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Test units will soon start experimenting with early M1E3 prototypes, with the Army now hoping production could kick off in 2027.

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Last May, NATO invited 10 Ukrainians to act as an opposing force during Hedgehog 2025, one of NATO’s largest exercises in the Baltics. The Ukrainians successfully simulated the destruction of 17 armored vehicles and conducted 30 strikes in half a day, effectively neutralizing two NATO battalions before dinner. One observing commander summed up the broader implication in three words: “We are finished.” Ominously, the exercise occurred without American forces.The Western debate on Ukraine is sometimes framed as an act of generosity, with NATO propping up a beleaguered partner.

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Recent developments indicate that the United States has begun redeploying critical missile defense assets — including elements of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system and Patriot batteries — from South Korea to the Middle East. As Washington navigates an increasingly volatile global security landscape, the need for “strategic flexibility” is understandable. South Korea remains a committed partner in the Indo-Pacific and recognizes the gravity of the threats facing our allies elsewhere.

The Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah has reported on the results of multiple ambushes launched against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, with 21 Israeli Merkava main battle tanks reported on March 26 to have been destroyed within a 24 hour period. Other consequences of engagements have included the firing of over 60 rockets at targets in the Galilee region that day, complementing much longer range strikes against Israeli targets launched by Hezbollah’s close strategic partner Iran.

Russian analysts have conducted a detailed assessment of the cost effectiveness of procuring main battle tanks and other armoured vehicles compared to unmanned attack aircraft, at a time when the advanced capabilities of the latter, particularly when demonstrated in the Ukrainian theatre, have brought the role of armour increasingly into question.

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The revving engines of an Air Force refueling tanker blew a 25-foot-wide hole in an Alaskan airport last summer, flinging chunks of asphalt 100 feet away during an engine test. The mishap did not damage the Air Force jet, but left Fairbanks International Airport with a $147,044 hole to fix.
While the ill-fated test occurred last July, the service released a formal report on the incident earlier this month.
The president of the investigation board, Air Force Lt.

Army Technology explores all known platforms, systems and equipment the UK has sent to the Eastern Mediterranean.

The Defense Department announced three new agreements with industry on Wednesday that will drastically increase production capacity for critical munitions, including the Lockheed Martin-made Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) that recently made its combat debut in the Iran war.
Under one of the deals, Lockheed plans to “make targeted investments in advanced tooling, facility modernization and critical testing equipment” to reduce production lead timelines for the PrSM, according to a Pentagon news release.

In 2025, Jack Roush wrote, “Russia’s War in Ukraine Has Brought Iran and Belarus Closer Together,” where he argued that a closer security partnership between Belarus and Iran could have devastating consequences for Ukraine. Now that Iran is involved in a war with the United States and Israel, we asked Jack to revisit his arguments.Image: khamenei.ir via Wikimedia CommonsIn your 2025 article, you argued that if the security partnership between Belarus and Iran deepens, it could provide a faster, more secure flow of critical drone technology to Russian forces in Ukraine.

In 2025, Jack Roush wrote, “Russia’s War in Ukraine Has Brought Iran and Belarus Closer Together,” where he argued that a closer security partnership between Belarus and Iran could have devastating consequences for Ukraine. Now that Iran is involved in a war with the United States and Israel, we asked Jack to revisit his arguments.Image: khamenei.ir via Wikimedia CommonsIn your 2025 article, you argued that if the security partnership between Belarus and Iran deepens, it could provide a faster, more secure flow of critical drone technology to Russian forces in Ukraine.

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AV has released LOCUST X3, the third-generation version of its high-energy laser weapon system, designed to address a range of uncrewed aerial and surface threats.

Denmark has awarded a revised contract to KNDS for the supply of tank tracks for its Leopard 2 fleet of vehicles.

The US Army has introduced the UAS Marketplace, a new digital platform intended to expedite the procurement process for drone technology.

Every weapon system in the United States military has a face. The gunner, the trigger puller. The one whose name ends up in the citation, the after-action report, the paragraph some war correspondent types up while pawing at a steaming cup of coffee. That person gets the story.
Alongside them, someone was setting up the tripod, feeding the belt, swapping the barrel with heat-mitt hands while brass rained down like confetti, sharing bags of gummy bears: the other guys.

First-person footage shows a Yak-52 aircraft gunner shooting down a Shahed drone over southern Ukraine.
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The Grizzly system incorporates design elements of Lockheed’s M299 missile launchers, which can be configured three ways and can be used to shoot both the Hellfire and Joint…

R. Finnerty, Flight Gl.
Work to convert a Boeing 737 passenger jet into the US Air Force’s (USAF’s) new airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) platform is set to begin.

Army Technology
The Skydio X10D provides ISR capability at the platoon level and can operate autonomously without GPS.

Hope Hodge Seck, WarZone
With the Army putting its MV-75 tiltrotor on a blazingly fast track, troops are already getting experience on the aircraft before the first one is even delivered.

Akhsan Erido Elezhar, NextGenDefense
Zeus is a shoulder-launched, lightweight anti-tank missile, and featuring tool-free payload swapping.

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The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on March 25 shot down a U.S. Navy F-18E/F carrier based fighter, with footage of the incident appearing to show a short range surface-to-air missile attack destroying the aircraft. The aircraft was shot down over Chabahar County and crashed in the Indian Ocean, where the U.S. naval presence has been heavily concentrated. The Corps reported that this was the fourth U.S.

Somewhere in a defense ministry, someone is drafting a policy on whether to permit AI-assisted software development in defense procurement. The sentiment is understandable, but the policy is unfortunately unenforceable because the code is already there.In April 2025, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella told an audience that 20 to 30 percent of code in some Microsoft repositories is now AI-generated. The figure cannot be independently verified — as multiple analysts have observed, there is no reliable method to measure AI-generated code in a repository after the fact.

In 2019, Gen. David Berger, the 38th commandant of the Marine Corps, issued his Commandant’s Planning Guidance, which announced the service’s force planning initiative to prepare for conflict in the modern era. Berger identified wargaming as critical to the Marine Corps’ efforts and direction was issued to improve games in both quality and quantity. Twenty major wargames and several smaller games were executed in the first two years to support what became Force Design 2030.

Early in the ongoing war against Iran, the Trump administration and its ally, Israel, believed they could foment a popular uprising to topple the Iranian regime. Part of that plan involved arming Kurdish fighters to infiltrate Iran from their locations in Iraq.The idea had intuitive logic. Kurdish fighters have built a reputation as capable battlefield partners of the U.S. military in recent years, particularly in the campaign against the Islamic State in Syria. Kurdish groups already maintain networks along the Iran–Iraq border and inside Iran.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force has deployed multiple J-10C fighter units to conduct high-intensity drills under complex electromagnetic conditions, highlighting their ability to integrate operations closely with both airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) systems such as the KJ-500, as well as with ground-based air defence and electronic warfare units.

What if the real battlefield of great-power competition is the global flow of money?The ability to mobilize and direct large pools of public and private capital across critical industries — defense, infrastructure, manufacturing, and technology — is becoming the defining instrument of contemporary economic statecraft. These industries operate largely in private balance sheets and global supply chains, meaning governments should increasingly align national priorities with private investment.As a result, a new toolkit of economic statecraft is emerging.

The launch of a U.S. Army MIM-104 Patriot long range air defence system in Bahrain has been identified as the cause of dozens of civilian casualties on March 9, with researchers at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies confirming that the missile the caused the casualties was launched from a U.S. Army battery located approximately seven kilometres southwest of the Mahazza neighbourhood on Sitra island. Washington and the local government had initially attributed the casualties to an Iranian drone strike.

The Belarusian Armed Forces have conducted exercises across all country’s largest cities, which according to Chief of General Staff Pavel Muraveyko simulated a “complex situation…. taking into account the specifics of the processes taking place in Europe.” Reflecting prevailing security threats, he highlighted that exercises took place across “all administrative and economic centres of the country, with the involvement of all executive committees of the regions and districts of the Republic of Belarus.

The U.S. Armed Forces and the Israeli Air Force have significantly reduced deep penetration strikes over Iranian territory following the confirmed successful surface-to-air attack on an F-35 fifth generation fighter on March 19. The Iranian operation is widely assessed to have been carried out using an infrared guided surface-to-air missile, possibly from the Majid system, and damaged the F-35 sufficiently to cause shrapnel wounds to the pilot, as was later confirmed by the U.S. Air Force.

New footage released by Chinese state media sources has provided new insight into the integration of unmanned aircraft into Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) Ground Force Type 99A main battle tank units. The Type 99A and Type 99B until 2025 formed the most elite units in the Ground Force, with the design having being developed as a heavier and better armoured counterpart to the Type 96 and Type 15 tanks.

L Todd Wood sits down with former Special Unit Mission Commander Pete Blaber to discuss the Iran conflict and give clarity to the way forward. We also discuss the Ukraine war and Russia’s place in both conflicts.
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U.S. Army AH-64E Apache crews from the U.S. Army 2-159th Attack Battalion have conducted anti-drone warfare exercises, simulating the detection, tracking, and shooting down of simulated drone threats at Germany’s Grafenwoehr Training Area. The exercises demonstrated the aircraft’sability to counter small unmanned aerial systems, at a time when Apache helicopters in the United Arab Emirates, Israel, and possibly elsewhere in the Middle East, have been actively involved in counter-drone operations.

Washington, D.C. — The Defense Department announced Monday it will immediately close the long-standing press workspace known as the “Correspondents’ Corridor” inside the Pentagon, relocating journalists to a new annex facility outside the main building.
The move comes days after a federal judge ruled that key portions of the Pentagon’s October 2025 media access policy — implemented under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — violated the First and Fifth Amendments.

U.S. Northern Command’s recently-purchased “Flyaway Kit” (FAK) has been deployed against multiple drone incursions at a publicly undisclosed U.S. military base since the start of Operation Epic Fury, according to a spokesperson.
Launched by the Trump administration in coordination with Israel on Feb. 28, that ongoing large-scale campaign targeting Iran’s leadership and defense infrastructure is triggering elevated risks for retaliatory drone attacks that could pose harm to Americans and critical assets.

The next iteration of the Pentagon’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract will provide more clarity into how much and where it is spending on cloud tools and services, according to Chief Information Officer Kirsten Davies.
The Defense Department intends to release a solicitation for the program — dubbed JWCC Next — in early 2026, with plans to award contracts in early 2027.

Top cyber officials on Tuesday outlined the stakes around the military’s digital hiring pipeline as the broader force attempts to implement a sweeping new talent-management model and the war with Iran nears its one-month mark.
In early March, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine told reporters that members of U.S. Cyber Command were among the “first movers” in the current war against Iran, dubbed Operation Epic Fury.

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A major update to Army recruiting regulations this week raises the maximum age a recruit can join to 42, and removes a barrier to joining for recruits with a single legal conviction for marijuana or drug paraphernalia possession.
The Army’s previous limit was 35, though exceptions are occasionally made. The higher age limit brings the Army in line with other services’ limits of 41 in the Navy and 42 in the Air Force and Space Force, Kate Kuzminski, who studies military recruiting for the Center for a New American Security, told Task & Purpose.

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