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American President Donald Trump and the United States Department of Defense appear poised to approve the sale of fighter jet engines to Turkey, a sale that could run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. According to at least one report, the sale could total more than $700 million.
While the United States routinely sells military kit to close allies around the globe, this sale to Ankara is more unusual.
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New footage has shown ten Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force Y-20B strategic transport aircraft elephant walk on an unknown runway, representing the largest publicly observed concentration of the aircraft to date. Elephant walks, a term for a large formation of aircraft taxiing together in close succession, are typically used to demonstrate fleet readiness and production progress. While the baseline Y-20 first entered service in 2016, the enhanced Y-20B variant is a significantly enhanced variant with a greater operational range and higher payload.
Chinese and Russian forces on June 27 launched their 11th Joint Strategic Air Patrol, continuing a series of increasingly complex long-range bomber operations that began in 2019. The formation reportedly consisted of Chinese H-6K and Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers accompanied by fighter escorts. Chinese escorts included J-11B, J-16, Su-30MKK/MK2, and J-10B fighters, making it the most diverse escort on record, while Russian escorts included Su-30SM and Su-35 fighters.
Following confirmation that a Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 fighter crashed in Poltava region on June 27, closely coinciding with the destruction of two further MiG-29s on the ground in drone strikes, multiple sources have indicated that a Russian Aerospace Forces Su-35 fighter was responsible for shooting down the aircraft. The Su-35 reportedly shot the fighter down using an R-37M long range air-to-air missile at a range of approximately 190 kilometres, which may represent the longest successful air-to-air kill ever recorded in combat.
Footage published by Russian state media has shown an Geran-4 single use attack drone striking a Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 medium weight fighter as the aircraft prepared to take off at Voznesensk Airfield in southern Ukraine, destroying it. Ukrainian sources confirmed the aircraft was lost, with the Ukrainian Air Force Command also confirming that a second MiG-29 was destroyed during a combat mission on June 27 over the Poltava region. Russian sources reported that two MiG-29s were destroyed at the airfield during the strike, indicating that three MiG-29s may have been lost in total.
The Russian Navy’s Kirov class nuclear-powered missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov was on June 26 confirmed to have returned to its home port of Severomorsk after 29 years out of service for refurbishment work, with the vessel reported to be near the end of its sea trials. The Nakhimov was re-floated on July 25, 2025, before setting sail under its own power for the first time in 28 years in August 2025, and beginning the final phase of its sea trials on June 1.
L Todd Wood sits down with Col. Tom Rempfer (USAF, Ret) to discuss the underlying agenda behind the decades-long military vaccine campaign by the biomedical industrial complex.
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The awarding of a contract by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency to increase annual production of interceptors for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system from an estimated 96 missiles annually to approximately 400 was announced on June 26, and is expected to impose several billion dollars in additional annual costs on the already heavily strained U.S. defence budget. The contract stipulates a transition from a relatively limited procurement scale into one of the largest sustained missile acquisition programmes in the U.S.
A reputation can now be destroyed by someone whose face you will never see.
Sometimes it begins with an anonymous account on X. Sometimes with a whisper inside a private veterans’ group. Sometimes with a sentence buried in an administrative file few people outside the institution will ever read.
The methods differ. The result rarely does. A person’s career begins to close around him. Friends become quiet. Professional opportunities disappear. People who have never examined the evidence begin speaking with certainty because repetition has replaced proof.
The U.S. Department of War Missile Defense Agency has awarded Lockheed Martin a seven-year contract worth up to $35 billion to quadruple production of anti-ballistic missile interceptors for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system. The award converts a framework agreement signed earlier in 2026 into a long-term procurement programme, giving Lockheed the confidence to make major investments in manufacturing capacity and supply chains.