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A STRONG OFFENSE FOR THE WORLD OF DEFENSE

October 23, 2026 The U.S. Air Force is exploring options for adding air-to-air combat capabilities to its bombers as part of efforts adjacent to its latest fighter force structure plans. The service has raised the possibility of the B-21 Raider, specifically, taking on an air-to-air role, and potentially doing so in cooperation with Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) drones, in the past. As TWZ has explored for years, the B-21’s inherent attributes – size, extreme range, high operating ceiling, broadband low-observability (stealthiness), and advanced sensors – could actually make it especially well suited to taking part in air-to-air combat missions. The Air Force’s other bombers could also be part of these future plans. Read the full story here.

Must Read Articles

Construction Of Iran’s “Eagle 44” Underground Airbase Hasn’t Stopped Despite War Satellite imagery depicts new construction and cleared wreckage after strikes at an Iranian airbase with underground hangars and taxiway tunnels. READ NOW

Ground-Launched Rusty Dagger Low-Cost Cruise Missile Seen For The First Time The first public look at the missile in a surface-launched configuration comes as its manufacturer expands production. READ NOW

How The U.S. Army’s ‘Navy’ Aims To Go More Autonomous With Its Vessels In The Pacific The Army wants to buy up to 100 new USVs and add autonomous capabilities into existing crewed vessels. READ NOW

Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet Spotted Carrying New AIM-174B And AIM-260 Long-Range Missiles Together The image of the VX-31 Super Hornet gives us a glimpse of what's soon to appear in the fleet, and the two missiles will also be joined by the AIM-424 Malice. READ NOW

Four KJ-3000 Radar Jets At Chinese Factory Point To Serial Production The KJ-3000 is the most capable of China’s rapidly expanding airborne early warning and control aircraft fleet. READ NOW

Ghost Shark Uncrewed Submarine Shown Launching Aerial Drones For The First Time New video shows a 12-tube drone launcher and two deployable masts in action, offering new insights to what Ghost Shark can do and how it could be used. READ NOW

Airbus Details Progress With Lakota Connector Uncrewed Cargo Helicopter

Branded Content: This aircraft is planned to enable continuous logistics support, while reducing sustainment requirements and risk to personnel.

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New Episode of “Special Access”

The A-4 Skyhawk, first flown seven decades ago, is famed for its role as a Cold War 'red air' aggressor, and it lives on doing that mission to this day in Europe. Top Aces flies hugely-upgraded A-4 Skyhawks as contract aggressors in support of multiple air arms in Europe. These classic attack jets are both affordable to operate and easy to upgrade - making them ideal for this role.

For this latest episode in our "Special Access" series, TWZ’s Jamie Hunter traveled to Germany to witness these modern-day Skyhawk operations up close and discovered that significant developments are on the horizon for Top Aces in Europe, principally the arrival of F-16s that will further enhance the company's private "red air" offering. Watch the full video below.

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A-4 'Super' Skyhawks Playing The Bad Guys In European Skies

From the Archive

The Story Behind The Thunderbirds’ Black-Tailed F-4 Phantom And “Captain Carbon”

For years, one of the Thunderbird's jets flew its routines with a slightly different paint job than the others. Here's why.

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Hot Shots

A U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker sits on the flight line prior to a refueling mission at RAF Mildenhall in the United Kingdom. Photo by Senior Airman Aidan Martínez Rosiere

Cannon crewmembers fire an M777 howitzer during artillery execution suite training on Fort Carson, Colorado. Photo by Sgt. Charlyn Abuyo

U.S. Soldiers rappel from a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany. Photo by Sgt. Frank Lora

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Poland is joining Maritime initiative

Nyhet | 13.10.2026 | Forsvarsdepartementet

At the NATO Summit in Ankara this summer eleven European countries and Canada said that they will cooperate more closely on security in the North Atlantic, the Arctic and the Baltic Sea. Now Poland will join the initiative as well.

Ukraina lagrar frø i Svalbard globale frøkvelv for første gong sidan krigsutbrotet Nyhet | 14.10.2026 | Landbruks- og matdepartementet Fleire tusen frøprøver av viktige jordbruksvekstar vart nyleg lagra på Svalbard då 21 genbankar frå heile verda deltok i ei frødeponering.

Forsvarsministeren besøkte Camp Jomsborg: – Det er en brutal virkelighet Nyhet | 14.10.2026 | Forsvarsdepartementet På Camp Jomsborg i Polen trener ukrainske soldater som snart skal kjempe ved fronten. Ved utgangen av året vil 3000 ukrainske soldater og lagførere ha fått opplæring her.

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A STRONG OFFENSE FOR THE WORLD OF DEFENSE

October 13, 2026 Lockheed Martin has unveiled the PAC-3 Edge, a new interceptor that would represent the top tier of the U.S. Army’s Patriot air defense missile family. The missile is being developed to deliver greater performance against advanced threats than the current PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement, as the Army advances a competition for its next-generation interceptor. The PAC-3 Edge was officially unveiled at the Association of the U.S. Army’s (AUSA) annual convention. Read the full report here. And make sure to check out all of our coverage from AUSA here.

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Bradley’s Old TOW Launchers Get New Teeth With Spike Missile Adapter The system allows old TOW missile launchers to fire the massively more capable Spike LR2 without major modifications. READ NOW

Sig Sauer’s M250 Machine Gun Gets Shorter And Lighter After Army Feedback Changes that led to the M250A1 mirror the evolution of the Army's new M7 rifle from Sig into the M8 carbine after criticism. READ NOW

Specter Jet-Powered Drone Aims At Low Cost, Multi-Mission, Single Use The turbojet-powered drone is designed for one-way attack missions, but AEVEX says it could also carry cameras, jamming gear, and other payloads. READ NOW

Drones Are Creating New Opportunities For The U.S. Army To Deceive Its Enemies Deception and guile are emerging as primary tasks for uncrewed platforms in the Army's new concept of operations. READ NOW

This Is Our First Look At The Wolf Armored Fighting Vehicle That Aims To Replace The Bradley Wolf is competing against a variant of the German-designed Lynx to become the Army's XM30 Mechanized Infantry Combat Vehicle. READ NOW

New Coyote Anti-Drone Interceptor Swaps Jet Engine For Rocket Power The Coyote Block 2 is already combat proven, but more capable kamikaze drones have driven a need to fly faster and farther. READ NOW

New Video Alert

TWZ's Jamie Hunter talks to Matt Petraitis of General Atomics at AUSA 2026 about the recent Mojave short take-off and landing (STOL) drone battlefield tests in Korea, which included operations from a rough airstrip and low-level flying.

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General Atomics' Mojave Drone Completes Austere Testing In Korea

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The F-117 Tested A Mirror-Like Skin Decades Before The F-22 Did

We have more on the 'mirrored' F-22 Raptor mystery that includes a historical connection and an official Air Force statement.

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A U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II approaches a KC-135 Stratotanker at night to refuel in the Middle East. CENTCOM photo

U.S. Marines fire a M225A1 60mm mortar system during a live-fire training exercise at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Christopher Obando

A disassembled F-117A Nighthawk sits inside a C-5M Super Galaxy inflight from Palmdale, Calif., to Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Alexis Morris October 9, 2026 Standing on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, Secretary Pete Hegseth looked up at the flattop’s superstructure and got a good indication of many of the targets the Lincoln Carrier Strike Group destroyed during its six-month fight with Iran. In a photograph shared by the Pentagon’s image distribution site, Hegseth is seen examining a wall of so-called kill marks stenciled onto the superstructure. By our count, there are kill marks for 103 one-way attack drones, 34 ships, 23 cruise missiles, and 10 submarines. Read the full story here. Must Read Articles Could NASA’s SR-71 Blackbird Be Modified To Reach Mach 4? The SR-71's airframe is capable of going beyond its known top speed and NASA may have good reason to push its limits via new engines. READ NOW Glaring Lack Of Investment In Aircraft Shelters Highlighted By B-1B’s Sudden Retreat From U.K. Airbase At this point, it could take a disaster for the USAF to invest in giving its prized assets sitting in the open on a flightline physical cover from drone attacks. READ NOW Navy Doubles Down On X-BAT VTOL ‘Fighter’ Drone Development X-BAT flight testing is getting closer on the horizon, and an extremely ambitious timeline to reach an operational capability has been revealed. READ NOW Retired KC-10 Extender Tankers Could Get A Second Life With North African Mystery Operator The USAF wants to know what it would take to regenerate a quartet of KC-10s for an undisclosed operator, and there are a couple of likely suspects. READ NOW Blackbeard Hypersonic Missile Shown Being Fired From Ground Launcher Blackbeard is part of the Army’s push to make hypersonic weapons more mobile and affordable. READ NOW How The Groundwork For F-47 Flight Testing Is Being Laid The Air Force Test Center plans to use an evolving blend of real-world and digital testing once the F-47 starts flying. READ NOW Sikorsky’s “Black Hawk 2070” Strategy Includes Drones, New Engines, And Flying The Pilotless U-Hawk This Year Branded Content: A planned suite of UH-60 upgrades includes the uncrewed U-Hawk, new engines, more range, launched effects, and expanding autonomy. READ NOW New Video Alert TWZ's Jamie Hunter visited Sikorsky's Black Hawk production plant in Stratford, Connecticut, to learn about a planned suite of upgrades for the UH-60 under a project dubbed "Black Hawk 2070" designed to keep it operationally-relevant way into the future. This strategy includes more powerful engines, launched effects drones, expanding autonomy, and a new nose profile. It also includes the uncrewed U-Hawk cargo drone, which will fly later this year. Watch the video below and subscribe to our YouTube channel here. Inside Sikorsky's “Black Hawk 2070” Plan With Drones, Autonomy, And The Pilotless U-Hawk From the Archive Lockheed Once Pitched the Massive C-5 as a Flying Command Center The company told the Air Force the massive airlifter could be a super-sized replacement for the EC-135 doomsday plane. READ NOW Hot Shots U.S. Army soldiers assigned to Task Force Seminole conduct a mortar fire mission in the Horn of Africa. U.S. Army photo by Capt. Dakota Burr An Air National Guard KC-135 Stratotanker returns to Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base in Columbus, Ohio, following an expeditionary deployment to the Pacific theater. U.S. Air National Guard photo by Ralph Branson USS Abraham Lincoln returns to her homeport of San Diego following a 10-month deployment to the U.S. 5th and 7th Fleet areas of operation. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Aaron J. Rolle