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Summary and Key Points: Steve Balestrieri, a national security columnist and former U.S. Army Special Forces officer, evaluates the EA-18G Growler’s decisive role in Operation Epic Fury.

-Operating from the USS Gerald R. Ford and USS Abraham Lincoln, 18 Growlers are currently suppressing Iranian S-300 and S-400 integrated air defense systems.

An E/A-18G Growler, attached to Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 141, taxis on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73), while underway in the Indian Ocean, July 24, 2025.

Summary and Key Points: Dr. Brent M. Eastwood, a defense analyst and former U.S. Army Infantry officer, evaluates the potential deployment of the B-52 Stratofortress in Operation Epic Fury.

-While the B-2 Spirit conducted initial night strikes with 2,000-pound munitions, the B-52 offers a massive “stand-off” advantage utilizing AGM-158 JASSM-ER cruise missiles with a 571-mile range.

U.S. Airmen assigned to the 96th Expeditionary Bomber Generation Squadron salute the crew of a B-52H Stratofortress aircraft as they begin to taxi at Morón Air Base, Spain, Nov.

Some call them “kamikaze” drones, evoking the image of Japanese suicide attacks on the U.S. Navy toward the end of World War II. The U.S. military seems to prefer the unintentionally hilarious term “one-way” drone.
No matter what you call it, America’s newest weapon, dubbed the Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System, or LUCAS drone, is now being employed for the first time ever, according to The War Zone.

In the past few years, many a defense analyst has spent countless sleepless, sweaty nights worrying about the future of drone warfare. The era of exquisite air defense is passing gently into that good night. Counter-drone tech is still struggling to keep up.
For decades, the Pentagon and its allies operated under the wonderful delusion that air superiority was a birthright, bought with billion-dollar toys and protected by $4 million interceptors.

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ST Engineering has obtained a contract from Barzan Maintenance Shield to deliver MRO services for the Qatar Emiri Land Forces.

Four American service members were killed, and others were “seriously wounded” during U.S. military operations against Iran, U.S. Central Command officials said.
The deaths of three service members were initially announced over the weekend, but CENTCOM officials said early Monday that a fourth, who was “seriously wounded during Iran’s initial attacks, eventually succumbed to their injuries.

Space Force guardians have been expanding their terrestrial and orbital infrastructure for months, and this month they gained a new asset: a satellite that will let them train in the kind of “orbital warfare” the service wants to master.
The satellite launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida on Feb. 12.