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Poland has inaugurated its first permanent US military installation in the town of Redzikowo, located near the Baltic coast, according to a post on the Poland Ministry of Defence’s X account.
Saab Australia has been awarded a contract to deliver in-country through-life support for the 84mm Carl-Gustaf M4 recoilless rifle for the Australian Army.
The Red Arrows have welcomed two new pilots ont
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Lockheed Martin says its new launcher could fire surface-to-air interceptors, as well as ballistic missiles and artillery rockets.
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The Pentagon unveiled a new round of aerial and maritime drones for Replicator, a massive effort to fast-track the delivery of unmanned weapons systems to the services.
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Since winning reelection to the White House last week, President-elect Donald Trump has rapidly started to form his cabinet and fill senior White House positions.
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The Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump transition team is drafting an executive order to “create a board to purge general officers.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (Reuters) – Members of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team are drawing up a list of military officers to be fired, potentially to include…
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On Nov. 8, 2024, Iran announced its proposed military budget for the year 1404 (March 2025–March 2026). In response to both internal priorities and external pressures, Iran plans to increase its military budget by 200 percent. Iran’s decision to allocate a large portion of its revenue directly to the military sends several messages. For regional neighbors, particularly Israel, Iran’s budget signals its intent to maintain a strong defensive and offensive posture.
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Members of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team are drawing up a list of military officers to be fired, potentially to include the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two sources said, in what would be an unprecedented shakeup at the Pentagon.
The planning for the firings is at an early stage after Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris and could change as Trump’s administration takes shape, said the sources, who are familiar with the Trump transition and requested anonymity to speak candidly about the plans.
Anduril and General Atomics have completed Critical Design Reviews (CDR) of their respective plans for Increment 1 of the Air Force’s collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) program, a service official announced Wednesday.
“We’ve just finished up, basically, critical design review for both Anduril and General Atomics. Both industry teammates are on the path to get to first flight in a timeline that allows us to get operational capability by the end of the decade,” Col.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The University of Notre Dame opened the doors to a new Mach 10 quiet wind tunnel Saturday, a first-of-its-kind facility that adds to the Defense Department’s capacity to research and test hypersonic capabilities.
Hosted by the Notre Dame Turbomachinery Laboratory, the 3,000-square-foot lab space is home to a quiet wind tunnel able to simulate hypersonic flight at speeds up to Mach 10 — or 10 times the speed of sound.
The Air Force’s Spectrum Warfare Wing wants to introduce more realistic electromagnetic spectrum training to better prepare airmen for the dynamic, contested and congested fight the military anticipates against sophisticated adversaries in the future.
To do so, the air service is looking to adopt live, virtual and constructive training, which allows the military to be able to insert replicated and simulated capabilities in live training environments for a more realistic feel for warfighters.
The latest chapter in an exciting rivalry sees
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President-elect Donald Trump has announced his
A sailor assigned to a nuclear submarine scaled the wall of a burning building to save an entrapped woman Tuesday, an act caught on video.
Nuclear Technician Petty Officer 1st Class Gabriel Nagy-Journey, a sailor assigned to the USS Albany in Norfolk, was driving home from work when he heard a woman screaming about a fire in the nearby apartment building in Norfolk, Virginia.
He joined a group standing next to the burning apartment building, just beneath where an elderly woman was leaning out of a second-story window, with smoke billowing out.
A lot happens every day. Alliances shift, leaders change, and conflicts erupt. With In Brief, we’ll help you make sense of it all. Each week, experts will dig deep on a single issue happening in the world to help you better understand it. *** This weekend, Russia signed into law a strategic partnership agreement with North Korea that includes a mutual defense provision and strengthens security ties between the two countries.
As insiders hustle to realize high-stakes efforts to accelerate the military’s adoption of advanced uncrewed capabilities — including Replicator — the Pentagon is increasingly buying integrated software enablers to equip such systems with the capacity to link up and work together autonomously.
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks shed new light on this work in a press release Wednesday.
Pete Hegseth, whom President-elect Donald Trump has nominated to serve as defense secretary, is a Fox News host who served in the National Guard and who has been a vocal critic of women in combat roles, diversity and inclusion efforts in the military, and other policies that he’s decried as “woke s—t.”
Currently a Fox News host, Hegseth was commissioned as an infantry officer in the Army National Guard in 2003, ultimately becoming a major.
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The figure, gradually moving upwards, remains lower than was seen in 2010 when the European and global security situation was more secure.
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The Army’s newest legal arm is using a “reach back” authority to prosecute old cases of serious crimes that may have escaped prosecution.
Since opening its doors in December, the Army’s Office of Special Trial Counsel has reopened more than 100 older cases, which has included recalling retired service members to active duty to face charges they may have once believed they’d escaped.
The new office launched in December 2023 to answer the long-standing complaint from justice advocates that the military justice system often left legal decision-making to unit commanders.
On the heels of a suspiciously timed International Bird Flu Summit in DC, and following reports of new cases of bird flu in humans here in the U.S., we get word that the French government is sounding the alarm on the spread of bird flu.
According to Reuters:
France has raised its risk level of bird flu to ‘moderate’ from ‘negligible’, it said in a decree published in the official journal on Tuesday, a move that will reinforce security measures around poultry farms.
The Swiss Federal Office for Defence Procurement (armasuisse) has selected the PIRANHA IV 10×10 Heavy Mission Carrier (HMC) with the 155mm artillery gun module (AGM).
The US Army has awarded a five-year, $168.3m contract to Teledyne FLIR Defense to modernise the Sensor Suite of its M1135 Stryker Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicle (NBCRV).
The Kursk salient will be a crucial bargaining chip in Ukraine’s Victory plan, but control over the region is in question.
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Curran is photographed in the iconic photo of Trump, with blood on his ear, pumping his fist in the air amid the assassination attempt on his life.
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To help fight inflation, the Pentagon was given $1.05 billion to disperse to industry.
Spirit Airlines hit by gunfire
On 11 November 2024, 3 commercial US airplanes (Spirit Airlines, Jet Blue, American Airlines) were struck by bullets in the airspace near Port Au Prince, Haiti. Gang violence has been escalating and was blamed for the incidents that resulted in one injured airline crewmember and bullet holes in all 3 aircraft. As a result, the FAA closed the airspace above Haiti for 30 days.1
Of note, Haiti is listed as one of the top ten failed nations in the 2024 world2.
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Every effective cyber operation still needs enablers on the ground in the target area to shape, tweak, and further propagate the message in the last cyber mile.
TikTok did this aggressively for the January 2024 Taiwan elections, with multiple enablers on the ground in Taiwan. In other words – agents that were helping the TikTok message.
Taiwan National Security Bureau (NSB) just caught up to this social media couple in Taiwan.
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There is no shortage of problems confronting the U.S. Navy, as salvo after salvo of embarrassing stories attest. The range of problems is spectacularly depressing, addressing almost every facet of the Navy — from the design, production, maintenance, and crewing of its warships to the lack of commercial shipyard capacity, civilian shipbuilders, government drydocks, force structure, recruits, civilian mariners, and an adequate budget. How the Navy got into this predicament is complex. The lack of consistent strategic guidance between the chiefs of naval operations, however, is a major cause.
Money is the sinew of all wars. In Haiti, feuding gangs are financed by illicit traffic of all sorts, including narcotics and weapons. Disrupting that flow of cash could help provide some leverage to the authorities trying desperately to re-establish order. Considering that Haiti is insular, cutting seaborne illicit traffic would be a practical and effective step for countries that wish to help the Haitian population but are hesitant to contribute boots on the ground.
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President Trump has announced Pete Hegseth, a U.S. Army officer and television personality, as Secretary of Defense.
Hegseth has been out in front pushing to rid the military of Marxist ideology and take care of its servicemen and women.
The choice will likely be well received by military members.
His website lists his bio below:
Pete Hegseth is co-host of FOX & Friends Weekend on the FOX News Channel. He is also a FOX Nation host, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and Army combat veteran.
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After years of feminizing the US military through DEI initiatives, a new executive order under consideration by the Trump transition team would establish a “warrior board” of retired senior military personnel which would be granted the power to review three- and four-star officers and recommend any removals of those deemed unfit for leadership.
Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen launched a fusillade of drones and missiles against two U.S. Navy destroyers as they transited the Bab el-Mendeb strait, which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, said Air Force Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder, a Pentagon spokesman.
Harriet Tubman, a Black woman widely credited as the first female leader of a combat regiment during the Civil War, was posthumously commissioned as a brigadier general of the Maryland National Guard at a Veteran’s Day ceremony.
A Maryland native, Tubman is best known for leading hundreds of slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad, but worked as a Union spy during the Civil War and led a raid in South Carolina that eventually freed 700.
