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The drones hitting Gulf Arab states daily since the United States and Israel launched large-scale military operations against Iran in February are not merely Iranian. They are originally Iranian, yes. But these designs and production processes were improved and refined by Russia through years of battlefield testing against Ukrainian defenses. So, they were returned to Tehran from Moscow. Confronted with a threat that Ukraine has spent four years learning to counter, the United States found itself in unfamiliar territory.
On the eve of the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, 56 tankers sailed through the Strait of Hormuz. Two days later, Lloyd’s List, the maritime industry’s journal of record, counted just seven tankers and a single gas carrier — all small and three of them shadow-fleet vessels — with hundreds more drifting in the Gulf of Oman. One of the world’s most important maritime chokepoints had not been mined, blockaded, or seized by a navy. Rather, it had been priced shut by a handful of drone strikes and the insurance market.Within two days of the first U.S.-Israeli strikes on Feb.
The B-21 Raider next generation intercontinental range strategic bomber currently under development for the U.S. Air Force has completed a major developmental flight testing program in just 73 days, which represents under half of the planned 180 day testing period. The speed at which this process could be completed has been interpreted by analysts as a signal of both the urgency with which the aircraft is considered to be needed in active service, as well as high levels of software maturity and systems integration which were achieved before testing began.
Chinese government sources have for the first time reported the deployment of personnel to Pakistan to support combat operations against India in early May, 2025, specifically in the form of on-site technical support for the Pakistan Air Force’s newly procured J-10C fighters. Chinese state broadcaster CCTV on May 7 broadcast an interview with a Chinese engineer Zhang Heng, from the Chengdu Aircraft Design and Research Institute responsible for developing the J-10, who was among the personnel deployed on the ground during the conflict.
The Defence Intelligence of Ukraine has released computer generated imagery of a new type of Russian air-launched cruise missile, designated in the West the S-71K Kover, which has reportedly begun to equip Su-57 fifth generation fighter units and be used in combat. Ukrainian intelligence has also released information on the missile’ssubsystems and electronic components, based on assessments of the remains of missiles used in the conflict.
The Pentagon is preparing to take additional steps to address a major bottleneck that could limit the military’s ability to proliferate artificial intelligence capabilities throughout the force: compute.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Pentagon CTO Emil Michael and other senior officials are pushing the department to accelerate AI adoption, touting its benefits for warfighting and back-office functions.
Chief Digital and AI Officer Cameron Stanley noted that the technology has demonstrated its utility during the Iran war.
Software vulnerabilities recently discovered by Anthropic’s new Claude Mythos Preview artificial intelligence model have raised alarms in the cybersecurity community, but a senior Pentagon official sounded upbeat Thursday about the benefits of frontier AI technology.
Mythos Preview, an unreleased frontier model with coding capability, reportedly found thousands of “high-severity” vulnerabilities that need to be fixed by the public and private sectors so that China or other adversaries can’t use similar technology to find and exploit them.
An Army decision to assign an active-duty lawyer as a prosecutor in a civilian trials in Minnesota runs afoul of military regulations, a judge said Friday.
But U.S. Magistrate Shannon Elkins ruled she doesn’t have the authority to enforce the Pentagon regulation, allowing the case to proceed.
“Department of Defense regulations recognize that having military lawyers prosecute civilians in cases that lack a military nexus would be ill-advised,” Elkins wrote.