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In an interview at DSEI 2025, TEKEVER CEO Ricardo Mendes spoke about the company’s design philosophy behind its new AR3 EVO UAS platform.

Getting your first paycheck on active duty is awesome because getting paid is the best. But most of us don’t know what to do with that money. Buy a Camaro? Stuff it in a mattress? Maybe… but what about turning it into a million dollars?
It might sound too good to be true, but it actually isn’t. Let’s talk about a simple financial product for beginning investors: the Roth IRA.
First: Some good news for service members. America’s new tax plan, combined with a military pay raise, is giving troops a nice little bump in their wallets.

House lawmakers urged Congress to pass proposed legislation and pursue further actions to shield whistleblowers with information about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) from any retaliation, after current and former U.S. military officials shared new details about their alleged encounters on active duty with baffling orbs and craft that appeared to eclipse existing weapons and technology.
“What we saw changed our lives — the way we think about everything. It was incredibly profound,” Air Force veteran Jeffrey Nuccetelli said.

CDM has reported heavily on Ukrainian ‘mobilization’ of men for use on the front line with Russia, where tens of thousands are dying every month.
Ukrainian Artists Create Video Of Press Gang Mobilization Agony
The Horror Of ‘Recruitment’ In Ukraine
Ukrainian Men Shot Trying To Escape Country – Here Is The Price List For Escaping The Death Machine
The video below was released recently giving visuals to the Ukrainian ‘training’ process after they press gang men against their will off the streets. The life span at the front is measured in days.

If those boots were made for walking, they can now be a couple of inches shorter.
Air Force officials are — err — walking back a July uniform order that mandated combat boots across the force be at least 8 inches high. That requirement will now be 6 inches, according to a social media post by Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force David Flossi this week, which an Air Force official confirmed to Task & Purpose. Airmen will have a year to update their footwear under the new, lower rule.
“We put out new guidance for approved boot height in OCPs,” Flosi wrote in a social media post.

The Department of Defense is racing to deploy artificial intelligence from central command to the tactical edge to ensure decision-dominance in future conflicts. However, military leaders face a fundamental obstacle that threatens to undermine their progress: Deploying autonomous AI agents without a deeper foundation of trust and operational control poses significant risks of fragmentation, flawed outcomes, and mission failure, say AI experts and former military intelligence officials in a new report.

After more than two decades of controversy, cost overruns, and early retirements, the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship is finally doing one of the things it was originally intended to do: hunt mines.
Multiple Independence-class LCSs are now operating out of Bahrain, or are scheduled to arrive soon, with a full suite of mine countermeasure (MCM) gear. These ships, plagued at one time by hull cracks, represent the Navy’s latest attempt to modernize one of the oldest mission sets in maritime warfare. 
The Navy has good reason to be concerned about mines. In 1988, the USS Samuel B.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization held its annual summit in Tianjin, China, from Aug. 31 to Sept. 1. Established in 2001 to strengthen cooperation among Central Asian states alongside China and Russia, the organization has since expanded to include ten full members — including India and Pakistan — as well as two observer states and 14 “dialogue partners.” The 2025 summit marked a significant moment for China, drawing global attention with the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

A range of new and improved armoured fighting vehicles were at the fore of DSEI 2025, including Ajax, AMPV, TRACKX, and Lynx.

The Pentagon has posted the much-anticipated updated rule that will require all contracts to implement Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 (CMMC 2.0) standards moving forward.
The final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) was posted to the Federal Register for public inspection on Tuesday and will officially take effect Nov. 8, according to the document. The mandate’s publication marks the near end of a years-long effort to enforce new cybersecurity standards set by the CMMC program for defense contractors.