When India’s third ballistic missile-carrying, nuclear-powered submarine — the INS Aridhaman — entered service on April 3, 2026, it marked a milestone decades in the making.With three boomers, India can now reliably always maintain at least one on deterrent patrol, thus completing the sea leg of its nuclear deterrent. Earlier, India successfully tested the capability to deploy multiple independently targetable warheads from a single missile.
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Inside Lebanon, the conditions for the next extremist uprising are quietly taking root.In the summer of 2007, the Lebanese Armed Forces fought Fatah al-Islam for three months inside Nahr al-Bared, a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon. Fatah al-Islam was a Salafi-jihadist group that exploited the camp’s power vacuum to establish a strong recruitment base, drawing recruits from Palestinian, Syrian, and broader Arab networks. Once the dust settled, more than 400 people were dead, and the 30,000 residents of Nahr-Bared were displaced for a second time.
Chinese state media has published footage of the first export configured fifth generation fighter built in the country, a J-35AE aircraft, leading analysts to widely conclude that the first contract for the sale of the aircraft has likely been signed. The unveiling of a fully configured aircraft with export markings has been seen to indicate a shift towards more active efforts to market the fighter type abroad.
Iran has launched cruise missiles, drones, and weaponized small boats against commercial vessels and warships in the Strait of Hormuz over the last 24 hours, according to Adm. Brad Cooper, who briefed reporters on a new U.S. Central Command-led operation to safely reopen the global shipping chokepoint amid the war in the region.
“We have defeated each and every one of those threats through the clinical application of defensive munitions,” the Centcom commander said Monday.
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Two officers with the West Virginia National Guard received awards for heroism Monday for stopping a gunman who attacked a National Guard patrol in Washington, D.C. The attack killed another West Virginia soldier.
Army Maj. Ryan S. Reynolds and Air Force Maj. Edwin O. Stanfield received the Soldier’s Medal and Airman’s Medal, respectively, on Monday. The two were outside a Metro station in Washington in November when a gunman opened fire on a patrol of Guardsmen nearby, killing Spc. Sarah Beckstrom and injuring Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, two West Virginia National Guard members.
The Army is on the hunt for a readily available, rapidly deployable drone that service officials hope will address “reconnaissance and security gaps” that “severely limit” a battalion’s ability to assess the battlefield, according to a recent call for solutions notice.
Amid an ongoing effort to push longer-range, quick-launch drones to tactical units, the service wants battalion commanders to have an unmanned aerial system organic to their unit that can take-off vertically and fly over 40 kilometers.
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Army Apaches and Navy Seahawk helicopters destroyed six Iranian small boats on Monday as part of ongoing efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial vessels, according to Adm. Brad Cooper, head of U.S. Central Command.
“We have an enormous amount of capability and firepower concentrated in and around the strait, including AH-64 Apache and MH-60 Seahawk helicopters used just this morning to eliminate six Iranian small boats threatening commercial shipping,” Cooper said during a media roundtable on Monday afternoon.
Cooper said other U.S.
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