Russian forces over the weekend pushed into Urozhaine, a southern village won back by Ukraine last summer, the latest in a series of slow but steady advances that are reversing hard-won Ukrainian victories. The Russian advances are a sobering development for Kyiv as its troops battle to contain attacks along a more than 600-mile front line.
After more than a year of delays, Taiwan says it is optimistic that the U.S. will provide it with all 66 of the Lockheed Martin F-16C/D block 70 aircraft it has ordered by the end 2026.
At an unveiling ceremony on July 12, the U.S. Air Force 142nd Wing showed off its new Boeing F-15EX Eagle II fighter, a new aircraft that wowed politicians and gave new life to a legendary fighter squadron.
A new independent research report examining non-Hodgkin lymphoma cases among service members who worked with nuclear missiles at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana suggests that it’s very unlikely that the high rates of blood cancer would have occurred by chance.
Corrosion of military aircraft and vehicles is a multibillion dollar problem for the Pentagon. But a local technology company says they’ve figured out a way to overcome it using nanotechnology—and now Lockheed Martin has partnered with them to develop and use the coating on the aircraft it makes for the military.
The new U.K. Labour government has formally launched a major review of its defense posture and policy which it says will take a “clear-eyed” approach to international threats, including Russia, reboot “hollowed out” armed forces, and end wasteful acquisitions. The much-anticipated Strategic Defense Review (SDR) was commissioned by Labour leader Kier Starmer today and will be overseen by John Healey, U.K. defense secretary.
Mainland Europe’s Future Combat Air System, an ambitious effort to field a suite of warplanes and drones in the 2040s, could become the first large-scale defense program with artificial intelligence fully baked in. A consortium of Germany, France, and Spain—with Belgium joining as an observer last year—promises to have the first airworthy demonstrators of the futuristic idea flying by this decade’s end.
Nineteen veterans groups on July 15 condemned the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump and urged Americans to keep violence out of politics. The groups released a joint statement in which they said all Americans had the responsibility of “lowering the temperature” in today’s political discourse and insisted that “we all have more in common than not.”
The United States should harden its low Earth orbit satellites that support nuclear command and control against radiation effects from potential high-altitude nuclear detonations, according to a new report from a prominent think tank. The Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security released a study July 15 ... that recommends steps to protect space-based elements of the U.S. nuclear command, control and communications (NC3) system.
An Airman’s invention aims to make a lifesaving device wearable and easily accessible in an emergency. It also just might earn him some extra cash. Senior Airman Isaiah Demillo, 23, stationed at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas, applied for a patent in February for the Demillo Rigger’s tourniquet belt.
Two historic U.S. nuclear bombers, their first flights separated by almost half a century, took to the skies together over Missouri at the weekend. The formation flights by the U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and the B-29 Doc—one of only two examples of the World War II-era bomber that are flying—were the first time that these two legendary aircraft had flown together in this manner, the service states.
