Footage released on Chinese social media has shown the latest ever known grouping of Chinese nuclear powered submarines, including four Type 094A ballistic missile submarines and five Type 093B attack submarines. The image was published shortly after confirmation that China now has three shipyards producing nuclear powered submarines, with the second and third facilities, the Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Group facility and the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai, effectively tripling productive capacity, while the original facility in Huludao, Liaoning Province, has been expanded.
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Trump Can’t Afford Another Epic Fury Against Iran: Writing on Truth Social on Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump warned that Iran had taken too long to negotiate a peace deal and said that the regime would “pay the price.” The comments came after the United States responded to an Iranian drone attack that downed a U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz.
The Pentagon announced the “Cyber Mastery Incentive Pay” (C-MIP) program on Wednesday, an initiative defense officials described as an effort to attract and develop talented cyber operators through monetary compensation.
C-MIP will go into effect Oct. 1, according to the announcement. Officials billed it as part of the Defense Department’s Cybercom 2.0 initiative, an effort meant to modernize the way the military recruits, assesses, trains and retains a digital force.
As part of a string of other recent long-range strikes, Ukraine launched one of its most extensive campaigns on June 10, targeting military and industrial facilities and energy infrastructure hundreds of miles from the front line using domestically manufactured missiles and attack drones.
The latest round of attacks saw targets in the Chuvash Republic, Samara, and other regions severely damaged, and proved that Ukraine has no intention of slowing down its drone campaign.
Image Credit: Office the the President, Ukraine.
For months, the Strait of Hormuz has faced intense disruption, with traffic down by as much as 95%. The narrow waterway, which typically carries one-fifth of the world’s oil supply, has seen commercial traffic plummet amid hostilities between Iran, the United States, and Israel. Despite the disruption, oil prices per barrel have yet to reach some of the most severe estimates. In March, Wall Street analysts predicted that oil could soar to $200 per barrel. Today, Brent Crude hovers around $93 per barrel, and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is about $91.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is actively involved in the U.S. government’s fight to stop the resurgence of the flesh-eating, New World Screwworm parasite infecting pets and livestock in at least two Southwest states.
“Invasive species are a national resilience challenge with significant economic and food supply implications, which DARPA recognizes as a national security risk,” Catherine Campbell, program manager in the agency’s Biological Technologies Office, told DefenseScoop.
An Iranian “bomb” got lodged in a U.S. military helicopter earlier this week, but fortunately for the pilots, the weapon didn’t explode, President Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday.
An Army AH-64 Apache crashed during a patrol operation Monday near the Strait of Hormuz. The two U.S. soldiers who were on board the aircraft survived and were later rescued by a Navy Corsair maritime drone operated by 5th Fleet’s Task Force 59, according to U.S. Central Command spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins.
The helicopter was reportedly struck by an Iranian attack drone.
While much of Western Europe caves to anti-Israel agitators, Czechia’s new conservative government is showing the kind of moral clarity, national confidence, and political backbone the rest of Europe desperately lacks.
At a moment when Brussels elites are increasingly pressuring Israel—the Middle East’s only democracy—Prague is doing the opposite: standing firmly with America’s closest ally in the region and refusing to bow to the anti-Israel consensus spreading across the European Union.
That matters enormously for the United States.
Ukraine’s mid-range drone strike campaign is being used to heavily disrupt Russian supply lines, fuel depots, and air defenses 20 to 150 miles behind the front lines.
This strategy has forced Russia to severely restrict heavy equipment movements and ration fuel along vital corridors, such as the M-14 highway to Crimea. And they have been crippling Russia’s oil and gas infrastructure.
Switchblade Drone. Image Credit: Industry Handout.
But many of the drones are not arriving at the front ready to go for the operators.
Industry is slated to begin building the Air Force’s nascent Family of Affordable Mass Missiles (FAMM) in September, kicking off a multi-year effort to grow the service’s arsenal of low-cost weapons.
Speaking in front of the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee on Tuesday, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach said the initial FAMM munitions “are on track to start production” later this fall. Once production begins, the service intends to purchase nearly 28,000 FAMM weapons over the next five years, according to the Air Force’s fiscal 2027 budget documents.