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Water and energy infrastructure have become one of Iran’s main levers of deterrence against the United States. Iranian Foreign Minister Aragchi recently made it clear to Gulf states that if the U.S. military renewed large-scale strikes on Iran, their critical infrastructure would be struck. Iranian forces’ operational history over the past six months confirmed the threat’s credibility.Kuwait first reported damage near a desalination plant early in Operation Epic Fury, when debris from an intercepted drone struck the Doha West facility.
The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) progressively refined its missile and drone operations during the the first five months of hostilities with the United States, allowing it to exploit weaknesses in American air defenses while simultaneously forcing Washington to expend increasingly scarce interceptor missiles. Sources cited by The New York Times reported that this involved using increasingly sophisticated combinations of missiles and drones to complicate the U.S.
The Defense Intelligence Agency’s chief AI officer is anticipating a future in which digital agents work together across a combatant command to help the military and intelligence community achieve mission success.
DIA is currently undertaking a 90-day “sprint” to build out an AI enterprise platform service, Maj. Gen. Robert Kinney said Wednesday during a panel at the DODIIS Worldwide conference in Tampa, Florida.
Another “deliverable” in the works is a model context protocol, or MCP, that will provide “a more universal way” to be able to access intel data, he noted.
Ukraine needs 10 percent of the U.S. Patriot interceptor stockpile to defend itself against Russia’s ballistic missile attacks, President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed on Wednesday.
Zelensky’s ‘Millions’ Of Calls
Hypersonic Missile. Image Credit: U.S. Military.
Typhon Hypersonic Missile. Image Credit: YouTube Screenshot.
The Ukrainian leader told CNN he had been making “millions” of phone calls in a bid to negotiate more of the U.S.-built missiles.
He explained: “This is what I live each day: from 1% to 5%.
Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg’s new instruction for the Pentagon to provide nearly $244 million through March for undisclosed Palantir products was influenced by the Trump administration’s Business Operators for National Defense program, according to two sources who said it also illustrates the government’s plans to further fast-track the tech giant’s military offerings.
The somewhat vague, one-page memorandum — entitled “Funding Palantir” — was issued Aug. 4 and viewed by DefenseScoop on Wednesday.
The Space Force’s acquisition arm has contracted five vendors to demonstrate that its future mega-constellation can effectively share information between systems owned by different companies.
Each contractor will receive $12 million under a set of other transaction authority agreements that will fund work for two related efforts, Space Systems Command announced Thursday. Together, the deals are intended to lay the groundwork to field optical laser communication terminals for the service’s planned Space Data Network (SDN) architecture.
The USS Abraham Lincoln has been at sea for more than 250 days, an extraordinarily long deployment for the roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines aboard the aircraft carrier.
Originally deployed in November 2025, the Lincoln was redirected to the Middle East as the conflict with Iran intensified, resulting in multiple extensions to a deployment that was initially expected to last about seven months. The ship has gone more than 200 days without a port call, according to recent reporting.
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