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11 MQ-9 Reapers Downed in Iran in Under 2 Weeks: U.S. Officials Confirm Heavy Losses—What’s Going Wrong?

A pioneer for the US Air Force (USAF) and US special forces for nearly two decades, the MQ-9 has been in a rough patch...

U.S. Rushes 10,000 Ukraine-Proven Merops AI Drones to Middle East to Counter Iranian Shahed Swarms

The US has deployed the Merops drones to the Middle East to counter Iranian drone attacks with a battle-tested countermeasure.  The US launched “Operation Epic...

Iran Targets Saudi ‘Crown Jewel’: Should Ras Tanura Be on High Alert After Kharg Island Bombing?

The U.S. military has bombed Iran's "very strategy" Kharg Island on Friday, claiming to have destroyed "all" military targets there but leaving its oil...

Iran Attacks “Lifeline” of Gulf States; Here’s Why Desal Plants Are Tehran’s Prime Targets Over Oil Refineries

It has happened in the past. And it is happening again. Relatively underreported, water, not oil, is fast turning out to be the most...

Days After Historic B-21 Raider Refueling, US KC-135 Crashes in Western Iraq – CENTCOM: No Hostile or Friendly Fire

Days after being in the limelight for refueling the 6th-generation B-21 Bomber, a US KC-135 refueling tanker has crashed in western Iraq, while a...