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Pick-Up Day is the moment of truth for Marine recruits. Sometimes called “Black Friday” among Marines, it marks the first time they meet their drill instructors, who will train them for the next 13 weeks of boot camp.
The U.S. military recently published photos of recruits’ first encounters with their drill instructors at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California, and you can almost hear the yelling.
The May 30 photos by Marine Cpl.

Ukraine is attacking Russia with a strategic drone and missile campaign that aims to exploit Russia’s immensity and transform it from a key strength into a fatal weakness. Russia’s immensity makes it difficult to defend.

Russia’s depleted and failing air defense systems are failing to shoot down the Ukrainian drones as they slam into oil storage facilities, supply convoys, and other military targets.

Switchblade Drone. Image Credit: Industry Handout.

It looks like all-out war between Iran and the United States has sparked again. The two countries traded attacks over the last 48 hours, harkening back to military action at the beginning of the war. President Donald Trump said Friday that his forces will hit Iran “very hard tonight” again.

It all started with the downing of an American Apache attack helicopter earlier this week. The United States claimed it would retaliate with self-defense strikes, and these started again almost immediately.

Apache Helicopter. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Yesterday, the head of the United States Department of Energy stated that traffic through the Strait of Hormuz was beginning to increase and was confident it would continue to rise in the coming weeks. The Secretary of Energy said this as the war between the U.S. and Iran continues to ramp up, with both sides continuing attacks against each other. He also discussed current oil prices and offered his view on why they have not risen as much as anticipated.

There is still a widespread sense of unease and uncertainty as the war drags on and the economic ramifications are felt around the world.

President Donald J. Trump declared this morning that the United States will hit Iran “VERY HARD TONIGHT” for a third consecutive night, and then went further than he has at any point in this 103-day war: “We will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets,” in what seems to be citing Venezuela as the model. Set aside the bravado and take the proposal seriously, because the military planning has reportedly been live for months.

For most of this war, the honest answer to the question of Russian losses was that nobody outside the Kremlin knew, and the Kremlin was not saying. Ukraine’s daily tallies ran high by design, Moscow published almost nothing, and Western intelligence kept its estimates classified or vague.

That era is ending.

The US Army awarded L3Harris a $106m contract for Vehicle-Agnostic Modular Palletised ISR Rocket Equipment (VAMPIRE) counter-uncrewed systems.

Airbus Defence and Space and Diehl Defence have signed an agreement to further develop joint capabilities in integrated air and missile defence (IAMD), the companies announced at the ILA Berlin Air Show 2026.

UK Defence Secretary John Healey has resigned today (11 June), having issued his letter of resignation on the social media platform X.

Canada has spent so many years talking about replacing the Victoria-class submarines that it is easy to forget the project might actually happen. The Canadian Patrol Submarine Project began with a crowded field of twenty-five expressions of interest and has now narrowed to two serious contenders, Germany’s Type 212CD and South Korea’s KSS-III. Both formal proposals are in Ottawa’s hands. Prime Minister Mark Carney has said the government intends to identify a preferred supplier before the end of June, though the contract itself is expected much later.