The official publication of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has announced a new AI-assisted task dispatch smart artificial intelligence system for its aerial tankers, which has streamlined its aerial refuelling operations to improve efficiency and safety. Referred to as the Aerial Refuelling Area Management System, it is reported to have first been introduced during training in late 2025. The system monitors real-time airspace situations, employing built-in algorithms to automatically calculate real-time fuel levels for all participating aircraft within the area.
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The second of two Chinese Type 052B class destroyer, the Wuhan, has completed its refit and been brought back into the People’s Liberation Army Navy, as part of a program to enhance older warship types across the fleet through integration of new weaponry, sensors and electronics. The most significant change is the removal of the twin-arm surface-to-air missile launcher integrating missiles from the Russian BuK system, and their replacement with a 32-cell vertical launch system integrating significantly more modern and longer ranged HHQ-16 medium range surface-to-air missiles.
The United States has made major progress in technical negotiations with India for the production of U.S. F414 fighter engines in the country under license, concluding an agreement for an 80 percent technology transfer that will significantly bolster the South Asian state’s engine industry. General Electric Aerospace and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited are cooperating closely to begin production of the F414 by the end of 2027. The engine is intended to power an enhanced variant of the Tejas lightweight fighter, the Tejas Mk2.
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy’s Eastern Theater Command has organised a formation of ships to transit the Yokoate Waterway and conduct routine training exercises in the Western Pacific, shortly following the conclusion of ajoint combat readiness patrol in the East China Sea. The waterway is a strategic maritime passage located between Japan’s Amami Oshima and Yokoate Island in the Ryukyu Islands, and represents a key transit point for vessels navigating between the East China Sea and the Western Pacific Ocean.
A Sikorsky HH-60G Pave Hawk of the 66th Rescue Squadron, 563rd Rescue Group, 355th Wing, preparing to pick up infantry while another HH-60G flys past and an A10 Thunderbolt II does a mock show-of-force maneuver during Aviation Nation 2017.Image. by Noah Wulf
Pentagon, Washington, DC – The U.S. Air Force has reversed course on retiring its iconic A-10 Thunderbolt II, commonly known as the Warthog, announcing that the close air support aircraft will remain in service through at least 2030.
Secretary of the Air Force Troy E.
The Coast Guard will be “surging” counter-drone capabilities to upcoming, high-security events, officials said, training existing enlisted rates on the new UAS defense systems as the service stands up a specialized role focused on robotics.
Service officials said support for gatherings such as the FIFA World Cup and America 250 celebrations over the summer bring “a whole new mission set for us.” The comments, delivered at the Sea-Air-Space conference on Tuesday, come as the Coast Guard builds out its robotics repertoire.
The U.S. military today ended its flu vaccine mandate for active-duty and reserve service members and civilian personnel, the U.S. Department of War announced today. Pam Long, director of the Children’s Health Defense Military Chapter, said that up until this week, service members were still being punished for refusing the vaccine. She called the policy change a “major victory” for individual liberty.
by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.
The U.S. military today ended its flu vaccine mandate for active-duty and reserve service members and civilian personnel, effective immediately, the U.
The Air Force is once again pivoting its strategy to develop a sixth-generation tanker platform and will focus immediate efforts on developing supporting mission systems rather than a new aircraft.
The service wants to move funds from the Next Generation Air-refueling System (NGAS) program in fiscal 2027 and allocate them towards a new effort known as Advanced Tanker Systems (ATS), Maj. Gen. Frank Verdugo, Air Force deputy assistant secretary for budget, said Tuesday.
Two of the Army’s most anticipated ground platforms will be put to the test next spring at one of the military’s combat training centers, according to the commander in charge of the division that will receive them, a marked step in the rapidly changing future of armored warfare.
By fall 2026, prototype models of the M1E3 tank and XM30 Mechanized Infantry Combat Vehicle will track to 1st Cavalry Division out of Fort Hood Texas where soldiers will begin training on the new systems.
The Trump administration’s spending plan for next year allocates more than $70 billion for military drones and counter-drone weapon systems, according to two senior defense officials who said that proposed funding surge would mark the Pentagon’s most substantial investment in the technologies to date.
On Tuesday, Jules “Jay” Hurst III, the official performing the duties of comptroller and undersecretary of defense, and Space Force Lt. Gen. Steven Whitney, director for force structure, resources and assessment, briefed reporters on the Defense Department’s fiscal 2027 budget request.