The Russian defence sector has completed the development of the new Khrizantema-M anti-tank guided missile, which combines an extended engagement range and a new capability to fly supersonically. A representative of the High-Precision Systems holding company noted that the missile was designed to be deployed from combat helicopters, and is already being used in air-defence missions. He explained that the missile’s extended range allows the launching aircraft’s crew to remain outside the “kill zone” of enemy man-portable air defence systems thanks to its greater firing distance.

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Sometimes, politics is best explained using metaphors. At no time in the relatively short history of America have Americans been more in need of simplifying the information morass that unduly influences the ability to make truly informed decisions on the future they want or that they want to leave behind. Like many lessons in life, nature often holds interesting parallels. Consider the allegory of the Red Herring and the Dart Frog.
We swim with a never-ending school of Red Herrings. Red herrings often lead fishers of truth toward a mistaken conclusion.

The Germany Defence Ministry was reported on February 19 to be considering placing an order for up to 35 additional F-35A fifth generation fighters, doubling the number of the aircraft it plans to field, in response to the continued stalling of the pan-European Future Air Combat System (FCAS) stealth fighter program being pursued jointly with France and Spain.

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Last week we and others reported that American forces finally after many years withdrew from the remote Al-Tanf Garrison, a base in southern Syria near the borders of Iraq and Jordan. US troops had long operated out of Tanf to pressure the Assad government as part of the long-running US-backed regime change project. The US primarily trained the Syrian Free Army (FSA) in that remote desert area – which was an umbrella group of various factions, among them jihadists, armed and funded by Washington.

Roddie Edmonds never spoke about his time in a German prisoner of war camp. This week, his family learned he’ll soon receive the nation’s highest valor award for an act of heroism in which he never fired a shot.
A master sergeant thrust into command of 1,200 POWs in a German camp, Edmonds will be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, his family confirmed to Task & Purpose. The award honors a moment, not of direct combat action, but of Edmonds’ refusal to identify Jewish soldiers in the camp, instead daring a German commander to execute him.

Veterans and advocates are struggling to understand the ramifications of a new federal rule, under which the Department of Veterans Affairs will consider the effectiveness of medications when assigning disability ratings.
“If medication or treatment lowers the level of disability, the rating will be based on that lowered disability level,” according to the new VA rule published in the Federal Register that went into effect on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump’s recent call for a $1.5 trillion defense budget as part of a broader effort to modernize and strengthen the nation’s defense posture has reignited long-running debates in Washington about how much the United States should spend on its armed forces. That conversation is healthy. But the more important question is not simply how much we spend but where to invest those dollars to ensure real military readiness.
After decades in uniform, I have learned that platforms alone do not win wars.

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There is a long history of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, often involving the United States as the primary negotiator. However, as the Oct. 7 attacks and war in Gaza demonstrated, neither Israelis nor Palestinians feel safe. As Israel’s recent moves to expand its control over the West Bank showed, the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state — and thus a two-state solution — is a dimmer prospect than ever. Nonetheless, U.S. President Donald Trump successfully negotiated a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in October 2025, based on a 20-point peace plan.

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SAN DIEGO — The Navy must embark on an aggressive push to integrate advanced lasers, high-power microwaves and other directed energy weapons across the fleet as part of its broader plan to counter intensifying and emerging drone and missile threats, according to two of the sea service’s top officials. 
Largely due to technical, environmental, industrial and other complexities, Navy insiders have struggled for decades to make DE capabilities a shipboard reality at-scale.
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In Jan. 2025, Farzin Zandi wrote, “How Iran Lost Before It Lost: The Roll Back of its Gray Zone Strategy,” where he argued Iran’s proxy network and gray zone strategy had significantly eroded over time. A year later, amidst pressure from the United States and a weakened regime, we asked Farzin to revisit his argument. Image: MidjourneyIn your 2025 article, “How Iran Lost Before It Lost: The Roll Back of its Gray Zone Strategy,” you argued Iran’s gray zone strategy had significantly eroded.

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When the American Revolutionary War erupted in 1775, the conflict was not only a struggle for political independence but also a visible clash between two distinct military cultures. Nowhere was that contrast more apparent than in what soldiers wore.
On fields clouded by black powder smoke, clothing served practical purposes such as durability, identification, and protection, but it also communicated power, ideology, and legitimacy.

Veterans will have their disability compensation evaluated based on whether their prescribed medication or treatment improves their illness or injury, according to a new federal rule.
The Department of Veterans Affairs will now take into account whether medications improve veterans’ quality of life when determining disability ratings. If so, their rating “will be based on that lowered disability level,” according to the new rule published in the federal register that went into effect Tuesday, Feb. 17.

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About 1,500 targets in a single day: that is the scale U.S. Army leaders say they are preparing for in a large-scale war in Europe.

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LongShot drones are also seen as a new way for bombers and cargo planes to engage aerial threats and reduce vulnerability.

BAE Systems has completed a series of successful trials for its Autonomous Tactical Light Armour System (ATLAS) Uncrewed Ground Vehicle (UGV).

Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) and Airbus have opened India’s first private-sector final assembly line for the Airbus H125 helicopter at Vemagal in the state of Karnataka.

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What happens when the proxy network loses its patron but not its guns? We might be about to find out.Negotiations between the United States and Iran proceed, but the fact that the president has ordered a second aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf is a clear sign that force is not off the table. It is therefore important to consider the secondary consequences any regime change in Tehran would have in Iraq.Given the extent of Iranian influence throughout Iraq’s formal and informal institutions, a change in Tehran will immediately reverberate in Iraq.

Could China replace the United States atop the target list of transnational jihadist groups like al-Qaeda? A recent statement released by Sheikh Saad bin Atef al Awlaqi, the emir of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, directly threatened China, labeling its government as a “pagan, infidel” enemy whose actions against Uyghur Muslims justify future attacks. The statement marks a clear escalation in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s anti-China rhetoric.

On Feb. 17, the Department of Veterans Affairs published an interim final rule that changes one deceptively simple question at the heart of disability exams. The VA’s answer will drastically lower disability compensation for millions of veterans, many of whom spent the last 20 years fighting two wars and an untold number of low-level conflicts.
Effective immediately, the VA will rate veterans based on how they function with medication and treatment, not based on how the condition actually affects them.

The Bangladesh Army has received a new batch of Chinese Type 15 lightweight battle tanks, otherwise known as the VT-5, which are expected to equip a second segment, after one regiment equipped with 44 of the tanks completed its rearmament in 2025. The vehicles are among a wide range of equipment that has recently been procured from China, with the purchase of SY-400 tactical ballistic missiles having been approved in November, while orders for J-10C and JF-17 Block III fighters are both reportedly under consideration.

A Ukrainian FPV drone films a near-miss with a Russian Mi-8 Hip helicopter in-flight, passing mere feat below the fuselage of the aircraft.
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SAN DIEGO — The recent U.S. military operations in Latin America that culminated in the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro underscored the importance of “sequencing” cyber, intelligence, electronic and other weapons assets, according to the Navy’s so-called ‘IBoss.’
“I wish I could tell you more about that — but there’s goodness there that we’re going to unpack as we go forward,” Vice Adm. Mike Vernazza, commander of Naval Information Forces, told DefenseScoop last week.

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The Pentagon released a solicitation Tuesday as it continues its quest for new artificial intelligence tools to assist with back-office functions.
While AI capabilities developed for battlefield use often garner headlines, the Defense Department also wants technology to help with more mundane activities. The call for solutions for a Joint Enterprise Task Management System (JETMS) is one of the latest examples.
Today’s tasking processes are fragmented across legacy systems, email and manual trackers, according to officials.

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US Air Force F-35As have been leaving RAF Laken

Under 20 pounds. Man-portable. Semi-autonomous. Able to launch and land vertically. These are some of the characteristics the Marine Corps is looking for in a new medium-range tactical (MRT) drone the service could equip its expeditionary forces with.
The Corps currently uses the hand-launched RQ-20B Puma for reconnaissance and surveillance, which is part of a family of drones that is nearly 20 years old.

A father of three Marines who faced deportation last year is, for now, clear of federal efforts to expel him from the United States after a federal immigration judge dismissed a deportation case against him last week.
But Narciso Barranco’s legal status remains tenuous, according to his family, and he generally remains at home to avoid contact with federal agents, who could arrest him again while he pursues legal residency.
“While the family is very, very happy and pleased with the judge, we understand that this is one step in a long journey still for Mr.

The Nazis drove Abraham Wald, a Jewish mathematician, out of Romania and Europe. He emigrated to the United States, where he would serve in the Statistical Research Group. The SRG was a bunch of eggheads that used math to make the military better at everything from firing rockets to shooting down enemy fighters.
Wald convinced the Navy that it was about to armor the completely wrong parts of its planes, saving hundreds of flight crews in the process.

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Jason Leisey served nine years as an infantryman and received a Purple Heart after he was severely injured by a car bomb in Iraq. John Beasley served as an intelligence soldier in Afghanistan and had to leave after 17 years when he developed sarcoidosis. Austin Chapman was hit by an improvised explosive device while serving as a combat medic in Afghanistan, leaving him with nerve damage and a post-traumatic stress disorder diagnosis after six years of service. 
All three were medically retired and had their military careers cut short by life-changing injuries and illnesses.

Despite a long-standing policy of neutrality, Ireland has recognised Russia as a threat, and is following Europe in rearmament.

Production of Ajax will continue unchanged despite defects reported by training crews and with three investigations ongoing.

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The Army is one step closer to turning the AH-64 Apache helicopter into a drone hunting tool. Soldiers recently carried out live-fire tests of a new explosive round specifically designed to take out enemy drones at the Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona. 
The tests involved Apaches firing the new 30x113mm XM1225 Aviation Proximity Explosive rounds at multiple types of small drones.

If you listen closely to the sounds coming from the Donbas on this frigid Winter day, you won’t just hear the whistle of incoming 152mm shells or the persistent buzz of drone engines in the sky. You will hear the sound of Ukrainian men and women’s fingers tapping away, in a muddy dugout near Bakhmut, as they stare at a cracked tablet screen.
These warriors aren’t scanning Netflix or a social media profile. They are looking at a leaderboard. To the left of the screen, a stack of empty crates represents the “freedom weight” of a unit that has run out of thermal optics.

L3Harris Technologies has been awarded a contract worth around $400m to power the US Missile Defense Agency’s THAAD interceptors.

TTTECH North America has secured a contract to supply advanced TSN solutions for the US Army’s HADES aerial ISR initiative.

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The TRV-150 belongs to a family of cargo drones designed to improve rapid resupply operations across dispersed battlefields