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The UK has developed an artillery sustainment hub in Sheffield that appears heavily reliant on contracts to sustain Ukrainian systems.

Ukraine continues Sea of Azov attacks: Starting earlier this week, Ukraine’s drone strikes forced Russia to suspend shipping in the Sea of Azov, a major corridor between Russia and Eastern Europe, as 90 vessels were targeted within a week.

“The technological humiliation of the [Russian] empire continues. It will fall because of Crimea,” Ukraine’s drone forces chief, Robert Brovdi, said in a social media post this week.

The Soviet-designed Su-27 all-weather fighter-interceptor was created to counter the American McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle.

Iran Threatens to Block Exports As Hormuz Battle Unfolds: Iran has threatened to stop all oil and natural gas exports from the Middle East following the reimposition of the United States’ naval blockade of its ports and the reignited military campaign against the country. The warning, issued in a statement by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), is one of Tehran’s strongest threats since the fighting over the Strait of Hormuz began and now raises the chances of a global energy shock – precisely the kind of problem U.S.

The Marine Corps has denounced comments made by a Marine veteran running for Congress who posted a video of himself in uniform and made threatening comments directed at President Donald Trump.
William Upham made the comments in a roughly 6-minute video that was posted on his social media accounts earlier this week. Upham is running for Florida’s 5th Congressional District in November as a write-in candidate.
In the video, Upham accused Trump of being the “antichrist” and “the enemy of God.” 
Upham also claimed the president is “your enemy and he must be killed.

Between 1948 and 1958, Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands was the site of 43 nuclear bomb tests, including the U.S. military’s first hydrogen bomb detonation. In 1977, the Army sent Robert Celestial, a heavy equipment operator, to the islands to help clean up the nuclear waste.
“My job was to transfer radiated debris from one island to the dome that is there now, Runit Dome,” Celestial said. “I have photographs where we’re inside the crater inside the pond, and all the way up their waist, up their chests, and we didn’t realize that we were in a nuclear detonation [zone].

The war between the United States and Iran appears to have restarted, this time mostly taking the form of a standoff over the Strait of Hormuz.

According to Fox News, the U.S. has launched new strikes on Iran, while also launching a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s IRGC, in turn, has threatened to shut down other waterways.

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Ken Wilsbach takes off in an F-22 Raptor from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, May 13, 2026.

Elevated by its new status as an official Pentagon Field Activity, the Defense Innovation Unit is maturing with funding and permanence under the leadership of its new director, Owen West, who welcomes the pressure his team is under to speedily deliver “measurable” weaponry and combat power to the U.S. military.
“This could be my last job — I don’t care. I just want to make sure that we get drones in the hands of troops, and we build up a capability in space that cannot be matched for 10 years by our enemies,” West told DefenseScoop.

A premature newborn with elevated lead levels, a child who missed nearly half the school year because of mold-related illness, and families reporting electrical fires, flooding and cockroaches infesting kitchen appliances.
These are among the allegations outlined in a scathing new report released by U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff’s office, which details accounts from military families living in privatized housing at Fort Stewart and Fort Benning who say unsafe living conditions put their health and safety at risk.

The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) says it carried out strikes on Iran for 90 minutes early Wednesday afternoon between 1330 and 1500 hours, as the US tries to exert control over the critical Strait of Hormuz.

The strikes followed attacks overnight, which Tehran said killed at least seven military personnel in the southeast of Iran.

ARABIAN SEA (Dec. 14, 2018) The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis transits the Arabian sea with the Essex Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU). The John C.

BAE Systems has completed integration and deployment testing for its Anti Threat System (BATS), a counter-drone technology developed by the company’s Digital Intelligence business.