukraine’s most significant and successful series of interceptions in recent weeks and follows calls from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for more air defense interceptors from his Western allies.
Finnish artillery units fire Howitzers At Rovajärvi exercise area In northern Finland. Image Credit: NATO.
NATO Artillery Test. Image Credit: NATO.
When the U.S. launched a war in Iran in February, the Iranians responded not long after by closing off the Strait of Hormuz, choking off a major chokepoint for shipping traffic and also causing energy prices to rise.
Trump was heavily criticized for not seeming to realize that the closure of the Strait was a strong possibility, and as the war continued, it soon became clear that the U.S. side had no easy options to reopen it.
Donald Trump in 2023 Speaking. Image Credit: Gage Skidmore.
Donald Trump Giving a Speech. Image Credit: Gage Skidmore.
The Army spent almost half-a-billion dollars on a Texas ammunition factory to restock the military’s supply of 155 mm artillery shells, but the facility has yet to produce a single round in two years, a Pentagon watchdog found. The facility, in Mesquite, Texas, was brought online in 2024 after rounds of rapid-fire contracting to speed up the Army’s efforts to replenish artillery shells sent to Ukraine and cover increased training needs for U.S. forces.