TRAX has received a seven-year, $726.9m contract from the US Army Test and Evaluation Command’s (ATEC) Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) for Mission Test Support Services.

Public data indicates that the UK is gradually increasing the number of its military uncrewed systems (UxS).

Imagine pulling the trigger on your rifle and having a computer decide whether the bullet actually leaves the barrel. Not a scope that helps you aim, nor a red dot that speeds up target acquisition. We are talking about a system that physically will not let the weapon fire until it has calculated, to the millisecond, that the round is going to hit what you want to go “poof.”
Also Read: Your standard rifle can now be an anti-drone weapon. Seriously.
That’s not a pitch deck from some startup on Shark Tank. It’s fielded hardware, on contract, bolted to M4s carried by U.S.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says that neither he nor President Donald Trump will rule out the option of using U.S. ground troops in military operations against Iran as soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division and additional Marines head to the Middle East.
“We’re not gonna foreclose any option” when it comes to achieving the objectives of the U.S. military’s campaign against Iran, Hegseth told reporters on Tuesday.

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Washington, D.C., Pentagon — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, held a press briefing at the Pentagon on March 31, 2026. This correspondent was in attendance.
Secretary of War Hegseth made a point of saying the President has all options available to him due to the deployment of forces into the region, including ground troops.
The President has vacillated on the future course of the war.

The Israel Ministry of Defense (IMOD) has announced an agreement with Elbit Systems, valued at approximately NIS150m ($48m), for procuring tens of thousands of 155mm artillery shells.

The decentralized leadership structure in the United States military is one of the best things we’ve got going for us. For the most part, a commander can pass their intent down to subordinate leaders and expect it to get done. This can only happen with cohesion between the officer and non-commissioned officer corps.
Also Read: The Guard’s ‘one weekend a month, two weeks a year’ slogan is outdated
Legally speaking, NCOs have to obey the orders of the Officers appointed over them. I mean, it’s literally in the Oath of Enlistment that enlisted service members take when they join.

CDR Salamander
To hell with your RCS. I want more weapons topside, now.

Stefano D’urso, The Aviationist
Misawa Air Base has received the U.S.

Vincent Carchidi, DefOne
It’s part of a much larger system—and the latest instance of tech that makes war run dangerously fast

Airforce Technology
The silo prototype will validate a modular approach to speed deployment and control costs

T. Newdick, WarZone
The deployment of additional Warthogs comes amid increasing signs a ground operation on Iranian soil could come soon.

The Japanese Defence Ministry has announced that the destroyer JS Chokai has completed crew training and ship modification to enable the employment of U.S.-supplied RGM-109 Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles, making it the first ever Japanese destroyer with an offensive cruise missile capability. The Chokai is one of four Kongo class destroyers in service, which were built from 1990-1998 and has significant similarities with the U.S. Navy’s Arleigh Burke class destroyers, which began to enter service at around the same time.

Iranian proxy army PMF fleeing from the Warthog.
Airstrikes by American A-10s just leveled the 14th Brigade of the Iranian-backed PMF in ar-Rashidiya, Mosul governorate of Iraq.
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The United States Congress has cleared the first ever export of the new AIM-260A Joint Advanced Tactical Missile, under a package that includes $2.61 billion worth of missiles and $550 million in sustainment to equip the Royal Australian Air Force’s F-35A fighter units. With 450 missiles included in the deal, they are being procured for a cost of $5.8 million each, excluding additional sustainment costs, meaning a full internal air-to-air loadout ofsix missiles for an F-35A Block 4 fighter would cost $34.8 million. The AIM-260 is the first new U.S.

In the 1964 black comedy Dr. Strangelove, an emergency war plan called “Plan R” allows an unhinged U.S. Air Force commander, Jack Ripper, to launch a nuclear strike without presidential authorization. Once the president, the joint chiefs, and the Soviet ambassador convene in the war room, the bombers are already airborne. Only Ripper knows the three-letter prefix needed to recall them, until his aide, Lionel Mandrake, reconstructs it from Ripper’s notes.

Editor’s Note: War on the Rocks is running “for” and “against” articles on the war with Iran by legislators with military backgrounds. You can find the other article here.21 years ago, I was a Marine infantryman in Anbar province, western Iraq, carrying so much gear that I could barely feel my legs. My job was to go town to town, search houses, and try to stop insurgents before they stopped us.

Editor’s Note: War on the Rocks is running “for” and “against” articles on the war with Iran by legislators with military backgrounds. You can find the other article here.The view from a C-130 during a combat mission in the Middle East provides clarity that is often lost in the sanitized briefing rooms of Washington. As an Air Force medical crew director, I have looked into the eyes of young servicemembers being medevacked out of theater, and I lived through what decades of strategic inconsistency asks of our warfighters.

L Todd Wood sits down with former US Army Officer Mark Castillon to discuss Covid reinstatement process at the Pentagon.
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This ‘recruitment operation’ didn’t turn out so well for him.
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A Marine previously assigned to Camp Pendleton, California, is accused of stealing at least one Javelin anti-tank missile system and 5.56mm ammunition from the base and selling them in Arizona, court records show.
Cpl. Andrew Paul Amarillas, 23, has been indicted in connection with what prosecutors allege was a nearly four-year-long scheme to steal military equipment, according to court records. At the time of his March 5 arrest, he was training at Quantico, Virginia, ahead of his next assignment to the U.S. embassy in Myanmar.

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L Todd Wood sits down with former USAF squadron commander and B-1 crew member Col Rob Maness (USAF, Ret) to discuss the progress in the Iran war.
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Following a successful launch early Monday morning, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency now has three small satellites on orbit that will demonstrate advancements in measuring the Earth’s magnetic field.
NGA sponsored the launch of three CubeSats that are a product of the MagQuest program, designed to create novel and cost-effective approaches to how the agency collects data on the magnetic properties surrounding the Earth. The small satellites were lifted into low-Earth orbit via a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission, which took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

British Army reservists train for machine gun r

Soldiers deployed to parts of the Middle East and Africa who are supporting the war with Iran are now authorized to wear combat patches, according to a memo confirmed Monday by the Army.
The new policy allows soldiers “assigned or attached to units supporting military operations” in eligible countries — which were not specified — to wear a Shoulder Sleeve Insignia for Military Operations in Hostile Conditions, or SSI-MOHC, which is widely known in the Army as a combat patch.
The combat patch wear was approved in a March 26 memo signed by Army Chief of Staff Gen.

The Royal Regiment of Scotland continues to cel

A royal welcome and opening as Princess Anne we

All About the USS Constellation (CV-64): A Complete History
The USS Constellation (CV-64) was one of the most prominent ships of the U.S. Navy to emerge during the mid-century. A Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier, the USS Constellation, was built in the 1950s and launched in 1960.

According to USCarriers.net, the USS Constellation was the second ship in the Kitty Hawk class, after its contract was awarded in 1956. It was laid down a year later at the New York Naval Shipyard.

The Army has opened an investigation after a video appeared to show two AH-64 Apache helicopters hovering over and buzzing past the home of singer Kid Rock. Army Maj. Jonathon Bless, a spokesperson for the 101st Airborne Division, confirmed to Task & Purpose Monday that officials at the unit’s home of Fort Campbell, Kentucky were looking into the video, which the singer posted March 29.
Fort Campbell is about 60 miles northwest of Nashville, and 50 miles from White Creek, Tennessee, where Kid owns a hilltop estate he calls the “the Southern White House” that appears to be in the video.

Check out our pitch side POV with all the actio

Prime Hall, Don Tran and Rick Briere all served together in the 1st Raider Battalion — a Marine Corps special operations unit that traces its origins back to World War II. Now, they’ve been reimagined as playable characters in the latest season of the popular first-person shooter, “Battlefield 6.”
The three former Raiders appear as playable avatars, which function as cosmetic “skins,” and are part of the game’s second season, dubbed Nightfall. The latest add-on brings in a new group of characters as part of a special operations force called the Strix Raiders.

The Department of the Air Force announced Saturday that Keith Hardiman has been approved to serve as its chief information officer.
Hardiman’s appointment marks the first time the DAF has had a permanent CIO since March 2025, when Venice Goodwine left the position. He steps into the role after having served as the DAF’s acting deputy CIO and will now oversee the Air and Space Forces’ IT, cybersecurity, data and artificial intelligence initiatives.
“Since July 2025, Dr.

Several alternative platforms were considered to replace the British Army Ajax, should the Government decide to end the programme.

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how Ukrainians themselves debate the issues shaping their country.American coverage often narrows the view to the battlefield — these pieces widen it, revealing the texture of daily life, politics, and public argument in a nation at war.

The German Bundeswehr has placed an order with RENK Group for 188 HSWL 256 transmissions to be used in the Puma infantry fighting vehicle.

Chains, grilles and jammers: Russia’s ULA

India’s Defence Acquisition Council has approved military procurement proposals valued at approximately Rs2,380bn ($25.14bn).

Probably the most popular thing Marines like to talk about is their glorious, eventual EAS date (for civilians reading this, that means “End of Active Service”). There’s always a plan: marrying that special person back home, going to college, or returning to the civilian job you left behind.
Regardless of which end, Marines spend a lot of time thinking about the end. What they often don’t consider, though, is that you can switch into a reserve component and continue working toward retirement without hanging up the uniform entirely.

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The Pentagon is putting together plans for weeks of ground operations in Iran as U.S.

Gordon, et al., A&SF
A pivotal U.S.

Kris Osborn, NSJ
Despite the many efforts to sunset the famous aircraft, the U.S.

Jon Harper, DScoop
The call for solutions comes as the Army is moving to enhance its comms networks with initiatives like C2 Fix and Next Gen C2.

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Over the past decade, the Department of Defense has tested internal software development through efforts like the Air Force’s Kessel Run, the Army Software Factory, and the Marine Corps Software Factory. Those efforts showed that military personnel can build useful software when given the right tools and infrastructure.In its push to make better use of data, the Army fielded powerful digital platforms as a service across the force, such as Palantir’s Army Vantage and the Department of Defense’s GenAI.mil. These programs were meant to improve analysis and decision-making.

For four years, analysts and policymakers have warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot afford to lose” in Ukraine. Increasingly, some argue he cannot afford peace either. In this view, the war is existential for his regime. Defeat would shatter Putin’s legacy and potentially end his rule. Trapped between humiliation and collapse, inviting comparisons to the fate of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II, Putin is portrayed as having no viable off-ramp from an unwinnable war.These assumptions were central to Biden-era debates over escalation management.