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Kade Winslow

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A KC-135 Stratotanker completed the first aerial refueling of a B-21 Raider over Edwards Air Force Base on April 14

The FY26 NDAA cleared incremental funding to buy two Ford-class carriers and five Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines

DARPA wants a bunker-buster that manipulates shock waves instead of explosives, aimed at deeply buried Iranian-style arsenals

USS Nimitz (CVN 68) is deploying to 4th Fleet’s Southern Seas 2026 for Caribbean and South Atlantic operations

Pentagon inked deals for 10,000 low-cost cruise missiles and a 500-per-year run of Castelion’s Blackbeard hypersonic strike weapon

The B-21 Raider finished a critical flight-test campaign in 73 days, not the 180 days the Air Force had penciled in

CVN-82 just moved up a fiscal year as Navy shipbuilding plans funnel $22.34 billion into carrier replacement through FY 2031

Iran, Russia, and China are still hunting submarines together in the Gulf of Oman — a Chinese sub-killer frigate working inside U.S. carrier range for the second straight week

China’s submarine fleet is on track to hit 70 boats by 2027 — three new attack subs, six guided-missile subs, and two ballistic-missile subs entering service inside three years

Iran has now blocked most of the Strait of Hormuz to civilian traffic since February 28 — tankers crossing only inside a single lane the U.S. military carved out by force

The Pentagon just locked in deals with Anduril, CoAspire, Leidos, and Zone 5 to buy 10,000-plus cheap containerized missiles starting in 2027

An Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine just pulled into Gibraltar — the Sixth Fleet stating the rare public visit demonstrates U.S. capability after Trump rejected Iran’s latest proposal

North Korea fired a close-range ballistic missile off its west coast last week — the weapon flew about 50 miles into the sea just days after Russia and China backed Pyongyang publicly

The Air Force’s F-47 fighter budget just jumped $1 billion to $3.5 billion in fiscal 2026 — Boeing pushing the stealth jet from advanced development into hardware prototyping

Congress just appropriated $1.69 billion to keep the Navy’s F/A-XX sixth-gen fighter alive in 2026 — overruling a Pentagon plan to shelve the program in favor of the F-47

Russia just sharpened North Korea’s KN-23 missile from a 500-meter miss circle down to 50 meters — and packed the warhead with cluster bomblets in an April test

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