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Footage from Iran has confirmed the shootdown of a seventeenth U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone, as the Iranian Armed Forces continue to take a toll on U.S. and Israeli aircraft operating in or near the country’s territory. MQ-9s are capable of both attack and reconnaissance operations, and have been involved in higher risk missions to penetration deep into hostile airspace to collect data as part of the broader air campaign launched on February 28.

L Todd Wood and former Special Mission Unit Commander Pete Blaber discuss Iran and Ukraine conflicts.
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Footage has confirmed the successful shootdown of an F-16 fighter aircraft by Iranian air defences near Qeshm Island on April 2, as the Iranian Armed Forces have continued to rely heavily on infrared guided short and medium range surface-to-air missile systems to engage hostile aircraft. The United States Air Force and the Israeli Air Force both rely on the F-16 as their primary workhorses for air offensives, leaving considerable uncertainty regarding which country’s fighter may have been destroyed. The U.S.

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General Randy A. George will be retiring from his position as the 41st Chief of Staff of the Army effective immediately.
Sources tell AFP that George was suspected of leaking information and resisting change directed by Pentagon leadership.
“I suspect he was shown to be the fraud and sycophant he is and probably doing Milley kind of stuff talking to the wrong people,” said one source.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked Gen. Randy George, the chief of staff of the Army, to step down and retire, according to a defense official who confirmed a Thursday CBS News report on the four-star’s ouster as accurate and the Pentagon’s chief spokesperson.
George’s removal as the Army’s top officer comes amid the war with Iran, which has surpassed its first month, and follows a string of senior military official firings by Hegseth since the beginning of the second Trump administration.

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George has been asked to retire, according to news reports that were confirmed by a Pentagon official.
As the chief of staff, George is the highest-ranking uniformed official for the service. His removal at the behest of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was first reported by CBS News.
“We can confirm the CBS report is true,” a Defense Department official said in a statement. “Nothing further to provide at the moment.”
Chef Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell also issued a statement on Thursday confirming that George is retiring.

The Space Force is consolidating developmental and operational testing phases for some of its new systems in order to accelerate fielding timelines, and is now looking ahead to recruit even more testers to meet the service’s demands, according to officials.
To get the new tech into the field faster, the Space Force is creating teams comprising acquisition officers, test officials and operators at the beginning of a program’s evaluation phase, Deputy Chief of Space Operations Lt. Gen. Douglas Schiess said Wednesday.

The Pentagon has placed increasing emphasis on adopting commercial tech to accelerate the pace at which the U.S. military can put the latest and greatest tools in the hands of warfighters.
But that doesn’t mean it’s a perfect fit for every use case, a panel of Defense Department leaders said Thursday at the MongoDB Public Sector Summit, produced by FedScoop.

Since the war against Iran began on Feb. 28, the U.S. military has provided updates on how many targets have been struck, how many Iranian ships have been sunk, and how many combat sorties have been flown.
But no one in the U.S. government seems to be able to say how the war ends and what comes next.
We’ve been here before. U.S. troops routed the Taliban in 2001, but that wasn’t enough. They stayed for 20 years in a failed attempt to turn Afghanistan into a democracy, even though top U.S. officials knew the mission was hopeless. The U.S.

The F-22 and F-35 Have What Might Be a Forward Basing Problem 
The United States built the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II to dominate contested airspace, and technically, both aircraft remain among the most capable fighters ever made. But the conditions they were designed for – secure forward bases and relatively short operating distances – are rapidly disappearing. In today’s evolving strategic environment, defined by long-range missile proliferation and vast operational theaters, the issue is no longer whether these aircraft can win in the air.