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The cost of owning an F-35 – already the most expensive program in the history of the US Defense Department – keeps going up.
Lifecycle expenses for operating the aircraft continue to climb as Denmark, one of the aircraft’s more recent new users, has discovered.
F-35 Fighter Image by Lockheed Martin
An F-35 Lightning II assigned to the 56th Fighter Wing performs a strafing run during exercise Haboob Havoc, April 26, 2023, over Barry M. Goldwater Range, Ariz.
The UK Defense Minister, John Healey, resigned on Thursday, 11 June, over a lengthy dispute regarding military spending commitments. He has also accused Labor Prime Minister (PM) Keir Starmer of failing to follow through on previous government spending commitments necessary to keep the nation secure in an international environment of rising threats from several hostile actors.
Healey’s departure also comes in the wake of a power grab by the UK Treasury to take control of spending on the multinational Global Combat Air Program (GCAP).
The US Department of State has approved a $330m potential foreign military sale to Brazil for FIM-92K Stinger Block I missiles and related equipment.
BAE Systems has announced the ongoing development of a new digital capability for indirect fires aimed at the UK military.
Trump Can Seize Kharg Island. He Can’t Seize Its Customer: Venezuela keeps coming up in the Kharg Island conversation, and not by accident. When Trump posted on Truth Social Thursday that the United States would at some point take “total control” of Iran’s oil and gas markets — Kharg Island and “other oil infrastructure points” — he made the comparison explicit. Washington did it to Venezuela, he said. It can do it to Iran.
That comparison is worth taking seriously because Trump is not wrong that the Venezuela operation worked.
There is a moment, just before a helicopter touches down in combat, when everything that is not essential disappears. The noise becomes a single frequency. The body does what it was trained to do. And somewhere beneath all of it, in a place you didn’t know existed until the first time you went there, something witnesses you, patient, recording, neither afraid nor unafraid. Just present.
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That thing has no name in the movies. Hollywood has never found it.
Contrary to gloomy predictions before the outbreak of the war in Iran, oil markets have risen somewhat but remain remarkably subdued. Although an estimated twenty percent of the world’s supply of oil and liquefied natural gas passes out of the Persian Gulf abroad via the Strait of Hormuz, much of the world appears unbothered. It is a bit of a mystery as to why.
But there is at least one theory that appears to hold water.
Oil Trickling Out of the Persian Gulf
A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer assigned to the 37th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, deployed from Ellsworth Air Force Base (AFB), S.D.
For the past several years, Iran has been facing severe water shortages due to drought and mismanagement. The country has entered a state of water bankruptcy, in which national demand exceeds what nature can reasonably provide. According to some estimates, per‑capita renewable water availability has fallen to roughly 850 cubic meters per year, well below the United Nations threshold for absolute scarcity.