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Ukrainian Drone Attacks Continue to Hammer Moscow: Ukraine continued with its massive, coordinated attack on the Russian capital over the weekend, launching more than 400 drones toward the region.
The strikes—one of the largest of the war—targeted logistics centers, oil and gas facilities, and warehouses, killing several people and wounding dozens, while setting multiple buildings ablaze.
Eve Sampson, Air Force Times
. . . one defense company is betting that the workload of fighter pilots will swell far beyond flying an aircraft to include directing swarms of drones.
Kris Osborn, Warrior Maven
Decoupling software from hardware allows the Pentagon to rapidly upgrade stealth bombers and fighters, breaking proprietary barriers to ensure seamless data…
T. Novelly, Defense One
The defense firm unveiled work on an autonomous tiltrotor just weeks after winning Air Force’s CCA contract.
Trevithick, TWZ
Issues tied to Zumwalt’s hugely powerful hybrid-electric power plant and other factors have set back its return to the fleet.
Zelensky Fired Ukraine’s Popular Defense Minister. Now Protesters Want His Top General Gone – President Volodymyr Zelensky is trying to contain a military and political crisis after dismissing Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, a popular reformer identified with Ukraine’s drone program and procurement changes. A New York Times report on the dispute said Zelensky was weighing further changes as public anger shifted toward Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander in chief of Ukraine’s armed forces.
Russia Struck a Corn Ship Off Odesa With 3 Cruise Missiles, Killing 10: Russia struck a civilian cargo ship carrying corn off Ukraine’s Odesa coast with three cruise missiles, killing 10 people, Ukrainian officials said on July 20. The death toll was the highest from a recent series of attacks on Black Sea shipping, according to a Reuters report from Odesa.
The Guinea-Bissau-flagged vessel had a 17-member crew from India and Syria. Ukraine’s navy said the missiles caused a fire while the ship was carrying corn near the southern port city.
Canada will expand its fleet of Armoured Combat Support Vehicles (ACSVs) with an order for 190 new units from General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada under a partnership announced by Prime Minister Mark Carney.
The H-20 in One Word: Invisible – China announced a stealth bomber in 2016. Ten years later, no photograph of it has been confirmed, no flight acknowledged, and no airframe shown in public. The word fits, but not for the reason Beijing wanted.
Meet the H-20
Invisible. Not in the way the engineers intended. The Xi’an H-20 is meant to be a low-observable flying-wing bomber, so invisibility is the entire design brief. But a decade after Beijing announced the program, the aircraft is invisible in a much more basic sense. Nobody outside China has ever confirmed seeing one.