The U.S. Department of War Missile Defense Agency has awarded Lockheed Martin a seven-year contract worth up to $35 billion to quadruple production of anti-ballistic missile interceptors for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system. The award converts a framework agreement signed earlier in 2026 into a long-term procurement programme, giving Lockheed the confidence to make major investments in manufacturing capacity and supply chains.
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After more than four years of war, Ukraine is no longer just defending itself. Kyiv has inflicted major damage on Russia in recent weeks with a sustained pressure campaign designed to cripple the Russian economy and Moscow’s ability to sustain the war.
Ukrainian drones and domestically manufactured missiles have repeatedly struck oil refineries and military facilities, logistics hubs, and fuel depots, some 1,500 kilometers away from the front lines – and that pressure is about to be ramped up even further.
Tu-160. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
U.S. aircraft carried out multiple strikes on Iranian missile and drone infrastructure on Friday in response to a Thursday attack on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
U.S. Central Command said the attacks were in response to Iran’s June 25 attack on the M/V Ever Lovely, a Singapore-flagged cargo ship that was near the Omani coast when several one-way attack drones neared it. On social media, President Donald Trump said that the U.S. shot down some of the drones, but one hit the ship.
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An Air Force special operations plane made an emergency landing last October on a rural Oklahoma road after a student pilot mistakenly switched off the fuel supply to the plane’s engine while 5,000 feet in the air. When the plane skidded to a halt in an empty nearby field, a stop sign from the road was lodged in its wing.
Neither the student nor the instructor pilot on board, who took over the plane’s controls as the engine sputtered and the plane began to fall from the sky, were hurt in the October 2025 mishap outside Oklahoma City.
PIÑON CANYON, Colo. — It was hard for the naked eye to tell the difference between the Strykers, shrouded by deep-green camo nets, and the clusters of one-seed Junipers that turned dark emerald when dusk threw shadows across the high plains of southeastern Colorado.
The eight-wheeled troop carriers, soldiers and trees alike cast dark, irregular shapes for miles, though they often cloistered in dusty draws or behind gold-grass hills that cut across all quarter million acres of the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site.
Keeping the beautiful game safe on and off the
Russian authorities in Crimea declared a state of emergency on Friday, June 26, following weeks of Ukrainian strikes that have disrupted the peninsula’s power grid and crippled its fuel supply network.
The announcement also comes after the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that 660 Ukrainian drones were intercepted overnight, with Crimea targeted alongside roughly a dozen other Russian or Russian-controlled regions.
NATO Artillery Test. Image Credit: NATO.
The United States is sending hundreds of personnel, two warships, fixed and rotary-winged aircraft, and search and rescue teams to Venezuela in the wake of Wednesday’s earthquake that killed more than 500 people. The first arrivals, with a Marine Corps general leading them, reached Caracas Thursday night.
“[U.S. Southern Command] is surging available assigned U.S. military forces in our region to support U.S. government relief operations in Venezuela, following the devastating earthquakes that struck the nation June 24, 2026,” the command announced in a statement Thursday.
Two new emergency response helicopters have arr