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Lockheed Martin has unveiled a new hypersonic missile, the Mako, which it is pitching to the U.S. Navy and Air Force and which it says will potentially also be able to arm submarines and surface warships. The weapon, which was originally developed for the Air Force’s Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW) program reflects growing interest in more affordable hypersonic strike weapons, smaller than cruise missiles but offering standoff range and very rapid response.

The Lowdown On Lockheed’s Newly Revealed Mako Hypersonic Missile

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Apr 11, 2024
New AIM-9X configuration for the super hornet and growler.

F/A-18 Super Hornets Now Flying With Four AIM-9Xs From USS Eisenhower To Counter Drones

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Apr 11, 2024
Navy's CCA vision

Navy’s Vision For Disposable Carrier-Based Loyal Wingman Drones Comes Into Focus

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Apr 10, 2024
Cheap torpedo to augment the Mk48

Navy Wants A Cheap Heavy Torpedo That Can Be Stockpiled Fast

By Hope Hodge Seck
Posted on Apr 10, 2024
MQ-25 with LRASM missiles

MQ-25 Stingray Tanker Drone Armed With Stealthy Anti-Ship Missiles Makes Perfect Sense

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Apr 10, 2024
Serbia is poised to sign a deal to buy Dassault Rafale multirole fighters, the country’s president confirmed today, saying that “concrete agreements” had been made to purchase of 12 of the jets. The move, should it happen, would mark a major break for Serbia, which has long had a close military relationship with Russia and traditionally has operated significant quantities of Russian-supplied equipment.

France’s Rafale Is Set To Be Serbia’s Next Fighter

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Apr 9, 2024
Future Vertical Lift Maritime Strike

How To Satisfy The Navy’s Future Vertical Lift-Maritime Strike Needs With Bell’s Rob Freeland

By Jamie Hunter, Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Apr 9, 2024
The US Navy has cleared its EA-18G Growlers to carry AIM-9X Sidewinder missiles, and increased how many its F/A-18E/F Super Hornet can carry, decisions driven by Houthi drone things in and around the Red Sea.

Navy EA-18G Growlers Get AIM-9X, Super Hornets Can Now Carry More Sidewinders

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Apr 9, 2024
The US Navy is looking to add RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles to the arsenals of most of its Arleigh Burke class destroyers, and is pushing ahead with other more substantial upgrades for those ships, too.

Rolling Airframe Missiles To Arm Arleigh Burke Destroyer Fleet

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Apr 9, 2024
A missile is launched from the Sa'ar 6-class corvette during the series of live-fire tests of the naval version of its Iron Dome missile-defense system, called "C-Dome"at sea on February 21, 2022.

Israel’s Ship-Based Iron Dome Just Got Its First Combat Kill

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Apr 9, 2024
Full-scale prototype of Northrop Grumman's Manta Ray

Manta Ray High-Endurance Underwater Drone Unveiled

By Oliver Parken
Posted on Apr 8, 2024
Russia cope cage like none other.

Bizarre ‘Turtle Tank’ Appears In Ukraine With Shell Covering It Nearly Completely (Updated)

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Apr 8, 2024
B-1B Lancer aircraft nicknamed “Lancelot,” touches down at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, Feb. 8, 2024. “Lancelot” is being regenerated to the active bomber fleet after previously being retired to the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. Photo was redacted for security purposes.

B-1B ‘Lancelot’ Is Being Resurrected For Active Service

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Apr 8, 2024
A T-72 tank modified with counter-drone electronic warfare jamming systems.

Ukraine Situation Report: Russian Anti-Drone Electronic Warfare Tank Captured

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Apr 8, 2024
The Revolution Of AI-Enabled Autonomous Piloting With Shield AI’s Brandon Tseng

The Revolution Of AI-Enabled Autonomous Piloting With Shield AI’s Brandon Tseng

By The War Zone
Posted on Apr 8, 2024
No Major Damage Seen At Russian Air Base After Drone Attack

No Major Damage Seen At Russian Air Base After Drone Attack

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Apr 6, 2024
Naha Air Base temporarily moves its F-15s in light of a tsunami warning

Japan’s Tsunami-Fleeing F-15s Took To The Road

By Oliver Parken
Posted on Apr 5, 2024
A woman selling biscuits to people using an underground tube station as an air raid shelter, U.K., January 1, 1940. Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images

Bunker Talk: Let’s Talk About All The Things We Did And Didn’t Cover This Week

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Apr 5, 2024
AMX retired

Italy Says Arrivederci To Its Little AMX Attack Jets

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Apr 5, 2024
The first of 22 former Swiss F-5E/F Tiger II jets is now in the United States for the final phase of its conversion into an aggressor for the Navy and Marine Corps.

Marine KC-130 Delivers First Of New Batch Of Ex-Swiss F-5s Destined To Be Aggressors

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Apr 5, 2024
Ukrainian officials claimed on Friday that the drone strike targeting the Morozovsk airbase in Russia had killed or injured 20 members of personnel.

Ukraine Situation Report: Claims Swirl Around Drone Attack On Russian Fighter-Bomber Base

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Apr 5, 2024
World War II deception unit the "Ghost Army"

The Work Of This Clandestine Army Unit That Used Guile To Fight The Nazis Is Highly Relevant Again

By Oliver Parken
Posted on Apr 4, 2024
Navy needs to introduce swarms to its warships now

The Compelling Case For Arming U.S. Navy Warships With Drone Swarms

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Apr 4, 2024
The Royal Danish Navy’s recent woes are continuing, with the service today having declared a missile failure aboard one of its frigates, the Niels Juel, at a harbor in the Baltic Sea. As well forcing the closure of Denmark’s most important strait connecting the Baltic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, the incident comes one day after the sacking of the head of the Danish Armed Forces, amid the fallout of weapons failures aboard another of its frigates, which was protecting Red Sea shipping against Houthi attacks.

Harpoon Missile Malfunction On Danish Frigate Closes Part Of Baltic Strait

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Apr 4, 2024
The Navy and Lockheed Martin recently conducted a "historic" test in which four AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missiles were in flight simultaneously.

Four Stealthy AGM-158C Long-Range Anti-Ship Missiles Flew Together In “Historic” Test

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Apr 4, 2024
F-16s from Eielson AFB now 18th Fighter Interceptor Squadron.

F-16 Aggressor Squadron In Alaska Becomes Unique Air Defense Unit

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Apr 4, 2024
The long-running question of whether Israel will finally buy a new batch of F-15 Eagle multirole fighters looks like it might be answered sooner rather than later. The latest reports out of Washington indicate that the Biden administration is now considering whether or not to move ahead with a deal, which would likely involve as many as 50 examples of the F-15IA — an Israel-specific variant of the F-15EX.

F-15 Sale To Israel Reportedly Ready To Close, Will Gaza Change That?

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Apr 3, 2024
A US-made F-16 fighter lands on the run way at the eastern Hualien air force base on January 23, 2013. The Taiwan air force demonstrated their combat skills at the Hualien air base during an annual training before the coming lunar new year.

Multiple Taiwanese F-16s Damaged In Powerful Earthquake

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Apr 3, 2024
Drone maker Kratos has disclosed the existence of work on an MQ-58B variant of its Valkyrie drone with electronic attack capabilities for the US Marine Corps.

MQ-58B Electronic Attack-Enabled Version Of Valkyrie Drone For USMC Revealed

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Apr 3, 2024
North Korea has tested what it claims is a new intermediate-range hypersonic missile tipped with a unpowered boost-glide vehicle.

North Korea’s Latest Hypersonic Missile System Is One Sinister-Looking Weapon

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Apr 3, 2024
The Danish Armed Forces say one of the country's frigates shot down four Houthi drones during a recent Red Sea deployment. However, other reports say that the ship also suffered serious problems while in the region.

Danish Frigate Suffered Radar, Combat System, Gun Problems During Red Sea Ops: Reports

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Apr 3, 2024
Spain selling off its M60s

Spain Is Selling Off Its M60 Tanks To The Highest Bidder

By Oliver Parken, Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Apr 2, 2024
The U.S. military is gearing up for the forthcoming retirement of another iconic aircraft type, with the last pilots now having graduated onto the AV-8B Harrier II attack jet. As we have explained in the past, the U.S. Marine Corps is pressing ahead with plans to remove the vertical/short takeoff and landing (VSTOL) aircraft from its inventory before the end of 2026, with this latest development a highly symbolic one within this process.

Last Marine Harrier Pilots Complete Training As AV-8B’s End Draws Near

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Apr 2, 2024
The new radar for Japan's future cruiser-sized Aegis System Equipped Vessels has successfully tracked targets in space for the first time.

Radar For Japan’s New Missile Defense Ships Passes Critical Space Object Tracking Test

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Apr 2, 2024
Less than a month after we got our first glimpse inside the Russian factory where license production of the Iranian Shahed-series one-way attack drone is taking place, a Ukrainian drone attack appears to have targeted the facility.

Russia’s Shahed-136 Factory Attacked By Light Plane Converted Into A Drone

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Apr 2, 2024
A video has emerged showing a disastrous Russian assault on the Avdiivka front, which took place at the weekend, reportedly leaving 20 of the Kremlin’s armored vehicles destroyed. While we have seen other large-scale Russian armored assaults, various accounts suggest this might be the biggest of its kind of the conflict so far, spearheaded by a column of 48 Russian armored vehicles.

Ukraine Situation Report: Russian Armor Massacre At Avdiivka

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Apr 1, 2024
Eliat Sa'ar 6 drone attack.

Israel’s Most Advanced Warship Nearly Struck By Long-Range Attack Drone (Updated)

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Apr 1, 2024
The Navy has established a new forward-deployed MQ-4C detachment at NAS Sigonella in Italy.

MQ-4C Triton Has Arrived In Europe, Could Impact Black Sea, Red Sea Operations

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Apr 1, 2024
Patrick Mueller opens a bunker door of the Deltalis Swiss Mountain Data Center, a former Swiss Army bunker built in the Alps during the Cold War, on November 18, 2013, near Attinghausen, Central Switzerland.

Bunker Talk: Let’s Talk About All The Things We Did And Didn’t Cover This Week

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Mar 29, 2024
Sig's M7 and M250 guns

First U.S. Army Unit Just Received Long Awaited M4 And M249 Replacements

By Oliver Parken
Posted on Mar 29, 2024
SCALP-EG/Storm Shadow strikes Crimea

Ukraine Situation Report: UK MoD Says Two More Russian Ships Were Hit In Missile Raid

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Mar 29, 2024
Navy’s Rush To Test Microwave Weapons Tied To Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile Fears

Navy’s Rush To Test Microwave Weapons Tied To Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile Fears

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Mar 29, 2024
Four US Army AH-64 Apaches have crashed in the past two months, with the most recent pair of incidents coming within days of each just this week.

Four Army AH-64 Apaches Have Now Crashed In Just Two Months

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Mar 29, 2024
The USAF wants $1.5B in spare parts it doesn't have in its budget.

Hundreds Of Air Force Aircraft Risk Grounding Without Extra $1.5B Spare Parts Infusion

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Mar 28, 2024
VMX-1 getting MQ-9s

How Marine MQ-9s Will Adapt For A Pacific Fight, Pave Way For Future Drones

By James Deboer
Posted on Mar 28, 2024
India’s homegrown Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) has had a tortuous development path, but investment in the program is starting to show dividends, with the first flight of the Tejas Mk 1A, a much-improved version of the jet. The Tejas Mk 1A is set to be built in considerably greater numbers than the initial Mk 1 version and, more importantly, brings a host of advanced new features.

Much Is Riding On India’s Upgraded Tejas Light Fighter After Its First Flight

By Thomas Newdick
Updated on Mar 28, 2024
Boeing has announced plans to establish a new production facility for the MQ-28 Ghost Bat drone in Australia.

Boeing’s MQ-28 Ghost Bat Getting Facility To Ramp-Up Production In Australia

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Mar 28, 2024
Cold War-era Ladoga APV pictured by a FPV drone

Ultra-Rare Russian Armored VIP Escape Vehicle Spotted In Ukraine

By Oliver Parken
Posted on Mar 28, 2024
Four U.S. sealift ships on call to support military operations are now stuck in Baltimore following the collapse of a bridge after it was struck by a container ship.

Two Of The Fastest U.S. Sealift Ships Trapped By Baltimore Bridge Collapse

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Mar 27, 2024
Danish Air Force F-16 takes off in Monte Real Air Force Base during Real Thaw 2018 exercise on February 06, 2018 in Monte Real, Portugal. Real Thaw 2018 (RT18) is a Portuguese Air Force led live-fly exercise to evaluate and certify their operational capability being conducted at Monte Real Air Force from January 29 to February 09. The tenth edition of RT18 features 35 aircraft and 1500 personnel from the Portuguese Air Force, Army and Navy and military forces from Denmark, France, Netherlands, Spain, the United States of America and NATO.

F-16 Looks Like The Endgame To Argentina’s Epic Fighter Saga

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Mar 27, 2024
A sortie today by a Chinese WZ-7 could be more significant beyond just being the apparent first time one of these drones has flown over the Sea of Japan.

China’s WZ-7 High-Altitude Drone Makes First Known Flight Over Sea Of Japan

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Mar 27, 2024
Greek F-16s

Greece Plans To Sell F-16s, Mirages To Rationalize Its Fighter Inventory

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Mar 26, 2024
Russian drone can launch FPV video drones and relay their data back to controllers

FPV Drone Motherships That Also Relay Their Signals Offer Huge Advantages

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Mar 26, 2024
The US Navy says that if it its budget for the Fiscal Year 2025 were to increase, one of the things it would want to spend that extra money on is accelerating development of an advanced decoy drone.

More Money For Flying Drone That Makes Missiles Think It’s A Warship On Navy Wishlist

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Mar 26, 2024
The steel frame of the Francis Scott Key Bridge sits on top of the container ship Dali after the bridge collapsed, Baltimore, Maryland, on March 26, 2024

U.S. Coast Guard Leading Rescue Effort Following Baltimore Bridge Collapse (Updated)

By Oliver Parken
Posted on Mar 26, 2024
Japan Wants T-7 Red Hawk As Its Next Trainer: Report

Japan Wants T-7 Red Hawk As Its Next Trainer: Report

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Mar 26, 2024
U.S. Air Force TU-2s Dragon Lady 1078 flies to U.S. Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale, California, where it will undergo normal Program Depot-level Maintenance (PDM) and be painted black, after almost three years of maintenance at Beale Air Force Base, California, Feb. 29, 2024. Aircraft 1078 was involved in an accident in 2021 that left it unable to move to Plant 42, and after passing low flight and high flight tests, was able to fly to Palmdale where Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Detachment 4 will oversee Lockheed Martin’s PDM of aircraft 1078. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Alexis Pentzer

TU-2S Dragon Lady Resurrected For The Twilight Of The Spy Plane’s Service

By Oliver Parken
Posted on Mar 25, 2024
The UK Ministry of Defense has provided details about how it plans to test its new A21 nuclear warhead without actually detonating one.

How The U.K. Will Test Its New Nuclear Warhead Without Setting One Off

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Mar 25, 2024
Ukrainian attack on Crimea Sevastopol landing ship Black Sea Fleet

Ukraine Situation Report: Claims Swirl Around Strikes On Landing Ships In Crimea

By Thomas Newdick
Updated on Mar 25, 2024
Supersonic testbed XB-1 on its first flight, March 22, 2024

Boom’s XB-1 Supersonic Test Jet Takes To The Skies

By Oliver Parken
Posted on Mar 23, 2024
Emergency services vehicles are seen outside the burning Crocus City Hall concert hall following the shooting incident in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, on March 22, 2024. Gunmen opened fire at a concert hall in a Moscow suburb on March 22, 2024 leaving dead and wounded before a major fire spread through the building, Moscow's mayor and Russian news agencies reported.

Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Denies Any Involvement In Terror Attack Near Moscow

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Mar 22, 2024
15th June 1939: Workmen digging deep air raid shelters in Stockport. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Bunker Talk: Let’s Talk About All The Things We Did And Didn’t Cover This Week

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Mar 22, 2024
The F-35 Joint Program Office says the internal gun on the A variant of the Joint Strike Fighter is now effective after years of accuracy and other problems.

F-35A’s Beleaguered 25mm Cannon Is Finally “Effective”

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Mar 22, 2024
Ukraine's biggest dam was struck.

Russia’s Reprisal Attack On Ukraine’s Energy Infrastructure Was The Biggest Yet

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Mar 22, 2024