WAR HOG

Poland plans a $7.7B defense package, likely surpassing 5% of GDP to become NATO’s highest military spender by 2026.

The Pentagon announced that Fort Moore, formerly known as Fort Benning after the Confederate general, will once again be known as Fort Benning, although it will now be named after a different Benning.

Another view of the UK's Type 26 frigates F88 Glasgow and F89 Cardiff under construction in dry dock at BAE Systems' Scotstoun shipyard in Glasgow.

Germany, facing a car industry crash, is turning to tanks as a defense industry alternative. Rheinmetall is converting car parts factories to weapons production, while Hensoldt is acquiring workers from Bosch and Continental. Meanwhile, EU leaders plan a €800B military spending spree, and Germany’s new government seeks €500B for defense, boosting arms stocks while the car industry stagnates.

🇺🇸🇵🇭🇨🇳 Amid tensions between Manila and China, US Navy SEALs and the Philippine Army conducted a week of training off El Nido, Philippines, that included treating casualties, conducting close quarters combat, and occupying an abandoned offshore platform that the Philippine Navy had converted into a coastal monitoring station to monitor Chinese military activity in the South China Sea.

Be-200ES floatplane and MiG-29M/M2 fighters of the Algerian Air Force, 2025

🇨🇳 The Chinese “bomberman drone” that drops six grenades has a name — CR3A Dark Swarm

LHD 3 Kearsarge returns to Norfolk after two years of repairs

A US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, The USS Carl Vinson, arrived in South Korea as a reminder of the US-South Korea alliance following Kim Jong Un's recent missile tests.

OTOKAR ARMA 6x6 and Nurol Makina NMS 4x4 armored vehicles were seen during the celebration of the 107th anniversary of Estonian Independence Day

Under the contract signed in 2023, a total of 230 armored vehicles 4×4 Nurol Makina NMS and 6×6 OTOKAR ARMA.ru will be delivered to Estonia

The American multi-purpose nuclear submarine SSN 791 Delaware of the Virginia Block III type arrived in Eyjafjord in Iceland