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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

The U.S. needs 200 B-21 bombers and 300 F-47 fighters to fight China — Mitchell Institute calling the planned fleet “a raid force, not a campaign force”

The Strait of Hormuz has split into two ship lanes — Americans escorting tankers through the strait while Iranian boats keep firing on anything in the other

Ukraine is buying 25,000 unmanned ground vehicles this year — its generals planning to replace 30% of frontline troops in the hottest zones with robot attackers and evac units

China’s submarine fleet will hit 70 boats by 2027 — three new attack subs, six guided-missile subs, and two ballistic-missile subs entering service in three years

The USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group just returned to Norfolk after a record-setting 326-day deployment — the longest U.S. carrier mission in more than 50 years

The F-47 sixth-generation stealth fighter’s combat radius was just confirmed near double the F-35’s — a spec reshaping every plan for a Pacific air war

The Army cleared the Dark Eagle hypersonic missile for combat under a $2.7 billion contract — a Mach 5 weapon going operational this year on truck-borne launchers

The U.S. Navy’s Optical Dazzling Interdictor just finished its first operational training cycle — a ship-mounted laser built to blind incoming drones and missile seekers

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 a second week

Ukraine’s robot army has now run 22,000 missions since January — four-wheel attackers Russian soldiers nicknamed “silent death” because they’re only audible from 30 feet away

The Pentagon is now fielding laser and microwave counter-drone weapons at five U.S. bases — Fort Huachuca, Fort Bliss, Kitsap, Grand Forks, and Whiteman

The Pentagon just asked Congress for $54.6 billion to build the largest autonomous warfare program in history — a single-year surge in drone and AI weapons spending

Russia’s Pacific submarine base at Rybachiy just got wrapped in anti-drone defenses — satellite photos showing new netting and cages across berths 4,000 miles from Ukraine

Iran’s navy just confirmed at least 14 of its Ghadir mini-submarines are still hunting the Strait of Hormuz — after the U.S. sank 11 in the war

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