The United States has informed several of its NATO allies in Europe to expect delays in deliveries of U.S.-made armaments due to the severe depletion of its equipment stockpiles during hostilities with Iran from February 28. The United Kingdom, Poland, Lithuania, and Estonia, which have all played particularly central roles in the war effort against Russia in the Ukrainian theatre, are confirmed to have been among the states that have received such warnings. The warning of delays to arms supplies follows multiple reports from late March that the U.S.
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Chinese state media outlets have provided new insight into the capabilities of the Y-20B heavy transport aircraft, after it recently carried out a mission to repatriate the remains of the deceased 13th batch of Chinese People’s Volunteers personnel from South Korea. The enhanced variant of the aircraft was first brought into service in 2023, and has since been produced and procured on a scale far exceeding that of any other large or medium sized transport aircraft in the world, revolutionising the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s airlift capabilities.
American forces will start guiding merchant ships out of the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, as President Donald Trump said the U.S. will “help free up” vessels trapped between dueling American and Iranian blockades around the strategic waterway.
Trump announced in a Sunday afternoon social media post, saying that “Project Freedom” would start on Monday morning “Middle Eastern time.” Trump said that the United States will “guide” the trapped ships out of the strait. Soon after, U.S.
The email below was sent to AOG CEO Mark Hille by AFA ’80 graduate Tanya Regan for publication in Checkpoints, the Air Force Academy Association of Graduates magazine.
Political Conduct by AOG Women’s Affinity Group Demands Accountability
As a proud graduate of AFA ’80, the first class including women, I cherish our sharedmemories and experiences and am deeply grateful for the opportunities the AFA provided.
French Air Force Rafale fighters have intercepted to Russian Aerospace Forces Su-24M strike fighters over the Baltic Sea, marking the latest in multiple recent engagements between Western Bloc and Russian combat aircraft in the region. The French fighters had assumed a new rotation for Baltic Air Policing in the first week of April, arriving at Siauliai Air Base in Lithuania located just 130 kilometres from Russian territory.
L Todd Wood sits down with MG Bentley Rayburn (USAF, Ret), STARRS.us Chairman of the Board, to discuss the recent ideological incident at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
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Greece is preparing to leapfrog Turkey in a qualitative arms race that has been simmering for decades. By 2030, the Hellenic Air Force expects to field roughly 200 combat-ready fighter jets—including 20 F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters, advanced Block 70/72 F-16 “Vipers,” and Dassault Rafale F3R aircraft—giving Greece an air force second only to Israel in the region.
Greece Has a Really Big Air Force
Greece operates an eclectic mix of fighter aircraft, including F-16s with Block 70/72 “Viper” upgrades, Dassault Rafales, Mirage 2000-5s, and F-4E Phantoms.
The U.S. Navy’s legendary F-14 Tomcat was actually designed from the very beginning to drop bombs—it just took the Navy decades to actually use it that way. By the twilight of its career, the “Bombcat” was hauling laser-guided munitions over Bosnian Serb targets during Operation Deliberate Force in 1995, finally living up to its multirole potential before retirement in 2006.
Meet the F-14 Tomcat Bombcat Fighter That Could Be a Bomber
The U.S. Navy’s F-14 Tomcat and the U.S. Air Force’s F-15 Eagle are two of the most legendary fourth-generation jet fighters.
In 1997, the U.S. military quietly purchased 21 Soviet MiG-29 fighters from the tiny Eastern European country of Moldova—not from Russia, but from a poor former Soviet republic that couldn’t afford to maintain them. The reason had nothing to do with using the jets operationally and everything to do with one fear: Iran wanted the MiG-29s to carry nuclear weapons.
The Forgotten 1997 Deal Where the U.S. Bought 21 MiG-29 Fighters to Block Iran
MiG-29 Fighter U.S. Air Force Museum July 2025. Image Credit: National Security Journal.
In the late 1990s, the U.S.
Japan’s Taigei-class submarine—the “Big Whale”—is the first submarine class designed entirely around lithium-ion batteries, abandoning traditional Air-Independent Propulsion altogether. At just $700 million per boat compared to $3-4 billion per nuclear attack submarine, the Taigei is a cost-effective asymmetric counter to China’s expanding navy in the First Island Chain.
The Taigei-Class Explained
The Taigei-class, or ‘big whale’, is Japan’s newest attack submarine.