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Greece is preparing to leapfrog Turkey in a qualitative arms race that has been simmering for decades. By 2030, the Hellenic Air Force expects to field roughly 200 combat-ready fighter jets—including 20 F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters, advanced Block 70/72 F-16 “Vipers,” and Dassault Rafale F3R aircraft—giving Greece an air force second only to Israel in the region.

Greece Has a Really Big Air Force 
Greece operates an eclectic mix of fighter aircraft, including F-16s with Block 70/72 “Viper” upgrades, Dassault Rafales, Mirage 2000-5s, and F-4E Phantoms.

The U.S. Navy’s legendary F-14 Tomcat was actually designed from the very beginning to drop bombs—it just took the Navy decades to actually use it that way. By the twilight of its career, the “Bombcat” was hauling laser-guided munitions over Bosnian Serb targets during Operation Deliberate Force in 1995, finally living up to its multirole potential before retirement in 2006.

Meet the F-14 Tomcat Bombcat Fighter That Could Be a Bomber 
The  U.S. Navy’s F-14 Tomcat and the U.S. Air Force’s F-15 Eagle are two of the most legendary fourth-generation jet fighters.

In 1997, the U.S. military quietly purchased 21 Soviet MiG-29 fighters from the tiny Eastern European country of Moldova—not from Russia, but from a poor former Soviet republic that couldn’t afford to maintain them. The reason had nothing to do with using the jets operationally and everything to do with one fear: Iran wanted the MiG-29s to carry nuclear weapons.

The Forgotten 1997 Deal Where the U.S. Bought 21 MiG-29 Fighters to Block Iran

MiG-29 Fighter U.S. Air Force Museum July 2025. Image Credit: National Security Journal.

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Japan’s Taigei-class submarine—the “Big Whale”—is the first submarine class designed entirely around lithium-ion batteries, abandoning traditional Air-Independent Propulsion altogether. At just $700 million per boat compared to $3-4 billion per nuclear attack submarine, the Taigei is a cost-effective asymmetric counter to China’s expanding navy in the First Island Chain.

The Taigei-Class Explained 
The Taigei-class, or ‘big whale’,  is Japan’s newest attack submarine.

U.S. and Moroccan forces are conducting search and rescue operations after two U.S. Army soldiers went missing after taking part in a training exercise in Morocco on Saturday. 
On Sunday, U.S. Africa Command reported that two American service members who were participating in the ongoing African Lion 2026 exercise at the Cap Draa Training Area near the city of Tan Tan had been reported missing on May 2 after an unspecified incident. 
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China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy is now the world’s largest by hull count—and Beijing’s shipbuilding capacity is reportedly 230 times that of the United States. The U.S. Navy still holds the qualitative edge in aircraft carriers, submarines, and combat experience, but every trend line is moving in the wrong direction.

China’s Navy Is Bigger Than the U.S. Navy 
The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is a highly capable force and the world’s largest navy by hull count, designed primarily for anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) operations in the Western Pacific.

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Following successful Ukrainian strike on Shagol Airfield in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region, which was reported by Ukrainian and Western sources to have destroyed Su-57 fifth generation fighters and Su-34 strike fighters, multiple Russian and Western analysts have noted that the attack is unlikely to have destroyed any serially produced Su-57s, and appears to have instead destroyed flight prototypes.

North Korean state media has published images confirming the delivery of captured NATO military equipment to the country, after the Korean People’s Army was deployed from late 2024 to help Russian forces repel a Ukrainian and Western assault into the Russian Kursk region. NATO member states have supplied armaments to Ukraine on an outstandingly large scale, providing considerable opportunities for Russia’s defence sector to analyse equipment such as U.S. M1 Abrams and German Leopard 2A6 tanks, U.S. Javelin anti-tank missile systems, and U.S. Excalibur precision guided artillery rounds.