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The U.S. military is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if President Donald Trump orders an attack, two U.S.
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The 2026 U.S. National Defense Strategy mentions access to Greenland as essential for the defense of the U.S. homeland.
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ADM Daryl Caudle issued a direct call for transparent contracting with the maritime industrial base.
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In 1989, a group of Marine Corps officers and civilian military theorists wrote several professional military journal articles describing a new wave of…
Images circulating on Chinese social media have provided a rare look at the rarest fighter type in Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force service, the Su-35, flying in formation and equipped for air-to-air combat. One of the images showed Su-35s escorting a PLA Air Force Y-20 strategic transport, which is currently the largest military transport in production worldwide, while another showed the fighters equipped with R-77-1 active radar guided air-to-air missiles, R-73/74 infrared guided missiles built for visual range combat, and Khibiny electronic warfare pods.
As the United States has continued to stage a large scale military buildup in the Middle East, with the apparent goal of preparing for large scale military action against Iran, the possibly of U.S. security partners playing roles in hostilities has remained high. Leaders across the Western Bloc, and particularly in Europe, have expressed clear support for the goal of topping the Iranian state, while the United Kingdom has deployed forces including fighter aircraft to the Middle East which are poised to provide support.
The Indian Advanced Multirole Combat Aircraft (AMCA) fifth generation fighter program has faced further delays, with the first flight of the AMCA Mk1 prototype having been postponed. The aircraft was initially planned to make its first flight in 2028 or 2029, before entering service in 2033 or 2034, with the Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation now planning to operationalise it only in 2034 or 2035.No prototypes or components of the aircraft have been publicly revealed to date, raising serious questions regarding its viability.
Chinese commercial satellite imagery has confirmed a surge in U.S. Air Force deployments of KC-135 aerial refuelling tankers to Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, with at least 16 of the aircraft seen at runways at the facility. The release of the images closely coincides with the exposure of the exact positions of a U.S. Army MIM-104 Patriot air defence system at the Al Udeid Air Base, and follows the publication of Chinese commercial satellite imagery from the Chinese satellite company MizarVisionconfirming the deployment of a U.S.
The U.S. Air Force has maintained its small B-2 strategic bomber squadron at a higher-than-usual alert status, according to a February 13 report by the New York Times, as the possibility of strikes on Iranian targets continue to be seriously considered, and as the U.S. Armed Forces have continued to stage a large military buildup of shorter ranged assets in the Middle East.