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Canada has established a new national Defence Drone Initiative Marketplace (DDIM), aiming deepen security collaboration with Ukraine.

The Yak-130M light fighter attracted significant interest from African and Asian countries at the El Alamein International Airshow 2026 in Egypt, according to PJSC Yakovlev test pilot Alexander Guskov. “Here at the exhibition [in Egypt], the African continent is showing a great deal of interest. Asia is also very interested in it,” he stated. He added that the main focus of the aircraft’s modernisation was on improving its combat capabilities. The Yak-130 serves as both a lightweight fighter and as an advanced trainer, and is considered a direct competitor to the U.S.

The changes were chaotic at first. They were even terrifying for many. Then, they became more and more gradual. As time went on, many Americans went about their lives, barely registering the idea that the fabric of our society had taken a very deep, often dark turn.

When American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center, millions of Americans instinctively thought it was a horrible accident. Then the second plane struck, and we realized grave coincidences are for the naïve.
Al-Qaida’s attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, in New York, at the Pentagon, and on United Flight 93 in Pennsylvania initiated two decades of conflict. We fought in Afghanistan and Iraq and, when al-Qaida’s genie escaped the bottle, on the Arabian Peninsula, in Africa, and globally.
Whether those wars achieved durable political objectives is, at best, debatable.

Aerial refueling tankers are the backbone of U.S. airpower, but the tanker fleet is falling apart. Most of the jets are KC-135s, which are over 60 years old, and the jet that’s supposed to replace them, the KC-46, is plagued by development issues and is already running low on spare parts.
With no let-up in operational tempo, it’s becoming more difficult for the Air Force to maintain its tanker fleet. That’s the main takeaway from a Government Accountability Office report published earlier this year.

The US Department of State has cleared a possible $140m Foreign Military Sale of four UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters to Argentina.

Air Force Maj. Kenneth Cordier, an experienced military aviator, knew something was wrong almost immediately. His F-4C Phantom II began thumping, and Cordier soon realized he couldn’t control the aircraft.
The North Vietnamese launched a surface-to-air missile that struck Cordier’s jet in early December 1966. The impact occurred when the F-4C Phantom II was about 24,000 feet above the ground and flying at a speed of 575 mph.
Cordier, who was on his 176th combat mission, informed his co-pilot, Mike Lane, that they had to eject.

The Chunmoo MLRS has been developed by Hanwha Aerospace and in currently in service with South Korea and international militaries.

WSJ
Fluidstack, an AI infrastructure company, is being advised on the loan by the bank started by Palmer Luckey, an early supporter of Donald Trump

Samantha Alexa, Military AI
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