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Adversaries do not need to breach the Pentagon’s systems: They only need to harvest the logic of the publicly released frontier AI models that underpin them. This is a defining risk as the Department of Defense pivots to an “AI-first” warfighting machine. In this new context, military predominance is a derivative of AI model supremacy.

In August 2024, scholars at a Xiamen-based think tank published a paper urging Beijing to immediately establish a shadow Taiwan government on the Chinese mainland in preparation for a full takeover of the island. “It is imperative to prepare a plan for the comprehensive takeover of Taiwan after unification,” they said. The scholars were writing at a fraught moment for Beijing.Only months earlier, the anti-China Democratic Progressive Party had taken office after a third consecutive presidential election win.

New footage from the South China Sea has shown J-15T and J-35 fighter aircraft conducting touch-and-go landings on the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy’s new aircraft carrier Fujian, highlighting ongoing progress towards the warship’s air wing attaining a full combat capability, which is scheduled for later in the year.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army 73rd Group Army of the Eastern Theatre Command has conducted live-fire exercises in the northwestern desert, utilising its newly supplied HQ-16F long range air defence systems to destroy a stealth target drone. Developed by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology, the new system provides a substantial increase in engagement range while retaining compatibility with existing vertical launch systems.

Responding to questions from the heads of international news agencies at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin provided insight into the use of the Oreshnik intermediate range hypersonic ballistic missile system in the Ukrainian theatre.

The Republic of China Army has tested its coastal defence capabilities in a major live fire exercise, which was centred on the use of U.S.-supplied BGM-71 TOW and FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile systems against maritime targets. Drills were conducted in the Fourth Combat Zone, and integrated precision-guided missiles, artillery, and mortars into a unified anti-landing defence framework. Training focused on targeting hostile forces during the critical sea-to-shore transition phase.

During exchanges of fire between Iranian and U.S. forces in early June, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps reported that an MIM-104 Patriot long range air defence system in Kuwaiti service caused extensive damage to Kuwait International Airport’s Terminal 1, after misfiring and failing to intercept its target. Although video footage has verified that at least one Iranian single use attack drone struck the terminal, the extent of the damage indicates that it was hit by more than one projectile, which makes a hit by Patriot systems highly possible.

A Russian Aerospace Forces Su-35 air superiority fighter was on June 2 involved in multiple engagements with French Air Force Rafale and Swedish Air Force Gripen fighters over the Baltic Sea. Two Rafales operating as part of the Baltic Air Policing mission scrambled from Siauliai Air Base in northern Lithuania, and met up with Gripens to jointly intercept a group of six Russian aircraft, including a Su-35. The fighter was escorting an An-30 reconnaissance aircraft, Su-24 and Su-34 strike fighters, and an Il-76 transport.

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Adversaries have used commercially-available location data to attack individual US service members in war zones, according to a report furnished by the Department of Defense to Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, and first reported by Reuters. Wyden is a Democratic member of the Senate intelligence committee.

Russian sources on June 4 widely reported that the Iranian Defence Ministry had signed a counteract to procure a battalion’s worth of 12 Su-30SM2 fighter aircraft from Russia, with the aircraft to be delivered second hand after reportedly havingaccumulated very few flight hours. The aircraft are scheduled to begin deliveries in mid-2027, and complete deliveries by the end of the year, with preparations to provide Iran with the necessary infrastructure set to begin in the near future.