The Polish Air Force’s F-35A Husarz fifth generation fighter fleet has surpassed 1,000 flight hours during training in the United States, after they crossed the 500 flight milestone in December 2025. The service’s first stealth fighter was unveiled during a rollout ceremony at the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics facility in Fort Worth, Texas, on August 28, 2024, with the first of the aircraft expected to arrive in the country near the end of 2026.
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The Russian defence sector has completed the development of the new Khrizantema-M anti-tank guided missile, which combines an extended engagement range and a new capability to fly supersonically. A representative of the High-Precision Systems holding company noted that the missile was designed to be deployed from combat helicopters, and is already being used in air-defence missions. He explained that the missile’s extended range allows the launching aircraft’s crew to remain outside the “kill zone” of enemy man-portable air defence systems thanks to its greater firing distance.
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Sometimes, politics is best explained using metaphors. At no time in the relatively short history of America have Americans been more in need of simplifying the information morass that unduly influences the ability to make truly informed decisions on the future they want or that they want to leave behind. Like many lessons in life, nature often holds interesting parallels. Consider the allegory of the Red Herring and the Dart Frog.
We swim with a never-ending school of Red Herrings. Red herrings often lead fishers of truth toward a mistaken conclusion.
The Germany Defence Ministry was reported on February 19 to be considering placing an order for up to 35 additional F-35A fifth generation fighters, doubling the number of the aircraft it plans to field, in response to the continued stalling of the pan-European Future Air Combat System (FCAS) stealth fighter program being pursued jointly with France and Spain.
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Last week we and others reported that American forces finally after many years withdrew from the remote Al-Tanf Garrison, a base in southern Syria near the borders of Iraq and Jordan. US troops had long operated out of Tanf to pressure the Assad government as part of the long-running US-backed regime change project. The US primarily trained the Syrian Free Army (FSA) in that remote desert area – which was an umbrella group of various factions, among them jihadists, armed and funded by Washington.
Roddie Edmonds never spoke about his time in a German prisoner of war camp. This week, his family learned he’ll soon receive the nation’s highest valor award for an act of heroism in which he never fired a shot.
A master sergeant thrust into command of 1,200 POWs in a German camp, Edmonds will be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, his family confirmed to Task & Purpose. The award honors a moment, not of direct combat action, but of Edmonds’ refusal to identify Jewish soldiers in the camp, instead daring a German commander to execute him.
Veterans and advocates are struggling to understand the ramifications of a new federal rule, under which the Department of Veterans Affairs will consider the effectiveness of medications when assigning disability ratings.
“If medication or treatment lowers the level of disability, the rating will be based on that lowered disability level,” according to the new VA rule published in the Federal Register that went into effect on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump’s recent call for a $1.5 trillion defense budget as part of a broader effort to modernize and strengthen the nation’s defense posture has reignited long-running debates in Washington about how much the United States should spend on its armed forces. That conversation is healthy. But the more important question is not simply how much we spend but where to invest those dollars to ensure real military readiness.
After decades in uniform, I have learned that platforms alone do not win wars.
There is a long history of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, often involving the United States as the primary negotiator. However, as the Oct. 7 attacks and war in Gaza demonstrated, neither Israelis nor Palestinians feel safe. As Israel’s recent moves to expand its control over the West Bank showed, the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state — and thus a two-state solution — is a dimmer prospect than ever. Nonetheless, U.S. President Donald Trump successfully negotiated a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in October 2025, based on a 20-point peace plan.
SAN DIEGO — The Navy must embark on an aggressive push to integrate advanced lasers, high-power microwaves and other directed energy weapons across the fleet as part of its broader plan to counter intensifying and emerging drone and missile threats, according to two of the sea service’s top officials.
Largely due to technical, environmental, industrial and other complexities, Navy insiders have struggled for decades to make DE capabilities a shipboard reality at-scale.
More recently, the U.S.