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On June 15 an Israeli air strike destroyed one of the Iranian Air Force’s small fleet of aerial tankers, which are among the highest value aircraft fielded by the service. The aircraft was destroyed at Mashhad Airport in northeast Iran, with Israeli military officials referring to it as “most distant strike since the beginning of the operation.” The airport is located over 2,250 kilometres from Israeli territory, with this strategic depth potentially having led the Iranian Air Force to consider it a safe location to host vulnerable assets.
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The Russian Aerospace Forces have for the first time deployed Tu-160 strategic bombers for sorties against Ukrainian targets, marking the first ever combat sorties flown by aircraft against a state adversary. Russia’s two classes of intercontinental range strategic bomber the Tu-160 and Tu-95 both first saw combat in 2015 launching air strikes against jihadist militants in Syria to support Syrian government counterinsurgency efforts.
The U.S. defense community has developed a healthy obsession with innovation. AI, modeling and simulation, machine learning — these are the buzzwords driving conversations about the future of warfare. But when it comes to integrating these technologies into one of the military’s most valuable tools for strategic insight — the wargame — the defense community would do well to proceed with caution.Over the past few years there has been increasing discussion within the wargaming community about the need to integrate AI, data-driven models, and computer simulations into military wargames.
Marines have spent too much energy in the past five years debating the merits of former Commandant David H. Berger’s Force Design 2030 plan. Force Design is now part of the Marine Corps. It is time for all marines on and off active duty to set aside their disagreements and focus forward, towards the vision articulated by current Commandant Eric M. Smith. And it is time for the allies of the Marine Corps to lean in and support this reorientation. The U.S. Marine Corps is facing a relatively slow moving but all too real existential threat.
Following a second day of ballistic missile strikes on Israeli territory, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps which operates the country’s arsenal has reported the use of “new methods” to accelerate the depletion of Israeli air defences. This was achieved by making anti-missile systems’ surface-to-air missiles shoot down one another, thus also increasing the success rates of missile attacks against Israeli targets.
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A unusually large number of American air refueling aircraft are departing the United States for Europe. These aircraft are used to refuel fighter and bomber aircraft in the air so they do not have to land to get more fuel, therefore extending the range and duration of tactical aircraft.
The U.S. is participating in the 2025 Atlantic Trident exercise (June 16–27) via USAFE-AFAFRICA, deploying F-35As, F-15Es, and KC-135s likely to Finland. However, this number of refueling aircraft is abnormal.
The U.S. Air Force has made an unprecedented mass deployment of KC-135 and KC-46 aerial tankers across the Atlantic from bases on the American mainland, fuelling considerable speculation that the aircraft may be intended to participate in the ongoing Israeli-Iranian War. The number of aircraft has continued to rise, and was reported in the late hours of June 15, West Coast time, to have exceeded 30 tankers.
As the Israeli Air Force’s F-35 fleet continues to play a central role in the country’s air campaign against Iran, which was initiated in the early hours of June 13 with the launch of massive air and missile strikes on the country, assessments of the extensive customisation of Israel’s unique variant of the aircraft have gained growing significance.