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The helicopter attack happened after Iran launched multiple cruise missiles, drones and small boats trying to target U.S.
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The Russian Armed Forces have made effective use of the BuK-M3 medium range surface-to-air missile system to defend against strikes by Ukrainian forces launched using the High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), with Russia’s Battlegroup Centre having recently used them to intercept attacks from distances of over 30 kilometres. “During combat duty, air surveillance posts and radar systems detected an aerial target. The data was promptly transmitted to the Buk-M3 unit’s crew.
One number buried in the Pentagon’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget request reveals a decade of acquisition decisions in a data point: The U.S. Navy is requesting 785 Tomahawk cruise missiles. In 2025, Congress funded 55. That 1,200 percent jump is the cost of choices never stress-tested against the scenario unfolding today — a sustained air campaign against Iran while China watches the magazine drain.As a congressional staffer, I watch acquisition reform proposals grind through the legislative machinery every day.
When India’s third ballistic missile-carrying, nuclear-powered submarine — the INS Aridhaman — entered service on April 3, 2026, it marked a milestone decades in the making.With three boomers, India can now reliably always maintain at least one on deterrent patrol, thus completing the sea leg of its nuclear deterrent. Earlier, India successfully tested the capability to deploy multiple independently targetable warheads from a single missile.
Inside Lebanon, the conditions for the next extremist uprising are quietly taking root.In the summer of 2007, the Lebanese Armed Forces fought Fatah al-Islam for three months inside Nahr al-Bared, a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon. Fatah al-Islam was a Salafi-jihadist group that exploited the camp’s power vacuum to establish a strong recruitment base, drawing recruits from Palestinian, Syrian, and broader Arab networks. Once the dust settled, more than 400 people were dead, and the 30,000 residents of Nahr-Bared were displaced for a second time.
Chinese state media has published footage of the first export configured fifth generation fighter built in the country, a J-35AE aircraft, leading analysts to widely conclude that the first contract for the sale of the aircraft has likely been signed. The unveiling of a fully configured aircraft with export markings has been seen to indicate a shift towards more active efforts to market the fighter type abroad.
Iran has launched cruise missiles, drones, and weaponized small boats against commercial vessels and warships in the Strait of Hormuz over the last 24 hours, according to Adm. Brad Cooper, who briefed reporters on a new U.S. Central Command-led operation to safely reopen the global shipping chokepoint amid the war in the region.
“We have defeated each and every one of those threats through the clinical application of defensive munitions,” the Centcom commander said Monday.
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Two officers with the West Virginia National Guard received awards for heroism Monday for stopping a gunman who attacked a National Guard patrol in Washington, D.C. The attack killed another West Virginia soldier.
Army Maj. Ryan S. Reynolds and Air Force Maj. Edwin O. Stanfield received the Soldier’s Medal and Airman’s Medal, respectively, on Monday. The two were outside a Metro station in Washington in November when a gunman opened fire on a patrol of Guardsmen nearby, killing Spc. Sarah Beckstrom and injuring Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, two West Virginia National Guard members.