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A U.S. federal judge has cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s administration to end temporary protected status (TPS) for nearly 4,000 people from Myanmar, presaging their possible arrest and deportation. In a ruling on Friday, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly of the Northern District of Illinois rejected last-minute efforts by immigrant rights advocates to maintain the TPS designations. The ruling came just hours after a federal judge in Boston handed down a similar ruling rejecting a challenge from an immigrant-advocacy organization against the removal of TPS status from around 232 South Sudanese nationals. Both rulings referenced a U.S. Supreme…

Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAŞ) has run the first taxi test of P1, the second KAAN prototype and the first airframe assembled as a fully integrated test article. TUSAŞ is targeting first deliveries to the Turkish Air Force by the end of the decade, with Block 30 aircraft flying on the indigenous TEI TF35000 turbofan from around 2033. That timeline places KAAN directly inside the Pakistan Air Force’s (PAF) requirement to replace its oldest F-16A/B Block-15 airframes by 2040 – a competition it now shares with China’s Shenyang J-35AE. The latest episode of Pulse Check takes up the question that has…

Home › Indian Defence News › Dassault Submits Its 114-Rafale Bid to India Indian Defence News Dassault Aviation has filed its proposal for 114 Rafales under India’s MRFA requirement – 20 flyaway, 94 built in India – while the dispute over access to the aircraft’s software architecture remains unresolved. Dassault Aviation has submitted a formal proposal to supply 114 Rafale fighter aircraft to the Indian Air Force (IAF), responding to a Letter of Request (LoR) issued by India in May 2026 under its Multi-Role Fighter Aircraft (MRFA) requirement. The proposal is now with the Acquisition Wing of India’s Ministry of…

On 07 August 2026, Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif formally signed the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement (MJDA) at Al-Safa Palace in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. In a press release issued after the Makkah Al-Mukarramah Summit for Joint Defence, Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) stated: “The Agreement is intended to strengthen collective deterrence against any act of aggression, and stipulates that any armed attack against one of the three States shall be regarded as an attack against them all. It further provides for the enhancement…

Home › Middle East Military News › Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye Sign the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement Middle East Military News Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye signed a trilateral collective defence agreement in Makkah on 07 August 2026. The operative clause is public; the treaty text, duration, geographic scope and response machinery are not. Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye signed a trilateral defence agreement in Makkah on 07 August 2026, committing each state to regard an armed attack against any one of the signatories as an attack against all three. According to Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Prime Minister…

James Wirtz, Military Strategy Magazine Midway reveals much about the connections among tactics, operations, and strategy when it comes to war at sea, connections that remain relevant… Source link

The Aviationist Iranian state media has released images of a display of aircraft wreckage from the U.S.-Iran war, including remnants of DUDE 44, an F-15E Strike Eagle which can now be… Source link

Jay Rogers, RealClearDefense The Army has decided that airpower close to the ground doesn’t need a pilot’s name on it as often as it used to, and it plans to cut close to 6,500 active-duty… Source link

Michael P. Jenkins, RCD The most dangerous failures in defense technology are not sensor failures or algorithm failures. Source link

Donald Vandergriff Restoring Maneuver, Mission Command, and the Generations of War in the Unmanned Age Source link