Ukraine has claimed to have inflicted a total of 819,737 successful drone strikes in 2025, eliminating various Russian military assets.
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China’s Ministry of National Defense said over the weekend that it was investigating two top military officials.
The Chinese Coast Guard has confirmed the first patrols around Taiwan Island using Wing Loong II unmanned combat aircraft as part of the service’s routine maritime patrol operations. This reflects part of broader trends towards the deployment of advanced surveillance platforms as a central component of its maritime posture outside the main services of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.
Modern synthetic biology and AI represent both medicine’s greatest breakthrough and warfare’s most terrifying evolution. In this new landscape, where biological weapons can be designed faster than traditional defenses can be developed, recent government decisions risk abandoning our only countermeasure that can keep up: messenger ribonucleic acid, better known by its acronym, mRNA.Known most famously for the prominent role it played in vaccinations against SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19), mRNA is a medical platform that can generate new defenses in days rather than years.
Urban warfare is often invoked as an alibi: dense terrain, an embedded enemy, human shields, imperfect intelligence. These conditions are real but they do not, on their own, explain outcomes. Every modern military that has fought in cities has faced uncertainty, civilian presence, and adversaries who exploit it. What distinguishes campaigns is not whether these problems exist, but how commanders choose to respond to them, whose risk is prioritized, and what forms of harm are treated as acceptable.
The Chinese firm Alibaba’s Qwen-3 on January 25 was confirmed to have become one of the world’s first general-purpose artificial intelligence models to be uploaded and operated in orbit, marking a major milestone in China’s emerging leadership in space-based computing sector. Chinese aerospace start-up Adaspace Technology deployed Qwen-3 to a space computing centre in orbit, where it executed multiple inference tasks in November.
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy deployed four warships to sail from between Okinawa Island and Miyako Island into the Pacific Ocean, according to data from the Japan Ministry of Defence’s Joint Staff Office. The Chinese ships transited from January 27-28, including the Type 052C class air defence destroyer Xi’an and the Type 052D class destroyer Zibo, accompanied by a Type 054A frigate and a Type 903A comprehensive supply ship. The Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force deployed a Sugashima class minesweeper and P-1 and P-3 maritime patrol aircraft to monitor the ships.
The United States Air Force has deployed at least 42 heavy transport aircraft to lift supplies into the Middle East during the eight days between January 18 and January 26. Data compiled from publicly available flight trackers showing that 41 C-17A Globemaster III aircraft and one C-5M Super Galaxy landed at regional facilities transferring supplies from the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany. Bases in Qatar, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia, which have for decades been central hubs of the Western military presence in the region, all received supplies.
The first publicly released close-up photo of the PL-17 ultra-long-range air-to-air missile has indicated it has a diameter of approximately 305 mm and a length of about 5.8 meters, following a decade of speculation regarding its actual size and capabilities. The first images of the PL-17 emerged in 2016, with images having shown it being tested on a J-16 fighter. Subsequently in December 2023 images for the first time showed J-16 fighters in active service carrying the missiles, alongside the long range PL-15, medium range PL-12 and short range PL-10 missiles.
The U.S. Army will deploy an Abrams-equipped detachment as part of its normal rotational forces in Romania, marking a significant strengthening of the armoured warfare capabilities in the country bordering the current war zone in Ukraine. Romanian Chief of the Defence Staff Gheorghita Vlad referred to this as an enhancement of the “quality and lethality” of U.S. rotational forces in the country, highlighting that there will be be no significant changes to the number of U.S. Army personnel in the country.