The Republic of China Army has released a live stream of its first live fire drills involving M1A2T Abrams, which were first delivered to the service in December 2024. Although more than six months of integration and training have passed, Abrams tanks have yet to be commissioned into formal combat units, and as such could not formally participate in the Han Kuang exercises aimed at testing combat readiness.
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An Iranian ballistic missile hit and badly damaged a communications site on Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar last month during Iran’s retaliatory strike, the Pentagon confirmed today.
It’s the first time the Department of Defense acknowledged any damage to the base during the June 23 attack. Iran launched several ballistic missiles at the U.S. base in Qatar in response to a strike by U.S. B-2s on three Iranian nuclear sites two days prior.
SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. — MIT Lincoln Laboratory researchers are developing and demonstrating bespoke artificial intelligence and machine learning assets to enhance U.S. Transportation Command’s capacity to perform in contemporary operations, and ultimately prepare for future conflicts.
“Right now, [the lab is] working with Transcom’s Surgeon General on how to build analytic tools with patient data to handle a mass casualty event,” John DeLapp, the futures division chief at the command’s analytics center, or TCAC, told DefenseScoop.
A retired Army lieutenant colonel who was caught in an online ‘honeypot’ spy operation pleaded guilty to conspiring to transmit classified military information to someone he believed was a Ukrainian woman. The ‘woman’ prodded the former service member for information over a dating site by calling him her “secret informant love” and her “secret agent.”
David Slater was a civilian contractor for the U.S. Strategic Command in Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, which oversees the U.S.
A fundamental value of life at sea is ‘Don’t give up the ship,’ an axiom ingrained in sailors that all damage and problems aboard a vessel fall to the crew to fix.
But under modern contracting rules, some of the most critical systems on U.S. Navy ships, as well as major systems used by the Army, can only be fixed by defense contractors.
The Senate Armed Services Committee wants the Department of Defense to examine its use of cyber power beyond the forces of U.S. Cyber Command.
A provision in the committee’s version of the annual defense policy bill, of which an executive summary was released Friday, would require the secretary of defense to review future force employment concepts for cyber operations. The full text of the bill has yet to be released.
Senior congressional officials that briefed reporters Friday pointed to the fact that to date, cyber operations and forces have largely been focused on the strategic level.
If there is one thing we can be sure of, it is an impending extinction event in our lifetime due to human waste and pollution that someone, somewhere, will always make a Superman movie. And a Batman movie. But today, we’re focusing on Superman.
After his success with Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and its sequels, James Gunn was hired by DC to create “The Suicide Squad” (2021) and the “Peacemaker” series (2022-present). His levity, humor, and heartfelt stories came through, and Warner Bros.
The Senate Armed Services Committee is proposing legislation that would require the Department of Defense to develop a deterrence strategy against cyber activity on critical infrastructure.
The provision is part of the annual defense policy bill. The committee released a summary Friday, although the full text of the legislation won’t be released until a later date.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth laid out a vision of entrepreneurial spirit and innovation for US drone development on the front green of the Pentagon yesterday.
Specifically, Hegseth’s expansive memo rescinds past policies established by the Defense Department in 2021 and 2022 that provide guidance for implementing congressional mandates that restrict the U.S. military from buying drones and components produced by Chinese companies.
Many companies gathered in Bristol to showcase military simulation systems at the Defence Simulation, Education, and Training exhibition.