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19FortyFive loves the F-16 fighter and has spent a lot of time over the last 9 months or so taking as much original photography of the legendary warplane as you can see below. But times are changing: The Lockheed Martin F-21 is a proposed, advanced single-engine multi-role fighter jet based on the F-16 Fighting Falcon, specifically tailored for the Indian Air Force (IAF).

It features advanced avionics, including a modern AESA radar, new cockpit displays, and technologies derived from the F-22 and F-35.

19FortyFive spent a lot of time with this fighter jet (both fighters that were built, that is), and we have the photos in this essay to prove it. The YF-23, colloquially known as the Black Widow II, was a prototype stealth fighter developed by Northrop and McDonnell Douglas for the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) program in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The Pentagon is proposing a massive spending increase for the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group, or DAWG, which oversees the development of drones and other unmanned systems.
The Defense Department’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2027 asks for nearly $54 billion for the DAWG, up from just $225.9 million that it has received for the current fiscal year, budget documents show. 
The DAWG was created to unify the Defense Department’s efforts to quickly mass-produce unmanned systems for U.S. troops, a Pentagon official told Task & Purpose.

U.S. President Donald Trump announced in December that the U.S. Navy would pursue development of a new “Trump-Class Battleship.”

In a speech typical of the president, he declared it would be “the fastest, the biggest, and by far, 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built.”

Iowa-Class 5-Inch Guns. Image by Harry J. Kazianis/National Security Journal.

Those Iowa-Class Guns. Image Credit: Harry J. Kazianis/National Security Journal.

Mark Cancian, a senior adviser at CSIS, wrote on December 23 that “this ship will never sail.”

Cancian is probably right.

The French firm Thales which was a primary developer of the SAMP/T NG has announced that the Danish Defence Ministry has signed a contract to purchase system, becoming the first client for the system outside the two developer countries France and Italy. Denmark will initially purchase four systems totally approximately €1.47 billion as part of the country national air defence plan, with a total budget of €7.8 billion.

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Idaho is the eighth Virginia-class boat in the Block IV configuration

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American officials are considering foreign designs and having U.S.

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Aircraft carriers George HW Bush, Abraham Lincoln and Gerald R Ford are now operating in the Middle East amid Operation Epic Fury.

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