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Defense startup Slingshot Aerospace has created an artificial intelligence capability that allows the Space Force to train guardians for real-life satellite tactics and maneuvers, the company announced Tuesday.
The Thinking Agent for Logical Operations and Strategy (TALOS) tool is an AI-powered agent able to study and clone various spacecraft operations into a simulated environment of the space domain, according to a Slingshot news release.
Interagency coordination to defeat domestic drone attacks
U.S. wargaming exercises using Fort Bliss, TX and Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, HI in March as simulated targets explored drone deterrence and defense. These scenarios sparked the involvement of over 30 state and federal agencies, which also triggers many complex jurisdictional complications.
Last month, Ukraine reportedly smuggled hundreds of drone into Russia, destroying 20-40 aircraft across five air bases. A heavy loss for Russia and a reminder for America that base defense against drone threats needs to be a priority.
The UK Ministry of Defence will work with the British Esports Federation to organise a defence-wide esports tournament in 2026.
The Russian Navy’s Project 949A Oscar II Class nuclear powered attack submarine the Orel has launched a cruise missile strike during the July Storm live fire exercises. The warship was joined by the Admiral Gorshkov Class frigateAdmiral Golovko and by a Bastion coastal defence system.
The startup principle “fail fast, learn faster” has defined the American space industry for much of the 21st century. The U.S. private sector has pushed the technical boundaries in rocket launch, low Earth orbit satellites, imagery analytics, and other areas, and through this innovation has become the driving force behind America’s leadership in space.But the United States is no longer alone at the vanguard. China has watched and learned from America’s space startups to accelerate its own dynamic commercial space sector.
Following confirmation of the entry into service of the R-77M active radar guided air-to-air missile in the Russian Aerospace Forces, the scale on which the new missile will be fielded and the impact it will have on the ongoing war in the Ukrainian theatre have been widely speculated. The air-to-air armaments of Russian fighter aircraft have long lagged behind their American, Chinese and even European counterparts, with the R-77M belatedly providing a direct counterpart to the Chinese PL-15 and the American AIM-120D which entered service in the mid-2010s.
Images from Pakistan have for the first time confirmed the delivery of Chinese Z-10ME attack helicopters to serve in the Pakistan Army, following years of speculation and unconfirmed reports that the aircraft were set to be procured to replace the South Asian state’s ageing U.S. supplied AH-1F Cobras. The release of the images closely coincides with the first deliveries of American AH-64 Apache attack helicopters to the Indian Army, which represents India’s only major procurement of manned combat aircraft from the United States.
The Republic of China Army (RoCA) has received a second batch of M1A2T Abrams main battle tanks, which arrived at Taipei Port on the night of July 27, before being transported out of the the port area by trailer at around 0:10 am the following day. The tanks were transferred to Armoured Forces Training Command in Hsinchu. The delivery has more than doubled the Army’s fleet of modern tanks, following the delivery of the first batch of 38 M1A2T tanks through the same port December 2024.
Its not industrial planning, it is national survival.
Commander Salamander Substack
There has been a growing awareness over the last couple of years—and especially the last year—about the “rare earth element” challenge.
It is more than a challenge, it is a problem.