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Iran’s Kheibar Shekan medium-range ballistic missile has emerged as one of the most significant challenges to the U.S.-led war effort against the country, with U.S. officials increasingly warning that the weapon’s improving performance and more sophisticated employment are complicating regional missile defence efforts. U.S. officials have reportedly become increasingly concerned not only by the missile itself, but also by the way it is now being employed.

United States President Donald Trump has cast doubt on whether the U.S. will allow Ukraine to manufacture missile interceptors from the MIM-104 Patriot system domestically, despite having earlier pledged to grant production licenses during the NATO Summit in July. Speaking in an interview published on July 30, Trump stated that he was “not sure” the United States should permit production of one of its most advanced missile defence systems in the Eastern European country, citing concerns over transferring sensitive military technology.

Why Moscow Is Using Ballistic Missiles In Huge Numbers: Russia launched yet another major overnight missile and drone assault across Ukraine, killing civilians and destroying residential buildings. Targets spanning Kyiv to the country’s far west were hit as Moscow ramps up its ballistic missile attacks in response to Ukraine’s continued long-range strike campaign against military and energy infrastructure, as well as logistics hubs throughout Russia.

Russian Missiles Destroy U.S.-Owned Drone Plant: A Russian ballistic missile strike has destroyed a drone manufacturing facility in Kyiv operated by U.S.-registered defense technology company Terminal Autonomy.

The strike took place during one of the latest Russian missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital city, as Moscow continues to expand its campaign against Ukraine’s domestic defense industry and military infrastructure.

Russia Is Overwhelming Ukraine’s Air Defenses: Russia’s most recent overnight missile barrage against Kyiv was clearly another attempt at taking advantage of Ukraine’s well-documented shortage of Patriot interceptors — and it worked.

Ukraine said Russia launched 35 missiles overnight, including 27 ballistic missiles, alongside 185 drones. Air defenses intercepted just one of the ballistic missiles, allowing the remainder to strike Kyiv and other regions.

Russia’s Amazon Is Under Immense Pressure: Ukraine’s long-range strike campaign has now gone well beyond Russia’s biggest and most critical oil refineries and is now targeting other pillars of the country’s national economy. Today, Ukrainian long-range drones and missiles are targeting logistics facilities belonging to Wildberries, Russia’s largest online marketplace, disrupting a business that processes more than 20 million orders every day and supports hundreds of thousands of sellers and merchants.

Moscow Publishes Civilian Shelter Maps: Russian authorities have begun publishing maps showing the locations of civilian shelters across parts of the Moscow region – a development that seems to suggest the Russian government is warning of imminent Ukrainian strikes on the nation’s capital.

The news comes as Ukraine continues to expand on its long-range strike campaign, and as Fire Point, the Ukrainian defense company, says that Ukraine could begin striking the capital city with domestically developed ballistic missiles as early as this autumn.

Russian sources have circulated an image showing a previously unseen new sub-variant of the Russian T-80BVM main battle tank, with its armour configuration appearing to provide significantly higher protection levels than prior variants. The T-80 is Russia’s most costly and complex tank design, and benefits from much higher mobility than other types in service, with the world’s highest power to weight ratio due to the integration of a powerful gas turbine engine.

A major initiative to upgrade the B-52 Stratofortress to extend the bomber’s time in service faces delays and cost overruns that could impact readiness, a government watchdog found.
The Government Accountability Office issued a new report on the overhaul’s progress on July 31. The watchdog found that two of the biggest parts of the modernization effort — new engine and radar programs — have “experienced cost increases of more than 30 percent and schedule delays of more than 3 years since the programs began early development.

In late February 2026, the United States and Israel launched a sustained air campaign against Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and decapitated much of the regime’s top leadership. The President of the United States quickly framed the objective in maximalist terms: there would be “no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER” to ensure that Iran “never” acquires a nuclear weapon.