A potential deal to ease traffic in the Strait of Hormuz is reportedly being cautioned against by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The countries are keen to ensure that U.S. President Trump does not concede too much to Iran.

Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Aircraft Handling) 1st Class Jose Mejiacastro, assigned to Air Department aboard the world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), prepares to signal to a Carrier Air Wing 8 F/A-18E Super Hornet attached to Strike Fighter Squadron 87 on the flight deck, Sept. 26, 2025. Gerald R.

Denmark’s military intelligence service has warned that Russia could make a limited military attack on one of NATO’s members within months, even as its war with Ukraine continues.

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U.S. Air Force Capt. Nick “Laz” Le Tourneau, pilot and commander of the F-22 Raptor Aerial Demonstration Team, performs an aerial demonstration during the 52nd Annual SUN ‘n FUN Aerospace Expo in Lakeland, Florida, April 18, 2026. Capt.

This week Zelenskyy made a grim prediction. Following a meeting in New York with British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, he warned: “There’s intelligence right now that Russia is preparing a new massive attack against Ukraine.”

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Neptune Missile. Image Credit: Government of Ukraine.

Ukraine War Map. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Overnight on September 23-24, Kyiv was bombarded with three waves of ballistic missile attacks.

The Ukrainian Air Force said that Russia fired 282 drones. Russia also launched hypersonic and ballistic missiles.

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Soldiers at the Army’s primary base in South Korea have no running water and won’t have any through the weekend, service officials said on Friday.
Officials said that a mechanical failure left taps dry across Camp Humphreys, 40 miles south of Seoul, but that fixes would be delayed through the weekend due to a Korean holiday. This weekend marks the three-day Chuseok harvest festival, which extends over Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week.
As a result of the holiday, officials said, U.S. troops, families and contractors on base could be without running water until Monday.

Iran has issued a dramatic deadline. It wants the U.S. to agree to its demands in the coming days, or risk continued chaos in the Strait of Hormuz.

Mohsen Rezaei, who was last month made secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, says the regime has “given the Americans four to five days to comply with Iran’s conditions.”

PACIFIC OCEAN (Feb. 9, 2012) The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) transits the Pacific Ocean. John C. Stennis is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility while on a seven-month deployment. (U.S.

For four and a half years, Russia has waged a full-scale invasion against Ukraine, targeting anything and everything that stands in its way.

The conflict has seldom been confined to the battlefields.

Putin Back in 2020. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Putin in 2019. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Tanks have been targeted as much as trains, and soldiers as much as schools, as Russia depletes its full arsenal to win a war that many initially predicted would last a matter of days.

This form of warfare is nothing new in Moscow’s invasion.

The UK Forward Land Forces in Estonia will shift to lighter and more agile units from April 2027 but few platform changes have been made.

On Jan. 15, 2019, five terrorists from the Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab carried out an attack at the DusitD2 complex in Nairobi, Kenya using AK-style rifles, grenades, and a suicide bomb. According to British SAS operator Christian Craighead, who spearheaded the rescue of civilians and counterattack at the complex, that statement alone is against the law in the United Kingdom.
Blocked from publishing his account of the events in his home country, Craighead released “One Man In” in the United States through Threshold Editions and Simon & Schuster Audio on Sept. 15, 2026.

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U.S. troops carrying out strikes against alleged drug-trafficking boats are facing renewed questions about the legality of their orders after a United Nations expert found the attacks may constitute crimes against humanity.
Ben Saul, the U.N. special rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights, examined the U.S. military campaign that has killed 223 people in at least 68 strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific since September 2025.
Saul found there were reasonable grounds to believe the U.S.

When SIG Sauer released the P320 in 2014, it had difficulty breaking into a polymer-frame, striker-fired duty handgun market dominated by the likes of Glock and Smith & Wesson. Following the win of the Modular Handgun System contract with the Army and subsequent adoption by the rest of the U.S. military, P320 sales exploded.
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To complement the full-size, compact, sub-compact, and carry P320 variants, SIG released the micro-compact P365.

In recent weeks and months, Russia and Ukraine have been striking each other’s energy infrastructure, which has affected global energy markets to the point where President Donald Trump has been pushing the two countries to agree to a ceasefire in such attacks.

And now, Russia’s attacks have hit another essential part of Ukraine’s economy.

MSTA-S Russian Army. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Msta-S Russian Army. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Australia has pledged additional support for Ukraine, expanding its military and humanitarian assistance as the war with Russia continues.

The Estonian Defence Forces have signed a three-year agreement with defence-focused investment fund Archangel to connect military requirements with technology companies and investors in Estonia and the wider Baltic region.

The Navy formally established a new center Thursday at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek in Virginia that’s expected to play a major role in shaping how the sea service fights with uncrewed systems.
The Robotic and Autonomous Systems Warfighting Development Center (RASWDC) will bring “operational coherence” that’s needed for the integration of unmanned platforms across the fleet with the Navy’s general-purpose forces, according to an unclassified administrative message from Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle that was posted Thursday on a Navy HR website.

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YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz. — U.S. Northern Command’s next Falcon Peak exercise will focus for the first time on safely integrating and demonstrating counter-drone capabilities in a dense city setting that’s bustling with human activity, Brig. Gen. Jason “Ox” Rueschhoff told DefenseScoop on Thursday.
“Homeland defense is not about protecting from outside, it’s also protecting inside,” said Rueschhoff, Northcom’s director of operations. “We could do one without taking care of the other, and that’s not the right answer.

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Since then, he has achieved a level of fame and wealth that he didn’t think possible while he was a youth in Wichita, Kansas. The perks of becoming a world-renowned musician are not lost on the 78-year-old Walsh, but they don’t insulate him from the realities of losing a loved one.
Walsh was only 20 months old when his father, Army Air Corps Lt. Robert Newton Fidler, died in a midair collision over Okinawa, Japan, on July 22, 1949.

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The Algerian Air Force has reportedly procured Chinese HQ-17 short-range air defence systems, marking a further milestone in the expansion China’s market share in Africa’s most heavily armed country. Algeria’s extensive investment in ground-based air defences has seen it both expand procurements of Russian systems, and increasingly rely on Chinese equipment which has in many cases provided a more advanced alternative.

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Movies, shows, and books have long been at the forefront of imagining the future of war. If you were to picture the “future soldier,” you’d likely picture the genetically engineered super soldiers that have captivated — and horrified — audiences for decades. Soldiers have been depicted as being engineered or bred for super strength or speed, intense rage or cold calculation, and even half-human, half-machine.While Hollywood’s most alarmist visions for the future soldier are nothing more than fantasy, advances in technologies and AI are pushing the frontier of soldier technologies.

Pyongyang has a long history of conducting irregular warfare and asymmetric operations: Look no further than the 1968 Blue House raid or the 1996 submarine incursion as the most pressing examples. More often than not, North Korea failed to achieve the intended objectives of its missions and lost its commandos. Despite failures, the regime pressed on, and now, over thirty years after the sub incursion, it has the combat experience of its special operations forces in Kursk to leverage.

United States Air Force F-35 stealth fighters are set to participate in India’s multinational Tarang Shakti 2026 air exercise, marking the first time the fifth generation aircraft will conduct tactical missions alongside Indian fighters from an Indian airbase. The exercise is scheduled to begin on September 26 at Jodhpur Air Force Station in Rajasthan, approximately 200 kilometres from the Pakistani border, and will continue through October 12. The F-35s will operate alongside a broad range of Indian combat aircraft, including the Su-30MKI, Rafale, Tejas and Mirage 2000.

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The United States Air Force has received its first two unmanned fighter aircraft, marking a major milestone in the service’s effort to introduce semi-autonomous combat aircraft into operational units. The General Atomics FQ-42 Vengeance and Anduril FQ-44 Fury have arrived at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, where Air Combat Command will conduct operational experimentation to determine how the aircraft can be employed alongside crewed fighters.

General Electric Aerospace has provided a glimpse of what could eventually become one of the most radical American military aircraft concepts since the 1960s, showcasing a futuristic hypersonic aircraft powered by its dual-mode ramjet technology. A video released by General Electric Aerospace in 2025 depicted a sleek high-speed aircraft accompanied by the slogan, “Everything seems impossible…until it isn’t,” prompting speculation that the company could be envisioning an aircraft capable of operating at speeds far beyond those achieved any existing military aircraft.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has pointed to the development of a new experimental aircraft capable of operating at extreme speeds and altitudes, presenting a mysterious silhouette that immediately drew comparisons to the Cold War era SR-71 Blackbird. The SR-71 was designed to fly at over three times the speed of sound and at altitudes of over 25,000 metres, which was intended to make it highly challenging to target. “In the service of the first A [aeronautics] in NASA, we are rebuilding our X-plane fleet.

There are a lot of reasons to think that the Iran War will represent bad news for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party in the midterm elections in November.

The war is historically very unpopular and has been for a long time.

President Donald Trump participates in a working lunch meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, Tuesday, October 28, 2025, at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, Japan. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks at the F11 PRIORITY Summit at the Faena Forum in Miami, Florida on Friday, March 27, 2026.

BAE Systems delivered two concept infantry fighting vehicles to the Army’s top armored division earlier this year, a self-funded project the company has since billed as an example of adapting existing platforms with new tech — in this case, without the service explicitly asking for it.
In April, the 1st Cavalry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas, received two Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicles (AMPV) equipped with a 30mm turret and counter-drone sensors.

A decade ago, after my 30th reunion, I wrote an article that went viral; it was titled — The United States Air Force Academy Doesn’t Train Warriors Anymore.  It was a heartfelt expression of my disgust and horror of what had become of my beloved Academy under the reign of the Marxist Obama, as well as under the Bush and Clinton families which were not much better, in fact secretly aligned with much of Obama’s agenda.

The Navy issued a call for solutions this week as it steams ahead with plans to add new sea drone technologies to the military’s online marketplace and build up its uncrewed systems arsenal.
The solicitation, posted on a government contracting website, is related to onboarding of “Phase II” medium unmanned surface vessels.
Plans for the onboarding effort were laid out in an announcement by the Department of the Navy direct reporting portfolio manager for robotics and autonomous systems.

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The Air Force Thunderbirds might be the most heavily photographed airplanes in the U.S. military. The Pentagon’s official photography archive lists over 20,000 photos and 500 videos of the team’s pilots and F-16 jets.
But some of the most remarkable images ever released of the demonstration team were made public Monday inside the pages of a formal accident investigation report on the cause of a crash of one of the team’s jets last December.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have not had a face-to-face meeting during Russia’s war on Ukraine, which began more than four years ago, and have not met at all since December of 2019, shortly after Zelensky’s election that April, and long before the war began with the Russian invasion in 2022.

A diplomatic process to end the war, suggested by various parties, could involve the two leaders meeting in person, possibly as part of the final stage of a peace agreement.

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Earlier this month, a weekend of meetings between the White House’s Russia envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, and both Russian and Ukrainian leaders was followed by a barrage of attacks on Ukraine by Russia, after the sides had agreed to a brief pause.

Now, a meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has also been met with attacks on Ukraine by Russia.

The latest batch of Su-57 fifth generation fighters delivered to the Russian Aerospace Forces have entered service in a “new technical configuration” incorporating further modifications to their onboard systems and weapons suites. The delivery was announced by United Aircraft Corporation on September 24, and provides further evidence that the Su-57 is continuing to evolve substantially after entering serial production.

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Soldiers with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, will deploy to Lithuania as the U.S. continues its military presence on NATO’s eastern flank, Maj. Montrell Russell, an Army spokesman, told Task & Purpose.
They will be replacing the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, according to an August news release that previously announced the routine deployment.
The deployment is part of Operation Atlantic Resolve and continues a U.S. presence that has regularly sent battalion-sized Army units to Lithuania since 2019.

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Tekever has finalised the first stage of its $580m Series D fundraising, drawing investment from both new and long-standing supporters.

The Chinese government has taken possession of sensitive components from a Royal Australian Air Force F-35A fighter after a shipment carrying the parts was unexpectedly diverted to Hong Kong, according to sources familiar with the incident cited by Bloomberg. The components, which include an F-35 cockpit canopy and weapons-bay door, were being transported from Australia to the United States for inspection and possible repair or disposal when they were diverted in late May.