Aviation & Defense News: KC-46 Issues, ICBM Upgrades, and More | The Lowdown 7 Sep
The Afterburn Podcast
John "Rain" Waters
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome into the lowdown. We talk about everything. Aviation Defense, things have been |
| 0:03.4 | happening over the last week or so. If you're not a newsletter subscriber, make sure you grab the link down below and you can sign up for the newsletter. It's absolutely free. You won't get spam. Get it every week or so with a full breakdown of things that are happening around the world. Again, if you like aviation defense, check it out. If not, you know, give it. So that being said, let's jump into this week's edition. |
| 0:02.9 | It's definitely a busy week. |
| 0:03.8 | We got a Navy SEAL operation. defense check it out if not you know if it so that means said let's jump into this week's edition |
| 0:22.5 | it's definitely a busy week we got a navy seal operation that failed in north korea the 500 f35 |
| 0:28.3 | being delivered to the united states and a whole slew of everything so let's first jump into |
| 0:33.1 | this failed navy seal mission that occurred in north korea now this occurred in 2019, and in fact, on the lowdown news channel, we do a breakdown video. |
| 0:42.6 | We're kind of dive into what we know. |
| 0:44.4 | You know, it's coming out on open source. |
| 0:46.2 | Obviously, this one did not end well. |
| 0:47.8 | It was a failed mission, civilian, North Korean fishermen, apparently were killed because they stumbled upon these Navy SEALs that were |
| 0:55.2 | planting a listening device on a fiber optic cable. This is all in the lead up to the North Korean |
| 1:00.7 | and U.S. nuclear talks back in 2019. Now, there was a summit in 2018 and then two in 2019, |
| 1:07.4 | which didn't yield any positive results other than a handshake and a thumbs up. |
| 1:12.6 | And then North Korea just launching more ICBMs than they had ever launched in years prior. |
| 1:17.2 | But nonetheless, if you're curious about that, there is a video over on the lowdown YouTube |
| 1:21.4 | channel where you can dig in a little bit deeper for that. |
| 1:24.6 | So again, not where you want to be and it didn't end well. All right, over to the |
| 1:29.1 | KC 46. We've covered this on the lowdown multiple times over the last year and a half or so. Now, |
| 1:33.9 | the KC46 has been plagued with issues from the very beginning. And I mean, it might be said in |
| 1:38.7 | a record for the longest procurement process to get a full up round of an aircraft.. Now it is out there doing the mission, and that |
| 1:47.0 | is probably with air quotes from KC-135 and KC10, but it's out there doing air refueling. It's |
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