L Todd Wood talks with Commander Salamander on US naval operations around the globe.
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There are many legendary alumni of the U.S. Air Force: Billy Mitchell, Jimmy Stewart, and —for better or for worse—George Carlin. We’ve all heard about those legendary astronauts and fighter pilots who did things that live in the annals of world history, or went on to have epic post-military careers.
Many airmen do things during their service that are equally worthy of resounding across generations, but for some reason get lost in the sauce. Here are five of those lesser-known and seldom-told tales about noteworthy Air Force legends who served around the Wild Blue Yonder.
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The Army is slashing thousands of active duty pilots, flight crews, and helicopter maintenance jobs as the service begins a fundamental pivot towards unmanned drones for modern wars, officials told Task & Purpose.
The service will begin cutting nearly 6,500 active duty aviation jobs in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 as part of the Army’s broader transformation initiative.
Why did one of the nation’s senior-most military leaders recently begin a new role as a program manager, a title typically reserved for professionals twenty years his junior?
In July 2025, the Senate confirmed President Trump’s appointment of Four-Star Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein as direct reporting program manager for the Golden Dome for America — a veritable modern-day Manhattan Project.
UK-based technology and engineering company Roke has appointed Marc Overton as its new managing director.
The US State Department has approved a potential foreign military sale (FMS) to Poland involving Javelin Missile Systems and associated equipment for an estimated value of $780m.
The UK military will divest itself of key platforms in the coming years, not all with replacement, despite growing defence spending.
On September 19 three Russian Aerospace Forces MiG-31BM interceptors were reported by Western sources to have entered Estonian airspace, leading Italian Air Force F-35s based in the Eastern European country to be scrambled under operation Eastern Centre, with Swedish Gripen and Finnish F-18 fighters separately scrambled. The Russian combat jets reportedly entered Estonian airspace near Vaindloo Island in the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea, around 100 kilometres from Russia, and had their transponders turned off.
The Russian government run United Aircraft Corporation has delayed an urgent program to resume serial production of a modernised variant of the A-50 airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) systems, with the corporation’s general designer and deputy general director Sergey Korotkov providing details on the program’s future in a recent interview. “There is no decision on the serial production of the A-50 at this stage,” he stated, adding that final determination would come only after ongoing development work is completed.
Joshua Ratta, MWI
Ukrainian forces’ decision to discard the initial high-tempo, armor-centric concept of operations they brought to Novodarivka in favor of a slow and methodical dismounted…