Date of sighting: Oct 2023Location of sighting: USA (no other info given)Source: Dept of WarLink: https://www.war.gov/UFO/?releaseDate=Release+06&release=06#LLE-UAP-PR002-Unresolved-UAP-Report-Colorado-October-2023I was looking at the Dept of War website at…
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Background Movements for civil rights were a worldwide series of political movements for equality before the law that peaked in the 1960s. In many situations…
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Background The following document was obtained by The Black Vault through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and was part of the “Stargate Collection” release.…
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A new budget document released by the Japanese Ministry of Defense includes a reference to the ASM-3 as both an anti-ship and an anti-air missile, hinting at an additional role for the newly developed supersonic munition. The ASM-3 is Japan’s latest indigenous anti-ship missile, designed to replace the ASM-1 and ASM-2 missiles carried most notably…
Flag-carrier introducing additional narrowbodies as it continues post-Assad recovery. Syrian Airlines is acquiring a pair of Airbus A320s as it continues its recovery following the fall of the Bashar Al-Assad government. The airline says it took delivery of the first of two “newly purchased aircraft” at Damascus on 29 August. Registered YK-AKI, the jet arrived…
Weeks after the first photographs emerged, Uzbek J-10CE fighters have now been officially shown on national television. Uzbekistan’s acquisition of the Chinese J-10CE fighter jets was finally confirmed on Aug. 28, 2026, when the aircraft appeared in a two-hour feature broadcast by state television channel O’zbekiston 24 Telekanali on the occasion of the 35th Independence…
Air Astana Group probing circumstances of accident at Almaty which injured worker. Kazakhstan’s Air Astana Group has confirmed a fire occurred involving one of its FlyArystan aircraft during maintenance on 28 August. FlyArystan operates a mix of Airbus A320 and A320neo jets. The company says that the “workplace incident” happened while routine maintenance was being…
U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Kenneth S. Wilsbach visited Israel in recent days as the conflict with Iran hit six months, meeting with the heads of the Israel Defense Forces and the Israeli Air Force. Wilsbach’s meeting with top Israeli military leaders Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir and Maj. Gen. Omer Tischler took place…
Inflation and rising costs for critical upgrades are swelling the price of the F-35 fighter, according to a newly released acquisition report on the fifth-generation jet. The total estimated acquisition cost for the F-35—covering all the airframes and engines the U.S. government plans to buy—is now $536.2 billion, according to the latest modernized selected acquisition…
JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md.—The iconic “whup-whup-whup” of the 1st Helicopter Squadron’s UH-1N Hueys still echoes in the skies of the Washington D.C. area, as the choppers flit around the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, and elsewhere, carrying senior government officials or training for contingency response. But on Aug. 27, a new helicopter that first flew half…
The Space Force spent nearly $124 million on commercial space data and services between 2023 and 2025—and a little known interagency working group could help facilitate even more data buys going forward. A new Government Accountability Office report tracked Space Force, National Reconnaissance Office, and National Geospatial Intelligence Agency purchases of space data and services…
Just over a year ago, in July 2025, the Air Force established a dedicated office on the Air Staff for communications/cyber functions, separate from the intelligence directorate it had long been attached to. The new Warfighter Communications and Cyber Systems directorate now focuses on secure communications, cyber operations, and information technology systems as they support…
The South Korean Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) has sought detailed industry proposals for a sixth generation jet. South Korea set the ball rolling for its future next-generation jet, with the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) issuing a Request for Proposal (RFP) inviting companies to submit their conceptual designs, industrial and technological roadmaps. The RFP…
