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Spain’s defence market is forecast to grow across all combat domains, although fluctuations are expected in the naval sector.

Judged by the initial strategic goals set by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2022, Russia’s military lost its war against Ukraine some time ago. Yet Russia’s armed forces have not stopped fighting and continue to prosecute large-scale combat operations in a brutalizing, protracted war sucking up much of Russia’s assets of national power, from pure military capacity to foreign policy priorities to considerable societal and economic resources.

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The confirmed delivery of the first J-10C fighters to Uzbekistan Air Force has represented the most significant milestone in for the service since its creation following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, as it moves to phase Soviet-era combat aircraft out of service. Reports indicate that Uzbekistan has placed orders for 24 J-10C fighters, the first two of which were delivered in July, which will allow it to fully phase its Soviet-built MiG-29s out of service.

Footage from Russia has provided a first look at a new production batch of Su-34 strike fighters, with the aircraft still in yellow factory primer and expected to be delivered to the Aerospace Forces in September. Russia has significantly accelerated production and delivery of Su-34s, with the aircraft being ordered in greater numbers than any of the country’s other fighter types since the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

L Todd Wood sits down with former US Army Officer Mark Castillon to talk about the treachery going on in the force.
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The Chinese People’s Liberation Army has expanded its use of unmanned aircraft around Japan, with TB-001 reconnaissance and attack drone deployed to operate over the East China Sea alongside Y-9 intelligence-gathering aircraft. A flight of one aircraft of each type on August 18 prompted the Japan Air Self-Defense Force  to scramble F-15 fighters to monitor them.

Ukraine has launched three consecutive days of drone attacks against warehouses belonging to Ozon, Russia’s second-largest online retailer, causing the company’s share value to fall by almost a third.

The company says that at least six Ozon logistics facilities have been targeted since Saturday, August 22, amid Ukraine’s ongoing strike campaign against Russian logistics and commercial infrastructure.

Neptune Missile. Image Credit: Government of Ukraine.

At a 1 pm press conference in Washington on Monday, August 24, the United States warned countries and companies worldwide to cut economic ties with Iran or risk being shut out of the U.S. financial system.

The announcement today was expected, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announcing the press conference last week and warning Iran that it would be economically isolated unless the Islamic regime returns to the negotiating table.

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) sails alongside the world’s largest aircraft carrier the USS Gerald R.

Multiple Indian sources have reported that the country’s defence ministry is looking to procure technologies from Japan’s Maya class destroyer program as it develops its next-generation Project 18 destroyer. Project 18 is being conceived as a major step beyond the 7,400 ton Visakhapatnam class destroyers, potentially moving India into the same broad category as larger and more capable ships fielded in Northeast Asia.

Iran has issued a major new threat as the United States prepares to hit the regime with an unprecedented wave of sanctions.

On Sunday, the Islamic Republic warned some 45 tankers in the Strait of Hormuz that it could detain, fine, or confiscate their cargoes, accusing the vessels of violating its rules in the Strait.

Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73). Creative Commons Image.

Iran Issues Ship Blacklist
The newly founded Persian Gulf Strait Authority, a body run by the Iranian regime, published the list.

As drones from hostile, reckless or unknown operators continue to traverse jurisdictions and increasingly threaten military installations, civilian areas and mega-events across the U.S., senior officials are hustling to enable a first-of-its-kind national counter-drone surveillance network.
More than 200 U.S. military, federal, law enforcement and industry stakeholders met in Virginia on Friday at Joint Interagency Task Force 401’s second summit to discuss their first-year progress and path ahead.
“This isn’t intended as a victory lap — it’s quite the opposite,” said Brig. Gen.

Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao announced Monday the launch of the department’s Office of the Defense Industrial Base, which will be tasked with leading efforts to bolster supply chains and accelerate the delivery of dual-use technologies.
The move comes less than two weeks after President Donald Trump issued a memorandum on “Rebuilding the United States Navy and America’s Shipbuilding Industrial Base.

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The cost of maintenance work needed on barracks and other facilities has doubled over five years to $285 billion, according to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office, as the Pentagon has struggled to hire and retain workers while underfunding on-base repairs.
The Aug. 21 report faulted the Pentagon for not requesting enough money from Congress to fully fund facility repairs, improvements, and construction. The GAO said that the military services were funding about 80% of their maintenance needs, falling short of the Defense Department’s goal of 90%.

An eight-month deployment of over 100 National Guard troops to New Orleans ended Monday, officials said, as troops wrapped up final patrols around the city’s popular French Quarter and other tourist-heavy areas. The federally funded but state-managed deployment was supposed to last just two months but extended into the summer, ostensibly to provide security at major events.
“I am extraordinarily proud of the Guardsmen who participated in the New Orleans security mission,” said Maj. Gen. Thomas Friloux, Adjutant General of Louisiana, in a statement.

The Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council has warned neighboring countries not to join the United States’ “economic war” against the authoritarian regime.

Mohsen Rezaei, who succeeded Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr as secretary earlier this month, said that Tehran would “retaliate in a seismic manner” and would consider any country that cooperates with economic sanctions as an enemy of Iran.

Iran’s Drones That Russia Is Using. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Iran F-14 Tomcat Fighter. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

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A huge question mark hangs over Canadian defense policy, mainly over its F-35 purchase.

Trump: ‘We Don’t Need Canada’
On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump said he could raise tariffs on all Canadian automobile-related exports by up to 50%.

An F-35A Lightning II assigned to the 419th Fighter Wing, Hill Air Force Base, Utah takes off from the Air Dominance Center during Sentry Savannah on May 11, 2022.

Sexual assaults reported by deployed troops doubled last year, according to Pentagon officials, while the total number of reports across the entire military fell slightly, according to newly released Department of Defense statistics.
Among U.S. troops deployed to specific countries, those in Poland reported twice as many assaults as those in any other nation, according to the Pentagon’s Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military, which was released Friday with data from fiscal year 2025.

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Former Vice President Mike Pence has urged Donald Trump to “finish the job” in Iran following a prolonged period of economic pressure on Tehran.

Speaking with CNN’s State of the Union, Pence described the continuation of military action as “inevitable” as President Trump seeks a long-lasting solution to the conflict in the Middle East.

Vice President of the United States Mike Pence speaking at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. By Gage Skidmore.

When will the war between Ukraine and Russia end?

It doesn’t seem like any endgame is anywhere close to arriving, as the two countries haven’t held peace talks in months, and if anything, the war has continued to escalate.

Putin with a Rifle. Image Credit: Russian State Media.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the at the BRICS+ meeting (via videoconference). Image Credit: Creative Commons.

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Oil shipments through the embattled Strait of Hormuz appear to be increasing even as Iran insists it has full control over the waterway, as Gulf producers now use a nightly convoy organized and protected by the U.S. military and vessels sail without tracking signals.

While the current situation appears to be unsustainable, with Iran threatening to escalate strikes, a combination of methods, including ship-to-ship transfers, is helping keep millions of barrels moving out of the strait and onto world markets.

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Ukrainian officials reportedly drew up plans to send as many as 1,000 AI-guided drones per night toward Moscow’s airports, according to The Atlantic.

Citing two unnamed sources speaking on condition of anonymity, the operation, codenamed “M&Ms”, would have involved nightly assaults on Moscow airports in order to keep Russian airspace closed.

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A spokesperson for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declined to comment, while another unnamed official for the president’s office described the plans as “total nonsense”.

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Keith Kellogg, the former special envoy for Ukraine and Belarus under President Trump, went to Kyiv this week and outlined the ‘framework’ that he says the USA will continue to use in its dealings with the government in Ukraine. The special envoy’s vision does not differ from that of the rest of the ‘globalist’ globalist establishment of officials, bureaucrats, academics, etc. who have been managing the conflict in Ukraine for years.

Many things that the U.S. has done throughout its war in Iran this year have not turned out exactly as hoped. But the war’s effects appear to have reduced the value of Iran’s currency, the rial. And more such pressure is coming.

 According to Newsweek, the rial has fallen to an all-time low of 2.02 million to the dollar, ahead of a new sanctions regime that President Donald Trump is set to announce Monday as part of what he calls “Economic D-Day.”

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Ukraine Vows to Fight On As Russia Scales Up Electronic Warfare: A NATO fighter jet shot down a drone over eastern Latvia last week.

The incident comes amid the news that Ukraine has stepped up long-range attacks on Russian refineries and logistics infrastructure in an effort to undermine Moscow’s war effort.

Putin New Year’s Message. Image Credit: Russian Government.

The Defense Department is planning to put industry-built robotic vehicles through their paces in North Dakota this fall amid a broader push by U.S. military components to add uncrewed systems to their fleets.
The Joint Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) demonstration, dubbed GroundBreaker 1, is slated for mid-October at Camp Grafton, according to a notice published Aug. 21 on a government contracting website.
Officials are currently accepting white papers from vendors. Notably, only members of the DoW Drone OTA Consortium are eligible to participate.

Zelensky Warns Russia Could Mobilize 300,000 Troops as Soon as Next Month – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that Russia intends to mobilize an additional 300,000 troops in the coming weeks.

Zelensky’s remarks, made on the eve of Ukraine’s 35th Independence Day, come as Russia continues to focus its efforts in the country’s east.

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President Donald J. Trump and President Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. White House Photo.

Loc Ninh was a small airbase on the border with Cambodia. It bordered a town of 6,000 that survived on the proceeds of local rubber plantations. The airbase was guarded by a few hundred South Vietnamese regulars supported by 11 U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers. But it would host a 10-day battle that killed hundreds of North Vietnamese while the tiny defense force held its ground.
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The small town and airbase were important for two reasons.

The unveiling of the U.S. Navy’s AIM-424 Malice very long range air-to-air missile is expected to have significant implications in the Pacific Theatre, and should the weapon complete development it will allow fighters to threaten hostile targets at unprecedented ranges.  With an officially stated range of more than 250 nautical miles, or 463 kilometres, the missile could provide U.S. naval aviation with a new means of threatening China’s increasingly important airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) fleet, which has emerged as the world’s fastest growing and most capable.

The US State Department has approved a possible FMS worth an estimated $2.3bn to Norway for 21 UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters.

Iran War Forces U.S. to Cancel Major South Korea Military Exercise – The United States has canceled a major military exercise with South Korea because it cannot spare the forces while the conflict with Iran continues.

South Korea’s Marine Corps said on Monday, August 24, that the U.S. Marine Corps will not participate in next month’s Ssangyong amphibious exercise after warning Seoul that American forces were unavailable because of the demands created by the Iran War. The news comes only days after President Donald Trump ordered another major U.S.

Ukraine’s recent strategy of striking Russia’s oil infrastructure seems to have succeeded in creating an oil crisis in Russia.

As Euronews reported, on one day last week, fuel was available at fewer than three in ten of Russia’s petrol stations, forcing Russia to impose fueling restrictions and even bring back low-grade fuel that had previously been banned.

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Putin on June 24 2023 Russian Federation Photo

Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted last week to a shortage but denied it was “critical.

Gamers looking for some online heroism in the new “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4” this October will get a chance to play as a real-life Marine who was awarded the Medal of Honor in Afghanistan.
“Call of Duty” developer Activision and the Call of Duty Endowment announced Friday that the new game will offer a Valor Pack with Kyle Carpenter as a playable character. Carpenter was awarded the Medal of Honor in 2014 after he leaped on a grenade to save fellow Marines during fierce fighting in Afghanistan.
The day-one DLC package comes out the same day as the game, Oct. 23.

The Ukraine War Could Get Even More Intense: Russia could mobilize another 300,000 troops, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned, adding that the Kremlin will likely hold off on any further major mobilizations until after its parliamentary elections take place September 18 to 20.

But signs suggest Russia is preparing for the possibility.

T-14 Armata. Image Credit: Russian State Media.

T-14 Armata Tank. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

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Russian forces used Iskander tactical ballistic missile systems to strike a concentration of heavy trucks modified to transport and launch long-range unmanned aerial vehicles near Boryspil in the Kiev region, according to the Russian Ministry of Defence. The Ministry claimed that the strike destroyed up to 40 trucks equipped with launchers, potentially disrupting Ukraine’s ability to conduct long-range drone operations from the area.

Ukraine has unveiled a new jet-powered interceptor drone, Alexa Spatium, designed to strengthen air defence against Russian UAVs.

All across Russia, Ukraine’s armed forces have been – piece by piece and one drone strike at a time – destroying the infrastructure of Wildberries. The company is Russia’s largest online shopping platform.

At the end of July and into the beginning of August, an increasing number of the company’s important facilities have been targeted by drone attacks. As of 3 August, 12 of the online retailer’s 15 largest warehouses in different regions had been hit. Seven of them have not yet resumed operations.

Putin in 2023. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Putin in 2022.

Running Out of Money, Options Russia’s Putin is Risking an Internal Revolt If He Enacts Forced Conscription – Multiple news outlets are reporting that Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing a difficult next two months. The most politically dangerous move for him, say, numerous experts, is how he decides to address his need for addressesower.

His decision may or may not reverberate negatively with the population at large – potentially producing an open revolt and creating political conflict in some of Russia’s regions, as well as in Moscow itself.

Putin’s Strategy to Win His War in Ukraine: “Out-Suffer” Them – About a week ago, Andrei Klepach, the chief economist for Russia’s Vnesheconombank (VEB), which is the second-largest banking institution in the country, was removed after 12 years in the job. For ten years before that, he had run the macroeconomic forecasting unit at the economic development and trade ministry. In short, one of the country’s most experienced and insightful economic analysts.

Our intrepid team covers a lot of ground in this episode: the increasing fluidity of the battlefield, drones and air defense, the biting Black Sea campaign, the causes and aftermath of the firing of Ukraine’s popular defense minister, why Ukraine probably cannot produce PAC-3 air defense missiles (despite what some journalists are telling you), and the likelihood of a new round of Russian mobilization. This episode is Dara Massicot and Michael Kofman at their best.Thanks to NODA AI for supporting this episode. NODA AI is building mission command for autonomous forces.

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During the Cold War, the U.S. Navy fielded the iconic AIM-54 Phoenix missile. Fired by the F-14 Tomcat and guided by radar, the Phoenix was upgraded to an operational range of nearly 100 nautical miles. This allowed the Tomcat to engage enemy aircraft at extremely long distance from the carrier.
Retired in 2004, the Phoenix appears to have a spiritual successor in the new AIM-424 Malice missile.
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