✈️ Air Force takes delivery of FQ-42 Vengeance at Creech

Lockheed Martin unveiled FLEX, a modular Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) airframe whose swappable boat tail configures it for ground, surface, and subsurface launch.

Removable nose cones take sensor suites from across the AGM-158 family, starting with a 206-inch JASSM-XR size alongside a 168-inch JASSM-ER match.

Lockheed is putting $35M into FLEX and will build it on the existing JASSM and Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) line for high-volume output.

General Atomics delivered an FQ-42 Vengeance Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) to Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, to support ongoing Air Force testing and evaluation.

The low-observable drone carries an internal weapons bay and has already flown in formation with the F-35 and F-15E ahead of further teaming trials.

GA-ASI says it can deliver up to six aircraft a month and is building at its own risk while government funding is finalized.

Bulwark Dynamics raised $6.8M in seed funding and signed an MOU with investor Onomichi Dockyard to serially produce its Caravel autonomous landing craft in Japan.

Caravel beaches, offloads cargo, and retracts with no port, pier, crane, or crew, even without GPS, a sequence proven on a 4.57-meter prototype.

Larger 10.67- and 16.76-meter variants carrying one and two 20-foot containers target US and allied logistics across the Indo-Pacific littorals.

President Trump said he will form an AI Force, patterned on Space Force, and soon appoint an AI czar to align with the effort.

The White House has released no mission or authorities; science adviser Michael Kratsios framed it as cross-agency AI coordination run from the White House.

Space Force took an act of Congress to create, and one analyst notes AI lacks equivalent doctrine or budget lines, though it would likely fall under the Pentagon.

Space Systems Command and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) awarded Northrop Grumman and True Anomaly prototype contracts for GHOST-R, satellites that image other objects in geosynchronous orbit.

True Anomaly brings its maneuverable Jackal vehicle; Northrop offers a suitcase-sized ESPASat-L with TRL11 optics; neither contract value was disclosed.

Launches are planned for 2028 with Space Force handover by 2029, and successful prototypes get a direct path into the RG-XX program of record.

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