The Marine Corps awarded self-described “neo-prime” Epirus $11 million for its high-powered microwave program, including a system the company says can attach to different vehicles to zap down drones swarms on the move.
The High-power Microwave Autonomous Vehicle Operation Capability, or HAVOC, is based off of the company’s Leonidas weapon and comes with a “universal sled mount” so it can append to different vehicles, according to the company.
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Editor’s note: This is the seventh article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader national security, politics, and society. This series will run for several weeks to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary, and winners will be selected by a reader vote undertaken through our newsletter later this summer. Prior installments can be found at the Arsenal of Innovation page.On the night of 24 March 1999, U.S.
The United States has bluntly signaled a deprioritization of the Indian Ocean at a peculiar time. The reversion of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command to its former name, U.S. Pacific Command, signifies no material change in force posture or organizational responsibilities, but it unavoidably signals less focus on the Indian Ocean, presumably in favor of its consistent top priority in the western Pacific, although it’s not clear anyone really knows.
In April 2026, over a month after the United States launched its attack on Iran, leading to thousands of reprisal strikes across the Gulf, the United Arab Emirates shut down a network of money changers connected to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Iranian exchange houses and the shell companies built around them — vehicles for laundering billions in offshore Dubai-based holdings and funneling funds to help Iran evade sanctions — are reported to have knowingly operated on Emirati soil for over a decade.Washington’s pivotal Gulf ally proved useful in the fallout of the Iran war.
A Ukrainian drone strike launched by the country’s Unmanned Systems Forces has destroyed a launcher from a Russian S-400 long range air defence system, which was deployed near the Black Sea resort town of Gelendzhik in Russia’s Krasnodar region. According to Ukrainian sources, the launcher was part of a system that had carried out six ballistic missile launches against Ukraine the day before the strike. The drone strike was but part of a broader overnight operation that struck multiple Russian targets, including other air defence systems.
L Todd Wood and Pete Blaber discuss the attempted merging of the Iran and Ukraine war – who’s behind it? What is the agenda?
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How Trump Plans to “Win” the Iran War and Prepare for the Next One – U.S. President Donald Trump promised that the war with Iran would end with nothing less than total surrender, but as the Iran war approaches the six-month mark, it is becoming more likely that the president will make concessions to the Islamic regime in the hopes of ending the war and opening the Strait of Hormuz.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing U.S.
Marines in South Korea carried out their first live-fire tests with new first-person-view one-way attack drones, which give infantry squads the ability to strike enemy positions as far as kilometers away.
On July 30, Marines from the 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion conducted one test, while last week on Aug. 5, Marines from 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment carried out a live-fire test only a few miles south of the demilitarized zone. In both tests, Marines operated Neros Archer drones, a small quadcopter model meant to fly into targets and take them out.
The Army quietly moved III Armored Corps to its new Western Hemisphere Command in recent weeks, part of ongoing restructuring of the service.
The change, ordered by Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll last month, was effective immediately. It’s the second time in a year that III Armored Corps has been moved to a different command. Late last year, the corps was reassigned to Army Europe and Africa after Army Forces Command was shuttered.
An Army official confirmed the shift to Task & Purpose last week.
The term “milspouse” is a portmanteau of “military” and “spouse,” which might not be the most creative construction, but it gets the point across, and that’s what matters. Its origin is about as clean as these things get.
“Army brat,” on the other hand, is a genuine mystery. Nobody actually knows where it came from. What we’ve got instead is a handful of competing theories, each with a little evidence behind it and none with a smoking gun.