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The Australian government is investing an initial amount of A$126.9m ($90.7m) to strengthen domestic production of solid rocket motors.

An Army infantryman at Fort Polk, Louisiana, cited the “cause” of white nationalism in online threats to attack a synagogue and kill “every single Jew,” according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday.
Spec. Jakob Marcoulier, 22, was charged April 23 with transmitting a threat in interstate commerce. The FBI obtained audio recordings of comments Marcoulier allegedly made on the messaging platform Discord in which he threatened to act in the coming months “if the Jews still have reign over our government,” the indictment stated.

As far back as 2019, Air Force weapons developers said the fighter had received massive structural upgrades to its upper wing skin and fittings, upper and lower bulkhead, and canopy sill longeron.

These adjustments extended the F-16’s service life by up to 4,000 flight hours, increasing its operational capability from 8,000 to 12,000 flight hours.

F-16 Fighting Falcon National Security Journal Photo. Taken on 9/18/2025 Onboard USS Intrepid.

The U.S. war effort in Iran has created a real-world testing ground of U.S. military capabilities that might be needed in a potential future conflict with China.

While Iran and China differ greatly in scale and power, the current conflict can serve as a laboratory for refining tactics, technologies, and operational concepts that would be critical in a showdown with a more powerful adversary.

The U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team performs during the 2025 Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Air Show in San Diego, Sept. 27, 2025.

Hungary has turned the page. After 16 years of rule by Viktor Orbán, opposition leader Péter Magyar has emerged as the winner by a landslide. Ryan is joined by Sándor Ésik, the lawyer and writer behind the Hungarian Muse, to understand how Orbán built his “soft-authoritarian” system, how it failed to stave off Magyar’s challenge, and what comes next. Of course, Orbán was anti-Ukrainian, pro-Russian, and antagonistic towards the European Union, so they also discuss what a post-Orbán Hungary means on those fronts.

Here’s a fact that does not exactly inspire confidence, at least until we really dig into what this may or may not mean: China’s navy is now larger than the U.S. Navy.

That point is repeated so often that it has begun to stand in for analysis.

It shouldn’t.

Fleet size, taken on its own, tells us very little about the question that actually matters: whether the United States can bring effective naval power to bear in the Western Pacific when it needs to.
That is the issue on which any serious contingency in the region would turn.

In January, the Army unveiled a pre-prototype version of the M1E3 Abrams, which is expected to serve as the Army’s next-generation main battle tank.

While the demonstrator vehicle is not the final iteration of the M1E3, it offers a glimpse into what the Army wants with the M1E3 program.

With an unmanned turret, a new hybrid power system, and simplified controls for easier training, the new tank is lighter and more technologically advanced while retaining what works from previous Abrams tanks.

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Misawa Air Base in northern Japan is about to get a serious upgrade. The Pentagon is replacing the 36 F-16 Fighting Falcons currently flying out of the installation with 48 brand-new F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters—a permanent deployment of America’s most advanced tactical aircraft along the first island chain. The move comes as the Trump administration sharpens its Indo-Pacific posture against China, North Korea, and Russia, and as Japan’s own defense modernization accelerates. With JASDF F-35As already operating from Misawa, the U.S.

YouTuber and AI-slop extraordinaire Gorm The Old has released new videos that might soon be his greatest hits: Summaries of the most important events of World War I and World War II, animated entirely through clips from “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” and modified to take place across Europe and the Mediterranean.
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The result, while maybe not the most historically accurate use of uniforms and tactics, is still hilarious for both World War history buffs and “GTA: San Andreas” fans.

The U.S. Navy reports that the long-anticipated MQ-25 Stingray carrier-launched refueler drone has finally completed its first operational test flight, something of great consequence for air attack campaigns given the risks and problems associated with the Air Force’s fleet of large, non-stealthy fixed-wing tanker aircraft.

MQ-25: Fixed-Wing Tankers That Are a Game Changer

MQ-25. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

The largest problem with large fixed-wing tankers is quite self-evident, as they simply operate with a survivability problem.