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Parts of the Middle East — especially around the Persian Gulf — rely on desalinated water. Worst-case scenarios for war in the region have often included attacks on desalination facilities, and the war with Iran that began on Feb. 28 has raised the potential for such a scenario. So far, there have been reports that a U.S. strike on Qeshm Island damaged an Iranian desalination plant and that an Iranian drone had hit a desalination plant in Bahrain. On March 30, an attack damaged a building at a power and desalination site in Kuwait.

Ukraine is expanding the scale of its e-Points defence procurement system, adding bonuses for ‘innovative’ use of drones.

TRAX has received a seven-year, $726.9m contract from the US Army Test and Evaluation Command’s (ATEC) Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) for Mission Test Support Services.

Public data indicates that the UK is gradually increasing the number of its military uncrewed systems (UxS).

Imagine pulling the trigger on your rifle and having a computer decide whether the bullet actually leaves the barrel. Not a scope that helps you aim, nor a red dot that speeds up target acquisition. We are talking about a system that physically will not let the weapon fire until it has calculated, to the millisecond, that the round is going to hit what you want to go “poof.”
Also Read: Your standard rifle can now be an anti-drone weapon. Seriously.
That’s not a pitch deck from some startup on Shark Tank. It’s fielded hardware, on contract, bolted to M4s carried by U.S.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says that neither he nor President Donald Trump will rule out the option of using U.S. ground troops in military operations against Iran as soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division and additional Marines head to the Middle East.
“We’re not gonna foreclose any option” when it comes to achieving the objectives of the U.S. military’s campaign against Iran, Hegseth told reporters on Tuesday.

Washington, D.C., Pentagon — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, held a press briefing at the Pentagon on March 31, 2026. This correspondent was in attendance.
Secretary of War Hegseth made a point of saying the President has all options available to him due to the deployment of forces into the region, including ground troops.
The President has vacillated on the future course of the war.

The Israel Ministry of Defense (IMOD) has announced an agreement with Elbit Systems, valued at approximately NIS150m ($48m), for procuring tens of thousands of 155mm artillery shells.

The decentralized leadership structure in the United States military is one of the best things we’ve got going for us. For the most part, a commander can pass their intent down to subordinate leaders and expect it to get done. This can only happen with cohesion between the officer and non-commissioned officer corps.
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Legally speaking, NCOs have to obey the orders of the Officers appointed over them. I mean, it’s literally in the Oath of Enlistment that enlisted service members take when they join.

CDR Salamander
To hell with your RCS. I want more weapons topside, now.