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The current American and Israeli campaign against Iran has demonstrated the utility of drones for surface-to-air missile (SAM) and ballistic missile destruction and suppression.

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… when I hear a retired Major General publicly dismiss the Secretary of War as a “disgraced major” from the DC National Guard, I don’t just hear a political insult….

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Iran May Avoid Losing the War but Has Limited Means To Achieve Long-Term Deterrence

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America often prepares for the war it has just fought. Today, the Pentagon is preparing for the next war, in real time, under fire, against the clock.

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The current U.S. military buildup in the Middle East signals a shift far beyond traditional deterrence.

Ukraine has seen an influx of foreign armoured personnel carrier, but is also able to manufacture or upgrade in-country for its military.

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L Todd Wood and Mark Castillon discuss the military’s fight against PTSD.
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Former USAF combat pilots L Todd Wood and Brent Beecham discuss what went down on the ground in Iran over the weekend.
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The Republic of China Army has deployed M60A3 main battle tanks and infantry equipped with Javelin anti-tank missiles under the Penghu Defence Command for a “Frontier Defense Exercise” on April 10, which simulated an enemy amphibious assault. The live-fire exercises verified the coordinated defensive combat effectiveness of infantry, artillery, and mechanised units. Units equipped with Javelin missiles simulated the destruction of enemy armoured landing vehicles, strengthening coastal defence capabilities.

A “Delta Force” Mission Support Specialist leaks information to the press

Looks like we have another Reality Winner.
That’s the real name of the NSA, Trump Hating Dirtbag, now in prison for leaking Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information because she hated President Trump during the first term. The fawning NPR story seems to brush that motive aside.
Now we have another leaker – a Courtney Williams who was part of Special Operations Command.

Guam is one of the most important U.S.

The Space Force has named 14 companies eligible to compete under a 10-year, $1.8 billion contract vehicle designed to modernize the service’s ability to keep tabs on objects in space.
The program, known as Andromeda, aims to acquire and field next-generation space domain awareness capabilities and supporting systems that can track, identify and analyze other platforms on orbit, the Defense Department announced Wednesday.
The first Andromeda task order will fund satellites for the RG-XX program, according to a solicitation posted by Space Systems Command in January.

The Sovereign’s Parade marks the end of 4

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The crew of the Artemis II lunar flyby mission is ready for their splashdown back on Earth after completing a historic mission. Over the course of 10 days, the crew tested the Orion spacecraft’s life support systems to prepare for a future return to the moon’s surface.
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Artemis II’s crew took six days to reach the moon’s orbit, where they would break the record for the furthest distance traveled from Earth. Along the way, however, they decided to have a little fun.

Four astronauts are scheduled to complete their trip to the moon with a splashdown off the coast of Southern California this evening. And when they do, a specialized Navy team will be waiting for them. 
The Artemis II mission is on its tenth and final day, after taking humans into lunar orbit for the first time in five decades. The Orion space capsule carrying NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, is expected to land roughly 60 miles offshore of San Diego at 8:07 p.m. Eastern Time.

UK forces tracked covert submarines near Britis

Soldiers deployed to forward operating bases might be fed by robots in an automated kitchen that arrives in a box about the size of a shipping container. 
The Army is experimenting with a robotic system called Sustained Autonomous Meals, or SAM, that prepares hot, fresh meals inside a shipping container-sized box. The technology was first introduced to soldiers at the Camp Walker, South Korea, dining facility in November 2025, and a transportable version is now being tested.

The Prime Minister has met troops in Bahrain🤝 Sir Keir Starmer is in the region for talks on how the UK and allies can support the US-Iran ceasefire. #bfbsforcesnews #forcesnews #news #uk #military #shorts #armedforces #politics #bahrain #middleeast #straitofhormuz

The U.S. military will continue sending counter-drone capabilities to the Middle East in the days and weeks to come, according to a spokesperson for the Pentagon task force responsible for such assets, following a nine-figure C-UAS investment and amid uncertainty about the future of the Iran war.
Multiple experts told DefenseScoop that, despite the overall drone threat being known for years, U.S. military investments in countering them are well overdue.

A milestone moment for Flight Lieutenant Amy Co

In the spring of 2023, a barren stretch of Wyoming highway briefly became the tactical hub of a three-day Army and Air Force exercise in which special operators unloaded nimble attack helicopters from cargo planes as attack jets and drones watched overhead.
At the center of the exercise — dubbed Agile Chariot — was a “missing pilot.” Once unfolded, the helicopters, draped with commandos dangling their feet in the air, bolted to go find him, as escort fighters buzzed above.

We go behind-the-scnes of the Spitfire 90 tour

A federal grand jury in North Carolina indicted a former Army employee at Fort Bragg this week for allegedly revealing classified national defense information to a journalist.
Courtney Williams served in a support capacity for the Special Operations unit Delta Force from 2010 to 2016. As such, she held a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance. A grand jury indicted Williams on Wednesday, one day after her arrest.

The US Army is seeking to achieve “decision dominance” on the modern battlefield through the launch of the Army Data Operations Center (ADOC).

Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg set up a new unit to lead all the Pentagon’s work that involves fusing economic leverage and requirements into joint U.S. military planning and operations, according to a memorandum obtained by DefenseScoop.
The two-page memo formally establishes the Economic Defense Unit and the position of EDU director, who will oversee the new hub and report to Feinberg as the deputy secretary’s principal advisor for economic competition across the Defense Department.

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The Ukrainian bounty hunters scavenging the streets for fighters again beat a man unconscious.
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The Finnish Ministry of Defence has placed an additional order for K9 Self-Propelled Howitzers (SPH) from South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace.

James Doohan’s first day of combat came during the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. He almost didn’t make it to his second, all because of a friendly fire incident.
Doohan, who played chief engineer Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery Scott (“Scotty”) on the 1960s television classic “Star Trek,” served as a lieutenant in the Canadian army during World War II. On D-Day, he survived a turbulent landing at Juno Beach, and as the troops advanced inland, he shot and killed two German snipers.

Footage released by Qatari state media has for the first time shown the destruction on the ground of the AN/FPS-132 Block 5 Upgraded Early Warning Radar near Umm Dahal in Qatar, showing substantial internal damage after Iranian attacks on February 28. The radar is one of the most important and capable ground-based radar systems in the U.S. global missile warning architecture, although its extreme cost prevents widespread deployments, meaning the radar in Qatar is the only one of its kind outside the U.S. mainland.

Sources speaking to CBS News have reported that the U.S. Air Force has lost 24 MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft during engagements with Iranian forces. This represents a significant increase from the 16 that had been lost by the beginning of the month, with eight more reported to have been shot down from April 1-9. Losses in early April have reportedly been particularly concentrated around Shiraz and the island of Kish. The updated report on the number of MQ-9s shot down has closely coincided with the reported disappearance of an even higher value type of unmanned aircraft, a U.S.

The UK Ministry of Defence will procure a significant number of Skyhammer munition interceptors over the next six months.

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The Space Force has set up a pool of 14 vendors to compete for $1.

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The tech soldiers carry will shape their performance in combat, missions, safety, and health. If you care about any of those things, you will love this episode. The next generation of American soldiers will operate with systems that blur the line between human and machine, but that future is still being worked out in real time. In this episode, three former servicemembers turned industry leaders look ahead to how frontline capabilities may evolve over the next decade and what will constrain them.Image: Sgt. Thiem Huynh via DVIDS.

In his long-awaited nuclear deterrence speech, French President Emmanuel Macron laid out his new doctrine of “forward deterrence” (dissuasion avancée) and — for the first time in history — offered to deploy the French Strategic Air Forces to European countries. “In the same way that our strategic submarines dilute naturally in the oceans,” the French president said, “our strategic air forces will also be able to be spread deep into the European continent.”The proposal to deploy French nuclear forces on allied territory may appear similar to the forward deployment of U.S.

For a long time, the Iranian government has treated free internet access as a privilege that is extended by the state to those willing to carry its message and withheld from everyone else. Around four hours after Israeli and American strikes began, internet traffic collapsed by 98 percent — a near-total blackout. Iran’s communications infrastructure was deliberately dismantled by the government and internet traffic was completely halted.

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Understanding Personnel Recovery and Combat Search and Rescue in the military: it’s a national strategic mission and is resourced accordingly.

The world watched fascinated as America recovered two pilots isolated behind enemy lines in Iran. Television screens were filled with pundits or veterans discussing everything from SERE* school to the impact of the successful recovery of both pilots on ceasefire negotiations.

Why the Secretary of War’s removal of senior leaders is exposing the military’s internal divide

On September 28, 2023, Chief of Staff of the Army General Randy A. George spoke to U.S. Africa Command Soldiers at Kelley Barracks in Stuttgart, Germany. Public Domain

I understand exactly how this is supposed to go. I’m supposed to stay quiet, accept the label that was put on me, and disappear. But when I hear a retired Major General publicly dismiss the Secretary of War as a “disgraced major” from the DC National Guard, I don’t just hear a political insult.

Coast Guard officials are trying to identify contractors that can provide drone equipment and services to support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations.
The effort is being led by the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Program Executive Office that was established last year to support the organization’s modernization efforts laid out in Force Design 2028.

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Michael Kofman joins Ryan to unpack the current state of the Russo-Ukrainian War after his recent trip to the front. They examine how drone warfare has transformed the battlefield into a dispersed contest over a vast kill zone, why Russian infiltration tactics have failed to produce meaningful gains, and how Ukraine is working to close gaps in its strike capabilities. They also explore the growing pressure from Russian long-range strikes and how the war in Iran is beginning to shape the conflict.

An unusual Russian drone shot down by Ukrainian

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