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New Pentagon Drone ‘Czar’ to Close Gap With US Rivals

The United States has consolidated oversight of almost all of its military drone and autonomous-systems programmes under a single new office, as the Pentagon races to close a fielding gap with rivals it now openly concedes are producing unmanned weapons at far greater speed. US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum, dated 29 June and released on Wednesday, establishing the Direct Reporting Portfolio Manager for Unmanned Systems, known as the DRPM-UxS. The office will report directly

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Jul 2, 2026 — 3 min read

America's F-15EX Bet at Kadena: More Firepower, Same Missile Problem

The US Air Force has begun rehearsing the return of permanent fighter power to Kadena Air Base, flying an F-15EX Eagle II into Okinawa on 29 June alongside two F-15E Strike Eagles. Kadena, the closest major American air base to Taiwan, has spent nearly four years without a resident fighter squadron. The F-15EX is meant to end that gap. Thirty-six of the new Eagle IIs are due to replace the F-15C/Ds that guarded the base for more than four decades before their withdrawal began in late 2022. For

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Jul 1, 2026 — 5 min read

US Marines Use Civilian Ferries to Haul China-Deterrent Missiles Near Taiwan

US Marines moved land-based anti-ship missile launchers across islands near Taiwan aboard contracted Philippine commercial ferries this month, a workaround that underscores how far Washington's plan to counter China at sea has run ahead of the ships built to carry it. During the KAMANDAG exercise, the 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment loaded its Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System, known as NMESIS, and accompanying air defence vehicles onto civilian roll-on, roll-off vessels to reach

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Jul 1, 2026 — 3 min read

US Reveals Its Stealth Bomber Can Sink Ships in Warning to China

The US Air Force has disclosed for the first time that its B-2 Spirit stealth bomber can launch the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile, revealing a penetrating maritime-strike capability designed to hold China's expanding navy at risk. Pacific Air Forces announced on Monday, 29 June, that it had conducted a live-fire sinking exercise north of the Mariana Islands in which a B-2 fired the Lockheed Martin AGM-158C LRASM at a surface target. The drill formed part of Exercise Valiant Shield 2026, with the

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Jun 30, 2026 — 3 min read

US-Italy Military Ties Deepen Even as the Trump-Meloni Feud Sours the Alliance

When President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arrive in Ankara next week for the NATO summit on 7-8 July, it will be the first time they have shared a room since their relationship dissolved into public insult. The optics will be studied closely. Yet the more revealing story runs beneath the diplomacy: the military relationship between Washington and Rome has rarely been deeper, and much of its recent growth materialised just before the politics fell apart. The quarrel has been

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Jun 29, 2026 — 3 min read

Boeing Wins $2 Billion Space Force Deal for Military Satellites

June 25: Boeing won a US Space Force contract worth as much as $2 billion to develop and build two new military communications satellites, beating incumbent Lockheed Martin Corp. and handing the company’s troubled space unit a rare boost. The award covers the next phase of the Mobile User Objective System Service Life Extension, or MUOS SLE, a programme designed to keep secure narrowband communications available to American and allied forces. The first satellite is scheduled for delivery in 203

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Jun 28, 2026 — 3 min read