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.
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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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As the Trump administration weighs strikes on Iran following the regime’s brutal killing of protestors, it must reckon with a hard lesson from last June: in just 12 days of Israel–Iran fighting, U.S. and Israeli munitions fell to dangerously low levels. The Pentagon’s move to boost Patriot PAC-3 production from roughly 600 to 2,000 interceptors a year is a welcome start, but it is not enough. Even with this increase, the United States remains behind the curve.
Lt. Gen. (ret) David Deptula sat down with Patrick McSpadden in the War on the Rocks studio for a wide-ranging conversation. Deptula highlights the Air Force’s current challenges and addresses what it will take to fix them. The duo discuss everything from previous missions to Deptula’s advice for current Airmen, even delving into his favorite D.C. gems for food and drinks. You don’t want to miss this special episode of Airman Pulse.Note: This is a free episode of the members-only Airman Pulse podcast.
Bill Scott was a flight test engineer on the Canadair Challenger program (now under Bombardier).
“A week ago, I visited the crash site of Challenger No. 1, the aircraft I bailed from on 3 April 1980. First time I’d been to the actual site. We found a LOT of small debris from the aircraft.”
The story is based on the April 3, 1980, crash of the first Challenger prototype (CL-600, registration C-GCGR-X) during stall testing near Mojave, California.
The six senior officials appointed by Pentagon leadership to oversee the recently-restructured “critical technology areas” and accelerate the military’s adoption of each of those top-priority capabilities, were officially announced Thursday evening via social media.
Posts on Instagram and X from official accounts for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and Chief Technology Officer spotlighted brief bios for each of those “accountable senior officials” who will lead the Defense Department’s new CTAs.
Every branch of the U.S. military calls it something different. It might be your “wingman” in the Air Force or your “shipmate” in the Navy. No matter what you call it, you and your battle buddy are a partnership forged in shared misery and mutual reliance. Your “battle” is the person who has your back in a firefight and checks you in the barracks. Even in post-military life, our battle buddy is someone who just checks in to see how we’re doing.
That bond is real, don’t let anyone tell you different.
Advocates of creating an independent U.S. military service focused on cyber argue that the Pentagon’s new force generation model isn’t a sufficient solution for fixing the department’s problems. During a congressional hearing this week, senior officials said their revised model is still needed regardless of whether a decision is ultimately made to create a Cyber Force.
The new model, rolled out in November under the “Cybercom 2.0” initiative, aims to modernize the way the Defense Department builds and develops digital forces and talent, including by more closely linking U.S.
Voyager Technologies has commenced construction on an expansion project at the Voyager American Defense Complex in Pueblo, Colorado.
The country known as Georgia derives its name from the Persian word “Gurgan,” meaning the land of the wolves. To the Persians, it refers to the “frightening and heroic people of that territory.” That’s one helluva lineage.
Heroic doesn’t even begin to fully describe the Georgians. At no time was this fact more evident than at the outset of World War I, when a troop of crusader knights in full Medieval armor marched right up to the governor’s house in the Georgian capital of modern-day Tbilisi (then called Tiflis).