United States aerospace giant Boeing has been awarded a contract valued at up to $2.81 billion to upgrade Republic of Korea Air Force F-15K fighters to a ‘4+ generation’ standard, after modifications were requested by South Korea’s Defence Acquisition Program Administration under the Foreign Military Sales framework.
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The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Southern Theatre Command responsible for the defence of Chinese territories in the South China Sea has deployed naval and air units for a combat readiness patrol from January 31, which was carried out in the territorial waters and airspace of Huangyan Island and surrounding areas. The Type 055 destroyer Xianyang led multiple types of warships for operations in the area, while in the air H-6K and H-6J bombers, the former equipped with YJ-12 anti-ship cruise missiles, cruised around the island with an escort of Su-30MKK long range fighters.
As Iran confronts the aftermath of mass state violence and braces for the possibility of U.S. strikes, debate over the country’s future has intensified. What distinguishes this moment is not simply the scale of repression, but the convergence of internal exhaustion and external pressure that has narrowed the regime’s margin for political error. It has accelerated a question that could once be deferred: how political authority will be reorganized after the supreme leader, and through what means. That question has now been raised explicitly by President Donald Trump.
Missing your partner while they’re off on an FTX or deployed—and still being mad at them—puts you in that weird middle space no one warns you about. Because you’re not mad that they have a job. You’re mad that their job makes your life a constant solo mission.
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And before anyone clutches pearls: Yes, you’re proud. Yes, you support them. Yes, you know the “bigger picture.”
Also? You’re the one who has to keep the whole house running when everything hits the fan at once. Again.
The Ukrainain Army is today estimated to field the world’s largest fleet of T-64 main battle tanks, with the vehicles having continued to form the backbone of its forces despite four years of attrition and high intensity combat with Russian forces from February 2022.
Following confirmation that Russia-Indian talks regarding a license production deal for the Su-57 fifth generation fighter had reached advanced technical stages, multiple Indian sources have commented on the now significant possibility of the aircraft equipping frontline squadrons.
The U.S. Navy and the British Royal Air Force have conducted coordinated aerial surveillance flights over the Black Sea near the coast of Crimean Peninsula and Russia’s Krasnodar, with an American P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft and a British RC-135W Rivet Joint signals intelligence aircraft observed flying extended reconnaissance patterns in the region. Flight tracking data shows the P-8A conducted a wide-area patrol mission, while the RC-135W first flew parallel tracks further west, before then entering the same operational zone as the P-8 closer to the peninsula.
The U.S. Navy has positioned eight Arleigh Burke class destroyers in the Middle East for potential operations against Iran, as speculation has grown that the United States could initiation a high intensity conflict with its longstanding regional adversary. Other than three Zumwalt class stealth destroyers, which have proven to be highly problematic and are not fully operational, the Arleigh Burke class is the only destroyer class in U.S. Navy service, and is by far the most capable in the world outside the navies of China, Japan and South Korea.
Images published on Chinese social media have for the first time shown the ultra-long range sixth generation fighter aircraft currently under development by the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation with its three engines all powered on and glowing, in what appears to be a pre-takeoff image. First unveiled on December 26, 2024, the yet unnamed aircraft is the first in the world with a triple engine configuration, with its central engine appearing to be larger than the two on each side.
A Russian commander ‘punishes’ soldiers for not following orders by taping them to trees naked in winter and forcing them to eat snow. This is similar to the term ‘decimate’ used during Roman times, to kill one of out ten soldiers to ‘motivate’ the remaining to fight harder.
This video was likely shared among units for that exact purpose.
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