The UK is shifting Operation Interflex towards helicopter pilot training and will cease to provide large-scale infantry courses.

Patria has completed its obligation to deliver 10 AMV XP 8×8 armoured ambulance vehicles to Slovakia, fulfilling a segment of the government-to-government defence contract agreed in 2022.

Summary and Key Points: When fire broke out aboard the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford last March, the Navy described it as a minor, quickly contained incident — two minor injuries, no real operational impact. The newly leaked video suggests that it was far from the truth.

-The footage reportedly shows gutted berthing compartments, charred bulkheads, and melted wiring — the aftermath of a blaze the crew fought for some 30 hours.

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Summary and Key Points: It first took off when Harry Truman was in the White House. It will still be flying combat missions in the 2050s — nearly a century in the air. The U.S. Air Force just cleared a key design review for the B-52J Stratofortress, the most powerful version of its legendary bomber ever built, and the full rebuild begins this year. This is no nostalgia project.

Summary and Key Points: It was a tense night over the Red Sea in August 1990. A U.S. Navy cruiser picked up an extremely fast aircraft streaking in from the north, climbing past 60,000 feet — and with American warships on a hair trigger after a deadly missile strike years earlier, the call went out: “warning red, weapons tight.” Two F-14 Tomcats returning from a training run swung to intercept. But when the radar officer broke out a camera and focused on the contrail high above, what came into view wasn’t a threat at all.

James Handy, a Vietnam War veteran who spent nearly five decades as one of Hollywood’s most reliably present character actors, appearing in more than 140 films and television productions ranging from “Arachnophobia” to “Top Gun: Maverick,” was stabbed to death at his home in the Tarzana neighborhood of Los Angeles on the morning of June 3, 2026. He was 81.
Also Read: Here’s what’s going on with the ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ lawsuit saga
The Los Angeles Police Department said officers from the West Valley Division responded around 9:30 a.m.

On Wednesday, five Marine Harriers rose over North Carolina, hovered in midair like helicopters, and touched down together one final time — closing the book on one of the most remarkable warplanes America ever flew. After 55 years, the Marine Corps has retired the AV-8B Harrier II, the legendary “jump jet” that could take off straight up, land vertically, and operate from places no conventional fighter could reach. Its record is staggering.

The Harrier’s Time Is Over 

British Sea Harrier aboard USS Intrepid back in 2025. National Security Journal Original Photo.

The world continues to live in mass delusion when it comes to the fallout from the Iran War. But even the most delusional are now coming to the stark realization that the world economy is about to go off a cliff because of the Middle East war. The stock market has been rallying despite spikes in inflation, fuel prices, and other costs resulting from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Summary and Key Points: It’s a war full of contradictions: a ceasefire that isn’t, an economy teetering even as the stock market soars, a public that’s furious and indifferent at once. Now, a Wall Street Journal report reveals President Trump has told aides he won’t return to all-out war with Iran “unless U.S. troops are killed” — a line that sounds simple until you see the trap behind it. Brandon Weichert argues that everyone hoping for a clean ending to this war will be disappointed.

The Iran War: No Happy Endings? 

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Summary and Key Points: For three years, the West has waited for Russia to crack — and it hasn’t. Moscow absorbed the sanctions, replaced its losses, and kept its war machine running, defying nearly every prediction of collapse. But Dr. Andrew Latham argues the real danger to Russia was never losing the war. It’s winning it.

Russia Could Win in Ukraine and Still Have a Problem

Putin in 2019 Russian Federation Photo

Russia’s greatest challenge may not be winning the war. It may be living with the consequences of winning it.

That is not a prediction of Russian collapse.

The views and opinion expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities mentioned.It is a terrible idea to use military promotions as political bargaining chips yet that’s where we find ourselves on Capitol Hill.  The consequences ripple through the lives of service members, military families, and the readiness of the All Volunteer Force itself.
A U.S. Senate hold on hundreds of Coast Guard promotions once again highlights how quickly political fights can disrupt the lives of those who serve this country.

On June 4 it was confirmed that the Treasury of the United Kingdomwould take over the management of the massive expenditures for the Global Air Combat Programme (GCAP), injecting up to £6 billion (approximately $8 billion) in additional funding to prevent a repeat of past procurement mistakes by the Ministry of Defence. The United Kingdom currently faces a £28 billion defence funding shortfall, with officials having repeatedly expressed the need to increase military spending to over 2.5 percent of GDP at a time of escalated hostilities with Russia and other Western Bloc adversaries.

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It’s easy for filmmaking to lose its charm. Days on set are long. Some shot setups are tedious. There’s a lot of “hurry up and wait,” and we all know how that feels. So for me, someone who lives for those days, the best gift in the world is to work with other people who love it, too.
That’s how it felt on the “NCIS” set.
And it was a long time coming for me.
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Let’s take it back to 2017.

Russia’s state-run United Aircraft Corporation announced that construction of the first physical Su-75 Checkmate fifth-generation flight prototype is actively underway at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant (KnAAZ), according to the corporation’s CEO Vadim Badekha.

Badekha confirmed the ongoing assembly, with industry estimates targeting the Checkmate Maiden Flight for 2027, several years behind schedule.

Su-75 Checkmate Stealth Fighter Russia. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Su-75 Checkmate Fighter X Screenshot. Image Credit: X.

Su-57 and Su-75.

New intelligence suggests that Iran has retained roughly 70 percent of its prewar missile inventory—despite months of Epic Fury. Even more concerning: Iran has reportedly restored access to 30 of its 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz, which cuts against the public narrative that Epic Fury crippled Iran’s ability to threaten the region or the global energy market. And while Epic Fury undoubtedly destroyed thousands of targets, important strategic questions remain unresolved.

As the United States Air Force prepares to accept its newest jet, the F-47, into service, the reaction from America’s principal geopolitical adversary toward the sixth-generation fighter has been somewhat negative, with detractors in Beijing pointing out that the fighter will be one of, if not the most expensive, defense programs in history. A summary of China’s reaction has been compiled and analyzed by the U.S. Air Force and provides an interesting window into how China perceives what could well be the world’s leading fighter jet as it enters service.

One of the clearer lessons from the ongoing war in Ukraine is that there is probably no single weapon or weapon system from the West that can fundamentally change the battlefield dynamic on its own. Nearly all the previously hyped wonder weapons or anticipated silver bullets have run into the reality that Ukraine and Russia are locked in a large-scale industrial war in which adaptation happens quickly, and neither side enjoys uncontested air superiority.

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Unlike previous rocket-powered variants, Increment 4 features a combination of rocket-booster and ramjet propulsion.

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The training combined more than 1,000 Marines and Sailors with infantry, reconnaissance, logistics, and aviation assets, including

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Experts said that this deployment could lay the foundation for how the Navy develops its concept of operations for unmanned systems.

Adversaries do not need to breach the Pentagon’s systems: They only need to harvest the logic of the publicly released frontier AI models that underpin them. This is a defining risk as the Department of Defense pivots to an “AI-first” warfighting machine. In this new context, military predominance is a derivative of AI model supremacy.

In August 2024, scholars at a Xiamen-based think tank published a paper urging Beijing to immediately establish a shadow Taiwan government on the Chinese mainland in preparation for a full takeover of the island. “It is imperative to prepare a plan for the comprehensive takeover of Taiwan after unification,” they said. The scholars were writing at a fraught moment for Beijing.Only months earlier, the anti-China Democratic Progressive Party had taken office after a third consecutive presidential election win.

New footage from the South China Sea has shown J-15T and J-35 fighter aircraft conducting touch-and-go landings on the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy’s new aircraft carrier Fujian, highlighting ongoing progress towards the warship’s air wing attaining a full combat capability, which is scheduled for later in the year.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army 73rd Group Army of the Eastern Theatre Command has conducted live-fire exercises in the northwestern desert, utilising its newly supplied HQ-16F long range air defence systems to destroy a stealth target drone. Developed by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology, the new system provides a substantial increase in engagement range while retaining compatibility with existing vertical launch systems.

Responding to questions from the heads of international news agencies at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin provided insight into the use of the Oreshnik intermediate range hypersonic ballistic missile system in the Ukrainian theatre.

The Republic of China Army has tested its coastal defence capabilities in a major live fire exercise, which was centred on the use of U.S.-supplied BGM-71 TOW and FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile systems against maritime targets. Drills were conducted in the Fourth Combat Zone, and integrated precision-guided missiles, artillery, and mortars into a unified anti-landing defence framework. Training focused on targeting hostile forces during the critical sea-to-shore transition phase.

During exchanges of fire between Iranian and U.S. forces in early June, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps reported that an MIM-104 Patriot long range air defence system in Kuwaiti service caused extensive damage to Kuwait International Airport’s Terminal 1, after misfiring and failing to intercept its target. Although video footage has verified that at least one Iranian single use attack drone struck the terminal, the extent of the damage indicates that it was hit by more than one projectile, which makes a hit by Patriot systems highly possible.

A Russian Aerospace Forces Su-35 air superiority fighter was on June 2 involved in multiple engagements with French Air Force Rafale and Swedish Air Force Gripen fighters over the Baltic Sea. Two Rafales operating as part of the Baltic Air Policing mission scrambled from Siauliai Air Base in northern Lithuania, and met up with Gripens to jointly intercept a group of six Russian aircraft, including a Su-35. The fighter was escorting an An-30 reconnaissance aircraft, Su-24 and Su-34 strike fighters, and an Il-76 transport.

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Adversaries have used commercially-available location data to attack individual US service members in war zones, according to a report furnished by the Department of Defense to Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, and first reported by Reuters. Wyden is a Democratic member of the Senate intelligence committee.

Russian sources on June 4 widely reported that the Iranian Defence Ministry had signed a counteract to procure a battalion’s worth of 12 Su-30SM2 fighter aircraft from Russia, with the aircraft to be delivered second hand after reportedly havingaccumulated very few flight hours. The aircraft are scheduled to begin deliveries in mid-2027, and complete deliveries by the end of the year, with preparations to provide Iran with the necessary infrastructure set to begin in the near future.

George S. Patton once said he did not measure a man’s success by how high he climbed, but by how high he bounces when he hits bottom. It is the kind of line that gets stitched onto motivational posters and read at the front of locker rooms, but stripped of the gloss, it is a hard-edged claim about failure. Anyone can look impressive on the way up, Patton is saying. The real measure of a person is what they do after they have been knocked flat, humiliated, and counted out.

What makes the line worth taking seriously is that the man who said it was describing something he had lived.

…we have ligit traditions if we want them…
Every now and then I hear about some vague connection between the USAF and the liquor Jeremiah Weed.
Though the USAF is better known for its anime swords, I guess they can up their game a bit by creating some legends of their own to justify a connection to a drink.
I’d prefer Robin Olds and a bucket of champagne vibe, but I’m not USAF, so that’s up to them.

What about the U.S. Navy? Sadly, General Order 99 took the wind out of our sails a bit, but I had a thought recently.
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If you wanted to buy a physical barrel of oil on the global market, it would in no way be commensurate with what the speculated, paper price of that barrel is in the West Texas futures market (which has the price of oil per barrel considerably lower than its real, physical price).

That’s strange enough for most people to wrap their heads around.

Diplomatic efforts in the Middle East continue to stall as Israel and Hezbollah continue to fight in the Southern region of Lebanon. Despite initial efforts by the U.S. to broker a ceasefire plan between the two, Hezbollah and Israel continue to attack each other, even amidst threats from Iran to resume missile attacks against Tel Aviv.

The key issue right now is that Israel is determined to create a buffer zone in Southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah currently operates, and is attempting to remove the Iranian proxies through military means.

Merkava Tank Israel.

The war with Iran is causing a global oil shortage, but there are other economic impacts that most Americans rarely think about. Reports now suggest that motor oil shortages could be on their way if a deal isn’t made soon.

According to industry groups and economists, disruptions to oil and petrochemical supply chains in the Persian Gulf risk causing shortages of some of the most widely used motor oils in the United States. Prices are already rising, and executives across the industry say the situation could worsen significantly over the summer.

The Cold War could not have ended, and the Soviet Union could not have collapsed, without literary dissidents. Nobel laureates such as Andrei Sakharov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Boris Pasternak demonstrated that their literature could raise worldwide awareness of Soviet totalitarianism and help bring about change.

Why are literary dissidents so vital for political change? They first offer hope amid a bleak, dystopian political environment. They put pressure on corrupt governments. Dissidents create heroes and role models.

Developed in the early 1980s by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Lockheed Martin, the Sea Shadow was less of a working warship prototype and more of a concept vehicle-turned-floating testbed. Engineers wanted to see whether the same radar-defeating principles employed by Lockheed designers for the US Air Force’s F-117 Nighthawk long-range stealth bomber could work when applied to warship designs.

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F-117 Nighthawk in the Air Force Museum. Image Credit: National Security Journal.

In recent times, there has been a debate over how many B-21 Raiders the U.S. should procure. Some senior Air Force officials have argued that a large number of B-21s is needed to effectively deter China, while more cautious officials have argued that increasing the fleet size could be too expensive. Recently, however, the Air Force seems to be seriously considering plans to increase its bomber fleet. Officials from Northrop Grumman recently weighed in on the matter and expressed confidence in their ability to ramp up production should the Air Force choose to expand the fleet.

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The Army has a plan in place for the service to carry out executions of military prisoners on death row, if execution orders are approved by President Donald Trump, officials confirmed. 
Called “Operation Resolute Justice,” the plan directs the Army to coordinate with the Federal Bureau of Prisons to transport inmates from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to Federal Correctional Institution, Terre Haute, in Indiana. The plans also call for the establishment of a viewing station for witnesses. An Army official confirmed details of the plan with Task & Purpose.

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Summary and Key Points: In the early days of the invasion, Ukrainian soldiers were dropping grenades through tank hatches using drones anyone could buy online. Four years later, the country builds them by the millions — and they now carry out the overwhelming majority of every successful strike against Russian forces. The transformation has rewritten the rules of the war: cheap, swarming drones now do the work once reserved for artillery, attack helicopters, and Western missiles that Ukraine could never get enough of.

How Millions Of Ukrainian Drones Have Changed the War

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Is the Kuwait Airport Attack a Turning Point in the Iran War?: The purported ceasefire crafted between President Donald Trump and the Islamic Republic of Iran has entered a new, bizarre place. On the one hand, Trump continues waxing eloquent about his beautiful deal with the Iranians. Meanwhile, the other two parties in the war, the US ally of Israel and Iran, keep shadow boxing.

You see, Iran has insisted that the ceasefire include Israel and Lebanon.

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