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Zelensky meets Syrian president to forge security cooperation
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met Syrian President Ahmed al‑Sharaa in Damascus, pledging security cooperation and joint food‑security projects. The visit follows Kyiv’s recent drone‑defense deals with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, highlighting Ukraine’s push to export its drone expertise to the Middle East.
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By the numbers: Kraken Robotics acquires Colvya Group for $615M
SPEE3D’s deployable Expeditionary Manufacturing Unit (EMU) used cold‑spray additive manufacturing to design, print, heat‑treat and machine a replacement battle‑lock handle for a US Army combat support vehicle in under 10 hours, restoring the vehicle within a 24‑hour field exercise. The part was flown by drone to the stranded vehicle, compressing a typical six‑to‑ten‑week logistics chain into a single‑day mission. The demonstration, conducted with the Tennessee Army National Guard, the University of Tennessee’s DARC and DEVCOM, also produced an exhaust cover and mounting brackets on site. The effort earned the MILAM 2026 Expeditionary & Tactical 3D Printing Excellence Award.
It seems like Donald Trump thinks that all flying loud things that get fired off and then go boom are all called "tomahawks." If so, Iran truly has quite a few tomahawks. Ukraine is now reportedly working on its own ballistic...
Within the first 24 hours of the war on Iran, a girls’ elementary school was struck by missiles, and at least 165 people were killed, most of them little girls. Within days, the AP, Reuters, New York Times, Wall Street...
Indra Group is spearheading the €9 million, four‑year GIGaNTE initiative to create a fully autonomous Spanish gallium‑nitride (GaN) and advanced packaging ecosystem. The project targets high‑reliability radar and communications systems for defence, developing proprietary GaN processes, monolithic microwave integrated circuits and...
The article recounts how Bletchley Park turned Alan Turing’s theoretical computer ideas into massive electromechanical Bombe machines capable of testing the staggering 159 quintillion possible Enigma settings. By leveraging statistical techniques such as Banburismus and a workforce of roughly 2,000 personnel—including...
So much garbage being passed around here in long jargon filled threads that sound like AI about E-7 Wedgetail and the potential RAAF deployment to the Middle East. Here is all you need to know: it’s arguably the best low...
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) is adapting its MQ‑9B SkyGuardian and SeaGuardian UAVs to carry next‑generation long‑range standoff weapons such as the JASSM, LRASM and Joint Strike Missile. Engineers have completed performance analytics and plan a flight‑test of at least...
Red Cat Holdings announced a partnership with Allen Control Systems (ACS) to integrate ACS’s Bullfrog autonomous counter‑drone platform into Red Cat’s Blue Ops maritime division. The collaboration will embed Bullfrog on uncrewed surface vessels (USVs), providing precision engagement against hostile...
Airbus Chief Security Officer Pascal Andrei warns that the aerospace and defense supply chain’s deepest vulnerabilities now reside in sub‑tier suppliers and the digital threads linking them. He highlights Airbus’s shift toward a collaborative, intelligence‑led model, tighter integration of security...
Teledyne Marine has signed a memorandum of understanding with UK‑based M Subs to create a strategic partnership focused on maritime autonomy and unmanned systems. The alliance will combine Teledyne’s sonar, glider and AUV platforms with M Subs’ autonomy, acoustic communications and sensor...
The Autonomy in Defense 2026 summit in Washington, D.C., will convene senior defense leaders, technologists, and policymakers to discuss moving AI and autonomous systems from isolated prototypes to enterprise‑wide operations. Speakers highlighted that the defense sector’s primary obstacle is execution,...
The article examines the oft‑cited “Ukraine today, Taiwan tomorrow” analogy, outlining both superficial parallels—such as corruption concerns, language policies, and religious composition—and deeper divergences, especially economic strength and strategic ROI for potential invasions. It argues that without nuanced context the...
The article outlines a three‑pronged policy framework for the United States and South Korea to deter North Korea more effectively. It calls for strengthening the US‑ROK alliance through deeper interoperability, improving burden sharing by boosting South Korean defense capabilities, and...
Anthropic filed a federal lawsuit on March 9 to block the Pentagon’s national‑security blacklist and supply‑chain risk designation, arguing the actions violate its free‑speech and due‑process rights. The Pentagon labeled the AI lab a risk after Anthropic refused to remove guardrails...
Human Rights Watch reported that Haitian security forces and private contractors have used armed drones to kill at least 1,243 people and injure 738 between March 2025 and January 2026. The attacks, concentrated in Port‑au‑Prince, include 17 child fatalities and numerous civilian...
Iran launched swarms of attack drones toward Saudi Arabia and Kuwait on Tuesday, prompting both nations to shoot down several unmanned aircraft over their oil‑rich eastern regions. The strikes came as U.S. President Donald Trump told lawmakers the conflict would...
The article dissects Iran’s alleged ability to strike a U.S. aircraft carrier, revealing that long‑range anti‑ship missiles depend on airborne reconnaissance and mid‑course guidance rather than autonomous targeting. It explains that carriers operate beyond the radar horizon, can maneuver at...
Don’t miss the intense psychological warfare and the tug-of-war over the Gulf states accompanying the military conflict. Iran has signalled it would spare Gulf neighbours from further attacks if they distance themselves from hosting US forces, and suggested that vessels...
.@CENTCOM says U.S. forces have struck over 5,000 targets and sunk or damaged over 50 ships in the last 10 days. Add Israel's over 3,000 targets to that and you get a lot of capability and resources lost for the...
On 9 March 2026 the Pakistan Navy launched Operation Muhafiz‑ul‑Bahr to escort its merchant fleet as the Strait of Hormuz shut down after US‑Israeli strikes on Iran. The closure threatens roughly 90 % of Pakistan’s sea‑borne trade and its vital oil and LNG imports....
I agree. "Iran Isn't Winning This War," @WSJ editorial board. https://t.co/twzXYJsVjZ The reality inside Iran and the region is that the U.S. and Israel continue to make progress. The regime loses more of its military each day, along with the ability...
DARPA announced the X‑76, an experimental aircraft built by Bell Textron that promises jet‑like speeds above 400 knots while retaining helicopter‑style runway independence. The program, run with U.S. Special Operations Command under the SPRINT initiative, has cleared its Critical Design...
“Trump saying the Iran war will be over very soon is hardly the reassurance that will get tankers sailing normally again in and out of the Strait of Hormuz,” said Vandana Hari, founder of analysis firm Vanda Insights. Investors could...
Netanyahu spoke with UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed on Saturday to ask for help evacuating Israelis from the UAE, per reports. UAE chartered three planes at their expense... two arriving at Ben Gurion tonight with ~600 Israelis, one with over...
Australia announced it will deploy a Boeing E‑7A Wedgetail airborne early warning aircraft to the Gulf for an initial four‑week period and deliver advanced medium‑range air‑to‑air missiles to the United Arab Emirates. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stressed the move is...
A 3D‑printed lattice padding system for explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) helmets is being developed by rapid product manufacturing GmbH (rpm) in partnership with amsight. The additively manufactured padding replaces conventional foam, allowing stiffness and damping to be tuned for different...
JUST IN: Classic turning the tables. Now Iran will be the bad guy for doing anything that hinders oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz. Crude is trading Tuesday morning as if the war is over. The proof will be in...
Missiles like the Tomahawk—and the advanced defenses against them—consume vast quantities of critical minerals far beyond just copper. These systems increasingly depend on scandium-aluminum alloys to reduce weight, extend range, and enhance payload performance under extreme conditions. That’s exactly why these are...
Kyodo News highlighted several pivotal developments on March 10, 2026. Japan’s October‑December GDP was revised up to a 1.3% annualised gain, while household spending slipped 1% year‑on‑year in January. The G7 finance ministers discussed a coordinated oil‑reserve release to stabilise...
US-Israel-Iran War News Live Updates: Iran says oil blockade will continue until US–Israel attacks end; targets Gulf energy sites https://t.co/3zcAP7cXPe https://t.co/Dvh4JBjpmD
Trump, Putin talk of war and peace as US weighs easing Russian oil sanctions https://t.co/XxiEKNK66b
OpenAI’s hardware chief Caitlin Kalinowski resigned on March 7, 2026, citing governance concerns over the company’s new Pentagon contract. The deal, signed after Anthropic’s negotiations collapsed, allows OpenAI models to run on classified networks without explicit safeguards against domestic mass surveillance, lethal...
DORAL, Florida, March 9 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday told reporters he had a "very good call" with Russian President Vladimir Putin about Ukraine and the conflict in the Middle East.
This is definitely false. B-2 line has been gone for years and the B-21 is up next.
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a roughly hour‑long phone call, their first since the Iran‑Russia conflict escalated. The leaders discussed proposals to end the war in Iran and linked those efforts to a potential resolution of...
Feel like more of the reporting on the ISIS-inspired attack at Gracie Mansion should point out that ISIS is a sworn enemy of the Iranian state and views Iran as anti-Islamic https://t.co/j1IfC7LQyP
Every month this bogus headline surfaces and goes around the human centipede that is modern media. A simple google by someone who knows nothing will make it clear this is not a thing. Its origins likely have to do with...
Sergeant Benjamin N. Pennington, a 26‑year‑old from Glendale, Kentucky, became the seventh U.S. service member killed in combat during the Iran war after being wounded in a March 1 attack on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. Pennington served in...
“China could have held these vessels at port, imposed an administrative delay, invented a customs hold – any number of bureaucratic tools, but didn’t,” he said, calling the decision notable at a time when the United States and Iran are engaged...
The Al Jazeera bureau chief in Tehran, Noureddine El-Dghir, reports from reliable sources that US President’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, has attempted to reach Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi
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The article stresses the critical need for rear‑sector situational awareness, known as “watch your six,” to counter threats that arise from blind spots. It delivers a concise tradecraft checklist—including micro‑pauses, distance management, angle control, pattern variation, and exit pre‑planning—to embed...
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: ‘Our armed forces are waiting for the entry of the US Navy into the Strait of Hormuz and the arrival of the aircraft carrier Gerald Ford.’
The White House is drafting an executive order that would explicitly bar Anthropic’s Claude AI from all federal operations. Agencies such as the Treasury have already begun off‑boarding Anthropic tools, and the company is suing the Pentagon over a supply‑chain...
The signal from Washington and Jerusalem is that this runs through September or later— long enough to set expectations, long enough to signal to the Mullahs and IRGC we have staying power in a war of attrition, long enough to buy...
The U.S. Army is integrating wearable biometrics and new heat‑stress science to overhaul how soldiers train and operate in hot environments. Sensors that monitor heart rate and core temperature can flag impending heat‑stroke up to twelve minutes before symptoms appear,...
President Trump just finished speaking on the Iran situation now. Here is a summary of his key comments. He says the war will end very soon (but not this week) and he is disappointed by the new supreme leader's appointment. Oil...
There are a finite number of countries that possess Tomahawk missiles. Iran is not one of them.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report highlighting that cost growth across the National Nuclear Security Administration’s nuclear‑modernization construction portfolio has more than doubled since 2023. The portfolio, valued at roughly $30 billion, now faces multi‑year schedule delays on several...
Is it feasible that Maduro was taken off the board to use Venezuela as some sort of insurance policy against attacking Iran leading to tighter oil supply or is that silly
Special Operations Raid To Secure Iran’s Enriched Uranium May Become A Very Risky Necessity A raid is fraught with risk, but it may become the only way to make sure the nuclear material is safe and out of the regime's hands. https://t.co/Wlqxk84kyf
