North Korea has claimed to have successfully fired a new locally developed cruise missile capable of reaching targets across the Korean peninsula and into Japan. 

The Russian Aircraft Corp., MiG, has received an order for the “overhaul and modernization of MiG-31K aircraft to the MiG-31I variant,” according to a video report from a recent contract signing ceremony.

A U.S. Air Force news release on Sept. 1 announced a puzzling claim: three Boeing F-15Es had released newly modified, 2,000-lb. GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munitions on moving ships.

South Korea has successfully test fired a new submarine-launched ballistic missile from its newly commissioned diesel electric submarine, making it the first non-nuclear state to possess such a capability.

While the House Armed Services Committee in its $778 billion version of the 2022 defense bill, allows the U.S. Air Force to go ahead with its planned cuts to the A-10 fleet, the committee presses the service to upgrade the attack aircraft with modern defensive systems that both the Air National Guard and Reserve have requested.

The Japanese Ministry of Defense has requested billions of yen to study and develop both defensive and offensive capabilities in the unmanned, hypersonic, electronic warfare and space domains.  

The SCiFIRE project is expected to build on the DARPA Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept program and mature technology for the follow-on Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile program. 

Another new variant of a stealthy Lockheed Martin cruise missile has appeared to highlight the surging popularity of powered, expendable munitions and reveal a fundamentally vital new capability.