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North Korea Has Become Critical to Russia’s War, Sending 14,000 Troops and Millions of Shells: North Korea has promised to support Russia until Moscow achieves victory in Ukraine, turning a relationship once denied by both governments into an openly declared military partnership. Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui made the pledge during a July 19 meeting with President Vladimir Putin, according to NK News.
Putin thanked North Korea for supporting Russia’s military operations.
With eyes on the future Army, Marine Corps and U.S. Special Operations Command missions, Anduril has developed an autonomous attack rotorcraft prototype designed to fly alongside military helicopters.
Unveiled on Monday during the Farnborough Air Show, Thunder is a group 5 unmanned tiltrotor helicopter that can function as a loyal wingman drone much like the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) being developed for fighter jets. According to Anduril President Chris Brose, the drone is specifically designed for “maneuver warfare” — like the tactical, air-ground littoral fights in Ukraine.
Anduril UK is displaying a baseline model of its new autonomous combat rotorcraft known as Thunder at Farnborough this week.
Big. That is the most useful single word for the aircraft the world calls the J-36, and it is the only descriptor that rests on something anyone has seen rather than inferred. Stealth is an assumption from its shape. Sixth-generation is a label with no agreed-upon definition. Fighter may not even be the right category. But size can be measured from photographs, and the J-36 is enormous.
Trump Said the Iran War Would End Quickly. 17 U.S. Troops Are Dead, and the Mission Keeps Expanding: President Donald Trump faces a more difficult Iran endgame after another round of American troop deaths and a widening U.S. campaign across the Persian Gulf. A CNN examination of the administration’s strategy identified the central problem: Washington is striking more targets, protecting more regional infrastructure, and sustaining more casualties without defining the political outcome that would end the war.
Seventeen U.S. service members have died since the conflict began on Feb. 28.
China’s J-20 Mighty Dragon Stealth Fighter, Explained in One Word: Fifteen years after a gray prototype lifted off in Chengdu and embarrassed a visiting American defense secretary, China’s first stealth fighter has become the most consequential military aircraft of its generation that has never fired a shot in anger. One word explains why.
One Word: Momentum
J-20 on the Tarmac. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
J-20 Fighter Image. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
If you had to break down the J-20 Mighty Dragon in a single word, it would be momentum.
Russia Says Ukraine Sent More Than 400 Drones Toward Moscow as Fires Spread Near the Capital: Russia says Ukraine sent more than 400 drones toward Moscow and the surrounding region overnight into July 20, wounding 10 people and setting buildings on fire. A Reuters report on the attack said fires and damage were reported in Domodedovo, south of the capital, while smoke rose over Podolsk.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the operation ran from about 8:30 p.m. until 5 a.m. and that 85 drones were destroyed while approaching the capital.
Funding appears to be an issue for the British Army’s plans to replace its 105mm artillery and 81mm mortar with a new 120mm mortar solution.
Somewhere, a hard drive is filling up with secrets no one can read yet, and its owner is waiting for the machine that opens them all at once. On March 30, 2026, that wait got shorter.Two independent research teams lowered the public estimates for breaking the encryption that secures banking, communications, and classified traffic. One showed that Shor’s algorithm, the quantum method for factoring the large numbers behind public-key encryption, could run at cryptographically relevant scale with as few as 10,000 reconfigurable neutral-atom qubits.
The secretary of defense’s November announcement on acquisition reform laid out an unprecedented vision across the entire acquisition spectrum to improve the delivery speed of critical capabilities to our warfighters. One foundational pillar is the implementation of a commercial first policy, which laid out several initiatives: leveraging existing but less often used acquisition authorities, maximizing non-traditional contract vehicles, and increasing the use of more flexible solicitations. Most critically, it drives a commercial solution-first paradigm.