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The H-6 Bomber in One Word: New. That is not a typo, and it is not a joke about relative ages.
The H-6 descends from the Tupolev Tu-16, which first flew in April 1952. But China stopped building H-6s in the early 1990s, when the design was plainly obsolete, and then restarted the production line around 2006. The bulk of the modern force, the K and N models that make up China’s front-line bomber strength, was built after that restart. The outline is seventy years old.
The Department of Defense identified two of the three U.S. troops killed last week in an Iranian attack on a base in Jordan.
The two active duty soldiers were killed when Iranian drones and missiles targeted the base on Friday, July 17. The attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base was part of a wider wave of strikes on installations in the Middle East used by American troops, part of days of back-and-forth fighting between the U.S. and Iran.
Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, was killed July 17, and 1st Lt.
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.