On May 20, 2026, Airbus Defence rolled out the latest Tranche 4 Eurofighter Typhoon for the German Air Force at its Manching facility in Bavaria. More than 600 Typhoons are now in service across 9 operators. The aircraft Britain, Germany, Italy, and Spain built after France walked out of the joint Future European Fighter Aircraft program in 1985 has accumulated genuine combat experience across Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and now Iran. An RAF FGR4 scored Britain’s first military air-to-air kill since the 1982 Falklands War over Syria in December 2021.
Browsing: All news
Category Added in a WPeMatico Campaign
Britain’s next main battle tank, the Challenger 3, breaks decades of British design tradition by replacing the Challenger 2’s smoothbore gun with a 120mm rifled main gun — and giving the British Army access to standard NATO ammunition and programmable rounds. But the Royal United Services Institute warns the Army will field only 148 Challenger 3s by 2030, well short of the 170 to 300 tanks NATO considers credible for an armored division. Germany has roughly 320 Leopard 2 tanks; the United States operates around 4,600 M1 Abrams.
L3Harris Technologies has supplied its T4 and T7 multi-mission robotic systems to the Australian Defence Force (ADF) to support personnel protection operations.
The British Army will operate 148 Challenger 3 tanks, arranged in new reduced Type 44 regimental formations.
Russia has lost between 1 million and 1.2 million soldiers killed and wounded in Ukraine since February 2022, according to Western analysts. A January 2026 CSIS analysis estimated as many as 325,000 dead. Russia controlled roughly 27% of Ukraine at its 2022 peak; Ukrainian counteroffensives at Kharkiv in September 2022 and Kherson in November 2022 pushed Moscow back to about one-fifth of the country. Russian advances have slowed dramatically. In April 2026, the Institute for the Study of War recorded Russia’s first net territorial loss since August 2024.
The U.S. Navy’s 14 Ohio-class SSBN ballistic missile submarines form the sea-based leg of America’s nuclear triad. Each submarine carries 20 Trident II D5 submarine-launched ballistic missiles with multiple independently-targeted warheads and a range of 4,000 miles. The Ohio-class is 560 feet long, displaces 18,750 tons submerged, runs on an S8G nuclear reactor at over 20 knots, dives below 984 feet, and carries 155 sailors. Each boat operates with Blue and Gold crew rotations — 77 days at sea, then 35 days in port. The class begins retirement in 2028.
There is no F-35 Lightning II kill switch — the Joint Program Office and Lockheed Martin have both said so directly. But the rumor that the U.S. could remotely disable allied F-35s gained traction after the Trump administration’s televised confrontation with Volodymyr Zelensky in March, and several allies are rethinking their orders. Canada is contractually obligated to only 16 of an originally agreed 88 F-35s; Saab is pushing the JAS-39 Gripen for the remaining 72. Portugal canceled its F-35 buy.
Yes, you read that right: Norman Schwarzkopf’s Beretta. The handgun that was on the hip of one of America’s most famous generals during one of the nation’s most significant modern military operations could soon be yours.
Imagine having the opportunity to bid on Andrew Jackson’s sword from the Battle of New Orleans or Teddy Roosevelt’s Colt 1892 revolver from his assault on Kettle Hill. Going straight from his family’s possession to the auction block, the sale of Gen. Schwarzkopf’s Desert Storm M9 is unprecedented.
Also Read: Gen.
Lockheed Martin’s $11 billion F-22 Raptor 2.0 upgrade adds stealth-compatible conformal external fuel tanks and infrared search and track pods on the outer wings — extending the F-22’s combat radius by up to 850 nautical miles without sacrificing stealth. Katie Ciccarino, vice president of Lockheed Martin’s F-22 program, said the new Low Drag Tank and Pylon fuel tanks can stay on the aircraft through combat. The F-22 Raptor’s current unrefueled combat radius is roughly 590 nautical miles — a critical limitation in the Pacific.
Operation Epic Fury has effectively saved the A-10 Warthog, an aircraft we have seen up close – our original videos and photos included below. The U.S. Air Force, which spent years trying to retire the venerable close air support platform, is now extending the A-10 Thunderbolt II’s service life into the 2030s — driven in part by the aircraft’s surprising success hunting Iranian small boats and coastal threats at low altitude during the campaign. The A-10 is engineered around its GAU-8/A 30mm Gatling gun, which fires 70 rounds per second from a 1,150-round magazine.