Lindsey Gray never served a day in uniform, yet she battles on the front lines every day against an issue tormenting the military community.
Veteran suicide.
Released in February 2026, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ most recent data showed that 6,398 veterans died by suicide in 2023. That’s a slight decline from 2022, when 6,442 former service members took their lives, but it still averages out to more than 17 suicides per day.
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Following Boeing’s selection for the development of the U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX sixth generation fighter program, the United States has established a distinct division of labour between its three largest military aircraft manufacturers for fifth and sixth generation combat aviation programs. Boeing has emerged as the principal contractor for the country’s sixth generation fighter programs, having unexpectedly been awarded with contracts for both the F/A-XX, after it was also selected for the Air Force’s F-47 under the Next Generation Air Dominance Program in 2025.
During a recent training exercise in the western Pacific, a small group of engineers single-handedly saved the day.In the scenario, adversary covert forces used first-person view drones to intercept American helicopters that were shuttling between austere forward island airbases. Some helicopters were shot down, and the rest were forced to suspend flight operations, meaning the island bases were cut off from each other and from easy resupply. Fortunately, one of the U.S. bases included a small, forward-deployed team of military engineers and their equipment.
In 1901, military analyst Jan Bloch declared that new military technologies had changed war so radically that the study of history had become useless. He castigated military officers who prepared for future war based on “musty precedents” and who failed to recognize that the past was as irrelevant to the future as the experiences of caterpillars were to butterflies. Some of his tactical predictions did prove prescient: He anticipated that modern firepower and entrenchments would make decisive battle impossible. But he was very wrong about the continued value of history.
Army Technology
The contract includes ground and flight tests to validate XRC ramjet design and production processes
. Whitney, M+A
The current AIM-120D generation incorporates a two-way datalink, GPS-enhanced inertial measurement unit, expanded no-escape envelope, improved high-angle off-boresight…
Carley Welch, Breaking Defense
Anduril, Castelion, Lockheed Martin, RTX and Mach Industries were awarded Other Transaction Agreements for an undisclosed amount
Parth Satam, The Aviationist
The W93 warhead and Mk7 reentry body assembly are part of the Trident II D5 Life Extension (D5LE2) which will modernize the sea-based leg of the nuclear triad
Brian Everstine, Aviation Week
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Japan is advancing its F-15 Japan Super Interceptor (JSI) programme, with the first 20 upgraded aircraft scheduled to complete deployment by the end of fiscal year 2029. The program is intended to substantially extend the capabilities of selected F-15J Eagles operated by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF), which were procured from the early 1980s and are currently considered decades past obsolescence. The revised schedule represents a delay from the original target of completing modifications to the initial 20 aircraft by the end of FY2027.