Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
RT @AirPowerNEW1: Six former Air Force Chiefs of Staff & seven other retired 4-star generals joined Air & Space Forces Association leadership in calling on Congress to triple the number of F-35A fighters for fiscal 2026 and to reinstate funding for the E-7 Wedgetail platform. 🔗 👇
RT @AirPowerNEW1: Six former Air Force Chiefs of Staff & seven other retired 4-star generals joined Air & Space Forces Association leadership in calling on Congress to triple the number of F-35A fighters for fiscal 2026 and to reinstate funding for the E-7 Wedgetail platform. 🔗 👇
Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)
RT @AirPowerNEW1: US Navy's FY26 budget docs reveal that the service was able to procure 374 ESSM Blk 2 missiles in FY25 vs 350 planned. The additional buys were due to a lower than anticipated unit cost. The service has requested 305 ESSM Blk 2 AURs in FY26 at a cost of $1.35 MM per missile. The ESSM Blk 2 Missile is the latest ESSM variant having achieved IOC in December 2021. Besides upgrading from an 8" to a 10" guidance section, Blk. 2 adds a Standard Missile 6 derived active RF seeker while still retaining the Semi-active guidance ability of the block 1 variant.
RT @AirPowerNEW1: US Navy's FY26 budget docs reveal that the service was able to procure 374 ESSM Blk 2 missiles in FY25 vs 350 planned. The additional buys were due to a lower than anticipated unit cost. The service has requested 305 ESSM Blk 2 AURs in FY26 at a cost of $1.35 MM per missile. The ESSM Blk 2 Missile is the latest ESSM variant having achieved IOC in December 2021. Besides upgrading from an 8" to a 10" guidance section, Blk. 2 adds a Standard Missile 6 derived active RF seeker while still retaining the Semi-active guidance ability of the block 1 variant.
Def Mon (Twitter)
RT @Tatarigami_UA: Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia has launched 28,743 Shahed/Geran drones at Ukraine - 2,736 of them in June of this year, according to President Zelensky. Our team took a brief look at the Shahed numbers and noted the following trends and figures🧵:
RT @Tatarigami_UA: Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia has launched 28,743 Shahed/Geran drones at Ukraine - 2,736 of them in June of this year, according to President Zelensky. Our team took a brief look at the Shahed numbers and noted the following trends and figures🧵: