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U.S. Army Completes Retirement of Aerial ISR Turboprop Fleet

The Aviationist Blog - Sat, 13/12/2025 - 16:59
The legacy ISR fleet of RC-12X Guardrail, MC-12S EMARSS and the EO-5C ARL-M turboprops will be replaced by the jet-powered High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES). The U.S. Army has completed the divestment of its three A-ISR (Aerial-Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) aircraft types, including the RC-12X Guardrail, MC-12S EMARSS-M (Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and […]
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FY2026 NDAA: Congress Pushes Back On Aircraft Cuts and Seeks Clarity On Next-Gen Programs

The Aviationist Blog - Sat, 13/12/2025 - 15:29
The NDAA freezes E-3, F-15E and A-10 retirements, accelerates F/A-XX and F-47 oversight, and demands a concrete plan for post-E-6B nuclear command-and-control. The Fiscal Year 2026 U.S. National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) advanced another step toward becoming law this week after the House approved the measure in a 312–112 vote. The nearly $900 billion defense […]
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Northrop Grumman Completes New Stand-in Attack Weapon Separation Test

The Aviationist Blog - Fri, 12/12/2025 - 19:26
Just over a year after the first inert drop of the new Stand-in Attack Weapon, or SiAW, Northrop Grumman announced on Dec. 11 that another separation test had been completed from an F-16 Fighting Falcon. The inert weapon was dropped as part of ongoing testing to validate the SiAW’s flight safety and aerodynamic performance ahead […]
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U.S. Air Force Flexes its Muscles on NATO’s Eastern Flank

The Aviationist Blog - Fri, 12/12/2025 - 18:12
In early December, USAF F-35A Lightning IIs and F-16 Fighting Falcons took part in agile airpower exercises across the Baltic states and in Romania. Two F-16s from the U.S. Air Force’s 31st Fighter Wing (FW), based at Aviano Air Base, Italy, launched on Dec. 3, 2025 and flew to Câmpia Turzii Air Base, Romania – […]
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Highlights - SEDE/ENVI/ITRE/IMCO: Joint votes on the Defence Omnibus package - Committee on Security and Defence

On Monday 15 December, SEDE Members will vote on the 3 files of the Defence Omnibus package, with the Members of the ENVI, ITRE and IMCO Committees. This is a critical vote because the Defence Omnibus package should lead to the speeding-up of procurement, strengthening our defence industry, and creating the conditions to bring capabilities to our armed forces much faster.
The votes will then be followed by an in camera discussion on "The persistent threat of hybrid war - recent Belarusian combined attacks against Lithuania".
Source : © European Union, 2025 - EP

France/United States : Macrons' US private investigators set up shop in Paris

Intelligence Online - Fri, 12/12/2025 - 06:00
US investigative firm Nardello & Co on 7 November set up a Paris branch on the Rue de Berri, near [...]
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United States : Fight against Chinese and Russian influence makes Washington comeback

Intelligence Online - Fri, 12/12/2025 - 06:00
While US President Donald Trump's national security strategy continues to make waves, the US Congress appears to have taken a [...]
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Switzerland : Geneva's InterContinental Hotel, the setting for tense US-European talks on Ukraine

Intelligence Online - Fri, 12/12/2025 - 06:00
Crossing the threshold of the InterContinental Geneva on the morning of Sunday 23 November felt like an obstacle course given [...]
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United States : ODNI bans Swiss cybersecurity firm Acronis from working with US intelligence

Intelligence Online - Fri, 12/12/2025 - 06:00
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence quietly issued an order in September banning a Swiss cybersecurity firm from [...]
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Australia/European Union : Von der Leyen pushes through with EU-Australia defence partnership

Intelligence Online - Fri, 12/12/2025 - 06:00
The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen (IO, 23/07/25), is pressing full steam ahead with her vision [...]
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France/UAE : French consultant Renouard de Vallière loses long-running dispute with UAE

Intelligence Online - Fri, 12/12/2025 - 06:00
A decision by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [...]
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U.S. Marines execute HIRAIN on Iwakuni B-roll......Video by Lance Cpl. Zainab Sink

Snafu-solomon.blogspot - Fri, 12/12/2025 - 03:49
U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division execute Typhoon Crossbow 26.1 on Marine Corps Air Station, Iwakuni, Japan, Dec. 3, 2025. Typhoon Crossbow is an exercise that proves 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment’s ability to establish an expeditionary advanced base by executing a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System Rapid Infiltration. HIRAIN is the process of identifying a target, seizing key terrain, inserting High Mobility Rocket Systems, destroying the target and retrograding back to a secure location. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Zainab Sink)

This has got to be one of the craziest concepts ever.

You're gonna operate in contested space.  But while operating in this space you're gonna seize an airfield or piece of ground suitable for a KC-130 to land on, discharge a HIMARS, launch missiles, get back aboard the airplane AND get out of the area before the enemy can hit back.

MAKE IT MAKE SENSE!  THIS SHIT IS BATSHIT CRAZY! 

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Cambodia/Russia : Russia's state media outlet RT on charm offensive in Phnom Penh

Intelligence Online - Thu, 11/12/2025 - 06:00
During the week of 8 to 12 December, a delegation from the Russian state-owned media group Rossiya Segodnya (which runs RT, formerly known until 2009 as Russia Today), including Denis Bolotsky, RT's representative in Indonesia, is due in Cambodia. The [...]
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European Union : Von der Leyen's EU intelligence unit shrouded in uncertainty

Intelligence Online - Thu, 11/12/2025 - 06:00
Intelligence Online can reveal that the plan to create an intelligence unit within the European Commission, revealed in early November [...]
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France : French interior minister reopens debate on access to encrypted messages

Intelligence Online - Thu, 11/12/2025 - 06:00
In his closing speech at the symposium entitled "French intelligence in the face of global disorder", French Interior Minister Laurent [...]
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Taiwan/United States : Taiwanese defence firm picks embattled US businessman to lobby Washington

Intelligence Online - Thu, 11/12/2025 - 06:00
A Taiwanese defence company looking to make inroads in Washington has quietly hired a businessman facing several accusations of fraud [...]
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Poland/Vietnam : Vietnamese air force still relying on Kyiv and Warsaw for spare parts

Intelligence Online - Thu, 11/12/2025 - 06:00
Customs manifests consulted by Intelligence Online show that Polish firm Profus Management, headed by Marek Profus, made several deliveries of [...]
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Oman : Oman's Etlaq Spaceport rues forgettable year for rocket launches

Intelligence Online - Thu, 11/12/2025 - 06:00
The Etlaq commercial rocket launch site, the focal point of Oman's state sponsored space ambitions, is hoping for a change [...]
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US forces seizing the tanker

Snafu-solomon.blogspot - Thu, 11/12/2025 - 04:31

KNOCKOUT.

If you threaten our nation, or break the law, there is no place on land or sea where we won’t find you.

Thank you to the brave service members from @USCG, @ICEGOV, @FBI, @DeptofWar, and @TheJusticeDept. pic.twitter.com/KUCRjES267

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) December 11, 2025 You believe the Coast Guard did this or some SOCOM unit?
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Myanmar : Resistance spy chief captured by junta militia in Shan State

Intelligence Online - Wed, 10/12/2025 - 17:30
Intelligence Online has been able to confirm from several sources close to Myanmar's resistance that the secretary general of the [...]
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