Author: Michael

The U.S. Navy’s SSN (X) next-generation attack submarine program, which plans to combine the stealth of the Virginia-class with the firepower of the Seawolf-class, is delayed. The first procurement has been pushed back to the early 2040s, from a previous target of 2035.

The primary reasons for the delay are budget limitations and the need to manage resources across multiple shipbuilding programs, most of which are also overdue and over budget.

ATLANTIC OCEAN (Feb. 1, 2022) The future Virginia-class attack submarine Montana (SSN 794) conducts initial sea trials Feb.

The U.S. Air Force’s F-47, developed by Boeing under the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) initiative to replace the F-22, is on track for a first flight in 2028. As of February 2026, the program is advancing rapidly, with manufacturing underway and aiming for operational fielding by the early 2030s.

The F-47 is currently in early, low-rate, and highly secretive production following a March 2025 contract award. Early manufacturing of the first aircraft is underway in St. Louis, with a fleet goal of 185+ units to replace the F-22.

F-22 Raptor Reverse. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

The Indian Air Force has received a new regiment’s worth of S-400 long-range air defence systems from Russia, with local sources reporting on the delivery noting that the service is scheduled to receive a fifth final regiment before the end of the year, marking a major milestone in a program intended to revolutionise the country’s long range air defence capabilities. Five regiments’ worth of the systems were ordered under a $5.

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Qatar’s defence market is shifting from early-2020 spending on land domain towards air defence capabilities, following the Iran war.

On April 23 the European Union imposed economic sanctions on the firm Yangzhou Yangjie Electronic Technology, known more commonly as Yangjie Technology, as part of a regime of secondary sanctions targeting Russian trading partners. These sanctions have been imposed as part of the EU’s 20th sanctions package, with the targeting of the Chinese firm initiated the basis that it had allegedly sent dual use electronics to support the Russian Armed Forces and defence sector, including making over 200 shipments of dual use semiconductor components since 2022 which were used in drones and armaments.

During the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War, a 26-year-old company commander’s unit was pinned down by a fortified hilltop. After frontal assaults failed, the junior officer made an extraordinary request: an entire battalion, four times the size of his own unit, for a jungle flanking maneuver. The regimental commander agreed. The surprise assault broke the Vietnamese defense. This company commander’s pedigree was as formidable as his tactics: His father was a founding general who had just retired as head of the Chinese military’s General Logistics Department.

In the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, much that could go wrong did for the Russian military. As one volunteer organization called KatyaValya recalled:We called all our military friends in (Russian-held) Donetsk, but no one could really explain or say anything. Three or four days later, Katya’s husband (who served with Donetsk militia) disappeared from communications. We searched for him every day through the commandant’s office to make sure everything was alright.

STARRS is calling for a full and independent review of the incident

COLORADO SPRINGS – Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc. (STARRS) today expressed serious concern about a reported incident at the United States Air Force Academy involving a large gathering of academy graduates who recently displayed conduct inconsistent with military discipline and the chain of command.

An Iranian Air Force F-5E third generation fighter successfully conducted a bombing run against Camp Buehring in Kuwait, penetrating multi-layered U.S. and U.S.-supplied Kuwaiti air defences, which has raised serious questions regarding the security of American and allied military facilities both in the Middle East and globally. The F-5 is one of the least capable fighter types in service anywhere in the world today, and during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s was overwhelmingly outmatched by advanced Iraqi fighters such as the MiG-23ML, resulting in a decision to avoid air-to-air engagements.