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Moscow’s ‘Steel Cutting’ Drone Aimed at Kyiv – Russia has reportedly developed a warhead tailored to sever high-voltage electricity pylons.
Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov, a defense technology adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said a jet-powered drone carried the device on Sept. 30.
Lancet Drone. Image Credit: Russian State Media.
Lancet Drone from Russia. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Energy Expert Says Diesel Crisis Started Well Before the Wars in Ukraine and Iran – Diesel prices have dominated headlines in recent months, with record highs across the United States.
Two conflicts are widely blamed for the hike in living costs for Americans: the Iran war and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
A B-2 Spirit, assigned to the 509th Bomb Wing, Whiteman Air Force Base, taxis on the flightline Jan. 8, 2018, at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.
Is the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most important chokepoints, returning to normal? Crude oil exports through the strait have returned to prewar levels, according to CNBC-cited data. Seven-day averages, as of last Monday, were 13.5 million barrels per day through the strait, roughly matching the prewar crude baseline.
More notably, total crude exports from the Middle East region, including the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, reached 19.5 million bpd—above the prewar baseline of roughly 17 million bpd. The uptick in exports has occurred despite tumultuous circumstances, i.e.
President Donald Trump and his protection details have seen their fair share of very public security failures. As a result, the public has gotten a good look at the Knights Armament Company SR-16 rifles fielded by the United States Secret Service. Despite the KAC rifles being one of the most premium AR-style platforms on the market, with KAC’s KS-1 being adopted by UK Special Forces, the Secret Service updated to a new service rifle.
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Smart Shooter won a contract from JIATF-401 with a maximum ordering ceiling of up to $150m for its SMASH counter-drone technology.
Echodyne has been awarded a contract worth up to $250m to support counter-drone operations under JIATF-401’s Domestic Shield programme.
Celebrity chef Robert Irvine said he wants to get healthy “grab-and-go” food options to bomber pilots and crews working on the flight line.
“In most bases, but specifically Barksdale [Air Force Base] on the flight line where these maintainers and operators work, there’s nothing to eat,” Irvine told Task & Purpose on the sidelines of the Military Influencer Conference in Tampa, Florida, last week. “There’s nowhere for them to go because it takes a while to get to somewhere to eat.
In the latest round of saber-rattling from Moscow, Russia sent a note to NATO warning the defensive alliance that it would respond to any attempt to cut off the Russian exclave Kaliningrad with nuclear weapons.
A letter sent via diplomatic channels by Russia reportedly said that NATO’s current trajectory was “dangerous and reckless” and that, if kept to, would present “high risks of the outbreak of a direct armed conflict.”
Vladimir Putin of Russia. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Putin in May 2025. Image Credit: Russian Federation Government.
In recent days, the U.S. and Iran have reportedly been going back and forth with proposals that could possibly bring about an end to the war they’ve been fighting for most of 2026. But now, President Donald Trump has once again made an aggressive threat directed at the Iranians.
The comments, per Politico, came in a White House briefing on Wednesday, when a reporter asked the president how he can “get a deal done” with the Iranians, whom Trump has described as “crazy.
See Department of War Press Release Below:
Over the last two years under Secretary of War Pete Hegseth‘s leadership, the Department has been relentlessly reshaped to focus on lethality, the warfighters, and rapid modernization. Today, the Secretary continues that momentum by unveiling six major strategic initiatives that will govern the Department’s direction for years to come.