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Chief Designer of the J-10C ‘4+ generation’ fighter Li Jun, a senior researcher at the Chengdu Aircraft Design and Research Institute, has confirmed plans to continue to enhance the aircraft’s capabilities, noting that it still has significant room for improvement, and will have a viable service and market life of at least two to three decades.

Main battle tanks delivered to the Russian Army have integrated new improved anti-drone ‘cage’ defences, which were first seen on theT-90M, T-80BVM, and T-72B3M tanks delivered coinciding with Victory Day celebrations on May 9. The vehicles were described by state defence conglomerate Rostec as incorporating lessons learned from combat experience and feedback from frontline personnel, with the gradual evolution of defences against attacks by drones and loitering munitions being one of the most noticeable changes to Russian tank configurations over the past four years.

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The Russian Army has received a new batch of T-90M, T-80BVM, and T-72B3M main battle tanks, which were delivered by the state defence conglomerate Rostec and are intended to support ongoing operations in the Ukrainian theatre. The vehicles were described by Rostec as incorporating lessons learned from combat experience and direct feedback from frontline personnel, with the capabilities of all three types having been gradually updated over the past four years.

The future of North Korea’s destroyer program intended to revolutionise the Korean People’s Liberation Army Navy’s combat capabilities has been elaborated on by the chairman of the ruling Korean Workers’ Party, Kim Jong Un, after he travelled on the country’s first destroyer, the Choe Hyon, during operations in the Yellow Sea. The operations saw the warship operate approximately 220 kilometres from the country’s coast, demonstrating growing confidence in the ability to conduct medium range operations since the Choe Hyon was launched in April 2025.

North Korean state media has published footage showing the production of a new generation of self-propelled howitzer, the Juche-107, which is expected to significantly enhance the capabilities of frontline units. Production of the 155mm guns was inspected by multiple military and civilian leadership figures, including the chairman of the ruling Korean Workers’ Party Kim Jong Un, who personally revealed that the new howitzer has a range exceeding 60 kilometres.

An Iranian F-4E Phantom II fighter aircraft and a U.S. Air Force F-16CJ fighter engaged one another during an Iranian penetration strike over Saudi Arabia, which resulted in the F-4 making a hard landing in Iran, possibly after taking limited damage. The incident has highlighted the serious limitations of the U.S. and its strategic partners’ air defences, with the F-4 and lighter F-5 that form the backbone of the Iranian fighter fleet being obsolete Vietnam War era aircraft, but still proving to being able to evade some of the most capable Western air defences in the world.

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The Marine Corps is overhauling how it trains its reconnaissance troops as ubiquitous surveillance tools redefine modern conflict and service officials wrestle with difficult questions over sensor and robotic employment for new training.
Two new courses replaced the Basic Reconnaissance Course, a 12-week program known for its grueling nature in a move service officials said was meant to modernize training, reduce wait times for advanced schools and strengthen baseline infantry skills to meet fleet demands.

The Pentagon plans to install laser and microwave weapon systems at five bases in the United States by year’s end, to defend the important installations from aerial drones. 
On Thursday the military’s task force overseeing drone policy announced that five bases will be participating in the directed-energy counter-unmanned aircraft systems pilot program. They are Fort Bliss in Texas, Fort Huachuca, Arizona, Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri and Naval Base Kitsap, Washington.

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The Pentagon’s counter-drone task force announced a new pilot program this week aimed at fielding directed energy systems for UAS defense to five military installations across the country over the next six months.
Joint Interagency Task Force 401, an Army-led entity charged with boosting the military’s counter-drone efforts, said the initiative is intended to protect infrastructure, military installations and domestic missions against unmanned aerial systems.

The Defense Department publicly released more than 150 new files on Friday, about phenomena formerly known as Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, including several reports from NASA astronauts who reported seeing unidentified objects in space and on the moon.
A total of 162 documents, which range from 1942 to 2025 and include audio clips and photographs, were posted on a new Department of Defense website.

The Pentagon’s inspector general recently met with the Justice Department’s first-ever assistant attorney general for the national fraud enforcement division to explore opportunities for their teams to cooperate more closely on efforts to confront increasingly complex scams impacting the Defense Department and military.
According to a press release, “the discussion centered on potential joint initiatives that could further align investigative and prosecutorial priorities.

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Detection systems on Joint Base Andrews failed repeatedly between January and March as jet fuel spilled into a local creek that eventually flows into the environmentally sensitive Chesapeake Bay. 
Air Force personnel didn’t report the problem to the state until an odor and fuel sheen appeared near the headwaters of Piscataway Creek on March 23, Maryland authorities said.
It took about two more weeks before base officials reported the full extent of the 32,000-gallon spill, the state said.

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Kodiak AI and General Dynamics Land Systems have established strategic partnership to develop autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) for defence purposes.

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Latvia has confirmed that two uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAV) from Russia entered the country’s airspace and crashed within Latvian territory on 7 May 2026.

The Combat Air Museum in Topeka, Kansas has a new collection: 80 painstakingly accurate World War I paintings that tell the history behind the real-life aerial kills credited to the famed German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen—the Red Baron. The paintings are the creation of New York artist Thomas La Padula, who donated the collection.
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Manfred von Richthofen is known for his prowess as a World War I fighter pilot, credited with 80 combat victories in his blazing red Fokker triplane.

The Coast Guard is putting all of its specialized forces under a single headquarters as demand for their services is at an all-time high.

With new threats emerging at home and abroad, the U.S. Coast Guard has created a new Special Missions Command (SMC) to oversee its “deployable specialized forces.” The move, officially unveiled today, comes as the Trump administration is increasing the use of these units for ship and drug interdictions around the globe. The Coast Guard is a uniformed military service, but has specific law enforcement authorities. Under Title 14 of the U.S.

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Head of the Russian state tech corporation Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, has reported success in doubling the production of combat aircraft since the start of full scale hostilities in the Ukrainian theatre in 2022, following years of sustained efforts to increase output of fighters, bombers and attack helicopters. Chemezov made the claim directly to President Vladimir Putin at a meeting.

RBS 58 anti-tank missile units are on their way to the Swedish military after first approaching France for the design five years ago.

The National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology based in Taoyuan has developed a “digital fire control, all-electric fire control, and high-resolution observation and aiming” system for the U.S.-supplied M60A3 main battle tank, which currently forms the backbone of the Republic of China Army’s tank fleet. The Institute is confirmed to be collaborating with foreign firms to market this new fire control system abroad, due to the Republic of China Defence Ministry having neglected to finance it for the domestic M60 fleet under its current spending plan.

The delivery of S-400 long range air defence systems to equip the seventh and eighth Indian Air Force battalions has been confirmed on May 7 to have begun, as the Indian Defence Ministry and local media mark a year since the country’s brief but high intensity border conflict with Pakistan. Confirming the dispatch of the systems from Russia, Deputy Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Awadhesh Kumar Bharti observed: “we should be having [it] with us within a month.” He added that systems on order to equip two further battalions are due for delivery by the end of 2026.

The Egyptian Air Force has deployed Rafale fighter aircraft to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi visiting the country and inspecting the fighters alongside UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The Egyptian Air Force has seldom in its history stationed fighter aircraft beyond its borders, with the confirmation of the aircraft’s presence being given just hours after new rounds of Iranian-UAE hostilities saw strikes launched successfully against targets across the Arab Gulf country.

Carol Whitmore biggest priorities as the VFW National Commander are advocating for veterans, fighting claims sharks, repatriating the remains of POW/MIA, and highlighting the service of women. But she took command of the VFW at a turbulent time for veterans: a VA secretary accused of moving against veterans’ hard-won benefits, thousands of veterans facing foreclosure, and a membership base in slow decline.
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The drones hitting Gulf Arab states daily since the United States and Israel launched large-scale military operations against Iran in February are not merely Iranian. They are originally Iranian, yes. But these designs and production processes were improved and refined by Russia through years of battlefield testing against Ukrainian defenses. So, they were returned to Tehran from Moscow. Confronted with a threat that Ukraine has spent four years learning to counter, the United States found itself in unfamiliar territory.

On the eve of the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, 56 tankers sailed through the Strait of Hormuz. Two days later, Lloyd’s List, the maritime industry’s journal of record, counted just seven tankers and a single gas carrier — all small and three of them shadow-fleet vessels — with hundreds more drifting in the Gulf of Oman. One of the world’s most important maritime chokepoints had not been mined, blockaded, or seized by a navy. Rather, it had been priced shut by a handful of drone strikes and the insurance market.Within two days of the first U.S.-Israeli strikes on Feb.

The B-21 Raider next generation intercontinental range strategic bomber currently under development for the U.S. Air Force has completed a major developmental flight testing program in just 73 days, which represents under half of the planned 180 day testing period. The speed at which this process could be completed has been interpreted by analysts as a signal of both the urgency with which the aircraft is considered to be needed in active service, as well as high levels of software maturity and systems integration which were achieved before testing began.

Chinese government sources have for the first time reported the deployment of personnel to Pakistan to support combat operations against India in early May, 2025, specifically in the form of on-site technical support for the Pakistan Air Force’s newly procured J-10C fighters. Chinese state broadcaster CCTV on May 7 broadcast an interview with a Chinese engineer Zhang Heng, from the Chengdu Aircraft Design and Research Institute responsible for developing the J-10, who was among the personnel deployed on the ground during the conflict.

The Defence Intelligence of Ukraine has released computer generated imagery of a new type of Russian air-launched cruise missile, designated in the West the S-71K Kover, which has reportedly begun to equip Su-57 fifth generation fighter units and be used in combat. Ukrainian intelligence has also released information on the missile’ssubsystems and electronic components, based on assessments of the remains of missiles used in the conflict.

The Pentagon is preparing to take additional steps to address a major bottleneck that could limit the military’s ability to proliferate artificial intelligence capabilities throughout the force: compute.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Pentagon CTO Emil Michael and other senior officials are pushing the department to accelerate AI adoption, touting its benefits for warfighting and back-office functions.
Chief Digital and AI Officer Cameron Stanley noted that the technology has demonstrated its utility during the Iran war.

Software vulnerabilities recently discovered by Anthropic’s new Claude Mythos Preview artificial intelligence model have raised alarms in the cybersecurity community, but a senior Pentagon official sounded upbeat Thursday about the benefits of frontier AI technology.
Mythos Preview, an unreleased frontier model with coding capability, reportedly found thousands of “high-severity” vulnerabilities that need to be fixed by the public and private sectors so that China or other adversaries can’t use similar technology to find and exploit them.

An Army decision to assign an active-duty lawyer as a prosecutor in a civilian trials in Minnesota runs afoul of military regulations, a judge said Friday.
But U.S. Magistrate Shannon Elkins ruled she doesn’t have the authority to enforce the Pentagon regulation, allowing the case to proceed. 
“Department of Defense regulations recognize that having military lawyers prosecute civilians in cases that lack a military nexus would be ill-advised,” Elkins wrote.

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The Navy retired the F-14 Tomcat from active duty in 2006, but lawmakers are once again feeling the need for speed.
The Senate recently passed the Maverick Act, which would send three retired Navy F-14 Tomcats to a museum in Alabama for preservation, with at least the ambition of getting at least one back in the air.
Sponsored by Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.), the bill would authorize the Navy Secretary to transfer the Navy’s last three surplus Tomcats to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville.