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China’s YY-20 Tanker Increasing The Range Of Its Fighters: China released a military video promoting its newest sixth-generation stealth fighter as it is refueled mid-air by the YY-20 aerial refueling tanker.

This air-refueling capability was one that the PLAAF didn’t possess until this decade, but it is rapidly gaining expertise and experience.

J-36 Fighter in the Sky. Image Credit: X Post.

The YY-20, with a capacity of 90 tons of fuel, enables the Chinese to conduct force projection with their land-based fighters to ranges that were unreachable just a few short years ago.

An old friend pinned a Special Forces tab onto Terry McIntosh’s blue blazer earlier this month during an impromptu celebration at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The tab was a gift from Al Kittredge, a retired Special Forces officer, who presented it to McIntosh to mark the Army’s decision to formally acknowledge McIntosh’s status as an 18-year-old Special Forces soldier in 1968.

After months of anticipation, the figures behind the UK’s Defence Investment Plan have been published following the Prime Minister’s speech.

Harvey Geh, The US Sun AS Kyiv launches a crippling endgame blitz, Vladimir Putin may be forced to end his war in Ukraine in just months, experts say.

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Lockheed Martin has received a $3bn contract from the US Army for the production of Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) rockets.

The UK Government is presenting its long-delayed Defence Investment Plan (DIP), confirming an allocation of £5bn towards the integration of drones and autonomous systems in the armed forces over the next four years.

Ukraine is negotiating with France for a license to build the SCALP cruise missile on its own soil, a step that would hand Kyiv a homemade precision weapon it could produce in quantity and fire into Russia without waiting on an ally’s permission. The talks are early, and the obstacles are real. But the timing is pointed, because the missile would arrive as Russia’s air defenses are showing signs of strain under a relentless Ukrainian campaign, giving Moscow one more kind of threat to guard against across a country it is already struggling to cover.

United States presidents make popular commencement speakers.
As leaders of the free world, they can’t possibly accept every invitation to speak before a graduating class. However, when a military academy offers that opportunity to a president, he tends to accept.
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President John F. Kennedy was no different. He only resided in the White House for slightly less than three years, but he managed to speak at all three major U.S. military academies during his time in office.
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Russian President Putin’s fuel-shortage admission was really an admission that Ukraine has forced Russia into a repair war.

He did not put it that way, of course. He spoke as Russian leaders usually speak when a visible problem can no longer be denied. There were difficulties. They were being managed. The state was acting. The situation was not critical. That was the official line. It was meant to shrink the story.

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