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Stefano D’urso, Aviationist
GA-ASI and the U.S.

J. Trevithick, The WarZone
The USAF is moving to start work on a new ARRW variant able to hit moving targets with an eye toward future fights in the Pacific.

On May 4, 2026, a South Korean vessel came under fire in the Strait of Hormuz, leading President Donald Trump to urge the government in Seoul to join the U.S.-led operation to secure the waterway. The South Korean government politely replied it would “review” the American proposal. The event crystallized a major paradox of the ongoing conflict: The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the worst maritime crisis in decades, is fundamentally an Asian problem, yet Asia is almost entirely absent from the debate over how to resolve it.

An old adage claims a marine’s career came down to the “two or three minutes of a promotions brief.” Turns out that was a little optimistic. In practice, the Marine Corps promotion system decides the institutional worth of a 20‑year career in about 12 minutes of board attention.Imagine the National Football League compressing the seven primary drills of the Scouting Combine — the 40‑yard dash, bench press, vertical and broad jumps, three‑cone drill, 20‑yard shuttle, and 60‑yard shuttle — into a single 12‑minute window.

In May 2025, as Indian BrahMos missile strikes hit Pakistani air bases — targeting runways, parked aircraft, and critical infrastructure — Islamabad faced a choice. It had the capability to respond with its own long-range systems, but it chose not to. Pakistan deliberately withheld the Babur cruise missile, not because it lacked options, but because using a dual-capable system risked signaling nuclear escalation.That moment captures the changing logic of conflict in South Asia. The four-day crisis was intense but contained, defined less by what was used than by what was held back.

CEO of Palantir Technologies Alex Karp has announced that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been using the firm’s technologies as an “operating system for war,” stating that this allowed the battlefield to be managed just like a technology company serves its clients. The only difference is “How many Russian soldiers are killed per square kilometre? Why and how, what means were used, what worked and what didn’t?” This applies right down to the level of individual units, he added. “Ukraine has created one of the most important military defence systems in the world.

The Russian Armed Forces on May 13 conducted a successful test launch of the world’s largest missile, the RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental range ballistic missile (ICBM), which was confirmed by Commander of the Strategic Missile Forces Sergey Karakayev. The commander commented on the launch: “The test results confirmed the correctness of the design and technological solutions, as well as the missile system’s ability to achieve its quality conformance characteristics.

United States intelligence sources speaking to The New York Times have confirmed that Iran has retained approximately 70 percent of its missile arsenal, and has successfully restored operational access to 30 out of 33 missile facilities along the Strait of Hormuz, or 91 percent, and approximately 90% of underground storage facilities and launch pads. New intelligence data indicates that Washington has likely significant overestimated the extent of the damage caused to the Iranian missile arsenal by U.S.

The Austrian Ministry of Defence has confirmed that the Austrian Air Force scrambled Eurofighter combat jets twice in two consecutive days to respond to violations of the country’s airspace by U.S. military aircraft, which entered without clearance. Defence Ministry spokesman Michael Bauer confirmed both incidents publicly, with the first involving a Priority A alert and the deployment of two Eurofighters after two U.S. Air Force PC-12 surveillance and special operations support aircraft aircraft crossed into Austrian airspace at 12:31 on May 10.