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The UK Royal Navy currently operates two conventionally powered supercarriers: The HMS Queen Elizabeth and the HMS Prince of Wales.

The ships are three times the size of the Invincible-class carriers they replaced and can carry F-35B fifth-generation stealth fighters.

HMS Prince of Wales. Image Credit: Royal Navy.

HMS Prince of Wales Aircraft Carrier. Image Credit: Royal Navy.

Queen Elizabeth has made headlines several times, admittedly not always for good reasons.

While the class suffers from reliability issues, there is a lot to say in favor of Britain’s two-carrier fleet.

Russia Is Now Feeling the Heat of the Ukraine War: Ukraine continues its assault on Russian warehouses and logistics hubs, with strikes destroying a major Wildberries warehouse southeast of Moscow overnight into August 26.

The strikes involved hundreds of drones that crossed into Russian territory overnight, while another strike hit one of the country’s largest oil refineries.

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A growing chunk of Saudi oil is now being rerouted amid tensions in the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz.

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President Donald J. Trump watches the liftoff of Artemis II in the Outer Oval Office, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

President Donald J. Trump holds a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room Wednesday, May 27, 2026.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree allowing the state to take control of “critical infrastructure” amid ongoing attacks by Ukraine.

Putin signed the decree on Monday, 24th August, authorizing the Russian government to temporarily run key infrastructure sites across the country that have been subjected to drone assaults by Kyiv.

In recent months, Ukraine has targeted oil and gas refineries, as well as transport, communications and logistics facilities in a bid to disrupt the Russian war effort, subsequently bringing the conflict close to home for everyday Russians.

Ukraine struck a Wildberries logistics hub in the Russian city of Kotovsk, about 310 miles southeast of Moscow in the Tambov region, early Wednesday, according to regional officials and multiple news outlets.

The strike killed at least three people across a broader wave of drone attacks that night and, according to Tambov Governor Yevgeny Pervyshov, “completely” destroyed the warehouse.

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Putin in 2024 Image Credit: Russian Federation

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“Unthreatening and respectful.” That is how the president of the United States described North Korea on Aug. 16, 2026, in his social media post ordering his secretary of defense to scale back joint exercises with South Korea. Two years earlier in Seoul, the U.S.-South Korean alliance agreed that South Korea’s role in an American nuclear operation would involve exercises and training, formalizing those guidelines at a Nuclear Consultative Group meeting co-chaired by Vipin Narang, then-acting assistant secretary of defense for space policy.

The Russian Aerospace Forces have received a new batch of Su-35 long range air superiority fighters, as efforts to further expand the type’s scale of production continue. The number of aircraft in the latest batch is not specified, although it is the third batch to be announced since the beginning of the year, with the delivery of the first and second batches announced in April and May.

Russia and China are rapidly developing capabilities that could challenge the long-standing American lead in space, with recent advances in satellite constellations and reusable rockets highlighting the accelerating competition. The Washington Post recently pointed to two developments in particular: Russia’s rapid deployment of its Rassvet low-Earth-orbit satellite network and China’s successful recovery of the first stage of its Zhuque-3 reusable rocket. Both developments address capabilities that have become central to America’s increasingly commercialised space architecture.

A senior Norwegian commander has warned that Western societies are fundamentally unprepared for a prolonged conflict on the scale and intensity of the war in Ukraine. Brigadier Atle Molde, who commands the Norway-led Task Force Legio responsible for training Ukrainian military personnel, recently warned: “We are not prepared. No Western country’s prepared.” He described avoiding a prolonged war of attrition as one of the most important lessons Norway and other Western countries should draw from Ukraine.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force has demonstrated the growing maturity of its Z-20K medium utility helicopter during the latest China-Belarus Swift Eagle 2026 joint training exercises, with footage released by the service showing the aircraft conducting troop rappelling operations, The exercises have highlighted the Z-20’s expanding role in air assault and counter-terrorism missions.