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S. Freedberg, Breaking Defense
Known as Project Overwatch, the AI is trained to distinguish different types of emissions, autonomously identifying the source for the human pilot.
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The U.S. Air Force has issued initial development contracts for a new class of engines meant to power the emerging Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA).
J. Trevithick, WarZone
The USAF says its Collaborative Combat Aircraft drone program has entered the weapons integration and captive carry testing phase.
Agentic AI is quickly moving from demo to deployment inside the Department of Defense. But what does it actually mean to give AI “agency” — and what does it take to make those systems work on real military networks?In this episode, Ryan sits down with Ben Van Roo, co-founder and CEO of Legion Intelligence, Jags Kandasamy, co-founder and CEO of Latent AI, and Aaron Brown, co-founder and CEO of Lumbra AI, to discuss why the real challenge is not just building smart models but getting AI agents to run on military networks and inside operational workflows.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has purged dozens of senior People’s Liberation Army officers since mid-2023, including two in January, but will this increase the risk of war? The loss of experienced officers could make Xi less confident in how his military would perform, but his increased power could also provide him greater latitude to order troops into combat to achieve what might be a key legacy for him — the long-elusive unification of China with Taiwan. As political scientists recognize, competent leadership is a key ingredient of battlefield effectiveness.
When U.S. President Donald Trump floated the possibility of taking Greenland by force, European leaders reacted with outrage — and then, almost immediately, with relief once he backed down. Wolfgang Ischinger, the doyen of the Munich Security Conference, expressed similar relief when he described Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech there — chock full of conditionality on immigration and culture war tropes — as “reassuring.”That sentiment may prove far more dangerous than any threats from Washington.The trans-Atlantic partnership of days past no longer exists.
Footage from the U.S. Navy’s newest supercarrier the USS Gerald Ford on February 24 has showed a major flood of raw sewage flowing through the ship, following persistent issues of clogged toilets and backed-up sewage. This follows years of reports that the ship’s narrow pipes have frequently been blocked, triggering sewage system breakdowns across the ship. Issues reportedly worsened in January, while the carrier was deployed to the Caribbean to support an attack on Venezuela and the abduction of its president, Nicholas Maduro.
A Turkish Air Force pilot was killed on February 25, local time, after an F-16C fighter assigned to the 9th Main Jet Base Command in Balikesir crashed during a training flight near the west of the country. The incident occurred at around 1am, local time, with officials reporting radio contact with the fighter shortly after takeoff, prompting immediate search-and-rescue operations. The Turkish Defence Ministry stated that the exact cause of the accident remains unknown.