Chris covers active conflicts and military aviation incidents, and writes GlobalMilitary.net's data-driven analysis. Drawing on the site's inventory database, he turns fleet numbers, loss records and historical milestones into stories about how military balances actually change.
His work leans on open-source evidence: loss claims are weighed against imagery, official statements and independent reporting before they enter GlobalMilitary.net's event trackers. From that record he draws the site's data analysis โ attrition rates, fleet trends and the long-run numbers behind the headlines.
Footage released on July 29, 2026 shows the YJ-20 hypersonic anti-ship missile launching from a Type 052D destroyer, spreading the weapon from China's ten largest warships to a class of 35 hulls still in production.
Ukraine's Security Service says long-range drones hit a Project 12418 missile boat, the sanctioned freighters Port Olya 2 and Begey and a Lukoil oil platform on the night of July 25, 2026. Iran says one of its sailors was killed.
BAE Systems revealed Brontanax at the Farnborough International Airshow on July 22, an uncrewed autonomous jet roughly the size of a Hawk trainer, designed to fly alongside RAF Typhoons and targeting a first flight in 2027.
A Czech Air Force UH-1Y Venom crashed on 23 July at the 22nd Helicopter Air Base in Nรกmฤลกลฅ nad Oslavou, killing one soldier and injuring four. All H-1 helicopters have been grounded pending the investigation.
The U.S. Navy expects the stealth destroyer USS Zumwalt to rejoin the fleet by September 2026, becoming its first surface warship armed with Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic missiles.
A Ka-52 lost on July 2 brings Russia's documented losses of the type to 42 since February 2022, GMN event data shows - more than any other helicopter in Russian service, though production has more than offset combat attrition.
Canada has signed a contract worth about CA$800 million (US$564 million) with Norway's Kongsberg for Joint Strike Missiles to arm its incoming F-35A fighters, becoming the sixth nation to select the stealthy cruise missile.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh commissioned INS Mahendragiri, the sixth Project 17A stealth frigate, at the Naval Dockyard in Visakhapatnam on July 11, 2026, leaving one ship of the class still to enter service.
Commander Gabriel Edwards, commanding officer of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 5, died after his MH-60S ditched in the Arabian Sea on July 1. Three crew members were rescued; the Navy suspended its search after more than four days.
France's civil security chief said an Airbus A400M fitted with a firefighting kit will fly its first operational wildfire mission within 10 to 15 days, as fires have already burned twice the area recorded by this point last year.
A Hellenic Air Force F-16C caught fire in flight and made an emergency landing at Zakynthos International Airport on July 9, 2026; the pilot escaped unhurt but the jet was engulfed in flames on the runway.
A quarter-century after VFA-115 declared the type operational in September 2001, the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet remains the backbone of US carrier air wings even as the last new-build airframes approach delivery.