A US Army CH-47F Chinook helicopter has performed its first “fully automated approach and landing” using Boeing’s Approach-to-X technology.

An Australian Federal Court has dismissed an appeal by former US Marine Daniel Duggan, clearing the way for his extradition to the United States, where he faces charges of illegally training Chinese military pilots more than a decade ago.
Federal Court Justice James Stellios rejected Duggan’s challenge on Thursday, ruling there was no jurisdictional error in the Attorney-General’s decision to approve the extradition.

Gurkhas are among the world’s most formidable

As an educator, I have the duty and privilege of teaching some of the most intense and consequential moments in American history. Few lessons capture students’ attention quite like the Cuban Missile Crisis.
For 13 tense days in October 1962, the United States and Soviet Union stood on the brink of nuclear war. In classrooms across the country, students learn how close the world came to catastrophe and how leadership, intelligence gathering, and diplomacy ultimately helped prevent a devastating conflict.

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The test will involve firing a Joint Air-to-Ground Missile from a Saildrone Surveyor robotic boat

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The Army and Bell have pointed to the U.S. Navy’s MQ-25 Stingray drone tanker as an example of what could be on the horizon.

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“If you look at the [fight] in Ukraine on either side, it’s really hard to move out and get fires ready to go….

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The new Armed Black Hawk kit allows UH-60s to be quickly reconfigured for new mission sets, allowing greater flexibility and eliminating the need for dedicated…

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America and China are racing for technological supremacy, and the margin is razor thin.

The U.S. Army has deployed and fired HIMARS rocket artillery systems in the Philippines during Exercise Salaknib 2026, which represents a significant landmark in the expansion of forward-positioned long-range strike capabilities near Chinese territory. The U.S. Armed Forces have relied increasingly heavily on mobile missile launchers in the region to counter China’s increasingly overwhelming conventional advantages asymmetrically, with HIMARS having demonstrated the ability to have a high impact and destroy high value targets in the Ukrainian theatre, while itself having a very low cost. U.

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The Russian state run United Aircraft Corporation has delivered a new batch of Su-35S fighter aircraftto the Russian Aerospace Forces, following sustained efforts over the past four years to significantly increase the aircraft’s scale of production. Announcing the delivery, the corporation stated: ”The United Aircraft Corporation has delivered a batch of new Su-35S multirole fighter jets to the Russian Aerospace Forces.

If the United States is drawn into another round of military action in Yemen, it ought to avoid the mistakes of the last decade. From about 2015 to last year, successive administrations backed Saudi‑ and Emirati‑led military campaigns, arms sales, and naval blockades that devastated civilians, deepened Yemen’s fragmentation, and perversely strengthened Houthi power and legitimacy instead of containing it.Instead, Washington should treat force as one tool within a broader political and economic strategy.

It is clear that the U.S.-Israeli decapitation, airpower-centric, and precision strike campaign are again not enough to bring about the two countries’ strategic goals. The United States still finds itself potentially having to commit land forces into its war with Iran, yet many unknowns lurk, including a fragile ceasefire and a U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Setting aside the question of whether U.S. land forces will be committed to the war, the question that remains unknown is how, and to what degree, they would be employed.

Treating cancer is big business and one that makes the big pharmaceutical companies massive amounts of cash. In 2024 alone, cancer treatments generated at least $200 billion in worldwide sales for the pharmaceutical industry. This is more than generated by the booming obesity drug rush.
Unfortunately, according to a Bloomberg analysis, fewer than half of treatments they reviewed — some of which have painful side effects — have been shown to extend patients’ lives.

The Nimitz class supercarrier USS Abraham Lincoln is currently the only aircraft carrier deployed in the Arabian Sea, and isfacing serious challenges as sailors ensure shortages of high quality food and are served very limited portions. This is a result of the prolonged timeframe of operations and strained supply lines, with low rations widely assessed by U.S. analysts to be impacting morale. Families of the sailors onboard are reporting that they frequently go hungry, and the disruption of mail means they cannot send additional food or supplies.

A Ukrainian man pulled from his car to be taken to the front effectively pretended his leg was crippled and then ran for it, took off in a sprint. We don’t know if he got away or was sent to the meat grinder.
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The Army’s top civilian leader told lawmakers the service is leaning on its new counter-drone marketplace to bolster local security at upcoming high-profile events, ones that experts and officials have warned are at risk of unmanned aerial system threats.
Earlier this year, the Pentagon debuted an initial launch of its “Counter-UAS Marketplace,” which officials have touted as an “Amazon-like” platform with a catalogue of anti-drone parts and systems for government personnel to buy.

The United States’ naval blockade of maritime traffic entering and leaving Iranian ports is disrupting Iran’s sea-based economic trade, according to senior defense officials who said Thursday that at least 13 ships have retreated and turned back since the military operation was initiated on Monday. 
At a Pentagon press briefing, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine and commander of U.S. Central Command Adm.

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The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) reached a historic milestone on Wednesday, April 15. After leaving Naval Station Norfolk on June 24, 2025, the carrier hit 295 days deployed, setting the longest post-Vietnam aircraft carrier deployment in modern U.S. Navy service, according to USNI News data. That means that by the time the Ford-class aircraft carrier comes into port in Norfolk, Virginia, it will have been on deployment for almost a year.

It was a tough day for the UK Armed Forces side

​The U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman this week released the first official image of the B-21 Raider conducting aerial refueling with a KC-135 Stratotanker – a major milestone that indicates the program is moving beyond early flight testing. Aerial refueling is an important test point, proving that the bomber can operate globally and sustain long-duration missions. Northrop itself described the milestone as extending the aircraft’s global reach and enabling longer, more efficient sorties.

Veterans’ advocates are pressing to allow judges and courts to consider a veteran’s military service when giving a “second look” to excessively long prison sentences. So-called second look reductions of long prison sentences are now allowed in federal courts and 25 states, but veterans groups say Congress needs to ensure that those reviews take military service into account.

For two days in a row, Army leaders have been questioned by lawmakers about why Gen. Randy George, the service’s former chief of staff, was forced to retire earlier this month.
CBS News first reported on April 2 that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had asked George to step down as the service’s top officer. A Defense Department official confirmed the CBS report to Task & Purpose.

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Australia has released its 2026 National Defence Strategy (NDS) and Integrated Investment Programme (IIP) today, 16 April.

When they still don’t know what equipment the

Estonia has opted to reallocate defence funding away from IFV procurement, with analysis indicating investment into counter-drone technology.

Boeing has secured a £879m ($1.1bn) Rotary Wing Enterprise (RWE) contract from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to provide long-term maintenance and support services for the UK’s Apache and Chinook helicopters.

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The Australian Army has conducted a live-fire demonstration of the first Australian-made Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System missiles.

It was supposed to be a routine flight, nothing out of the ordinary.
The SA-16 Albatross was scheduled to leave Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho on January 24, 1952, and fly approximately 700 miles before returning. The Air Force plane never made it back, crashing into a mountain in Death Valley, California.
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Thankfully, the six airmen onboard, including a former World War II pilot, parachuted out of the aircraft’s back door before the moment of impact.

Should a vessel attempt to run the U.S. military’s current blockade of Iranian ports, Navy sailors are authorized to fire warning shots if necessary, said Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
“Any ship that would cross the blockade would result in our sailors executing pre-planned tactics designed to bring the force to that ship — if need be, board the ship and take her over,” Caine said during a Thursday Pentagon news briefing. “And that includes a series of escalated force options, which could include warning shots and others.”
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On Apr. 15, 2026, at the Army Aviation Warfighting Summit, the U.S. Army officially named its Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft the MV-75 Cheyenne II.
Yes, the Army has decided that it ran out of Native American tribes to name its aircraft after and circled back to a canceled attack helicopter from the 1960s. Or, maybe they felt bad about shorting the Cheyenne tribe with the AH-56 and decided to try again with the MV-75. Regardless, the name is back.
Also Read: Why Army helicopters are named after Native tribes
For 79 years, the Army has named its aircraft after Native American tribes.

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As America’s westernmost territory, the island of Guam is the logistical heart of any large-scale military build-up in the western Pacific. It has long runways, a deepwater port, huge fuel storage and weapons depots, and it’s about 2,000 miles closer to China than it is to Hawaii. The island is also U.S. soil, so the military does not need permission from a foreign government to operate there.
Those factors make Guam a prime target for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) if a conflict were to break out between the U.S. and China.

The story of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency is inseparable from the story of the modern United States. From safeguarding President-elect Abraham Lincoln to building one of the earliest organized intelligence networks during the Civil War and shaping the country’s frontier legends, the Pinkerton Agency played a consequential role in the American experience.
Its operatives protected the railroads that came to bind the country together, pursued criminals across the American West, and were central to the most violent labor conflicts of the industrial age.

A senior UK Government Minister has gone on the attack, accusing “journalists and armchair generals” of “talking down” the UK miliary.

Malcolm Davis, The Strategist (ASPI)

For decades, notions of laser weapons have been the stuff of science fiction.

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By processing sensor streams directly on the platform, defense systems can fuse, analyze, and act on data in near real time, even in contested environments

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The French Air Force is currently undertaking a restructuring to place a much greater emphasis on drone strike capabilities, including pairing its ageing Rafale fighter aircraft with ‘loyal wingman’ drones, some of which have advanced stealth capabilities. This fits into larger efforts to prevent high value platforms like the manned fighters and attack helicopters from becoming strategically brittle in a battlespace increasingly saturated by low cost drones, loitering munitions, and layered air defences, which will require the development lower-cost sovereign theatre drones.

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