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The retirement ceremony is the easy part. The flag is folded, the speeches are kind, the family takes pictures, and the Air Force band plays a song that gets every fist in the room in the air for one last “GIVE ‘EM THE GUN!” Then you go home. And on Monday morning, for the first time in your adult life, nobody is waiting for you at 0600.

Russian developers appear to be testing a specialized blinding ammunition for shotguns, designed specifically to neutralize the optics of FPV drones at close range, according to a video recently circulating online.
According to the footage, the munition deploys a highly adhesive red compound upon firing. This payload rapidly creates a cloud of fine particulate matter that adheres to the drone’s camera lens. The substance then quickly hardens, rendering the optics completely opaque and blinding the drone operator.

In late April it was confirmed that an Iranian Air Force F-5E third generation fighter had successfully conducted a bombing run against Camp Buehring in Kuwait, penetrating multi-layered U.S. and U.S.-supplied Kuwaiti air defences, and raising serious questions regarding the limitations of these defences. Subsequently in early May it was confirmed that the F-5’s heavier and longer ranged counterpart in the Iranian Air Force, the similarly obsolete F-4E, had been used to launch a successful penetration strike over Saudi Arabia.

The South Korean KF-21 Boramae fighter has received final combat suitability approval from the country’s defence ministry, clearing it for operational deployment as it is poised to replace the F-5 and F-16 as the new backbone of the country’s combat fleet. The approval process required the Defense Acquisition Program Administration to submit evaluation results to the Defense Ministry, and followed more than a decade of development and flight testing covering more than 13,000 conditions.

Following growing indications that North Korea has brought an enhanced variant of its first 155mm self-propelled howitzer, the Juche-107, into large scale production, speculation has grown that the program may have benefited from technology transfers from neighbouring China or Russia.

The U.S. Coast Guard has created a new Special Missions Command to oversee its “deployable specialised forces,” as the service’s units have played a central role in escalating efforts to target civilian shipping in international waters from late 2025. Coast Guard personnel can under U.S. law board vessels, carry out seizures, and make arrests, although they have little to legal basis to do so in international waters, which has made their operations highly controversial internationally.

Associate researcher at the Republic of China Institute for National Defense and Security Research Shu Hsiao-huang has assessed that the Republic of China Armed Forces can take a range of measures to compensate for an inability to procure fifth generation fighter aircraft. His assessment was made at a time when an increasingly wide technological disadvantage in the air domain is perceived to have placed security increasingly under threat.

Deputy CEO of Russia’s leading producer of air defence systems Almaz-Antey, Dmitry Savitsky, has claimed that the Russian Aerospace Forces have maintained global leaderships in the integration of air defence systems with flight controls. “These tasks, in the terms of ICAO and EUROCONTROL – the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation – are called ‘civil-military air traffic management coordination.’ I think we are definitely a world leader in this aspect of air traffic control – both technically and technologically,” he stated.

Following the commissioning of China’s first supercarrier the Fujian into service, in November 2025, and the warship’s subsequent considerable progress towards increasing its operational capabilities, the Chinese Ministry of National Defence has elaborated on key development goals for the country’s aircraft carrier program. Defence Ministry Spokesman Senior Colonel Jiang Bin was specificallyasked to comment on the Navy’s successful commissioning of all “five essential capabilities for aircraft carriers,” which the Fujian is the only warship outside the U.S.

An American military element will continue to oversee search and rescue efforts for two soldiers who disappeared near the Moroccan coast last weekend, the Army said. The effort to find them is continuing after a week, and after the large-scale African Lion 26 exercise wrapped up yesterday.
“Search and rescue operations remain ongoing. Search patterns continue to expand west into the Atlantic as ocean‑current modeling refines planning,” a spokesman for the Army’s Southern European Task Force, Africa said in a statement to Task & Purpose.