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Footage from southern Lebanon has over several weeks confirmed that the Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah is continuing to launch successful strikes on Israeli Army targets, primarily armour, as high intensity hostilities between the two parties continue. Reports on April 30 confirmed that an first person view (FPV) drone strike on an Israeli Army M548 tracked vehicle caused a large explosion which resulted in 12 Israeli casualties, with videos published from the scene appearing to show ongoing secondary detonations of ammunition. The vehicle had been carrying 155mm shells for U.S.

It’s a Cold War-era bomber developed in the 1970s, but the Russians aren’t giving up on it. The MACH 2 Tu-160M Blackjack strike aircraft is a massive “White Swan” that can swoop in for the kill, making the enemy duck for cover in fear. The Russians have already acquired two brand new Tu-160Ms at the end of 2025 and the beginning of 2026. One reason for this is not that the Tu-160M is a modern marvel, but that the Russian air force has few other options for deep-strike missions.

The United States once had to hold its breath on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. There were delays and cost overruns. Accidents plagued the program. The huge expense of building out the fleet still stings. Many foreign partners stood up and ordered the fifth-generation jet, though. Israel was one ally that has made their version of the F-35 Lightning II, an almost invisible hot rod that can dominate the airspace. The Israelis call their F-35I the Adir, which means “Mighty One,” and oh, how mighty this airplane is.

The U.S. Air Force’s decision to deploy F-22 Raptor stealth fighters to the Philippines for Exercise Cope Thunder 26-1 has been described in different ways by analysts, with some suggesting it was more symbolic than anything. But that assessment may miss the point.

The deployment – conducted from April 6 to April 17, 2026, with flight operations centered on Basa Air Base – was never about proving the F-22 could win a war with China on its own.

Back last December, MBDA and Lockheed Martin, the U.S. prime contractor for the F-35 Lightning II fifth-generation stealth fighter, “completed a series of critical ground-based integration tests” to bring the Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) closer to operational use on the F-35A.

Testing at Edwards AFB included ground-vibration work and internal bay fit checks to confirm that the missile can be safely stowed and deployed from the F-35A’s internal weapons bay, preserving the aircraft’s valuable stealth profile.

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As photographs of the first “two” U.S. Air Force B-21 bombers blast onto the public scene, most observers can only speculate about the mysterious, yet paradigm-changing suite of technologies said to be woven into the platform.

There is, by design, very little information available about the platform’s critical technical elements that are less visible to the observer’s eyes.

A B-21 Raider is unveiled at Northrop Grumman’s manufacturing facility on Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, Dec. 2, 2022.

As the Pentagon goes all-in on “drone dominance,” the U.S. military must pivot away from existing service-by-service stovepipes and institute a connected, joint approach to deploying autonomous and robotics assets in warfare, according to Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle.
“I want to be direct on something here — the Navy and Marine Corps should not be independently building two versions of the same autonomous future,” Caudle said onstage Thursday morning at the Modern Day Marine conference.

Congress has cleared the way for the Coast Guard to be funded again after the House of Representatives approved a spending bill on Thursday for most of the Department of Homeland Security. The move should restore paychecks to nearly 10,000 civilian employees of the service, and reopen a wide range of benefits for Coast Guard members, from moving expenses to college tuition plans.
The move comes after a 76-day funding fight that has been a grueling experience for members of the Coast Guard and their families.

Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below.***IranThree weeks since a ceasefire took effect, the United States and Iran have shifted from open hostilities to unsuccessful negotiations to economic brinksmanship. The Trump administration has been squeezing Tehran on two parallel fronts: A naval blockade physically subduing its maritime trade, complemented by increasing sanctions pressure against its oil and banking networks.

The T-95 was a Russian experimental fourth-generation main battle tank (MBT) developed by Uralvagonzavod. The T-95 was supposed to revolutionize armored warfare with advanced features and formidable firepower, but was canceled in 2010.

Planned to be equipped with a 152 mm smoothbore main gun capable of launching guided missiles and firing high-explosive rounds, the T-95 would have had immense firepower, much more than any other MBT in the world.

T-95 Tank. Image Credit: Creative Commons.