DAYTON, Ohio — While the Air Force is increasingly turning to artificial intelligence for its sustainment and maintenance needs, service officials say most efforts remain in experimentation or market research as they determine where the technology can provide meaningful gains.
Leaders from multiple portfolios told reporters at the Air Force’s Life Cycle Industry Days that they believe AI has wide-ranging potential to improve the service’s fleet availability — including predictive maintenance, supply chain management and broader decision support.
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Crimea continues to be the punching bag of the Ukraine war as Kyiv ramps up its operations to make life tough for the Russian Army in the peninsula.
Originally annexed in 2014, reclaiming Crimea has been one of Ukraine’s main goals since the beginning of the war.
Putin in June 2016 Image Credit Russian Federation Photo
Since 2025, Ukrainian drones have been constantly harassing the Russians in the region, striking radars, air defenses, military installations, and pretty much anything else within their reach.
A recent Barak Ravid exclusive in Axios quotes US President Donald J. Trump as “low-key negotiating” with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
To be clear, the Iranian side denies having anything close to a direct negotiating link to the American administration.
M109 Artillery Creative Commons Photo.
The Iranian claims have been confirmed by the likes of Pakistan, a country whose leaders are very close with both the Trump administration and the Iranian regime.
Remember when U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met in the Oval Office last year?
It was perhaps one of the most memorable and disconcerting episodes in the history of relations between the two countries.
Tim Murry, a foreign threats compound contractor, drives a T-72 battle tank into position to serve as adversary targets for a joint service exercise, Emerald Flag, at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., Nov. 30. Emerald Flag is a multi-service exercise aimed to unify information sharing across joint domain platforms. (U.S.
For Netflix, India is not just an important market for gaining subscribers, it’s now an “indispendible” investment. A new six-part series called “Operation Safed Sagar” is now streaming—and it’s said to be “a spectacle on the scale of ‘Top Gun.’”
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To produce the new series, Netflix got unprecedented access to the Indian Air Force, filming air combat sequences at an altitude of 16,000 feet. To make it all happen, the streamer hired 1,200 local visual effects technicians.
Soldiers at Fort Shafter, Hawaii, are getting new food options and meal plans since dining options around the base amount to what officials have dubbed a “food desert.”
This is significant for the 500 soldiers at the small garrison because it hasn’t had a dining facility since 2012.
To fill in the gap, the Army opened the Culinary Outpost food truck last month, which feeds hundreds of soldiers on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Meals cost between $7 and $10, and soldiers can also buy vacuum-sealed meals that they can refrigerate for the rest of the week, officials said.
Ukraine struck another major Russian oil refinery overnight, this time over 900 miles from the Ukrainian border.
The strikes, which took place overnight into August 11, are just the latest in a long string of attacks on Russian infrastructure deep behind the front lines.
Artillery Test Creative Commons Photo
The Ukrainian General Staff announced that its forces struck the Orsknefteorgsintez refinery in Orsk, in Russia’s Orenburg region near the border with Kazakhstan.
The military of the Islamic Republic of Iran, we were told at the start of the Iran War, had essentially been obliterated by the United States and Israeli air campaigns.
Yet, that assessment was quickly changed by US intelligence officials.
Iran’s Drones That Russia Is Using. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Iran F-14 Tomcat Fighter. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Rather than mostly having been knocked out by sustained American and Israeli airstrikes, US intelligence experts assessed that maybe only 50 percent of Iran’s missile and drone launch capabilities were destroyed.
The UK Government has published transparency data on MoD departmental spending using electronic purchasing cards, also known as ePCs.
Russia is ramping up its use of North Korean ballistic missiles in its missile attacks. On Monday, the Russians carried out an attack on the city of Zaporizhzhia, which utilized two North Korean Kn-23 (Hwasong-11A) missiles. Moscow has used missiles in some of its prior attacks on Kyiv in the past month. Previously, it was reported that North Korea planned to transfer at least 120 ballistic missiles to Russia along with six launcher platforms and its own personnel.