How airpower experts think Ukraine could pull off bursts of air superiority to get F-16s into the fight and score breakthroughs

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Four Portuguese Air Force F-16 jets fly against a white, cloudy background.
Portuguese Air Force F-16 M Fighting Falcons fly over Praça do Comercio during the military parade that opens the official ceremonies in celebration of the 50th anniversary of 1974 Carnation Revolution (Revolução dos Cravos).

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Demands in the Middle East risk leaving an aircraft carrier-sized hole in US naval power in the Western Pacific

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A US aircraft carrier sails in the Pacific Ocean with a cloudy sunset in the background.
The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson transits the Pacific Ocean.

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Putin and Kim Jong Un are getting alarmingly close, and it's put US ally South Korea in a predicament

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North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, standing left, walks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, standing right.

The US is upgrading its fighter fleets in Japan, boosting its Pacific airpower with the newest jets

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A US Air Force F-35A fighter jet flies across a blue key with some smoke surrounding the edges of the plane.
The US is sending F-35 stealth fighters and upgraded F-15EX strike fighters to its forward-bases n Japan.

U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Kip Sumner

Russian submarines fought a torpedo duel in waters surrounded by NATO allies

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A black submarine sits in the water next to a dock. Sailors walk up a ramp to get into the submarine.
Russian crew members get on board of the newly built "Novorossiysk" B-261 multipurpose diesel-electric submarine in Saint Petersburg.

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Ukraine says it destroyed almost 60 Russian air defense systems in June, the second-highest number of monthly kills since the war began

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Two Russian S-400 air defense systems on the back of trucks are parked in a snowy field with some trees around them.
S-400 defense systems, sent by Russia, are seen at the Brestsky training ground ahead of the Allied Resolve joint military exercise near Brest, Belarus.

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Putin getting tight with Kim Jong Un could be as big of a problem for China as it is for the US

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Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un smiling and holding up glasses of red wine.
In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un toast during a reception at the Mongnangwan Reception House in Pyongyang on June 19, 2024.

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China says it picked up a submarine detector dropped by a US Navy aircraft in the South China Sea

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P-8A Poseidon dropping a device replicating a Mk-54 torpedo
The aircraft in the video released by Chinese state media looked like a US Navy P-8A Poseidon, and it was dropping what looked like a sonobuoy, which is a kind of acoustic sensor used to track submarines.

US Navy/Greg L. Davis

US Navy nuclear ballistic missile submarine surfaces off Norway in unusual flex as 'Doomsday' plane flies overhead

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US Navy nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine USS Tennessee in the Norwegian Sea on June 23, 2024.
US Navy nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine USS Tennessee in the Norwegian Sea on June 23, 2024.

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North Korea's Kim Jong Un could get his hands on some worrying military tech in exchange for throwing Russia a war lifeline

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This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on September 16, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspecting a launching drill of the medium-and-long range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 at an undisclosed location.
This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on September 16, 2017, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspecting a launching dr
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