Natiq Malikzada, The National Interest
In the end, the question that matters is not whether Bagram is valuable. It is.
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David Martin, CBS News
At Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, a test bed for a new kind of air force, Major Trent McMullen is a fighter pilot learning to fly alongside the XQ-58, a drone…
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The U.S. Navy is organizing a new multi-year cycle to sustain, upgrade, convert, and overhaul Phalanx CIWS across the surface fleet.
Bob Carey, RealClearDefense
The United States has been fighting tomorrow’s battles with yesterday’s playbook for decades.
North Korea has unveiled a successor to its KN-23 series of tactical ballistic missile systems at the Defence Development-2025 exhibition in Pyongyang, during which multiple new weapons systems have been seen for the first time. The new short ranged tactical ballistic missile system uses a lift-generating hypersonic glide body and small control surfaces, and appears to be the system of its kind ever to integrate a hypersonic glide vehicle.
Chief of communications for Ukrainian Air Force Command Yuri Ignat has confirmed during a national television broadcast that the service is facing growing challenges in intercepting Russian ballistic missile attacks, highlighting missiles’ ability to follow new flight patterns and more complex attack approaches as the cause.
The Russian state run United Aircraft Corporation has delivered a new batch of Su-34M strike fighters to the Russian Aerospace Forces, as a continued production surge has raised delivery rates to unprecedented levels. The Su-34 has been procured in much greater numbers than any other fighter class since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, and is a derivative of the Su-27 Flanker heavyweight air superiority fighter designed with a significantly longer range and higher weapons carrying capacity and an approximately 50 percent greater weight.
It appears that a disgraced, retired U.S. Army colonel who led a “pup play” fetish ring that included junior officers while on active duty has surfaced as a sponsor for incoming midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.
When we last encountered Colonel Brian T. Connelly, he was outed as the leader of a fetish group that you probably, and fortunately, did not know existed; see Army Starts Sham Investigation Into Bondage Fetish Colonel and His Friends Because They Think You’re Stupid – RedState.
Now he’s back: sponsoring a Naval Academy midshipman.
American defence contractor Raytheon has developed a new primary radar for enhanced variants of the F-15 fighter, the APG-82(V)X. According to the firm, this significantly improves on the capabilities of prior radars with the use of “cutting-edge gallium nitride (GaN) technology to enhance the radar’s effectiveness, delivering increased range, advanced air-to-air, air-to-ground, and electronic warfare capabilities.