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The Algerian Air Force has reportedly procured Chinese HQ-17 short-range air defence systems, marking a further milestone in the expansion China’s market share in Africa’s most heavily armed country. Algeria’s extensive investment in ground-based air defences has seen it both expand procurements of Russian systems, and increasingly rely on Chinese equipment which has in many cases provided a more advanced alternative.

Movies, shows, and books have long been at the forefront of imagining the future of war. If you were to picture the “future soldier,” you’d likely picture the genetically engineered super soldiers that have captivated — and horrified — audiences for decades. Soldiers have been depicted as being engineered or bred for super strength or speed, intense rage or cold calculation, and even half-human, half-machine.While Hollywood’s most alarmist visions for the future soldier are nothing more than fantasy, advances in technologies and AI are pushing the frontier of soldier technologies.

Pyongyang has a long history of conducting irregular warfare and asymmetric operations: Look no further than the 1968 Blue House raid or the 1996 submarine incursion as the most pressing examples. More often than not, North Korea failed to achieve the intended objectives of its missions and lost its commandos. Despite failures, the regime pressed on, and now, over thirty years after the sub incursion, it has the combat experience of its special operations forces in Kursk to leverage.

United States Air Force F-35 stealth fighters are set to participate in India’s multinational Tarang Shakti 2026 air exercise, marking the first time the fifth generation aircraft will conduct tactical missions alongside Indian fighters from an Indian airbase. The exercise is scheduled to begin on September 26 at Jodhpur Air Force Station in Rajasthan, approximately 200 kilometres from the Pakistani border, and will continue through October 12. The F-35s will operate alongside a broad range of Indian combat aircraft, including the Su-30MKI, Rafale, Tejas and Mirage 2000.

The United States Air Force has received its first two unmanned fighter aircraft, marking a major milestone in the service’s effort to introduce semi-autonomous combat aircraft into operational units. The General Atomics FQ-42 Vengeance and Anduril FQ-44 Fury have arrived at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, where Air Combat Command will conduct operational experimentation to determine how the aircraft can be employed alongside crewed fighters.

General Electric Aerospace has provided a glimpse of what could eventually become one of the most radical American military aircraft concepts since the 1960s, showcasing a futuristic hypersonic aircraft powered by its dual-mode ramjet technology. A video released by General Electric Aerospace in 2025 depicted a sleek high-speed aircraft accompanied by the slogan, “Everything seems impossible…until it isn’t,” prompting speculation that the company could be envisioning an aircraft capable of operating at speeds far beyond those achieved any existing military aircraft.