Leidos and DHL Supply Chain have established a strategic partnership aimed at securing the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) Future Defence Support Services (FDSS) contract.
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Ukraine Is Forcing Russia to Hide Aircraft, Move Ships and Defend Refineries. The Pentagon Faces the Same Drone Problem: Ukraine has turned exposed Russian aircraft, ships, fuel facilities, and transportation links into recurring targets, forcing Moscow to build shelters, relocate naval units, disperse aircraft, and spread air defenses across a growing number of sites. A Washington Post assessment published July 20 argues that the campaign in occupied Crimea gives U.S. military planners a current case study in how inexpensive unmanned systems can impose large costs on a much richer force.
In the aftermath of two American soldiers officially being declared killed, the Trump administration’s Energy Secretary Chris Wright informed the media that the US mission in Iran is no longer about destroying Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program or even regime change.
Instead, the American energy chief defined the US military’s mission as centered on ensuring the continued flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz (SoH) to keep the world’s energy markets functioning.
Russia launched one of its largest ballistic missile and drone barrages of the war at Kyiv overnight.
The hours-long attack damaged several multi-story residential buildings, a supermarket, and a dormitory, leaving at least one person dead and 16 others wounded, three seriously, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
Skyfall Missile Russian Flying Chernobyl. Russian Government/Screenshot.
The relentless overnight assault saw 41 ballistic missiles and over 100 attack drones directed at the capital.
China’s J-35A Stealth Fighter, Explained in One Word – Patience: If the J-20’s story is momentum, the J-35A’s is patience.
No aircraft in modern aviation waited longer, or more awkwardly, for someone to want it.
J-35A Fighter in the Clouds. Image Credit: Chinese Weibo.
J-35A Fighter from China. Image Credit: PLAAF
Shenyang’s design lost the stealth-fighter competition that made Chengdu’s J-20 famous, flew for years as a self-funded demonstrator nobody ordered, and was written off abroad as a knockoff without a mission.
The J-15 Fighter in One Word: Heavy – The Shenyang J-15 “Flying Shark” is among the heaviest fighters ever flown from the deck of a ship, and every argument anyone has had about this aircraft for twelve years traces back to that one fact.
The J-15: Explained
The weight is inherited. The J-15 was reverse-engineered from an unfinished Su-33 prototype that China acquired from Ukraine in the early 2000s, and the Su-33 is the naval branch of the Sukhoi Flanker, a big, long-ranged, twin-engine air-superiority design that was never small to begin with.
On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted a video to social media, stating that Russia had launched “one of the largest Russian ballistic missile attacks to date.”
“Kyiv and the Kyiv region were the Russians’ primary targets. They had been preparing this attack for several days, stockpiling missiles,” the Ukrainian leader said in the post.
Neptune Missile from Ukraine Creative Commons Image
Neptune Cruise Missile Ukraine Government Photo
“The threat, of course, remains even now, and this must be taken into account.
The H-6 Bomber in One Word: New. That is not a typo, and it is not a joke about relative ages.
The H-6 descends from the Tupolev Tu-16, which first flew in April 1952. But China stopped building H-6s in the early 1990s, when the design was plainly obsolete, and then restarted the production line around 2006. The bulk of the modern force, the K and N models that make up China’s front-line bomber strength, was built after that restart. The outline is seventy years old.
The Department of Defense identified two of the three U.S. troops killed last week in an Iranian attack on a base in Jordan.
The two active duty soldiers were killed when Iranian drones and missiles targeted the base on Friday, July 17. The attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base was part of a wider wave of strikes on installations in the Middle East used by American troops, part of days of back-and-forth fighting between the U.S. and Iran.
Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, was killed July 17, and 1st Lt.
Ukrainian Drone Attacks Continue to Hammer Moscow: Ukraine continued with its massive, coordinated attack on the Russian capital over the weekend, launching more than 400 drones toward the region.
The strikes—one of the largest of the war—targeted logistics centers, oil and gas facilities, and warehouses, killing several people and wounding dozens, while setting multiple buildings ablaze.