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Many young athletes have dreams of being the next A’ja Wilson or Jalen Brunson. That’s a nice fantasy—until you’re a military kid playing overseas.
While stateside athletes are grinding in packed gyms, traveling Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) circuits, and getting eyes from recruiters every weekend, military kids overseas are often putting in just as much work… with half the exposure and fewer opportunities.

The U.S. Army has provided a $61 million contract for Lockheed Martin to develop two major upgrades for the MIM-104 Patriot air defence system, namely to develop acontainerised missile launcher and a hemispherical guidance device which will allow the system to engage targets 360 degrees around it. The Army in December 2025 announced that a new variant of the Patriot wouldbe able to engage targets that are not directly in front of its launchers, with the lack of such a capability having previously been a leading shortcoming of the system.

Peter Mitchell, MWI
Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of U.S.

The Strategist

Touring Normandy beaches shortly after D-Day in 1944, General Dwight D Eisenhower reportedly said, ‘If I didn’t have air supremacy, I wouldn’t be here.

Bloomberg
A new global satellite system to alert U.S.

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James Freeman, The Wall Street Journal
Remembering those who saved the nation.

In a recent interview on his new book on the F-35 program, combat aviation expert Abraham Abrams has evaluated how the aircraft compares to the only other Western fifth generation fighter type, the F-22. The F-22 made its first flight and was first brought into service a decade before the F-35 program achieved these same milestones, and was initially expected to serve as a heavier and longer ranged counterpart to the fighter as part of a high-low combination, much as the F-15 did for the F-16 in the previous generation, and as the Chinese J-20 does for the J-35 fifth generation fighter.

Japanese Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has discussed the development of the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) with the program’s CEO, Marco Zoff, stressing that development was “an extremely important project that will determine Japan’s future air capabilities.” Zoff informed the minister that moving the program forward with greater speed was essential. Originating in the United Kingdom as the Tempest program, Japan joined the program in December 2022, while Italy had previously joined as a more minor partner.

The Polish Air Force has received its first three F-35A fifth generation fighters, which landed at the 32nd Tactical Air Base in Lask, making Poland the first former Warsaw Pact state other than Russia itself to field the latest generation of fighter aircraft. Senior Polish political and military leadership figures attended the aircraft’s arrival ceremony, with the F-35 representing the first NATO standard fighter type the country has procured following the U.S. F-16C/D and the South Korean FA-50.