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The Air Force’s long-beloved, flying tank of a plane, the A-10C Thunderbolt II, got yet another stay of execution Monday, when Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink announced that the “Hog” will keep flying through 2030.
Beloved by generations of ground troops and attack pilots alike, the A-10 was set to fully end operational service by the end of 2026. The Air Force has been closing A-10 squadrons for the last several years, and the service graduated its last class of A-10 pilots at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in early April.

As the Navy hustles to operationalize a mix of low- and high-tech drones that extend the fleet’s reach and combat power, its highest-ranking officer is looking to launch a new Warfighting Development Center that specializes in training and deployment tactics for robotic and autonomous systems.
“We need to move these capabilities from individual units into composite mission sets, including contested logistics,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle said Monday.

After a yearlong delay, the Navy expects to choose which company will build its sixth-generation fighter jet — known as F/A-XX — in August 2026, according to the service’s top admiral.
“The need for the F/A-XX is unquestionable. Peer competitors and even lesser adversaries are improving their anti-air capabilities. We expect a down-select in August of this year,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle told reporters Monday on the sidelines of the Sea Air Space conference.

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On Sunday, Marines from the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli fast-roped from helicopters onto the deck of the Iranian cargo ship M/V Touska to take custody of the vessel, the first seizure of the week-long U.S. military blockade of Iranian ports. The Touska was first disabled by sailors on the Navy destroyer USS Spruance, who fired several shots from its 5-inch MK 45 gun at the vessel’s engine room.

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The Secretary of the Air Force has announced th

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Every war has its heroes, its standout troops that come to national attention. Today’s constant media cycle and proliferation make it much harder to turn even a Medal of Honor recipient into a household name. Before we had more media than intellect, however, people paid attention to the great deeds performed by troops on the battlefield. 
World War I saw Sgt. Alvin York, an attempted conscientious objector, become a hero after capturing a large number of enemy soldiers in France. In World War II, Audie Murphy’s battlefield heroics earned him every major decoration the U.S.

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how Ukrainians themselves debate the issues shaping their country.American coverage often narrows the view to the battlefield — these pieces widen it, revealing the texture of daily life, politics, and public argument in a nation at war.

The Navy is telling sailors to lock down their phones and social media accounts as online threats increase during the current conflict with Iran. Officials said that “adversary cyber actors” are increasingly targeting sailors online with a wide range of hack attempts and psychological operations.
The message even says to “​​beware” of dating apps that share too much personal information.

Expatriate volunteers resident in Ukraine are bolstering local air defence forces as Russia’s Spring-Summer offensive continues.

Caregivers of seriously injured veterans often don’t know about the mental health support available to them through the Department of Veterans Affairs, which can put additional strain on them and those they care for, according to a recent federal watchdog report.

WB Group taps Teledyne FLIR for TacFLIR 280-HDEP surveillance systems to boost situational awareness in the battlespace.

At the start of 2026, the Russian meat grinder

The Iranian-flagged cargo vessel Touska was dis

The European Commission (EC) has approved funding for the third phase of the FAMOUS (European Future Highly Mobile Augmented Armoured Systems) project undertaken by a defence industry consortium led by Patria.

Raytheon will repackage the the Next Generation Jammer, used on Growler aircraft, to protect land and sea assets.

The UK Armed Forces team look to bounce back fr

U.S. Marines depart amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli (LHA 7) by helicopter and transit over the Arabian Sea to board and seize M/V Touska. The Marines rappelled onto the Iranian-flagged vessel, April 19, after guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111) disabled Touska’s propulsion when the commercial ship failed to comply with repeated warnings from U.S. forces over a six-hour period.
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Jamie Whitney, Military+Aerospace Electronics
The electronic intelligence (ELINT) capability supports long-range sensing for integrated air defense systems, providing ground commanders with…

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Increased protection and speed led to opportunity when leveraged appropriately

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The tour groups moving through the USS Kearsarge as part of the city’s first Fleet Week are getting a glimpse of the amphibious assault ship at its finest.

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Navy sailors’ “perfect” Red Sea defense tactics and advanced weapons now offer potent solutions against escalating drone swarm threats at sea.

Joseph Trevithick, The WarZone
Army officials have shared new details about plans to launch extremely long-range drones from the service’s forthcoming ME-11B High Accuracy Detection and…

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy deployed the aircraft carrier Liaoning to sail through the Taiwan Strait on April 20, marking the first transit of the waterway by a carrier warship since the beginning of the year. The deployment has been assessed to be a response to the Japan Maritime Self Defence Force’s deployment of the Murasame class destroyer JS Ikazuchi to itself transit the strait on April 17, which Beijing referred to as “a deliberate provocation.

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Think of a violin made by a master craftsman: beautiful, precise, capable of extraordinary performance, but impossible to produce quickly or cheaply. It takes time, rare expertise, and materials that cannot be sourced at scale. You would not equip an entire orchestra with instruments like that. Yet that is essentially what the United States has attempted with its tactical air fleet.The F-35 program’s total lifetime cost is projected to exceed two trillion dollars, the most expensive Major Defense Acquisition Program in history. The United States plans to purchase thousands of them.

The Franco-German-Spanish Future Combat Air System (FCAS) next generation fighter program is facing an imminent collapse, according to recent reports by Reuters. As China and United States, followed several years behind by Russia, are currently the only countries have their own fifth generation fighters into serial production, European states have been left increasingly heavily reliant on the U.S. F-35 as the only NATO-compatible option for a fully up to date fighter type.

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In Sept. 2025, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a mutual defense pact, formalizing what decades of quiet cooperation had already made real. The defense pact signed in Riyadh was presented in official communiqués as a natural deepening of bilateral ties. It was that, but it was also something larger: The latest installment in a pattern that has persisted for half a century and that continues to confound the logic of power politics.

The state intermediary agency for Russian defence exports Rosoboronexport has displayed the Su-57 fifth generation fighter at the Defense Services Asia (DSA) international armaments and military equipment exhibition in Malaysia, which is being held in Kuala Lumpur from April 20-23. It reported that the fighter is “an excellent option for the modernisation and development of the Royal Malaysian Air Force, taking into account the compatibility of a number of systems and weapons with the existing Su-30MKM fleet.

The Royal Norwegian Air Force scrambled F-35A fifth generation fighters to intercept a Russian Il-38 maritime patrol aircraft, with the fighters proceeding identify and tracking the target in a sortie that lasted approximately two hours. Norwegian Air Force spokesperson Major Stian Roen stated regarding the operation: “F-35s were sent out on a completely normal QRA mission. It is standard procedure that the aircraft take off as quickly as possible in such situations.

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Footage published on Chinese social media has shown multiple launchers carrying DF-27 intermediate range hypersonic ballistic missiles travelling through a city, in what multiple sources have assessed to be an urban warfare drill. The vehicles moved in convoy formation through streets, representing a rare development for the country’s strategic arsenal.

Ukraine War provides footage of innovation on both sides.
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The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy deployed the Type 054A frigate Honghe to drive away a foreign warship intruding on Chinese territory, resulting in a 20 hour long standoff, according to a new report from state media. Multiple reports indicate that the foreign vessel was a U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke class destroyer, although this remains unconfirmed. It was confirmed that the ship was larger in tonnage, and that the two vessels were approximately two hundred meters away from each other at the closest. Engagements between U.S.

L Todd Wood and former Special Unit Commander Pete Blaber discuss the on the ground situation in Iran and Ukraine.
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U.S. Marines took custody of an Iranian-flagged cargo ship that tried to get past the U.S. naval blockade, President Donald announced Sunday afternoon.
In a post on social media, Trump said that the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer the USS Spruance stopped the Iranian-flagged vessel Touska, a ship under U.S. Treasury sanctions, and fired a direct hit on it. The Spruance, one of the ships operating near or in the Strait of Hormuz, told the ship to stop and turn back, Trump said.

Roy Hallums Describes His Capture and first few weeks of captivity” via the new ‘Into The Lion’s Den’ podcast.

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The Army wants to get a new ground drone that can both resupply forward-deployed infantry and help carry wounded soldiers off the front lines and to medical treatment. 
The Army is seeking the new vehicle to help navigate what it calls the “last tactical mile,” the last part of terrain leading to the front lines, where any transport or personnel moving to resupply troops are under the greatest threat. “This phase is often the most dangerous and logistically complex, requiring innovative solutions to ensure mission success and force protection,” the Army wrote.

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