Marines Breathe New Life Into Old F/A-18 Hornets With JASSM Cruise Missiles JASSMs will let Marine Hornets hit targets further away than ever before, helping to ensure their relevance in the twilight of their careers. Story: twz.com/air/marine-leg…

Israeli Commando Raid In Syria Sends A Message To Iran That Its Underground Bases Are Not Untouchable The raid targeted a deep underground Iranian weapons facility and included grabbing intelligence before blowing it up using planted charges. Story: twz.com/news-features/…

Germany’s New HK416 Service Rifles Appear At Panama Test Site Germany's evaluation of new G95-series rifles in Panama and Arizona follows reports it scaled back or even skipped key testing initially. Story: twz.com/news-features/…

MQ-9 Reapers Gathered In Florida, Simulated Fighting Over South China Sea The recent Reaper Smoke competition included a scenario based on a simulated mission over Mischief Reef, a key flashpoint in the highly strategic region. Story: twz.com/air/mq-9-reape…

Russia Covering Its Aircraft In Tires Is About Befuddling Image-Matching Seekers U.S. Military Confirms Russia's efforts to confuse munitions with seekers with imaging-matching capabilities speak to issues that go beyond the war in Ukraine. Story: twz.com/air/russia-cov…

Russia’s Kursk Counteroffensive Fully Underway After more than a month, Russia has finally launched a major effort to kick Ukraine out of the Kursk region. Our latest update: twz.com/news-features/…

Future Stealth Tanker Plans Tied To NGAD 6th Generation Fighter’s Fate Next-generation aerial refueling capabilities are also influencing USAF plans for a second tranche of Collaborative Combat Aircraft drones. Story: twz.com/air/future-ste…

38,000 Russian Troops Committed To Kursk Counteroffensive: Report Worryingly for Ukraine, there are few signs that the incursion is seeing Russian troops redeployed from the eastern front lines. Our latest update: twz.com/news-features/…

Everything We Just Learned About The Supersized AGM-158 XR Stealth Cruise Missile Lockheed's XR variant of the JASSM family of missiles is stretched to accommodate more fuel, giving it a range that should approach or exceed that of the Tomahawk. Story: twz.com/air/everything…

No Flying Wing UCAVs Being Developed By U.S. Air Force While China Surges Ahead The U.S. continues to pass over very stealthy, long-range, highly autonomous UCAVs in favor of pursuing lower-cost 'loyal wingman' drones. Story: twz.com/air/no-flying-…

Hezbollah’s Exploding Pagers Could Be As Monumental A Cyber-Espionage Operation As Stuxnet We live surrounded by networked devices with packs full of potential energy, possibly offering adversaries an unprecedented vector for kinetic attacks. Story: twz.com/news-features/…

General Atomics Says Its Collaborative Combat Aircraft Is Like A Bic Lighter General Atomics gave us a close look at their XQ-67 and CCA designs and some new insights into how they balanced affordability capability into an optimal package. Story+video: twz.com/air/general-at…

Link 16 Coverage From Space, Laser Communications Relays Make Major Advances The Space Development Agency is seeing major promise during testing of new low-cost Link 16 datalink, laser communications, and missile tracking satellites. Story: twz.com/air/link-16-co…

Skunk Works’ Losing Loyal Wingman Drone Was Very Stealthy “Gold Plated” Design Lockheed Martin is now exploring optionally expendable designs to propose in an attempt to win the second round of the CCA program. Story: twz.com/air/skunk-work…