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The ICC’s move has been described as “outrageous” by Biden and “deeply unhelpful” by Sunak but is backed by France, Belgium and South Africa.

Army Pfc. Katia Duenas-Aguilar was found dead in her off-post home on May 18. She was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. (Army photo).
A 101st Airborne Division soldier’s death has been ruled a homicide by local police officials. Pfc. Katia Duenas-Aguilar was found dead last week in her off-post home last week near Fort Campbell, Kentucky. The Army said Tuesday that the Clarksville Police Department in Tennessee has launched a homicide investigation into her death.

The Army is set to release a new policy Tuesday dedicated to increasing the pace of its weapon systems development through digital engineering techniques, with plans to designate a handful of programs as initial pathfinders to inform the service’s overall adoption.
Signed by Undersecretary of the Army Gabe Camarillo, the new directive also includes three commodity focus areas that will allow the service to concentrate its initial efforts to adopt digital engineering tools more broadly.

It is likely that foreign forces such as Russia or China could move to fill the vacuum created by the departure of US military in Niger.

One of the biggest defense topics as of late is the supply of advanced missiles. Russia’s continuous onslaught of aerial attacks on Ukraine, as well as Kyiv’s ability to defend against them, and the defense of Israel from Iran’s large-scale drone and missile barrage, as well as the threat of China in the Pacific, has brought supply and cost concerns regarding these weapons to the forefront.

A new photo finally confirms the identity of the launch platform for Ukraine’s ADM-160 Miniature Air Launched Decoy (MALD) — the Soviet-era MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter. While we had seen sporadic evidence of the use of MALD — a small cruise missile-like weapon designed to stimulate, confuse, and distract enemy air defenses, not attack them kinetically — it had not, until now, been seen mounted on a Ukrainian Air Force aircraft.

BlueHalo is partnering with Kraken Technology Group to supply autonomy capabilities and payloads for its unmanned surface vehicles including the K4 Manta, pictured above. (BlueHalo)
US company BlueHalo has partnered with Kraken Technology Group in the UK to integrate its artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)-backed autonomous mission systems into Kraken’s unmanned maritime platforms, the companies announced in a joint statement on 3 May.

Sweden’s artillery will push from two units to eight by 2030, moving beyond simply balancing support for the Army.

The British Army will operate 50 remanufactured AH-64 attack helicopters upgraded to the E variant, having operated the older D models.

Lockheed Martin and the US Army use an Mk70 containerised naval launcher to fire a PAC-3 MSE interceptor against a cruise missile target.