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Taiwan’s RF-5 Tigergazer Reconnaissance Jets Have Retired Tigergazer, with its elongated nose full of film cameras, will be replaced by drones and new pods for Taiwan’s F-16s that use digital imaging systems. www.twz.com/air/taiwans-...

Israeli Commandos Attacked Iranian Air Defenses With Drones From Inside The Country: Report Mossad operatives went as far as setting up drone and missile bases near major air defense sites and other key targets. www.twz.com/air/israel-h...

Confirmed Losses Of Russian Aircraft Mount After Ukrainian Drone Assault Some of the bombers were armed with cruise missiles when Ukraine’s drones rained down on them. www.twz.com/air/firm-evi...

What Ukraine’s Unprecedented Drone Attack Means For Russia's Bomber Force Russia is currently in no position to replace large losses of its strategic bombers and future operations will likely be impacted by force protection needs. www.twz.com/air/what-ukr...

What Ukraine’s Unprecedented Drone Attack Means For Russia's Bomber Force Russia is currently in no position to replace large losses of its strategic bombers and future operations will likely be impacted by force protection needs. www.twz.com/air/what-ukr...

Great backgrounder by @combatair.bsky.social about Russian nuke air-to-air missile mentioned in recent DIA testimony. www.twz.com/air/russia-f... Thanks for crediting my post bsky.app/profile/nuke...

China’s J-10C Fighter: Separating Myth From Reality China's J-10C is in the spotlight after claims of Pakistani air-to-air kills against their Indian counterparts, but just how capable is it? www.twz.com/air/chinas-j...

F-16s Pulled From U.S. Boneyard Are Being Delivered To Ukraine For Spare Parts The U.S. had not committed to giving Ukraine its F-16s, but images of the type being flown out of Arizona on a Ukrainian An-124 began circulating last week. www.twz.com/air/f-16s-pu...

How times change… back in 2011, the Belarusian Oboronnyye Initsiativy company was offering its Talisman electronic warfare self-protection pod for the Eurofighter Typhoon, with a combined stores carriage/jammer outboard pylon.

Good overview on recent developments at the land-based carrier mockup site in Wuhan, by @combatair.bsky.social. I like how the writing especially caveats on what we do or do not know. As noted, its early, but nevertheless very interesting days in regards to Type 004. www.twz.com/sea/chinas-g...

Su-35s Once Expected To Arm Iran Are Now In Algeria Originally built for Egypt, the Su-35s now being transferred to Algeria had long been expected to bolster Iran’s decrepit air arm. www.twz.com/air/su-35s-o...

Reflections Of The F-47: Looking Back At The X-36 The tailless X-36 demonstrator was one of several test planes and studies that likely paved the way for the F-47 sixth-generation stealth fighter. www.twz.com/air/reflecti...

Super Hornets Are Now Carrying Stormbreaker Glide Bombs On Combat Missions Imagery shows Navy F/A-18E/Fs equipped with GBU-53/B Stormbreakers being launched on missions against Houthi militants in Yemen. www.twz.com/air/super-ho...

Boeing Wins F-47 Next Generation Air Dominance Fighter Contract The Air Force's next and possibly last manned tactical jet will be built by Boeing. www.twz.com/air/boeing-w...

Our Best Look At Ukraine’s ‘FrankenBuk’ Air Defense System The best-known of Ukraine’s so-called ‘FrankenSAMs’ puts RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missiles on a Soviet-era Buk-M1 ground-based air defense system. www.twz.com/air/our-best...

What’s old is new again? The recent suggestion of possible deployment of nuclear-armed French fighters in Germany led me to recall when this happened before: F-100D/F Super Sabres from the 11e Escadre de Chasse based at Bremgarten and Lahr-Hugsweier, 1963-64.

I spoke with @twz.com about The Telegraph report on hypothetical deployment of some French nuclear-capable fighters in Germany. It’s a lot more complex than the off-the-cuff comment suggests. www.twz.com/air/france-e... Also see our French nuke notebook: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Air-Launched Supersonic Anti-Ship Missile Being Tested By Taiwan The air-launched adaptation of the HF-3 will provide Taiwan’s F-CK-1 fighter with a faster, more survivable missile than the F-16-launched Harpoon. www.twz.com/air/taiwan-i...

Trump Offers India Path To F-35 As India sits at a fork in the road for its future fighter fleet plans, the U.S. has just upped the ante with the prospect of F-35 deliveries. www.twz.com/air/trump-of...

First Mirage 2000 Fighter Has Arrived In Ukraine www.twz.com/air/first-mi...

Airbus A321 Airliners To Be Modified Into “Flying Frigate” Patrol Jets By France www.twz.com/air/airbus-a...

North Korean Air Defense System Revealed In Ukraine By Russian Friendly Fire Strike A North Korean-made surface-to-air missile, broadly analogous to the Russian Tor, has appeared for the first time in combat in the Kursk region. www.twz.com/land/north-k...

Personalized helmet (presumably a Soviet-era ZSh-7 series) belonging to a Ukrainian Air Force Su-27 pilot, with the callsign “Hooligan.” Source: @army_tv_ua

Hints At More B61 Nuclear Bomb Variants In The U.S. Military’s Future A true successor to the specialized deep bunker-busting B61-11 variant could be a future addition as adversaries increasingly go underground. Story: www.twz.com/air/hints-at...

Tailless Fighter-Like Airframe Appears At Chinese Jet Manufacturer Shenyang’s Main Plant www.twz.com/air/tailless...

China Stuns With Heavy Stealth Tactical Jet’s Sudden Appearance This is the most advanced flying machine we have seen out of China, lacking any tails and packing stealth and long range. www.twz.com/air/china-st...

What We Know About The Russian Cargo Ship That Sank In Mediterranean Ukrainian intel claims the cargo ship was headed to Syria, to take Russian materiel out of the country, but Moscow says otherwise. www.twz.com/news-feature...

Russian General Accused Of Using Chemical Weapons Assassinated By Ukraine Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov was killed one day after Ukrainian state prosecutors charged him in absentia with the alleged use of chemical weapons in Ukraine. www.twz.com/nuclear/russ...

Russia Giving North Korea MiG-29s And Su-27s Isn’t That Straightforward A U.S. admiral says that the fighters will be given to North Korea in exchange for sending troops and ammo to help Russia in Ukraine. www.twz.com/air/russia-g...

Final MiG-21 Fishbeds Stand Down From Active Duty In Europe End of an era marked as Croatian MiG-21s end their operational duties ahead of their replacement by Dassault Rafales. www.twz.com/air/final-mi...

Australian F-35 Tests Expeditionary Base Concept Dura-Base matting can be used for air base repairs as well as for helping establish austere operating locations across the Pacific. www.twz.com/air/australi...

British Defense Cuts Hit All Three Services Hard Amphibious assault ships, drones, and an entire fleet of helicopters are all being axed in a cost-saving effort. www.twz.com/air/british-...

Danish Navy Shadows Chinese Cargo Ship After Baltic Sea Cable Damage The Chinese ship, the Yi Peng 3, is now anchored, with a Royal Danish Navy patrol boat alongside it. www.twz.com/news-feature...

U.S.-Supplied ATACMS Missile Strike Inside Russia Have Begun Ukraine has struck a weapons depot in Russia with ATACMS short-range ballistic missiles. www.twz.com/land/u-s-sup...

Sabotage Claims Swirl Around Severed Baltic Sea Cable Incidents Damage to the two fiber-optic cables are the latest incidents to have affected critical infrastructure in the Baltic Sea. www.twz.com/news-feature...

F-4 Phantoms Tear Through Turkey To Mark 50 Years Of Service With Ankara still waiting on new fighter equipment, the classic Cold War design remains in frontline service with the Turkish Air Force. www.twz.com/air/f-4-phan...

UK’s New SPEAR 3 Mini Cruise Missile Succeeds In First End-To-End Test The SPEAR 3 is set to provide the British F-35B stealth fighter with a much-needed standoff air-to-ground attack capability. www.twz.com/air/uks-new-...

Airbus Helicopters has delivered the first of up to 82 H145M Leichter Kampfhubschrauber (LKH, light combat helicopter) ordered by Germany at its Donauwörth site. Missions will include training, reconnaissance, special forces operations, and light attack.

The Time Germany Grafted An Army Howitzer Turret Onto A Frigate The bizarre-looking modification installed the turret of a PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzer onto the frigate Hamburg. www.twz.com/sea/the-time...

North Korea’s Kim Orders Mass Production Of Kamikaze Drones North Korea will be getting a first-hand and brutal look at the game-changing nature of loitering munition technology as it fights Ukraine on behalf of Russia. www.twz.com/air/north-ko...

North Korean Long-Range Self-Propelled Artillery Appears In Russia With North Korean troops now fighting Ukrainians and considering Russia’s massive appetite for artillery, the M1989 Koksan’s arrival makes sense. www.twz.com/land/north-k...