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In an interview with me, Lt. Gen. Derek France, who led Air Forces Central and served as the Combined Forces Air Component Commander for CENTCOM until last month, reflects on the war with Iran.
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MAHIYA NAMAN KAYO | Secretary of National Defense Gilberto C. Teodoro, Jr. responded to a note from the Chinese side during the Seoul Defense Dialogue (SDD) 2026 in Seoul, Republic of Korea.
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Iranian TV aired interviews with F-5 jet pilots who hit Camp Buehring in Kuwait on March 1.
They flew in total radio silence below 15m to evade radar, deliberately bypassed other targets (power lines, refineries) to hit the base directly.
They reported major fires and secondary explosions including burning helicopters.
The chaos triggered Kuwaiti air defenses, which—likely mistaking them for enemy aircraft—reportedly shot down three US F-15E Strike Eagle jets preparing to strike Iran.
A Chinese company is now selling spray-on coating that makes drones harder for radar to detect, available in buckets and applied with a spray gun. What was once a classified military technology is now a commercial product sold by the kilogram.
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White House Communications Director Steven Cheung shared a photo of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio wearing the same Nike Tech that Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was wearing when he was captured.
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A new CNN investigation finds that a Russian cargo ship likely carrying two nuclear reactors and possibly destined for North Korea, sank in unexplained circumstances off the coast of Spain.
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Whether you hate Trump or love him
You can see him as a useful instrument of misdirection or an accidental agent of chaos
Doesn’t matter.
But you must appreciate the strategists in this White House, Treausry, State and DoW orchestrating a long game where America wins.
More evidence that the Chinese super computer leak is real. Information from a research project on stealth air craft, including on the US B-21. Would be interesting to know if any US data was stolen for this research.
The technical 👨🔬 article 🔽describes China's research to develop stealth drones and aircraft. The project works to optimize stealth aircraft design across aerodynamics, electromagnetics, propulsion, infrared, and sonic boom disciplines.
Newly released image of a USAF F-16 on an Iran strike mission, carrying WCMD dispensers, likely for air-dropped BLU-91/B anti-vehicle landmines.
US forces have been dropping the mines around Iranian missile bases to destroy Iranian mobile launchers.
JUST IN: On March 14th, a Chinese engineer posted a tutorial explaining how to use passive infrared sensors to detect and track American fighter aircraft without triggering their radar warning receivers. Three weeks later, an American F-15E Strike Eagle is in a crater in central Iran. The IRGC says it was brought down by a “new aerospace defense system.” The system appears to be exactly what the tutorial described.
The principle is elegant. Radar is active: it emits radio waves that bounce off the target. Every American fighter carries a warning receiver that detects those emissions. But infrared detection is passive. It reads heat. Jet engines produce heat. A passive sensor tracking that signature emits nothing. The warning receiver stays silent. The pilot does not know he is being tracked until the missile is already in the air.
The F-15E is not stealth. But the tutorial was designed for the F-35. The same principle applies: stop looking with radio waves, start looking with heat, and the $1.7 trillion stealth programme becomes a coating on an airframe that is still hot. The tutorial was posted on Chinese social media, translated within days. Three weeks later, the technique appears to have been operationalised.
This is the second time passive tactics have brought down a generation-defining American combat aircraft. The first was March 1999, when a Serbian battery commanded by Colonel Zoltan Dani shot down an F-117 Nighthawk over Kosovo using long-wavelength radar and visual cueing. The F-117 was retired within a decade. The lesson: stealth is optimised against specific frequencies. Change the sensor, change the war.
Iran’s layered defense integrates Russian S-300 for radar search, Chinese electro-optical trackers for passive acquisition, and Iranian Raad-family missiles with onboard IR cameras for terminal guidance. Radar finds the area. Passive sensors track without emitting. The missile guides on heat. The pilot’s systems detect radar. They do not detect infrared. That gap killed the F-15E.
Now consider who built this kill chain. Russia supplied the S-300 base. China supplied the passive sensors. Iran assembled the hybrid. And China is simultaneously the country supplying the rare earth magnets in every F-35 engine, the country blocking the UN Security Council resolution to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the country paying yuan tolls to transit the closed strait, the country co-authoring the five-point peace plan with Pakistan, and the country whose engineer posted the tutorial that appears to have taught Iran how to shoot down the aircraft China helps manufacture.
China occupies every chair at this table. Supplier of the components that build the jet. Teacher of the countermeasure that kills it. Mediator of the peace. Blocker of the UN resolution. Beneficiary of the closure. The molecule passes through the strait in Chinese tankers paying Chinese currency while the aircraft designed to reopen it falls using Chinese technology.
The F-15E did not fail. The assumption that the enemy would always look with radar failed. And the country that taught the enemy to look with heat is the same country offering to negotiate the peace while its rare earth controls ensure the replacement cannot be built without buying from the nation that taught the enemy to destroy the original.
The kill chain starts in Beijing. The peace talks start in Beijing. Both end in the same crater.
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