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Power Size Technologies’ modelling indicates the feasibility of integrating laser weapons onto British Army Foxhound and Boxer vehicles.

Iran threatens “devastating” response to the U.S – The United States and Iran aren’t quite in a shooting war right now, but they’re certainly not at peace, either. In the place of both, at least in recent weeks, there has been a lot of tension and many threats.

According to Reuters, President Donald Trump on Thursday promised economic consequences to countries that offer “any type of lifeline to Iran.”

President Donald Trump plays golf in the Senior Club Championship at Trump National Golf Club Jupiter, Sunday, April 6, 2025, in Jupiter, Florida.

The United States military hasn’t operated a seaplane, or amphibious flying boat, since the Coast Guard retired the HU-16 Albatross in 1983. For 73 years, this kind of aircraft had been essential for everything from search and rescue to resupply. With the vast expanses of the Pacific theater in mind, an argument can be made that the versatile seaplanes of yesteryear should return to their former glory.
United States Pacific Command is made up of over one hundred million square miles of territory, which is over half the Earth. The majority of that is water.

Drivers in Moscow have been forced to queue for hours, as Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy infrastructure prompted a second wave of fuel shortages.

The return to fuel rationing comes after a period of looser rules following an improvement in supplies in June.

Putin Interview from Back in 2012 Image Credit Creative Commons

Putin Back in 2012 Creative Commons Image

Kilometer-Long Lines 
Despite the impact of the war, Russia remains the third-largest oil-producing nation in the world. On Monday, Reuters said lines at some gasoline stations were a kilometer long.

Multiple sources have reported that Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force J-16 fighters deployed to Pakistan in 2019 to participated in the Shaheen air-combat exercises demonstrated vast superiority over other participating aircraft in simulated engagements. The J-16 currently forms the backbone of China’s fighter fleet, alongside its lighter single engine counterpart the J-10C, and the newer J-20 stealth fighter. The aircraft reportedly achieved 51 simulated kills involving five different fighter types, including the J-10C, J-11B, and Pakistan Air Force JF-17, J-7 and Mirage III.

AEVEX Aerospace has been awarded a $41m contract to supply one-way attack uncrewed systems to US government customers.

Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (Kongsberg) has finalised an agreement with General Dynamics Land Systems–Canada (GDLS-Canada) worth Nkr1.1bn ($117.8m) for the supply of Protector RS4 Remote Weapon Systems.

A New York National Guard mobilization that put soldiers into state prisons to work as guards was so expansive that at least a handful of soldiers were airlifted by Black Hawk from a baseball field in the Bronx to report for duty at a small prison 250 miles away.
The flight was part of a strikingly large-scale mobilization that tapped thousands of New York National Guardsmen to work as replacement prison guards in 42 of the state’s 45 prisons last year, according to a 2025 annual report on the New York National Guard published in July.

One is the fastest jet ever produced, capable of outrunning anti-air missiles while capturing reconnaissance in some of the most hostile airspace on Earth. The other was a state-of-the-art warship… from the 17th to 19th century.
Also Read: The SR-71 Blackbird was almost the most versatile fighter plane ever
But, weirdly enough, the SR-71 and ships of the line have more in common than being featured in Hollywood blockbusters that fundamentally misunderstand the military and how it works: They both rely on (very different) materials staying swollen in order to function normally.

Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / U.S. Army (CC)

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed Thursday that North Korea fired approximately ten short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea, with the launches happening within hours of President Trump announcing that he would like to hold a new summit with Kim Jong Un. The missiles traveled approximately 300 kilometers before splashing down in the East Sea. The launches were also tracked by the coast guard of Japan, who issued advisories to all of the maritime traffic in the region as a result.