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E. Gossrow, Naval News
General Dynamics Electric Boat has shared a photo showing the first completed Virginia Payload Module (VPM) for the U.S.

Michael Peck, Navy Times
China is devoting enormous efforts — from submarines to ballistic missiles — to destroy America’s aircraft carriers

Global Defense News
MARTAC partnered with SŌLACE Boats to add production capacity for 100 Devil Ray unmanned surface vessels per year

An Italian Air Force Eurofighter was reportedly destroyed during a Yemeni Ansurullah Coalition attack on King Fahd Air Base near Ta’if, Saudi Arabia, marking the latest escalation in attacks against foreign military forces operating in the kingdom. Italy’s Defence Minister Guido Crosetto confirmed that the aircraft was struck while parked at the base. The aircraft was located in a non-central or remote area of the base when it was hit, indicating that it was specifically targeted.

Washington is preparing for the right war, but in the wrong theater. For years, U.S. strategic thinking has centered on the Indo‑Pacific: the militarized atolls of the South China Sea, China’s churning naval shipyards, and the tense waters of the Taiwan Strait. Yet the next phase of competition will likely play out on the Eurasian landmass, contested through pipelines, swing states, and shifting alignments along routes that overlap with the ancient Silk Road. This is where China is building alternative trade and energy corridors beyond the immediate reach of U.S. military power.

Russian state defence conglomerate Rostec has taken the El Alamein International Airshow in Egypt as an opportunity to showcase the extreme range of its Su-57 fifth generation fighter, flying the aircraft to the Northeast African country on internal fuel, and subsequently operating it at the airshow without the need to refuel first. “The Russian fifth generation Su-57E fighter demonstrated exceptional flight range with internal fuel tanks. The Su-57E flew to the El Alamein International Airshow in Egypt using internal fuel tanks located inside the cargo bay.

Footage released on Chinese social media has for the first time shown the sixth generation fighter under development by the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation in flight testing with a radar, as indicated by the colouring of its randome. Fighters integrating radars in testing have consistently used light grey randomes, with the new colour indicating that the program has progressed to the next stage of flight testing.

U.S. Africa Command recently set up its own Defense Economics Office to explore modern policy reforms, new ways to disrupt adversaries’ revenue streams and other money-related activities that can generate concrete security impacts, as it pivots to a significantly smaller physical presence across the African continent.
“A lot of times just the economic investment that we have done [with our African partners] is what provides us the ability to gain access or to be able to bring in ships and fueling, [and] allows us to be able to have that communication,” Africom commander Gen.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The Space Force is making headway on two efforts the service says will modernize how the Defense Department tracks airborne and ground-based moving targets.
The first Space-Based Airborne Moving Target Indicator (SB-AMTI) prototypes will be launched into low-Earth orbit before the end of September, Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink announced Monday. The upcoming mission comes after the Space Force tapped SpaceX in May to field an operational constellation by 2028.
“We are applying the same approach to proliferating constellations.