Supacat has signed a MoU with KNDS Deutschland (KNDS) to manufacture a range of light and medium protected vehicles in the UK.

The movie “A House of Dynamite” is causing a lot of buzz, and it’s actually an interesting look at how a nuclear exchange might unfold in modern times, rather than in Cold War scenarios.
Related: Here’s how to survive a nuclear attack
Should be obvious, but: spoiler alert. We’re discussing how the movie’s plot corresponds to real security questions. Expect that the entire plot will be ruined if you read this.
There are a number of nitpicky things we could disassemble in the movie. Like, no, it’s not plausible that the U.S. would have no idea where the missiles came from.

The Army is initiating massive organizational reforms for how it buys new weapons and capabilities in an effort to drastically shorten procurement timelines and promote innovation, according to top service officials.
Announced Friday, the Army’s acquisition portfolio overhaul will consolidate the service’s program executive offices (PEOs) responsible for buying new weapons into six new offices called “portfolio acquisition executives” (PAEs). The plan also creates a new office dedicated to rapidly injecting and scaling emerging technologies into Army formations.

The U.S. Air Force has deployed a B-52H strategic bomber from Moron Air Base in Spain for operations near the Russian Arctic, with the aircraft receiving an escort from Finnish Air Force F-18 fighters and support from Finnish joint terminal attack controllers. The flight was part of Bomber Task Force Europe 26-1, and was highlighted by NATO, the U.S. Air Force and the Finnish Air Force as a deterrence signal and a reminder that Finland’s northern borders are now protected by NATO’s nuclear forces. This follows Finland’s accession to NATO as the alliance’s 31st member on April 4, 2023.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and the country’s defence sector have continued efforts to expand and enhance the service’s ballistic missile arsenal, which serves as the country’s primary deterrent against attacks by Israel and Western Bloc states. The arsenal has reportedly exceeded its pre-war levels seen before Israel and the United States launched an assault on the country in June, which targeted leadership, civilian infrastructure, military and nuclear targets, and was supported Turkey and several European countries.

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Intelligence-gathering and surveillance capabilities may be the deciding factor in a future decision over whether to increase the size of the Northrop Grumman B-21…

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The F-35 Lightning II was used in August 2025 to successfully evaluate three B61-12 test assets during a multi-day test campaign.

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Anduril thinks Omen, now in co-development with a company in the UAE, will take on long endurance missions performed by much larger aircraft.

The Venezuelan Air Force has deployed Su-30MK2 and F-16A/B fighter aircraft for a series of exercises, at a time of high tensions with the United States. New footage released on November 14 confirmed the drills had taken place, shortly following the deployment of the U.S. Navy’s largest warship, USS Gerald Ford, to the Caribbean region. This deployment us part of a much broader military buildup aimed at Caracas, as U.S. officials have repeatedly stated their intention to force a toppling of the government there.

The British Ministry of Defence is proceeding with plans to procure F-35A fighter aircraft from the United States for nuclear strike roles, while phasing the locally built Eurofighter out of service despite significant lobbying efforts from local industry.

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Israel’s short but destructive summer war against Iran and its brazen military strikes on Doha in September have reignited a debate across the Middle East over the value of nuclear deterrence. Gulf states also now worry that Israel’s aggression could push the Iranian leadership to finally make the leap to a bomb in order to prevent regime change.Saudi Arabia has long desired to match the military and nuclear capabilities of its regional rivals — Iran and Israel. In the aftermath of the 12-Day War it now seems to be doubling down on a policy of nuclear ambiguity.

The Indian Air Force has opened a new airbase in the Ladakh region, the Mudh-Nyoma Air Force Station, which is located just 23 kilometres from internationally recognised Chinese territory. The $25 million facility was approved for construction in 2023, and has a runway over 2300 metres long, allowing it to handle not only fighter aircraft, but also large transports such as the Russian-supplied Il-76.

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NATO has formally abandoned plans to procure Boeing E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) systems, marking a further blow to the program after both the U.S. Air Force and the Republic of Korea Air Force terminated their own plans to place orders for the aircraft.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force on November 11 released footage that for the first time showed the firing sequence of the new HQ-20 medium range air defence system. The system’s configuration closely resembles that of the widely used HQ-9 long range system, but integrates a higher quantity of missiles on each launch vehicle, with ranges estimated to be comparable to those of the older HQ-16 system.

Former special operations helicopter pilot and former Special Mission Unit Commander Pete Blaber discuss the dominoes falling in Donbass, Ukraine as Russia advances, and the lies the West is telling about the situation.

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You survived the TRICARE delivery and navigated the hospital. You’re home. Now the real fun begins. The first week with a newborn is a Nickelodeon-style gauntlet of exhaustion and flying fluids. Still, it will hit different when it also requires signing a stack of arthritis causing DoD forms, and your spouse’s “paternity leave” turns out to be more of a polite suggestion. These are the truths you only understand if your baby’s first lullaby was “Taps.”
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1. Reveille is now your baby’s least favorite alarm clock.

The Defense Department’s civilian employees whose pay was impacted by the record-setting government shutdown and lapse in appropriations that ended this week are expecting to receive their missed paychecks retroactively.
However, questions are swirling about the Pentagon’s plans as it reopened Thursday — including the timeline for that out-of-cycle backpay process, whether it will arrive in the form of lump sum payments, and more.

Key Points and Summary – America’s next Abrams, the M1E3, is designed for the drone era with an active protection system to defeat ATGMs, RPGs, loitering munitions and armed UAVs.

-Planned changes include an autoloader enabling an unmanned turret, secure links to friendly drones, a lighter hull (about 10 tons less), and a hybrid-diesel powertrain targeting 50% better fuel efficiency.

Soldiers from Echo Company, 1st Battalion, 81st Armor Regiment, 194th Armored Brigade, conduct gunnery training with the M1 Abrams tank, Jan. 14, 2025, at Brooks Range, on Fort Benning, Georgia. (U.S.

A specialist Royal Air Force counter-drone unit

Venezuela actually has a relatively capable air

Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below.***RussiaOn Nov. 5, a few days after U.S. President Donald Trump suggested that the United States might resume nuclear weapons testing, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the country’s security council to prepare proposals for Russia to also resume nuclear tests.

Key Points and Summary – Europe’s Mobile Ground Combat System (MGCS) is a Franco-German bid to replace Leopard 2 and Leclerc with a modular, networked family: a 130/140mm ASCALON-armed core vehicle, teamed with UGVs, drones and a “combat cloud” for sensor fusion and AI decision aids.

-KNDS, Rheinmetall and Thales formed an MGCS Project Company in 2025; Phase 1A runs to 2029 across eight tech pillars.

Leopard 2. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

A Canadian Army Leopard 2A4M tank fires a round while taking part in the Canadian Army Trophy tank competition at Ādaži in Latvia.

Key Points and Summary – Born to match America’s Ohio-class, the Project 941 Typhoon-class was the USSR’s ultimate second-strike machine: a double-hull giant with two reactors, under-ice tactics, and 20 R-39 missiles carrying up to 200 MIRVed warheads.

-Measuring 175m and displacing 48,000 tons submerged, it mixed survivability with unheard-of crew amenities for months-long Arctic patrols.

Russia’s Typhoon-Class Submarine. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Typhoon-Class Submarine. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Typhoon-Class. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Key Points and Summary – The F-47 NGAD is pitched as a true leap: a long-range, Mach-2-plus stealth “quarterback” that commands swarms of Collaborative Combat Aircraft for sensing, jamming, decoy and strike.

-A next-gen “Stealth++” design promises far lower observability than fifth-gen jets, while emerging ceramic radar-absorbent coatings aim to survive heat, rain and abrasion at high speed.

Shown is a graphical artist rendering of the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) Platform. The rendering highlights the Air Force’s sixth generation fighter, the F-47.

Key Points and Summary – USS Gerald R. Ford’s Caribbean patrol is more than counternarcotics theater; it signals a hemispheric-first grand strategy.

-Trump’s team is refortifying the Americas—using carrier presence, tariffs on Canada, and tougher rules for Mexico—to build a “continental fortress” that underwrites Indo-Pacific competition with China.

The U.S. Navy Gerald R. Ford–class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) and the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S.

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Key Points and Summary – The F-16XL—an F-16 stretched with a distinctive cranked-arrow wing—entered a USAF strike-fighter competition to replace the F-111, but the service picked the F-15E in 1984 after tests and wargames.

-With budgets shifting to the F-15E, F-117, and ATF, XL development ended in 1985.

F-16XL Fighter from NASA. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

F-16XL Fighter. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

A bunch of Marines in the California desert, about halfway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, Nevada, spent the summer training with a new camouflage pattern.
Or did they?
Based on the above photo, it’s probably hard to tell, but eight Marines at Twentynine Palms, California, donned new camouflage suits that resemble a traditional Ghillie suit worn by snipers but feature a pattern made by CONCAMO.

Key Points and Summary – The Air Force will pare back F-35 purchases through 2028, citing Block 4 upgrade and TR-3 computing delays, and will re-accelerate once “most relevant” jets are available.

-GAO now pegs full Block 4 to 2031. The service still targets 1,763 F-35As but is prioritizing sixth-gen F-47 NGAD development and Collaborative Combat Aircraft, while upgrading legacy fleets.

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Key Points and Summary – Born to counter the F-15, Russia’s Su-27 became the template for a family of agile, long-range fighters—and it still flies despite sanctions.

-Ukraine now mates Western decoys like the ADM-160 MALD to its Su-27s, while Oryx counts far heavier Ukrainian Flanker losses than Russia’s.

Su-27 Flanker Up Close. Image Credit: National Security Journal Taken on July 19, 2025.

Russian Su-27 Flanker from USAF Museum. Image Credit: National Security Journal.

Su-27 Flanker Fighter from Russia. Image Credit: National Security Journal.

Su-27 Flanker from U.S.

GlobalData aerospace and defence analyst James Marques has provided insight into TNT demands in the United States.

The war in Ukraine is evolving, and the battles

Key Points and Summary – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warns Russia is preparing for a “big war” by 2029, citing record military outlays and an expanding defense base.

-He urges tighter sanctions and starving Moscow of energy revenue as the EU pursues a full ban on Russian fossil fuels by January 2027 and the U.S. targets Rosneft and Lukoil.

Russian T-90M Tank in Ukraine War. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

-Yet Europe may struggle to scale in time: a Kiel Institute report flags production bottlenecks, fragmented rearmament, and risky reliance on U.S. guarantees.

Key Points and Summary – Russia’s proposed MiG-41 (PAK DP) promises Mach-4+ speed, lasers, and near-space flight—but remains artwork, not airframe.

Five hurdles loom: first, technologies like airborne lasers and anti-satellite altitude ops aren’t mature in Russia.

MiG-41 Fighter. Image Credit: Artist Rendition/Creative Commons.

MiG-41. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

-Second, years of sanctions choke microelectronics and supply chains.

-Third, no viable engine exists to push a fighter to sustained Mach-4/5.

On November 10, 2025, the United States Marine Corps celebrated 250 years. While the nation’s premier expeditionary fighting force was formed at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a very special ceremony took place 170 miles southwest at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia.
Established in 2006, the National Museum is a joint public-private venture between the United States Marine Corps and the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation.

Key Points and Summary – Conceived as a lighter, cheaper counterpart to the Su-27 and a foil to America’s F-16, Mikoyan’s MiG-29 was built for short-to-medium-range fights from austere strips.

-Agile, with IRST, helmet cueing and R-73 missiles, it traded range and cockpit ergonomics for rugged frontline punch.

MiG-29 Fighter U.S. Air Force Museum July 2025. Image Credit: National Security Journal.

-After 1991, ex-Warsaw Pact fleets scattered: reunified Germany flew MiGs alongside F-4s, then sold 23 to Poland in 2003 for one euro.

Key Points and Summary – Russia’s twin-seat Su-30SM “Flanker-H” is a 4+-generation multirole fighter derived from the Su-27 family.

-Powered by two AL-31F turbofans, it reaches roughly Mach 2, carries up to eight tons of weapons on 12 hardpoints, and mounts a 30mm GSh-30-1 cannon.

Su-27 Flanker. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Su-27 Flanker Fighter. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

-Loadouts span R-73/77 air-to-air missiles, Kh-29/59 strikes, Kh-31A anti-ship and Kh-31P anti-radiation rounds; the SM2 can field the long-range R-37M.

Key Points and Summary – Russia’s air-launched Kinzhal—derived from the Iskander—dives toward targets at hypersonic speed and now uses new terminal maneuvers that slash Ukraine’s Patriot intercept rate.

-Officials say kill rates around Kyiv fell from roughly 37% in August to about 6% in September as Kinzhals/Iskanders executed late pull-downs and lateral jinks, often masked within mixed salvos. Ukraine is answering with Lima, a homegrown electronic-warfare system that spoofs satellite guidance.

MiG-31 Russian Air Force. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Key Points and Summary – The B-1A aimed to fuse B-52 range with B-58 speed: a Mach 2.2, variable-sweep nuclear bomber built to outrun Soviet defenses.

-Reality came calling. Costs tripled, schedules slipped, and new threats emerged.

OVER NEVADA — A B-1B Lancer from the 37th Bomb Squadron, Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., streaks through the sky. Carrying the largest payload of both guided and unguided weapons in the Air Force inventory, the multi-mission Lancer is the backbone of America’s long-range bomber force.

Key Points and Summary – Russia’s FSB claims UK MI6 and Ukraine’s HUR tried to recruit MiG-31K crew to deliver a Kinzhal-armed jet to NATO territory, boosting a bounty from $1M to $3M and promising citizenship.

-The plan hinges on a rear-seat navigator poisoning the pilot and then flying to Romania or Odesa.

Russia’s MiG-31 Fighter. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

MiG-31 Russian Air Force. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

-Aviation experts note the navigator cannot safely land a MiG-31 from the back seat, making the caper implausible.

Sweden have bought and tested MACE and the Stork LR drones alongside experienced Ukrainian troops at a new UAS testing facility in Karlsborg.

Key Points and Summary – Russia is advancing block by block into Pokrovsk, a key Donetsk rail hub, while Ukraine battles a stark manpower crunch. Local voices and former officials warn of encirclement risk and urge a withdrawal before it’s too late.

-Kyiv is reportedly shifting units from other sectors, but thin lines persist—some stretches staffed by only a handful of infantry per kilometer.

Ukraine Drone. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

-Drone swarms and small-unit infiltrations complicate resupply, and desertion/absence cases have spiked.

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KNDS Deutschland (KNDS) has secured a subcontract from ARTEC to deliver Boxer RCT 30 wheeled infantry fighting vehicles to the German Army.

Saab has an agreement with the Danish Ministry of Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation to supply the Carl-Gustaf M4 weapon systems.

Key Points and Summary – Born to replace the A-6, the A-12 Avenger II promised a stealth, carrier-based strike jet with internal weapons and composite skins.

-Carrier robustness and low-observable design collided: weight ballooned 30%, coatings hated saltwater, and performance slipped.

(Dec. 31, 2022) An F/A-18E Super Hornet assigned to the “Mighty Shrikes” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 94 prepares to launch from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) to participate in a long-range maritime strike demonstration. Nimitz is in 7th Fleet conducting routine operations.