The U.S. military said early July 30 it had completed “a heavy wave of strikes against Iran” conducted in response to an earlier Iranian missile attack on a U.S. base in Jordan. The latest barrage came after the U.S. partnered with Saudi Arabia to strike Iran-backed militias in neighboring Iraq, killing at least 20 fighters and six Iranian advisers.
Ukraine’s defense technology cluster Brave1 and NATO have launched a joint innovation program that will fund defense companies, with the first call focused on counter-drone systems against FPV and Shahed-type drones.
The ongoing war in Iran has pushed Air Force officials to prioritize battlespace awareness upgrades on the service’s tanker fleet, four months after two KC-135s were involved in a deadly crash during Operation Epic Fury.
The Pentagon has formally launched the Europe force posture review Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced last month, beginning a process to examine U.S. military troop presence, force posture, and basing across Europe.
The U.S. Air Force says a prototype jet engine developed under the Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion (NGAP) program could be ready for integration onto an actual aircraft in 2030. The fruits of NGAP have long been expected to power the new F-47 fighter, and potentially other aircraft. The schedule here, however, raises the question of what engine will be used on the F-47, at least to start with, as that jet is expected to fly for the first time in 2028.
The U.S. Air Force has released plans to experiment with a prototype reusable, rocket-powered aircraft for high-speed, long-range strike missions.
President Trump was sitting aboard Air Force One on the tarmac in Delaware last week having just watched the caskets of four U.S. soldiers killed in the Iran war arrive from overseas. He was huddling with his top war advisers—Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Also aboard the plane in the impromptu meeting: Adm. Brad Cooper, head of the U.S. Central Command, who has been quietly directing the war from his Tampa, Fla., headquarters and who had arrived separately for the solemn ceremony.
The A-10 Warthog took to the skies one last time at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, marking the end of an era for the aircraft in Tucson. Hundreds of people gathered to watch the A-10 take off and land one final time at Davis-Monthan.
“Earlier this year, a naval officer’s routine use of the app Strava revealed the location of the French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle while it was operating in the eastern Mediterranean, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran. No classified system was hacked. No network was deliberately penetrated. The information came from ordinary digital behavior that most people would never think twice about. That is the danger of ubiquitous technical surveillance, or UTS,” writes Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas).
Maj. Gen. Bob LaBrutta (Ret.), who helped unveil the National Military Monument, says seeing his father's name displayed among 41 million Americans who served left him with "tears in my eyes."
