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AGM-154 JSOW for Ukraine's F-16

Biden Surging $8B In Aid To Ukraine That Includes AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapons For F-16s

By Howard Altman
Updated on Sep 26, 2024
After Hezbollah fired a ballistic missile at Tel Aviv, Israel's top commander told his forces to be prepared to invade Lebanon.

Israel’s Potential Invasion Of Southern Lebanon Looms Larger

By Howard Altman
Posted on Sep 25, 2024
The Ukrainian town of Vulhedar is about to fall to Russian forces.

Russia Poised To Capture Key Eastern Ukraine City

By Howard Altman
Posted on Sep 25, 2024
The USNS oiler Big Horn suffered a mishap at sea in the 5th Fleet region, raising logistics concerns for the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group

Navy Resupply Ship Mishap Could Have Big Impact On Mid-East Deployed Carrier Group

By Howard Altman
Posted on Sep 24, 2024
Satellite Images Show Massive Devastation At Russian Ammo Storage Sites Struck By Ukrainian Drones

Satellite Images Show Massive Devastation At Russian Ammo Storage Sites Struck By Ukrainian Drones

By Howard Altman
Updated on Sep 24, 2024
Tu-143 Hezbollah

Hezbollah Converted Soviet Tu-143 Jet Recon Drone Into Cruise Missile Says IDF, Just Like Ukraine

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Sep 23, 2024
JSOW Ukraine

AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon To Equip Ukraine’s F-16s: Report

By Howard Altman
Posted on Sep 21, 2024
Future offensive electronic warfare

How EA-18G Growler’s Next Generation Jammer Actually Works And The Future Of Offensive Electronic Warfare

By Howard Altman
Updated on Sep 20, 2024
Russia's Kursk counteroffensive is fully underway.

Russia’s Kursk Counteroffensive Fully Underway

By Howard Altman
Posted on Sep 14, 2024
Israel raid

Israeli Commando Raid In Syria Sends A Message To Iran That Its Underground Bases Are Not Untouchable

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway, Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Sep 13, 2024
Russia is now using thermite-spewing dragon drones in Ukraine.

Russia Now Using Thermite-Spewing ‘Dragon Drones’ To Torch Ukrainian Positions

By Howard Altman
Posted on Sep 12, 2024
Storm Shadow

Increasing Indications Storm Shadow Missiles Will Be Cleared For Use Inside Russia

By Howard Altman
Updated on Sep 12, 2024
A Russian military correspondent narrowlly avoided being killed by a drone hunting him down in a house.

This Ukrainian Drone Hunting A Russian Inside A Building Has Big Horror Movie Vibes

By Howard Altman
Posted on Sep 11, 2024
The head of the House Foreign Affairs Committe says he was told by Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the U.S. will give Ukraine the green light to use ATACMS in Russia.

Ukraine Using ATACMS Missiles To Strike Inside Russia Now On The Table

By Howard Altman
Posted on Sep 10, 2024
JAS39C Gripen Ukraine

Sweden’s JAS-39 Gripen Fighters Still On The Table For Ukraine

By Howard Altman
Posted on Sep 9, 2024
Navy Capt. Chris "Chowdah" Hill, commander of the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower, opens up about the carrier group's recent dangerous and grueling deployment to the Middle East.

Carrier Captain In Combat: What Went On During 7 Months Under Fire Around The Red Sea

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Sep 7, 2024
A Boeing 737 carrying Senator J.D. Vance, former President Donald Trump's running mate for Vice President, and others, inadvertently intruded briefly into some of the most restricted airspace on the planet earlier this week as it left Washington, D.C.'s Reagan National Airport.

J.D. Vance’s Campaign Jet Inadvertently Buzzed The Washington Monument

By Joseph Trevithick, Howard Altman
Posted on Sep 6, 2024
Chiefs aboard the USS Manchester created a huge security risk by setting up a private WifI network.

The Story Of Sailors Secretly Installing Starlink On Their Littoral Combat Ship Is Truly Bonkers

By Howard Altman, Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Sep 6, 2024
The use of thermite-dispersing drones by Ukraine has proliferated.

Thermite-Spewing ‘Dragon’ Drones Are Ukraine’s Newest Battlefield Innovation

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Sep 4, 2024
Kursk incursion a bargainin chip says Zelensky

Kursk Invasion A Bargaining Chip Zelensky Says

By Howard Altman
Posted on Sep 4, 2024
Ukraine is advancing slowly eastward to a key town in Russia's Kursk Oblast

Ukraine Pushing Slowly West In Russia Towards Key Kursk City

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 31, 2024
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky fired his Air Force commander days after a fatal F-16 crash.

Zelensky Fires Air Force Commander As Claims Swirl Around Fatal F-16 Loss

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 30, 2024
Russian troops are now eight miles from the key Ukrainian logistics hub of Pokrovsk.

Fall Of Key Ukrainian City To Russia Could Be An “Operational Catastrophe”

By Howard Altman
Updated on Aug 30, 2024
Ukraine is targeting the Key E38 highway with drones to slow down Russian logistics.

Ukraine Bracketing Key Kursk Highway With Drones To Slow Russian Logistics

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 29, 2024
Ukraine struck Russia's Kirov Oblast, 700 miles from the border, for the first time as part of its ongoing campaign against Moscow's fuel infrastructure.

Russian Region 700 Miles From The Border Struck For First Time By Ukrainian Drones

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 28, 2024
Ukraine's invasion of Kursk Oblast has entered its third week

Pace of Ukraine Advance Slowing As Kursk Invasion Hits Three-Week Mark

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 27, 2024
Ukraine suffered the largest Russian aerial bombardment of the war.

Largest Russian Aerial Attack Of The War Wreaks Havoc On Ukraine’s Beleaguered Power Grid

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 27, 2024
This photo taken from a position in northern Israel shows an Israeli Air Force fighter jet firing flares as it flies to intercept a hostile aircraft that launched from Lebanon over the border area with south Lebanon on August 25, 2024. The Israeli military announced early August 25, 2024 that it was conducting pre-emptive strikes in Lebanon after detecting preparations for "large-scale" attacks by the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. Hezbollah said August 25, 2024 it had launched more than 320 rockets at Israel overnight, targeting a string of military positions, even as Israel's military said it was carrying out pre-emptive strikes against the group. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP) (Photo by JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel Launches Preemptive Strikes In Lebanon Just Before Hezbollah Carried Out Retribution Barrage (Updated)

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 25, 2024
All eyes were on presidential candidate and sitting Vice President Kamala Harris this week as the Democratic National Convention kicked off. One clip of Harris's movements, in particular, got a lot of attention from those interested in military technology — the Vice President boarding an MV-22 tiltrotor on a short trip to the convention hall.

MV-22 Ospreys Have Actually Been Flying The Vice President For Years

By Tyler Rogoway, Joseph Trevithick, Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 24, 2024
The destruction of a ship carrying fuel tank cars will affect supplies to troops and the Crimean peninsula.

Fuel Supplies To Russian Troops, Crimea Strangled By Destruction Of Ship

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 23, 2024
Images taken after a Ukrainian drone strike on an airbase deep inside Russia Russia shows several combat aircraft were damaged.

Russian Jets Damaged In Ukrainian Long-Range Drone Attack On Air Base

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 23, 2024
A Ukrainian missile struck and sunk a vessel full of fuel train cars.

Ship Full Of Fuel Train Cars Detonates In Russian Port, Ukrainian Neptune Missile Suspected (Updated)

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 22, 2024
Ukraine's probing near a Kursk border town may protend a larger attack in that sector.

Ukraine Testing Advance In Kursk Toward Russian Troops Trapped By Blown Bridges

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 21, 2024
Ostafyevo air base

Signals Intelligence Center Targeted In Drone Attack On Moscow: Ukraine’s Intel Chief

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 21, 2024
Thousands of Russian troops are likely trapped in a pocket of Kursk Oblast after Ukraine destroyed three bridges over the Seim River.

Thousands Of Russian Troops In Kursk Likely Trapped By Blown Bridges

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 20, 2024
A drone scare around the U.S. Air Force's Plant 42 in California, a major hub for advanced aerospace development work, including highly classified military programs, has led to revelations about a real wave of mysterious drone incursions in recent months.

Palmdale UFO Scare Leads To Revelations About Mystery Drone Incursions Over Secretive Plant 42

By Joseph Trevithick, Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 20, 2024
Ukrainian troops are pushing westward in Russia's Kursk Oblast as part of an effort to crea

Ukraine Pushing Westward In Kursk To Create A “Buffer Zone”

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 19, 2024
Ukraine blew up a key bridge threatening Russia logistics in Kursk.

Ukraine Drops Key Russian Bridge In Kursk

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 16, 2024
The Kursk logistics hub of Lgov came under fire for the first time during this 10-day-old invasion.

Claims Swirl Around Strike On Key Russian Logistics Hub In Kursk (Updated)

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 15, 2024
As Ukrainian forces push north in Kursk Oblast, Russia is building trenches to blunt their offensive.

Russia Building Trenches In Kursk To Defend Against Ukrainian Advances

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 14, 2024
Captain hill on how his tweets would have needed to change if the ship was hit.

Carrier Captain On How His Up-Beat Tweets Would Have Needed To Change If Houthi Missiles Struck His Ship

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 14, 2024
Lessons learned from Ukraine's failed counteroffensive last year informed its invasion of Kursk says a retired high-ranking Ukrainian officer.

Kursk Invasion Plan Developed By Lessons Learned From Failed Counteroffensive: Retired Ukrainian Officer

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 14, 2024
Ukraine is eyeing expanding its Kursk invasion despite Russian reinforcements.

Ukraine Eyeing Expansion Of Kursk Invasion Despite Russian Reinforcements

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 13, 2024
Ukraine said it captured 1.000 kilometers of Russian territory.

Ukraine Expands Area Of Fighting But Finding Advances Increasingly Blocked

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 12, 2024
The Ukrainian invasion of Kursk continues despite increasing Russian reinforcements.

Russia Racing Troops To Kursk In Hopes Of Booting Ukraine’s Invasion Forces

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 9, 2024
Ukraine now has at least 2,000 troops inside Russia and continues to pour more in.

Ukrainian Forces Make Major Gains Inside Russia On Day Three Of Kursk Invasion (Updated)

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 8, 2024
Ukraine's incursion into Kursk, Russia.

Ukrainian Forces Fight Inside Russia For Second Day (Updated)

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 7, 2024
Russia battled an incursion by Ukraine into Kursk Oblast on Tuesday.

Ukraine Situation Report: Cross-Border Raid Shakes Russia’s Kursk Region

By Thomas Newdick, Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 7, 2024
Israel and Hezbollah traded attacks as the Lebanese militant group's leader issued a new threat.

Attacks In Lebanon-Israel Border Region Intensify Ahead Of Anticipated Large-Scale Strikes

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 6, 2024
F-22s being sent to Middle East to protect Israel.

Scramble Underway To Prepare For Looming Iranian Retribution Strike On Israel

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 5, 2024
Ukraine claims it sunk the Russian Improved Kilo class submarine Rostov-on-Don

Ukraine Situation Report: Russian Submarine Destroyed, Kyiv Claims

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 3, 2024
F-16 Iran Middle East

More U.S. Combat Aircraft Heading To Middle East Ahead Of Expected Iranian Attack On Israel (Updated)

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 2, 2024
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Tehran by a bomb smuggled into the guesthouse where he was staying, according to The New York Times.

Planted Bomb Was Used To Kill Hamas Leader In Tehran: Report

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 1, 2024
The entire fleet of U.S. V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft has been temporarily grounded after a mishap involving an AFSOC CV-22 last month at Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico.

CV-22 Osprey Crash In Japan Was Caused By Gearbox Failure

By Thomas Newdick, Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 1, 2024
The USS Florida nuclear powered guided missile submarine returned to its homepart in Kings Bay July 27, 2024 after 727 days at sea.

Secretive Guided Missile Submarine USS Florida’s Leadership Talks About Their 727-Day Deployment

By Howard Altman
Posted on Jul 31, 2024
Russian Telegram channels say a Russian Mi-8 transport helicopter was down by a drone, the first time that has happened.

Ukraine Situation Report: Russians Say Mi-8 Hip Helicopter Was Shot Down By Drone

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Jul 31, 2024
North Korean NLOS missile vehicle in Ukraine

North Korean Anti-Tank Missile-Toting Vehicle Appears To Be Operating In Ukraine

By Howard Altman
Posted on Jul 30, 2024
The US Army and US Navy recently "initiated" a test of a hypersonic weapon system, but the US military won't say whether or not it was a success or failure, or even if there was an actual launch at all.

Hypersonic Weapon Just Tested In Florida, Results Unclear

By Joseph Trevithick, Howard Altman
Posted on Jul 30, 2024
The world awaits Israel's response after a deadly Hezbollah rocket attack on a soccer field.

World Awaits Israel’s Response To Deadly Hezbollah Rocket Attack That Hit Soccer Field

By Howard Altman
Updated on Jul 29, 2024
NATO has selected AIrbus, Leonardo and Lockheed Martin Sikorsky to provide concept studies for the Next Generation Rotor Craft.

NATO Selects Three Companies For Next-Generation Rotorcraft Concept Study

By Howard Altman
Posted on Jul 26, 2024
Russia is gaining ground in its effort to capture the key logistics hub of Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast.

Ukraine Situation Report: Russia Advancing Toward Key Logistics Hub

By Howard Altman
Posted on Jul 26, 2024
Ukraine's low-cost acoustic drone detection network is gaining increasing interest from the U.S. and allies.

Ukraine’s Acoustic Drone Detection Network Eyed By U.S. As Low-Cost Air Defense Option

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Jul 24, 2024
The embarked security team aboard the M/V Pumba destroyed a Houthi drone boat before it could cause any damage.

Ship Security Team Appears To Detonate Explosive-Laden Houthi Drone Boat With Gunfire

By Howard Altman
Posted on Jul 23, 2024
Ukraine carried out two long-range drone attacks in Russia, striking a refinery and an air base.

Ukraine Situation Report: Large Two-Pronged Drone Attack Struck Russian Refinery, Airbase

By Howard Altman
Posted on Jul 23, 2024