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Stew Magnuson, NatDefense
Cost overruns and schedule delays have put the program to replace the B-52 Stratofortress’ engines some $3 billion over budget

Burak Oktenli, RCDefense
The Joint Force Is Buying Autonomy Faster Than It Can Measure Whether It Can Fight Without It

K. Toropin & G.A. Angueira, AP
The U.S. Marine Corps says the pilot of an F-35B stealth fighter is expected to live after ejecting from the jet before it crashed in California.

The British Army’s Light Mobility Vehicle programme will replace the in-service Land Rover and Pinzgauer utility vehicle fleets.

The head of a Ukrainian company involved in the development of long-range strike systems has fuelled speculation regarding ambitions to field missiles capable of reaching targets far beyond the current battlefield, after issuing a public message threatening Iran. Denys Shtylerman, head of the Ukrainian defence company Fire Point, which produces the FP-5 Flamingo missile family, published an illustration on social media depicting a flock of pink flamingos flying along a trajectory between Ukraine and Iran.

The release of the Chinese open-weight AI model Kimi K3 has compressed a year’s worth of unresolved AI policy debate into a single news cycle. On July 21, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened sanctions against Chinese labs found to have built their models on “theft,” reporting that the government is “finding watermarks of our U.S. large language models on many of the Chinese models.

Current conversations surrounding unconventional weapons — chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear — have become so fantastical as to be unserious. As the Chinese military fundamentally rethinks biological warfare and Russia continues to use chloropicrin in Ukraine, hypothetical scenarios of AI-enabled bioweapons dominate the headlines. If national security leaders and unconventional weapons experts continue to prioritize latent potentialities of emerging technology over current trends, U.S.

The Polish Air Force’s final MiG-29 fighter aircraft in service are being considered for transfer to Ukraine, which may reportedly be made in exchange for access to Ukrainian-developed drone and missile technologies. The MiG-29s are nearing the end of their operational service in the Polish Air Force, as the service prepares to replace them with South Korean FA-50 light combat aircraft.

The Peruvian Defence Ministry’s Technical and Operational Analysis Committee has recommended the South Korean K2 Black Panther as the preferred candidate for the Peruvian Army’s next generation main battle tank. The recommendation follows an extensive evaluation in which the K2 outperformed competing offers of German Leopard 2 and United States M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks, with the three tank types all having had comparable costs.

British defence manufacturer BAE Systems has begun production of the first Eurofighter Tranche 4 combat jets to equip the Turkish Air Force, providing the service with its first ‘4+ generation’ fighters to modernise its currently obsolete fleet. Manufacturing has commenced at BAE Systems’ facilities in Warton and Samlesbury in northwest England, with components also being produced by the Eurofighter consortium’s industrial partners across Europe. Initial deliveries are expected to begin in 2030, with production spread over several years.