South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) issuing a request for proposals for a conceptual study of a future Korean next-generation combat aircraft, which is intended to establish the aircraft’s operational concept, configuration and technology roadmap. Notably, the requirements point toward a highly stealthy, twin-engine and potentially tailless aircraft substantially more advanced than the conservative KF-21 fifth generation design.
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NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas — site of Friday’s ceremony. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain
PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER LAST NIGHT ESTABLISHING THE NATION’S FIRST UNITED STATES SPACE ACADEMY at a historic ceremony held at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Friday night. That ceremony also honored the crew of the Artemis II spacecraft, the first humans to leave the Earth’s gravitational pull in over 50 years.
On August 28 the first footage showed two Chinese sixth generation fighter prototypes of an unnamed type conducting aerial refuelling from a YY-20 tanker, providing a significant indication of the program’s maturing just 20 months after its first flight. The fighter currently under development by the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation is by far the largest and longest ranged in the world, and is expected to be the first in the world with a sixth generation design and capabilities to enter service anywhere in the world.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is under pressure from multiple angles, with his country’s domestic fuel market struggling under the weight of Ukrainian strikes on refineries and diminishing returns on the front line. But with Washington growing tired of the war it started in Iran, Putin may now see an opportunity to test NATO.
New U.S. intelligence suggests that the Kremlin believes the prolonged American campaign against Iran has weakened Washington’s military position and could give Moscow greater freedom to escalate against U.S. interests or allies in Europe, per reports this week.
ABERDEEN, Md. — The Army will soon field the first batch of a new detection system intended to identify signals emitted from friendly units, service officials said, part of an effort to prevent adversaries from capitalizing on an increasingly observable electromagnetic spectrum to find targets.
The service will deliver nine Spectrum Situational Awareness Systems, or S2AS, to “prioritized Army units” in three weeks, officials told reporters at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland on Thursday.
In recent weeks, reports have suggested that a deal on a governance structure for the Strait of Hormuz was close, or that such a framework had been reached. However, no such deal has been announced, as the war reached its six-month mark this week.
So where do things stand now?
(Aug. 8, 2017) The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) at sea during exercise Saxon Warrior 2017, Aug. 8.
As Washington hopes its new economic pressure campaign will force Tehran to open the Strait of Hormuz, oil is still finding a way out of the Persian Gulf, with producers finding creative ways to move their crude out of the region.
And while it’s clear that some oil is leaving through the Strait of Hormuz, the price of achieving it is becoming extraordinarily high.
Nimitz-class carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) transits the Atlantic Ocean while offloading munitions via helicopter to the world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), June 27, 2025. Gerald R.
Space Force, the military’s newest branch, is getting its own service academy, President Donald Trump announced. On Friday, Trump signed an executive order to create the new military academy and shared the decision while speaking at NASA’s Johnson Space Center at an event honoring the members of the Artemis II mission.
Trump, who created Space Force in his first term in 2019, said that the new Space Academy will “educate and train an entire generation of skilled service members, engineers, and civil operators.
Russia has been stepping up attacks in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, and specifically the “Fortress Belt” cities of Kostyantynivka, Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
According to CNBC, Russia’s Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov said this week that Russia had “advanced to a position just four kilometers (2.5 miles) from the eastern outskirts of Sloviansk.” Gerasimov also said that Russia has “overcome the first defensive line of the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk fortified region.”
T-90 Tank. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Russian T-90 Tank. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
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