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US Air Force Considers F-16 Upgrade as Blackbeard Hypersonic Missile Integration Could Extend the Fighting Falcon’s Combat Role

US Air Force’s push to build a fighter fleet dominated by stealth aircraft by 2035 has not ended the prospects of the F-16 Fighting Falcon. Instead, the combat-proven multirole fighter is being consid ...
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US Dismisses Iran’s Claim MQM-170 Capture as Disputes Over Underwater Drones and Naval Mines Intensify Around Strait of Hormuz

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy has claimed that it captured a US MQM-170 reconnaissance and decoy drone near ...
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Israel Election: Netanyahu and Eisenkot Face Coalition Deadlock, but Strategic Priorities May Remain Unchanged

Israel's October 27, 2026, election has left the country facing a potentially prolonged coalition battle, with Prime Minister ...
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Nepal Suspends Bhotekoshi–Trishuli Search and Rescue Phase, Shifts Focus to Reconstruction

The Government of Nepal has decided to suspend the search and rescue phase following the devastating Bhotekoshi–Trishuli floods, except for essential search operations, and shift its focus toward ...
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Myanmar Military Airstrike on Rakhine State Kills 49, Injures 58, Arakan Army-Controlled Area Comes Under Attack

At least 49 people were killed and 58 others injured after Myanmar’s military carried out an airstrike on an area controlled by the Arakan Army in western Rakhine State, according to the Arakan Army ...
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Nepal: Earthquake Forces Lo Manthang Residents, Teachers and Students to Spend Nights Under Tents as Aftershocks Continue

Residents, teachers and students in Lo Manthang Rural Municipality of Upper Mustang have been forced to spend their nights under tents following the earthquake that struck on the night of September 8, ...
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Nepal Receives Three Bailey Bridges from India and China Following Bhotekoshi Floods

Nepal has received three Bailey bridges from India and China following the devastating floods in the Bhotekoshi River. According to Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lok Bahadur Paudel Chhetri, India has ...
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Bhotekoshi Disaster: Why Nepal’s Hydropower Tunnels Face One of the World’s Most Difficult Rescue Operations

International tunnel and underground infrastructure expert Professor Arnold Dix has described the devastating floods in the Bhotekoshi region and the resulting damage to tunnels and other structures ...
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Nepal Plans Climate-Resilient Reconstruction After Bhotekoshi Floods, Calls for Integrated Hydropower and Infrastructure Development

The Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation and the National Planning Commission held extensive discussions on post-disaster recovery, integrated development, and making hydropower projects ...
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Canada Rejects US Trade Demands, Marking a New Assertion of Economic and National Sovereignty

Canada has rejected a last-minute trade proposal from the United States, with Prime Minister Mark Carney declaring that Ottawa will not accept terms it considers unfair and economically damaging, even ...
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Iran’s Cheap Drones Challenge Gulf Air Defence Strategy, Expensive Interceptors Risk Rapid Ammunition Depletion During Prolonged Conflict

The Arabian Peninsula’s air-defence architecture is confronting a problem that cannot be solved by simply adding more sophisticated missiles: the widening economic gap between inexpensive Iranian ...
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Is China’s Hypersonic Air-to-Air Missiles Against US AWACS, Tankers and Command Aircraft Across Indo-Pacific?

China has reportedly developed a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) capable of releasing an air-to-air weapon during flight, a potentially significant development that could allow the People’s Liberation ...