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NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, Adm. Pierre Vandier, returns to the studio to discuss how the alliance is continuously adapting to a new era of warfare driven by software, data, and uncrewed systems, and where it still lags. He explains why NATO is favoring field experimentation, how allies can build sovereign defense tech ecosystems without sacrificing interoperability, and what the right balance between unmanned and legacy platforms might look like.Image: 1st Sgt. Austin Berner via DVIDS.

I spent more than 20 years in U.S. Army air defense, much of it in cramped control stations where the difference between a successful engagement and a catastrophic loss came down to the soldier at the console. The radar did its job. The fire control system did its job. But the responsibility, the weight, and the trust sat on one person making a call in seconds, sometimes less.Now I sit on the other side of the fence, as vice president of space, air, and missile defense for business development at Leonardo DRS.

The Republic of China Army has publicly demonstrated the locally developed Cheetah 105mm wheeled armoured vehicle in live-fire exercises, providing the first detailed look at the production-standard configuration of the new eight-wheeled combat vehicle. The demonstration was conducted by the Republic of China Army at the Southern Training and Evaluation Centre in Tainan, at the far south of Taiwan Island, with the vehicle engaging both moving and stationary targets using its main gun.

China’s FK-2000 short-range air defence system has appeared in Turkmenistan for the first time during a military parade marking the country’s 35th anniversary of independence, highlighting the increasingly prominent role of Chinese weapons in the country’s air-defence network. Images from the September 27 parade show FK-2000 vehicles among the equipment displayed by the Turkmen Armed Forces, following confirmation from government sources that new military equipment would be on parade.

British authorities arrested five people early Sunday morning on suspicion of planning terrorist actions near a base used by the U.S. Air Force. 
The United Kingdom’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement that the incident started shortly before 1 a.m. local time Sunday, when police got a call about a trio of “suspicious vehicles” moving towards RAF Fairford in southwest England. Five suspects, who authorities have not yet identified, were arrested on suspicion of plotting terrorism and explosive actions. The exact nature and scale of the suspected attack was also not disclosed.

A former soldier was sentenced to 70 months in prison last week for a spree of various cybercrimes spanning years, while he was an active-duty soldier stationed at Fort Hood.
Cameron James Wagenius, 22, was sentenced to prison on Friday, more than a year after pleading guilty to hacking telecommunication companies and extortion schemes tied to stolen data. 
According to the Justice Department, between April 2023 and December 2024, Wagenius was part of a group that conspired to hack and defraud at least 10 organizations.

The U.S. Navy has moved its new W93 nuclear warhead and associated Mk7 re-entry body into the Engineering and Manufacturing Development phase, marking the first new American nuclear warhead and re-entry system programme initiated in almost four decades. The warhead is intended to modernise the nuclear strike capabilities of the U.S. Navy’s submarine-launched ballistic missile fleet, and will be carried by the U.S. Navy’s Trident II D5 ballistic missiles.

The U.S. military is no stranger to slang, acronyms, and nicknames. It seems like American troops have a language all their own at times,. Some of their new words are self-explanatory and others are inside jokes, but the language isn’t meant to be understood by everyone, or even acceptable to everyone. There are some words that make no sense at all; we just continue to use these term because everyone seems to know what it means.
And some of them are just not that nice.
Falling into this latter category comes the term, “dependa.

China’s reusable spaceplane the Shenlong has demonstrated a sophisticated sequence of orbital manoeuvres involving the repeated release, pursuit and recapture of a small satellite, providing new evidence of the vehicle’s ability to conduct rendezvous and proximity operations in space. Tracking data indicate that the spacecraft released the same object in June, retrieved it approximately three weeks later, released it again in August and then manoeuvred back towards it for another apparent capture in September.

The crew of a C-17A cargo plane received Distinguished Flying Crosses this month for their actions during the U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan in 2021.
Four airmen from the 758th Airlift Squadron, 911th Airlift Wing were presented with the award, given for heroism or extraordinary achievement during aerial flight on Sept. 12. The recipients are: Lt. Col. Eric Miller, 911th Operations Group pilot; Maj. Jason Mileham, 911th Operations Support Squadron operations chief; Master Sgt. Tyler Painter, operations superintendent; and Tech. Sgt. Steven Strobel, 758th Airlift Squadron loadmaster.