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Kodiak AI and General Dynamics Land Systems have established strategic partnership to develop autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) for defence purposes.

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Latvia has confirmed that two uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAV) from Russia entered the country’s airspace and crashed within Latvian territory on 7 May 2026.

The Combat Air Museum in Topeka, Kansas has a new collection: 80 painstakingly accurate World War I paintings that tell the history behind the real-life aerial kills credited to the famed German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen—the Red Baron. The paintings are the creation of New York artist Thomas La Padula, who donated the collection.
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Manfred von Richthofen is known for his prowess as a World War I fighter pilot, credited with 80 combat victories in his blazing red Fokker triplane.

The Coast Guard is putting all of its specialized forces under a single headquarters as demand for their services is at an all-time high.

With new threats emerging at home and abroad, the U.S. Coast Guard has created a new Special Missions Command (SMC) to oversee its “deployable specialized forces.” The move, officially unveiled today, comes as the Trump administration is increasing the use of these units for ship and drug interdictions around the globe. The Coast Guard is a uniformed military service, but has specific law enforcement authorities. Under Title 14 of the U.S.

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The Maverick Act would send three retired F-14D Tomcats to a museum in Alabama and possibly restore one to flight

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May is National Military Appreciation Month in the United States.

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The USAF plans to keep its B-52s until they are nearly a century old, but they cannot fly forever, and costs are already skyrocketing on key upgrades

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Northrop Grumman’s EGI-M technology prepares the Raptor for high-end electronic warfare

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Head of the Russian state tech corporation Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, has reported success in doubling the production of combat aircraft since the start of full scale hostilities in the Ukrainian theatre in 2022, following years of sustained efforts to increase output of fighters, bombers and attack helicopters. Chemezov made the claim directly to President Vladimir Putin at a meeting.

RBS 58 anti-tank missile units are on their way to the Swedish military after first approaching France for the design five years ago.

The National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology based in Taoyuan has developed a “digital fire control, all-electric fire control, and high-resolution observation and aiming” system for the U.S.-supplied M60A3 main battle tank, which currently forms the backbone of the Republic of China Army’s tank fleet. The Institute is confirmed to be collaborating with foreign firms to market this new fire control system abroad, due to the Republic of China Defence Ministry having neglected to finance it for the domestic M60 fleet under its current spending plan.

The delivery of S-400 long range air defence systems to equip the seventh and eighth Indian Air Force battalions has been confirmed on May 7 to have begun, as the Indian Defence Ministry and local media mark a year since the country’s brief but high intensity border conflict with Pakistan. Confirming the dispatch of the systems from Russia, Deputy Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Awadhesh Kumar Bharti observed: “we should be having [it] with us within a month.” He added that systems on order to equip two further battalions are due for delivery by the end of 2026.

The Egyptian Air Force has deployed Rafale fighter aircraft to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi visiting the country and inspecting the fighters alongside UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The Egyptian Air Force has seldom in its history stationed fighter aircraft beyond its borders, with the confirmation of the aircraft’s presence being given just hours after new rounds of Iranian-UAE hostilities saw strikes launched successfully against targets across the Arab Gulf country.

Carol Whitmore biggest priorities as the VFW National Commander are advocating for veterans, fighting claims sharks, repatriating the remains of POW/MIA, and highlighting the service of women. But she took command of the VFW at a turbulent time for veterans: a VA secretary accused of moving against veterans’ hard-won benefits, thousands of veterans facing foreclosure, and a membership base in slow decline.
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It’s a historic time, but she’s accustomed to that.

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The drones hitting Gulf Arab states daily since the United States and Israel launched large-scale military operations against Iran in February are not merely Iranian. They are originally Iranian, yes. But these designs and production processes were improved and refined by Russia through years of battlefield testing against Ukrainian defenses. So, they were returned to Tehran from Moscow. Confronted with a threat that Ukraine has spent four years learning to counter, the United States found itself in unfamiliar territory.

On the eve of the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, 56 tankers sailed through the Strait of Hormuz. Two days later, Lloyd’s List, the maritime industry’s journal of record, counted just seven tankers and a single gas carrier — all small and three of them shadow-fleet vessels — with hundreds more drifting in the Gulf of Oman. One of the world’s most important maritime chokepoints had not been mined, blockaded, or seized by a navy. Rather, it had been priced shut by a handful of drone strikes and the insurance market.Within two days of the first U.S.-Israeli strikes on Feb.

The B-21 Raider next generation intercontinental range strategic bomber currently under development for the U.S. Air Force has completed a major developmental flight testing program in just 73 days, which represents under half of the planned 180 day testing period. The speed at which this process could be completed has been interpreted by analysts as a signal of both the urgency with which the aircraft is considered to be needed in active service, as well as high levels of software maturity and systems integration which were achieved before testing began.

Chinese government sources have for the first time reported the deployment of personnel to Pakistan to support combat operations against India in early May, 2025, specifically in the form of on-site technical support for the Pakistan Air Force’s newly procured J-10C fighters. Chinese state broadcaster CCTV on May 7 broadcast an interview with a Chinese engineer Zhang Heng, from the Chengdu Aircraft Design and Research Institute responsible for developing the J-10, who was among the personnel deployed on the ground during the conflict.

The Defence Intelligence of Ukraine has released computer generated imagery of a new type of Russian air-launched cruise missile, designated in the West the S-71K Kover, which has reportedly begun to equip Su-57 fifth generation fighter units and be used in combat. Ukrainian intelligence has also released information on the missile’ssubsystems and electronic components, based on assessments of the remains of missiles used in the conflict.

The Pentagon is preparing to take additional steps to address a major bottleneck that could limit the military’s ability to proliferate artificial intelligence capabilities throughout the force: compute.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Pentagon CTO Emil Michael and other senior officials are pushing the department to accelerate AI adoption, touting its benefits for warfighting and back-office functions.
Chief Digital and AI Officer Cameron Stanley noted that the technology has demonstrated its utility during the Iran war.

Software vulnerabilities recently discovered by Anthropic’s new Claude Mythos Preview artificial intelligence model have raised alarms in the cybersecurity community, but a senior Pentagon official sounded upbeat Thursday about the benefits of frontier AI technology.
Mythos Preview, an unreleased frontier model with coding capability, reportedly found thousands of “high-severity” vulnerabilities that need to be fixed by the public and private sectors so that China or other adversaries can’t use similar technology to find and exploit them.

An Army decision to assign an active-duty lawyer as a prosecutor in a civilian trials in Minnesota runs afoul of military regulations, a judge said Friday.
But U.S. Magistrate Shannon Elkins ruled she doesn’t have the authority to enforce the Pentagon regulation, allowing the case to proceed. 
“Department of Defense regulations recognize that having military lawyers prosecute civilians in cases that lack a military nexus would be ill-advised,” Elkins wrote.

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The Maverick Act would send three retired F-14D

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The Navy retired the F-14 Tomcat from active duty in 2006, but lawmakers are once again feeling the need for speed.
The Senate recently passed the Maverick Act, which would send three retired Navy F-14 Tomcats to a museum in Alabama for preservation, with at least the ambition of getting at least one back in the air.
Sponsored by Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.), the bill would authorize the Navy Secretary to transfer the Navy’s last three surplus Tomcats to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville.

Let’s be clear: if the German high command had any respect for American generals at the outset of World War II, they would never have declared war in the first place. But as we all know, respect is earned and not issued, so it took a little time for the United States to earn respect on the battlefield.
By then, however, it was too late for Nazi Germany.
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History may remember the most audacious personalities and events, while some figures end up quietly stealing the spotlight through bravery and determination. James Doolittle was both.

The British Army require UAS-deployable sensor technologies to survey river data for land force mobility and crossings.

The UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has created Assured Intent Messaging (AIM), a new digital messaging system intended to unify communication among diverse military technologies.

This isn’t the far-right “Nazi” of the modern era: we’re talking about an AI-driven database that helps you search for Nazi Party family members by name. These are the original Nazis; the German National Socialists you see get beaten down every time you rewatch “Band of Brothers.”
Also Read: Nazi sabotage teams were captured infiltrating the US during World War II
Prominent German weekly newspaper Die Zeit has taken the German Federal Archives’ entire catalog of 8.2 million NSDAP (Nazi Party) documents and used AI to make the all of the Nazi member rolls publicly searchable.

You loved them in “Top Gun.” You mourned them in Midnight Hammer. It’s been 20 years since the F-14 officially retired from American service, leaving the operational Tomcats solely on Iranian airfields.
Also Read: Aviation nerds are mourning Iran’s F-14 Tomcats
Because the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) is the F-14’s sole user, the United States has been notoriously stingy about Tomcat parts, airframes, or other components, for fear that they might end up smuggled to Iran.
No longer.
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Saab has unveiled a new Russian tank-killer round for the Carl-Gustaf M4 recoilless rifle, intended to defeat explosive reactive armour.

Patria has signed MoUs with three Czech state enterprises related to the Czech Armed Forces’ plans to acquire a new 8×8 wheeled armoured vehicle.

The Coast Guard will finally have a dedicated c

Heeeeeeeeeere we go again. Same old SIG again. Well, sort of.
On April 29, 2026, former North Myrtle Beach Police Department (NMBPD) Sgt. William Norton filed a federal lawsuit against SIG Sauer, Inc. after an incident in which he alleges his SIG M400 duty rifle accidentally discharged.
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The incident in question occurred on May 25, 2025 as Norton and other law enforcement officers responded to a mass shooting in Little River, South Carolina.

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The Pakistan Air Force has announced that it has laid the groundwork for a wide range of procurements from China to revolutionise its combat capabilities, a year after engagements with Indian forces in early May, 2025, placed its Chinese-supplied equipment through unprecedented high intensity combat testing. The Air Force announced four separate planned procurement, including an unnamed long-range precision weapon, a next-generation fighter presumed to be the newly unveiled J-35, additional J-10C fighters, and upgrades for the existing JF-17 lightweight fighter fleet.

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Designed by Northrop Grumman and subsidiary Scaled Composites, the unmanned XRQ-73 features an ultra-quiet propulsion system powered by electricity from a gas turbine

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The F-35 Joint Program Office is preparing to modify the fighter’s In-Line File Encryption Device software to support government-mandated quantum-resistant…

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Some new spectators wanted to join the Coronati

The Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles the U.S. military fired during Operation Epic Fury take months to put on contract and years to produce.Whether driven by U.S. military operations or support to partners, the challenge of quickly replenishing U.S. munitions is not new. Exquisite munitions often take an exquisite amount of time to manufacture and deliver. Defense officials, in turn, frequently want to compress that time as much as possible, seeking to restock fast and mitigate future risks.The Russo-Ukrainian War has illuminated the challenge of accomplishing this feat.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy has deployed Su-30MK2 long range fighter aircraft for operations over Huangyan Island in the South China Sea. The aircraft escorted H-6L bombers as part of a major show of force to demonstrate China’s effective jurisdiction over the island’s territorial waters and airspace, with its strategic location and disputed status making such operations strategically vital.