Footage from Russia has provided a first look at a new production batch of Su-34 strike fighters, with the aircraft still in yellow factory primer and expected to be delivered to the Aerospace Forces in September. Russia has significantly accelerated production and delivery of Su-34s, with the aircraft being ordered in greater numbers than any of the country’s other fighter types since the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
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The Chinese People’s Liberation Army has expanded its use of unmanned aircraft around Japan, with TB-001 reconnaissance and attack drone deployed to operate over the East China Sea alongside Y-9 intelligence-gathering aircraft. A flight of one aircraft of each type on August 18 prompted the Japan Air Self-Defense Force to scramble F-15 fighters to monitor them.
Ukraine has launched three consecutive days of drone attacks against warehouses belonging to Ozon, Russia’s second-largest online retailer, causing the company’s share value to fall by almost a third.
The company says that at least six Ozon logistics facilities have been targeted since Saturday, August 22, amid Ukraine’s ongoing strike campaign against Russian logistics and commercial infrastructure.
Neptune Missile. Image Credit: Government of Ukraine.
At a 1 pm press conference in Washington on Monday, August 24, the United States warned countries and companies worldwide to cut economic ties with Iran or risk being shut out of the U.S. financial system.
The announcement today was expected, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announcing the press conference last week and warning Iran that it would be economically isolated unless the Islamic regime returns to the negotiating table.
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) sails alongside the world’s largest aircraft carrier the USS Gerald R.
Multiple Indian sources have reported that the country’s defence ministry is looking to procure technologies from Japan’s Maya class destroyer program as it develops its next-generation Project 18 destroyer. Project 18 is being conceived as a major step beyond the 7,400 ton Visakhapatnam class destroyers, potentially moving India into the same broad category as larger and more capable ships fielded in Northeast Asia.
Iran has issued a major new threat as the United States prepares to hit the regime with an unprecedented wave of sanctions.
On Sunday, the Islamic Republic warned some 45 tankers in the Strait of Hormuz that it could detain, fine, or confiscate their cargoes, accusing the vessels of violating its rules in the Strait.
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73). Creative Commons Image.
Iran Issues Ship Blacklist
The newly founded Persian Gulf Strait Authority, a body run by the Iranian regime, published the list.
As drones from hostile, reckless or unknown operators continue to traverse jurisdictions and increasingly threaten military installations, civilian areas and mega-events across the U.S., senior officials are hustling to enable a first-of-its-kind national counter-drone surveillance network.
More than 200 U.S. military, federal, law enforcement and industry stakeholders met in Virginia on Friday at Joint Interagency Task Force 401’s second summit to discuss their first-year progress and path ahead.
“This isn’t intended as a victory lap — it’s quite the opposite,” said Brig. Gen.
Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao announced Monday the launch of the department’s Office of the Defense Industrial Base, which will be tasked with leading efforts to bolster supply chains and accelerate the delivery of dual-use technologies.
The move comes less than two weeks after President Donald Trump issued a memorandum on “Rebuilding the United States Navy and America’s Shipbuilding Industrial Base.
The cost of maintenance work needed on barracks and other facilities has doubled over five years to $285 billion, according to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office, as the Pentagon has struggled to hire and retain workers while underfunding on-base repairs.
The Aug. 21 report faulted the Pentagon for not requesting enough money from Congress to fully fund facility repairs, improvements, and construction. The GAO said that the military services were funding about 80% of their maintenance needs, falling short of the Defense Department’s goal of 90%.