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Joseph Trevithick, The WarZone
The A-29’s chief competitor, the AT-6 Wolverine, is also getting the same treatment as the aerial drone defense market explodes.

“Loose lips sink ships.” It was catchy, memorable, and above all, true. That wisdom feels incompatible with Silicon Valley’s culture and business model, yet today’s national security strategy depends on it. By oversharing, emerging defense companies may be undermining the very deterrence to which they hope to be contributing.For much of the past 30 years, U.S. deterrence was straightforward: reveal to deter and conceal to win. Put simply, the United States had the biggest stick, and just brandishing it was enough. The world is no longer that clear.

U.S. allies have long balanced between leaning on American leadership and resisting its immense gravitational pull: political, economic, and structural. Historically, the United States invests at a scale no other democracy can match, spending hundreds of billions annually on defense-linked research and tens of billions more on civilian science through agencies like the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. These budgets dwarf those of even its closest allies.

China’s CH-7 unmanned long range stealth bomber has made its long anticipated first flight, with footage released on November 12 confirming that the program had entered its flight testing stages. The aircraft was first unveiled in November 2024, closely coinciding with the Zhuhai Air Show, at a time when it was undergoing runway trials.

The Russian Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defence Troops [RBC] have received a new batch of TOS-1A Solntsepek thermobaric rocket artillery systems from the world’s largest tank manufacturer Uralvagonzavod, as the vehicles continue to play a central role in facilitating ongoing Russian advances in the Ukrainain theatre. State arms conglomerate Rostec reported that the systems dispatched in this latest batch had undergone running and acceptance tests to verify compliance with tactical and technical requirements.

Ukrainian soldier shoots down a Russian Shahed drone with a “minigun.”
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Key Points and Summary – The B-1B Lancer is getting a timely reboot to cover a looming bomber gap before the B-21 matures.

-USAF is reopening dormant hardpoints with new Load Adaptable Modular (LAM) pylons—up to six stations sized for 5,000-lb (potential 7,500-lb) stores—to boost external carriage by as much as 50%.

A 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron B-1B Lancer flies over the East China Sea May 6, 2020, during a training mission.

Families assigned to two Air Force bases can officially put up Christmas decorations after an outpouring of, well, let’s call it “holiday cheer,” prompted a private housing management company to clarify its policy on decking the halls.
The privatized housing management offices for Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, and Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, have let residents know that community guidelines specifying that winter decorations cannot be displayed until the last week of November are not as hard and fast as they might seem.

The Trump administration deployed a mix of Navy supersonic fighter jets and other advanced aircraft built for electronic warfare, command and control, contested logistics and various operations, as part of the United States’ unusually large military surge to the Caribbean this week.
America’s newest and biggest aircraft carrier — the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) — and its strike group entered the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility on Tuesday, according to a Navy announcement.

During the week of Veterans Day, the NFL’s Salute to Service campaign will once again shine a spotlight on those Americans who’ve worn their country’s uniform. On November 13th, the New York Jets (2-7) and New England Patriots (8-2) will face off on the latest edition of Amazon Prime’s “Thursday Night Football.” The Jets, wearing their classic green and white uniforms, will travel to Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, looking to upset the favored Patriots, who will take the field clad in new “Nor’Easter” NFL Nike Rivalries uniforms.