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Kris Osborn, Warrior Maven The US Navy plans to fly “Combat Collaborative Aircraft” drones from its aircraft carriers in coming years, a possibility now within sight given the Navy’s successful…

Kris Osborn, Warrior Maven The SR-72 is both a drone and, potentially, a manned aircraft — or both.

Kehrt, The War Horse Pentagon update to obscure military policy sets off firestorm, conspiracy theories on far-right social media platforms ahead of election.

Amir Daftari, Newsweek The pact obliges Russia and North Korea to immediately provide military assistance using “all means” if either is attacked.

Chris, Zack, and Melanie sit down for a retrospective episode about the Biden administration’s foreign and defense policy. Using U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s Foreign Affairs article “America’s Strategy of Renewal,” they ask if the United States is better off in terms of national security than it was four years ago.

The UK will need to consider whether it can afford to pursue two medium helicopter programmes at once ahead of the SDR next year.

The Kremlin’s preoccupation with prevailing in Ukraine is pushing it to contemplate geostrategic risks and adopt a more proactive approach in regions like the Red Sea. In the past, the Yemeni quagmire had limited appeal even to Russia, a country known for its inclination to exploit crises around the globe. But Moscow’s calculations may be shifting. The Kremlin’s warming ties with Yemen’s Houthi rebels could enable the latter to expand and intensify their destabilizing activities, especially if advanced military hardware changes hands.

The Space Development Agency has tapped 19 space companies to compete for upcoming prototype demonstrations under its new Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (HALO) vendor pool, the organization announced Wednesday.
As part of the HALO pool of pre-approved vendors, the selected businesses will now be able to compete for demonstrations and experimentation task orders that will support future tranches of SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA).

Against a backdrop where military personnel are operating at the nexus of multiple complex threats, command leaders for Army and Air Force units across Europe and Africa are facilitating new and creative joint exercises to push modernization and transformation alongside some of America’s closest military partners.