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Tyler Rogoway, TWZ
Radar pod-toting MQ-9s present an economical and highly-flexible persistent airborne early warning solution that is needed now more than ever.
Defense News Aerospace, Global Defense News
Boeing’s F-15EX Eagle II is poised to become one of the U.S.
Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering
Autonomous wingmen, software-defined upgrades, and multi-aircraft teaming. Here’s what Shield AI’s latest Air Force contract means.
The Aviationist
The RQ-4Bs operated by the 4th Reconnaissance Squadron permanently relocated to Yokota AB, where they already deployed every year during the typhoon season
An influenza outbreak that started in late May has left nearly 160 Air Force recruits sick, with some hospitalized.
An Air Force spokesperson told Task & Purpose that the 37th Training Wing has been dealing with a “localized influenza outbreak among trainees at Basic Military Training” at Lackland Air Force Base. The flu outbreak has been going on for three weeks, the Air Force said, although training at the base has not been interrupted.
Warsaw, Poland – What Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his drone force commanders call their “middle-strike” campaign has become a series of merciless attacks on the main artery that provides supplies for both the population and the Russian military in Crimea. One swarm after another of wide-ranging drone aircraft is destroying hundreds of Russian fuel trucks, paralyzing truck and rail shipments of food, medicine, and other daily consumables.
This has put the Crimean Peninsula, an area roughly the size of the US state of Arizona, into what has become an almost total blockade.
The Eurosatory 2026 exhibition displayed a remarkable balance of change and continuity in its armoured vehicle line-up.
In an event that has generated some of the most dramatic video footage to date, for the second time in three days, Ukraine has sent a massive wave of drones to attack Moscow.
At least 194 Ukrainian drones were intercepted on approach to the Russian capital, making it the largest attack of its kind since the start of the full-scale war in February 2022.
Ukraine Cruise Missile 2026. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
One of the main targets of this attack, which was also struck during the previous drone assault, is the Gazprom Neft-owned Moscow Oil Refinery.
Continued Fighting In Lebanon Results In Iran Calling Off Talks: Intense fighting in southern Lebanon briefly derailed high-stakes U.S.-Iran peace negotiations, leading Iran to pull out of scheduled talks in Switzerland.
The violence escalated after an attack on an Israeli tank killed four soldiers, including a Battalion commander, prompting retaliatory Israeli airstrikes that killed at least 18 people in southern Lebanon.
F-35I Adir Israel Stealth Fighter. Image Credit: IDF
Vice President JD Vance canceled his planned travel to Switzerland.