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Russia Says It Downed 635 Drones as Ukraine Hit an Engels Bomber Base and Oil Sites: Ukraine launched a broad long-range drone attack across a wide arc of Russia on August 2, striking military, energy, and logistics sites across Russia. Deutsche Welle initially reported eight deaths. Later Russian regional figures raised the toll to at least nine, while the full scale of the attack and the damage at several intended targets remained unverified.

Russian officials said four people died in Belgorod.

Putin in 2023. Russian Federation Photo.

Putin back in 2019 at BRICS Summit.

Iran and Oman Are Redesigning the Strait of Hormuz, and the Deal Looks Nothing Like the Ones That Failed: Iran and Oman are close to an agreement on the Strait of Hormuz, and it is unlike anything tried in five months of war.

While nothing is final, progress looks clear.

President Donald J. Trump speaks with members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday, April 16, 2026, en route Joint Base Andrews for a trip to Las Vegas.

J. Trevithick, The WarZone
The Navy has a plan for a revolutionary modular surface-to-air missile arsenal, and submarines are intended to be added as launch platforms.

Lee Willett, Naval News
The U.S.

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.