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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The Air Force is assessing the full range of possibilities for what it wants its sixth-generation tanker aircraft to look like as it conducts yet another round of market research with industry.
The service has gone back and forth on its plans for the platform — known as the Next Generation Air-refueling System (NGAS) — since the program’s inception in 2023. The aircraft was originally envisioned as a low-observable, stealthy tanker that could refuel other aircraft in contested environments.

The Air Force wants a more in-shape force, but the department’s top leadership has no plans to mandate that time during the duty day be set aside for airmen and Space Force guardians to work out.
“You have to leave those kinds of decisions up to the command teams for their best judgment, I think,” Undersecretary of the Air Force Matthew Lohmeier told reporters on Monday.

U.S. Central Command is setting up a new team and innovation hub to help strategically fast-track the military’s adoption of drones and other cutting-edge combat capabilities, the organization announced Tuesday.

This anti-drone robot-powered weapon system comes in rose gold. 
Okay, well, it was an accident. Typically, the Austin, Texas-based start-up behind the machine — an automated tracking system designed to shoot down drones, and known as the Bullfrog — delivers the device in traditional military field colors — green, tan or black. But thanks to an ordering snafu, a recent shipment of cladding arrived in the pinkish-metallic hue known as rose gold.
Which is how the company ended up with an in-house model they call “Rosie.

Australian counter-drone technology supplier DroneShield is set to bolster its research and development (R&D) operations in the US.

JSW has delivered the first Patria AMV XP 8×8 armoured vehicle to the Japan Self-Ground Defense Forces (JGSDF) as part of the WAPC programme.

Nothing is a bigger middle finger to racism than an all-Black infantry obliterating a cavalry of Confederates double its size and causing so much embarrassment for the Southern general that he lies about it. 
That’s exactly what happened on May 24, 1864, at the Battle of Wilson’s Wharf in Virginia.

Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has for the first time released footage of its first supercarrier, the Fujian, with a wide range of aircraft from the ship’s air wing seen launching sorties. China’s fielding of a supercarrier has been anticipated for close to a decade, with the country’s aircraft carrier program having progressed rapidly since the first carrier, the Liaoning, was commissioned into service in 2012. The Fujian is the only flattop supercarrier operational anywhere in the world outside the U.S.

The British Royal Navy has commissioned a new nuclear powered attack submarine, HMS Agamemnon, into service, which represents the sixth of seven vessels of the class planned to join the fleet. Unusually, the commissioning warrant was read by the head of state King Charles III, rather than the Fleet Commander, which was seen to reflect the growing perceived importance of the Armed Forces in civilian life at a time when the United Kingdom is actively involved in hostilities with Russia in the Ukrainain theatre.

Between Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s summit meeting in China. Established by China in 2001 to manage border disputes, the organization now includes members like Iran, Pakistan, India, and faraway partners like the Maldives and Cambodia. Save India, all the member states are authoritarian or authoritarian-leaning regimes. At the summit, Modi and his Chinese counterpart, General Secretary Xi Jinping, committed to peacefully resolving Indian-Chinese border disputes.