Is it too late to stop criminals and American adversaries from exploiting AI to conduct cyberattacks or design novel pathogens? Has regulation kept pace with the threat civilian drones pose to critical infrastructure? AI researcher Lennart Heim, Army drone strategist Paul Lushenko, and CEO of Sentinel Bio Claire Qureshi join Jonathan to discuss the trade-offs between protecting the public and letting the private sector forge ahead. The conversation gets into synthetic DNA, the risk of drones at the FIFA World Cup, and whether the U.S.
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Why are there more antennas on Svalbard than anywhere else on Earth? Svalbard of all places, where cats and childbirth are banned and there are more polar bears than people? This cluster of islands in the Arctic, one thousand kilometers from Norway, is key to everything from your weather forecast to your car’s navigation. At 78 degrees north, Svalbard is the highest-latitude satellite ground station on Earth and is a crucial point in humanity’s growing dependence on space. In fact, the polar regions — the Arctic and Antarctic — are both crucial to space access.
We had been tracking the contact for six hours.The acoustic signature was ambiguous. The geometry was incomplete. The tactical picture had shifted twice in the preceding hour.I ordered battle stations anyway. Not because I was certain, I was not. I ordered it because the decision window was closing. Waiting for certainty was no longer a strategy, it was a risk. That moment — the space between incomplete knowledge and irreversible action — is where submarine command lives. It is where I spent 14 years.Modern militaries have spent decades trying to eliminate that space.
The French Armed Forces have begun to transition the operations of their nuclear forces under a new concept of “forward deterrence,” which represents the most significant evolution in the country’s nuclear posture since the end of the Cold War.
Following the first flight of Russia’s first twin-seat fifth-generation fighter, the Su-57D, on May 19, the program’s chief test pilot Sergey Bogdan has elaborated on the aircraft’s expected future export sales. “I believe this aircraft is very much needed. It will be in high demand. First and foremost, it will be in demand with foreign customers. It’s crucial when training for any type of aircraft to have a similar twin-seat (cockpit) configuration. Currently, we have a certain level of continuity. We easily retrain pilots who have flown Su-27, Su-30, and Su-35 aircraft.
The first images of a new Korean People’s Army rocket artillery and tactical ballistic missile system have been released by North Korean state media, highlighting the ongoing rapid modernisation of its frontline tactical firepower which poses growing threats to U.S. and allied ground capabilities. The new system features two fire modules that can select either one KN-24 tactical ballistic missile with a 300 kilometre range, or nine 240mm rockets with 67 kilometre ranges.
Following confirmation on May 26 that the Russian Aerospace Forces had received a new batch of Su-35S fighters from the state run United Aircraft Corporation, significant questions have been raised regarding the capabilities of these aircraft to provide an effective defence against the F-35 stealth fighters fielded by the country’s NATO adversaries.
You might have heard about how the weather almost capsized the Allied invasion on D-Day (literally). We’ve told this story. We’ve even shared the incredible planning documents used across branches and nations to plan the attack. Maybe you even know that D-Day was originally planned for June 5, 1944.
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So what exactly happened to change the date to June 6, 1944? It was not just a date change—it was an entire logistical campaign adjustment.
Summary and Key Points: When the Soviet Union launched the MiG 1.44 (MFI program) in the late 1970s, the goal was to field a heavy air-superiority fighter capable of Mach 2 speeds, supercruise, and extreme maneuverability — Moscow’s answer to America’s Advanced Tactical Fighter program that produced the F-22 Raptor. The Soviet Union collapsed before the program yielded an operational fighter; the prototype flew twice in 2000 and the program was officially canceled in 2002
The MiG 1.44 Was No F-22 Raptor
MiG 1.44 Russian Fighter. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
MiG 1.
In August 1988, F-15 pilot Daniel “Fig” Leaf experienced total hydraulic failure while taxiing back to parking, leaving him with no brakes and no nose gear steering. With a security forces pickup truck carrying two airmen crossing his path and a parked F-16 from the 314th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron directly ahead, Leaf pushed the right engine into afterburner.
The F-15 That Averted Disaster
As the U.S.