The U.S. Army has exhausted its entire stockpiles of the new Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) since the initiation of military operations against Iran, when the missile saw its first ever combat use to strike targets deep inside the country from positions in the Persian Gulf. Head of the Transformation Department at the U.S. Army’s Center of Excellence for Fire Support Jimmy Arter observed regarding the expenditure of the missiles: “We used up all our PRSM arsenal at the beginning of the war, but we’re already receiving new ones.

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What happens when one of the defense industry’s leading technology integrators partners with one of Silicon Valley’s most influential venture firms? Bryce Pippert of Booz Allen and Matt Cronin of Andreessen Horowitz join Ryan to unpack their new partnership and discuss how the United States is trying to tap into the tech ecosystem. The conversation gets into venture capital’s growing role in national security, how this partnership is supposed to work in practice, and why getting real technology into government hands is still harder than it should be.

Satellite imagery has revealed that the Algerian People’s National Army is rapidly constructing underground bunkers and hangars near the Moroccan border, in an apparent response to the shift in ground warfare brought on by advances in drone and loitering munition technologies that has been widely observed in the Ukrainian theatre.

The recent news that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death was caused by epibatidine — a South American frog toxin — has reignited interest in state use of poisons and toxins in assassinations. Although state use of such compounds has a long history, the erosion of the norms prohibiting assassinations and chemical and biological weapons increases the likelihood of future assassinations using poisons and toxins.

What happens when a country at war stops seriously debating its own strategy and goals?In Israel today, that scenario is no longer theoretical. In the aftermath of Hamas’ surprise attack on Oct. 7, 2023, and the subsequent conflicts in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran, Israel’s strategic decision-making ecosystem has been progressively undermined by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his political associates.Netanyahu has surrounded himself with pliable officials and supportive voices, including the defense minister and the leaders of the Mossad and the Internal Security Agency (Shin Bet).

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Russian defence export conglomerate Rosoboronexport has confirmed that multiple countries have now placed orders for Su-57 fifth generation fighter aircraft, although not elaborating on the specific clients. “The Su-57E is generating strong interest among Rosoboronexport’s partners, several of whom have already contracted for the Russian fighter jet. The list of customers for this aircraft is steadily expanding,” the Rosoboronexport press service stated.

The Finnish Defence Ministry has placed an order to procure 112 additional K9 Thunder 155mm self-propelled howitzers, with the guns expected to be heavily concentrated on the country’s 1,340 kilometre border with Russia. The procurement will more than double the number of K9s in Finnish Army service, bringing it up to 208 howitzers. The Ministry framed the deal as part of the Army’s long-term modernisation, providing an and replacement for aging towed artillery.

The Korean People’s Army Navy has made a live fire demonstration of the firstChoe Hyon class destroyer’s long range land attack capability near the country’s west coast, in an exercise combining strategic cruise missile launches with anti-ship weapons in a coordinated strike scenario. The exercise appears to have been designed to validate the new destroyer class’ integrated combat systems, as well as crew performance.

Republic of China legislator from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Wang Ting-yu on April 13 questioned the legislature’s Foreign Affairs and National Defence Committee on the issue of provision of support for the U.S.-led war effort against Iran. Observing that that U.S. President Donald Trump had lamented about the reluctance of Washington’s strategic partners to assist in deploying forces to the Persian Gulf, he noted that it could be appropriate for Taipei to express its willingness to support the U.S.in minesweeping and mine clearing operations.

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As of Monday night, after a bunch of OSIT accounts said that the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) had passed through Gibraltar, more and more reports indicate the contrary, she and her escorts are off Namibia, about to head around the Cape of Good Hope instead. It was kind of fun watching the competing reports.
There are quite a few reasons to do this. We’ll find out the reason this time at some point, but don’t get lost in the details. It isn’t nothing.

The U.S. Navy on April 14 confirmed that an MQ-4C Triton unmanned surveillance aircraft crashed in the Persian Gulf region on April 9, with the incident has now been described as a mishap, although little was revealed regarding the circumstance under which it was lost. After the aircraft had vanished unexpectedly from online flight tracking sites while flying over the Gulf, multiple sources reported that it had been shot down by Iranian air defences, with this remaining unconfirmed.

Senior military officials are reviewing all the insights and input gained from the Marine Corps’ first Generative and Agentic AI Workshop that was held in Quantico last month, according to Maj. Christopher Clark, who said the service aims to use those findings to inform integration plans and reliable tech deployments.
Clark is deeply involved in this work as the Corps’ AI lead. He spotlighted some of the major, early takeaways from that well-attended, four-day event during Scoop News Group’s AITalks conference on Tuesday.
“We are doing an analysis of our workshop.

When Marines don’t show up for work, their units are now directed to make “reasonable” efforts to contact them. If that doesn’t help, officials should begin checking in with local police, hospitals and mental health clinics, according to new Marine Corps regulations.
This new policy was published in a Marine Corps administrative notice last week. Under this new set of rules, Marine Corps units now have specific actions and timelines they should take when their troops don’t report to duty.

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán conceded defeat in a parliamentary election on April 12, ending his 16 years in power, after his Fidesz party lost its majority in parliament. The center-right Tisza party, led by Péter Magyar, won and is projected to have a two-thirds supermajority. Orbán has been a prominent right-wing populist, with close ties to the Trump administration in Washington and warm relations with Moscow. Magyar campaigned on promises to address corruption, improve the economy, and align more closely with Europe.

The U.S. military recently published photos of Marines in a unit headed to the Middle East equipped with an advanced optic designed to help them shoot down small drones. 
The April 4 photos show members of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, or MEU, using a smart scope optic mounted on their M4 carbines as part of training against small drones. Roughly 2,500 Marines in the unit are currently embarked on the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group, which deployed in March to support operations in the Middle East. When the photos were taken, the Marines were aboard a ship in the Pacific Ocean.

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“Band of Brothers” had the unfortunate timing to premiere just two days before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. It took a significant rating hit, dropping from 10 million viewers for its first episode to little more than half of that by its last. HBO stopped marketing the series because audiences were not ready for a series filled with war violence.
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In the 25 years that followed, however, the series became one of the most iconic World War II stories ever told, and one that still continues to find new audiences.

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The Army ROTC cadets who fought back against a classroom gunman at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, say they owe their lives to the mentorship and training they received from Lt. Col. Brandon Shah, the senior instructor killed in the attack
Eight cadets spoke for the first time about the attack in a 17-minute video released by the Army last week, the first public comments the cadets have made since the shooting.

Try to picture an assault on a fortified trench line. FPV drones scream in first, sounding like lawnmowers from hell, cratering dugouts and scattering defenders. As the ground stops shaking, armed robots roll into the defender’s position, turrets scanning, machine guns ready. Russian soldiers burrowed in their hideouts stumble out with their hands up, surrendering to machines.
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No infantry crosses the line of departure. No medevac is called. No one dies on the attacking side.

Collins Aerospace, part of RTX, received several contracts from Bell Textron to supply five primary systems for the US Army’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA), designated as the MV-75.

Rolls-Royce Submarines’ director for future programmes detailed the current stage and future plans for SSN AUKUS reactors during UDT 2026.

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The American Revolution was not only a political and military struggle for independence. It was also a period of remarkable experimentation. Faced with a global empire and an unmatched navy, the American colonies relied on ingenuity as much as courage. Among the most daring and imaginative creations of that era was a small wooden submarine built by David Bushnell in 1775.
Bushnell’s craft, known as the Turtle, was the first combat submarine in world history. Though it failed to sink a British ship, its design and concept marked the beginning of undersea warfare.

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Soldiers from the Army’s XVIII Airborne Corps got a chance to shoot down several First Person View drones with ammunition specifically made to deal with the small unmanned aircraft systems. 
The round’s use was first reported by Defence Blog, which noted that soldiers were photographed last week at the Oak Grove Training Center near Fort Bragg, North Carolina, testing out the 5.56mm L-variant made by Drone Round.
The training was meant to “enhance readiness” for taking on small uncrewed aerial systems at close range.

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Investment firm Sahra Group is planning to build a new Dh180m ($50m) Security and Rescue Training Center (SRTC) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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Somewhere inside an Israeli military intelligence facility, an autistic corporal is eight hours into his shift, scanning satellite imagery on multiple monitors. He does not find this tedious or boring; it’s actually quite relaxing.
When the IDF’s chief of staff visited and stopped by this soldier’s desk, the young man proudly pointed to something he’d found in an aerial photograph. The general leaned in close, but he saw nothing. The soldier pointed it out again. “There, it’s so clear,” he said.
It was clear to him, and that right there is the whole point.

KYIV — In a significant milestone for unmanned warfare, Ukrainian forces have for the first time seized a Russian position exclusively with drones and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), without deploying any infantry or sustaining casualties, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Monday.
“For the first time in the history of this war, an enemy position was taken exclusively by unmanned platforms—UGVs and drones. The occupiers surrendered, and this operation was carried out without the participation of infantry and without losses on our side,” Zelenskyy said in a statement.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force has begun to operate an improved variant of the CJ-10 cruise missile, one of the most widely fielded cruise missile types in the world, which has for two decades formed the backbone of the country’s long range tactical strike capabilities. The CJ-10 was developed by the Third Academy of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, and was first launched in 2001, before entering service in 2006. It has an estimated range of between 2,000-2,500 kilometres, uses inertial and satellite guidance.

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The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, now in an unstable ceasefire, has exposed a structural failure in the global semiconductor memory supply chain, and it is not the one analysts seem to be tracking. The story receiving attention is helium: Qatar’s Ras Laffan facility went offline, a 45-day inventory clock started running, and spot prices doubled within days. The story receiving almost no attention is bromine, and it is potentially the more dangerous one.

Six weeks after the United States and Israel launched a war against Iran, what was the political object? Not the military means and objectives — those are the hammer, not the nail. The nail is: What condition in the world, what durable change in Iran’s relationship to the United States and its neighbors, were these strikes meant to produce? That question was never answered, because it was never seriously asked. The Trump administration confused the instrument for the purpose and then changed the purpose whenever the instrument produced inconvenient results.

Oriana Skylar Mastro, Upstart: How China Became a Great Power (Oxford University Press, 2024)Why didn’t China’s rise trigger containment sooner?For three decades, Beijing’s economic weight expanded dramatically, its military modernized at speed, and its diplomatic footprint widened across every region. Structural theories of power transition would lead us to expect sharper and earlier confrontation as capabilities converged. Instead, the U.S.-Chinese rivalry deepened gradually, punctuated by crises but rarely exploding into decisive pushback.

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The British Army has announced that over 350 personnel from the Queen’s Royal Hussars have completed Exercise Senne Hussar at Sennelager, Germany, which focused on testing new means of integrating surveillance and strike drones into armoured operations. This represents part of a broader modernisation effort aimed at accelerating target acquisition, improving tactical connectivity, and fielding the Army’s first dedicated Find and Strike Squadron.

The U.S. Army has continued to rapidly expand its deployments of HIMARS rocket artillery systems in the Western Pacific region, reflecting broader trends towards the prioritisation of highly in demand equipment for delivery to units in the region. The 25th Infantry Division has played a leading role in this military buildup, and under Major General James Bartholomees, the it is executing a “see, sense, and strike at distance” approach linking sensors to shooters across vast areas. This is intended to provide U.S.

The Japan Ground Self-Defence Force is reallocating more than 280 billion yen ($1.76 billion) towards the procurement of unmanned aircraft capable of operating in aerial strike and reconnaissance roles, while accelerating plans to phase its AH-64 Apache attack helicopters out of service. This reflects part of an effort to transition the ground forces from reliance on attack helicopters for aerial firepower, in particular the U.S.-supplied AH-1S and AH-64D, towards a greater reliance unmanned aircraft, which are significantly less costly to train personnel on and to sustain.