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Estonian firms Threod Systems, Krattworks and Electrical Wings participated in UAS live flying demonstrations outside Tallinn.
Coverage of the new White House memorandum on combating cybercrime quickly reached the privateer label. CNN called the participants “cyber privateers,” invoking the image of government-sanctioned raiders working the high seas of cyberspace, hauling in digital booty. The reality is considerably less romantic. The administration has tried to create a private offensive cyber program using an exception buried in outdated legislation, and that has shaped how the program must be constructed.
North Korea has announced the successful test of a new missile system incorporating a hypersonic glide vehicle, marking the latest test since such systems were first flown in September 2021. South Korean forces detected two short-range ballistic missile launches from the country’s eastern coast, reporting that the projectiles travelled approximately 450 and 600 kilometres before falling into the sea, indicating that the vehicles are intended for a short range tactical system.
The Republic of China Armed Forces have conducted a three-day precision-fire exercise at Jiupeng in Pingtung County integrating U.S.-supplied HIMARS rocket artillery systems with various loitering munitions, air-defence systems and anti-ship missiles. Th exercises provided a large-scale demonstration of the services’ ability to coordinate multiple weapon systems against an amphibious assault. The exercise, which began in September 2026, is focused on integrating sensors, command-and-control networks and precision weapons rather than simply demonstrating the range of individual systems.
III Armored Corps is starting to get basic layers of the Army’s Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) technology, according to a press release and a service official, the first unit to dump an older network for the new prototype under a consolidated fielding process.
NGC2 — which Army officials have touted as a data-heavy ecosystem of hardware and software meant to allow commanders to make faster decisions against increasingly sophisticated adversaries — comes with a four-layer stack. III Armored Corps is now getting two of those layers initially: infrastructure and transport.
New satellite imagery has provided a detailed look at a Chinese nuclear-powered attack submarine at the Bohai Shipyard in Huludao, revealing several features that point to significant advances over earlier Chinese designs. The submarine is widely described by outside observers as a Type 095, which is intended to succeed and significantly outperform the earlier Type 093 class ships that currently form the backbone of the nuclear powered combat fleet. Recently commenting on the Type 095 program, former U.S.
An ocean fishing charter off the Florida Coast near Eglin Air Force Base had an unusually large, scaleless catch. The large gray behemoth in question was a U.S. military LUCAS drone, a one-way attack aircraft derived from a design modeled after Iran’s Shahed-136.
Base officials confirmed to Task & Purpose that the drone went down Sept. 17 during routine testing on the base’s range, two days before fishermen found it floating in the Gulf.
“On Thursday, Sept.
Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum, only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how Ukrainians themselves debate the issues shaping their country.American coverage often narrows the view to the battlefield — these pieces widen it, revealing the texture of daily life, politics, and public argument in a nation at war.
Space Systems Command and the Defense Innovation Unit awarded prototype contracts to Northrop Grumman and True Anomaly to build next-generation reconnaissance satellites that can keep an eye on other objects in orbit.
The awards, announced Friday, will support the Geosynchronous High-Resolution Optical Space-Based Tactical Reconnaissance (GHOST-R) initiative, part of the Space Force’s RG-XX program. The service is keen on using commercial technologies for the project.