The Army’s top general in charge of munitions said Tuesday the service was looking to boost armament stocks “across the board,” but singled out some specialized missile systems, one of which has struggled in development, that he expects to make production gains soon.
Lt. Gen. Frank Lozano, the Army’s program acquisition executive for fires, said the service was “within a few weeks” of fully equipping the first battery of a hypersonic weapon system known as Dark Eagle, which was delayed for years and didn’t meet its original fielding timeline of 2023.

Sailors on the USS Gerald R. Ford have already been away from home for more than eight months and are now headed for yet another unanticipated stop, this time on the Greek island of Crete, following a fire on the ship, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The Ford left Norfolk, Virginia, last June, and its crew has seen combat in two hemispheres during a deployment that could soon be among the longest in the Navy since the Vietnam War.

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As part of a broader effort across the Pentagon to improve procurement, the Space Force has finalized the nine specific mission areas that will guide its new organizations known as portfolio acquisition executives (PAEs), according to the service.
The Space Force announced Tuesday that it has officially established four more PAEs — a new organizational framework spearheaded by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s large-scale acquisition overhaul.

The opening pitch of the UK Ministry of Defence’s most senior civil servant to the parliamentary defence committee failed to go to plan.

The White House registered two new government domains this week: alien.gov and aliens.gov, according to publicly available federal records.
Their appearance comes about one month after President Donald Trump announced plans to direct the long-anticipated release of U.S. government records about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and extraterrestrial beings.
Those new domains were not connected to websites as of Wednesday morning.

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Droneshield has entered into a partnership with Robin Radar Systems, incorporating the latter’s radar technology into its sensor ecosystem to broaden radar-based detection options for users.

L Todd Wood talks with former SEAL and Naval Academy graduate CMDR Dan O’Shea (USN, Ret) about a possible seizure of Iranian Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf.
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Military families shipping their household goods and cars to new assignments are seeing delays brought on by the ongoing U.S. war with Iran, Pentagon officials say.
A March 10 memo issued by the Defense Department’s Personal Property Activity, or PPA, warned that “the operation in the Middle East is causing severe, widespread, and rapidly evolving disruptions to air and sea shipments. Airport closures, suspensions of port operations, the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz and significant security risks are preventing vessel and airline ability to safely transit the area.

In 2024, Thanassis Cambanis wrote, “Leave Syria, Keep Fighting the Islamic State,” where he argued the United States should withdraw from Syria, but continue to invest in counter-terrorism measures to combat the Islamic State. Two years later, after an American withdrawal from Syria and a new Syrian government in power, we asked Thanassis to revisit his article.Image: Photo by Staff Sgt.

BAE Systems will test its Anti Threat System (BATS) for the first time in April, with live fire trials to follow in the summer.

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Today’s firearm market is awash with pistols designed and marketed for concealed carry.
However, when semi-automatic (known then as automatic), self-loading pistols first came on the scene at the turn of the 20th century, one carry pistol stood out and remained an issued Army sidearm until the 1970s. Of course, John Moses Browning designed it.
Related: You could be the next owner of Darth Vader’s revolver
Known for such legendary firearms as the 1911 handgun and the M2 .50-cal machine gun, Browning did not design the first commercial semi-automatic pistol.

The Army is about to roll out a smaller carbine as part of its new, multi-billion-dollar rifle system. A slightly shorter and lighter carbine version of the M7 rifle, the Army confirmed, is now close enough to fielding that it has been given its own name: the XM8.
Troops tapped for early testing of the new carbine should start to get their hands on the first XM8s as soon as October, an Army spokesperson told Task & Purpose. The XM8 shares internal firing components with the Army’s new M7 rifle, firing a 6.8 x 51mm round.

Finland, the Netherlands, and the UK have announced the possible establishment of a new mechanism for defence procurement by 2027.

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The 24 U.S. Army service members aboard the C-47 Skytrain transport plane were excited for a day of sightseeing.
Less than four months before World War II ended, the aircraft called the Gremlin Special took off from Sentani Airport near Wamena, New Guinea (in what is now Indonesia) on May 13, 1945. The group, including eight Women’s Army Corps (WAC) soldiers, was to receive a bird’s-eye view of the Baliem Valley, which local pilots had nicknamed Shangri-La Valley after the kingdom in James Hilton’s novel, “Lost Kingdom.

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Rebuilding the Backbone: Why America Must Urgently Revitalize Its Maritime Prepositioning Force

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At the center of the effort is the AN/ALQ-221, an integrated self-protection and electronic warfare suite combining radar warning functions with electronic…

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Weapons system technology continues to develop at a rapid pace, and the U.S.

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The Air Force’s sixth-generation F-47 and the Navy’s F/A-XX…

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In recent years, as AI has begun to enter military planning and operational design, a persistent unease has surfaced among practitioners. Even with improved tools, increased tempo, and unprecedented access to data, plans continue to falter on integration, coherence, and a shared sense of direction. Marco Lyons’ recent War on the Rocks article on the perceived decline of operational art gives voice to this unease in a way that is both timely and important.We do not know enough about the specific wargame, its constraints, or its internal dynamics to adjudicate these conclusions directly.

When leaders fire their top generals, they may be clearing the path to war or quietly sabotaging their own military.On Jan. 24, 2026, China’s defense ministry announced that the nation’s highest-ranking general, Zhang Youxia, a vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, was under investigation for unspecified violations of laws and political discipline. Since 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping has removed five of the six generals serving on the Central Military Commission, including Zhang. In less than three years, dozens of other senior military officials have also been removed.

Why would the West underwrite the very system it has spent four years trying to contain? Yet that’s exactly what Russia has proposed, and what some leaders in Washington might be willing to entertain.In February 2026, Russia proposed an economic reintegration plan (the “Dmitriev package”) that it claims would be worth $14 trillion. The package includes sanctions relief, aeronautics contracts and restoration of access to dollar-based financial systems for Russia, preferential treatment for Western firms in the Russian market, and joint ventures in energy and mining.

The U.S. long-range, high-altitude (HALE) unmanned intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft, unofficially known as the RQ-180, is reported to have made an emergency landing at Larissa National Airport in Greece during operations against Iran. “Those who were in the area near the 110th Fighter Wing [110th Combat Wing] in Larissa at the end of last week were left speechless when they saw an impressive plane in the sky, completely different in shape and appearance from everything we see daily in politics and the military air force,” according to a local source.

In August 1988, with his country bled white by eight years of war against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, a million dead, the economy in ruins, the revolutionary generation exhausted, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini accepted a U.N. ceasefire. He called it “more deadly than taking poison.” He was drinking from the bitter chalice of defeat.And then what happened? The Islamic Republic survived. It did not moderate, liberalize, or reckon with its failures.

The first flight of the enhanced Tejas Mk2 fighter developed or the Indian Air Force been delayed by two years, following a long and consistent history of serious delays which have seriously undermined the Tejas program throughout its development. Local media have reported that although the Indian Defence Council approved the program at the end of 2022, the actual allocation of funding and the finalisation of international cooperation were later postponed until to the end of 2023.

The Russian Aerospace Forces have deployed MiG-31I heavyweight strike aircraft armed with Kinzhal ballistic missiles for a training exercise over the Sea of Japan, during which pilots tested their in-flight refuelling capabilities. Russian sources gave significant publicity to the aircraft’s mission profile and the extended reach provided by aerial refuelling, allowing the aircraft to loiter in a strategically critical maritime corridor linking Japan and the Korean Peninsula to the wider Pacific.

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Hours ago, U.S. forces successfully employed multiple 5,000-pound deep penetrator munitions on hardened Iranian missile sites along Iran’s coastline near the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian anti-ship cruise missiles in these sites posed a risk to international shipping in the strait.

Hours ago, U.S. forces successfully employed multiple 5,000-pound deep penetrator munitions on hardened Iranian missile sites along Iran’s coastline near the Strait of Hormuz.

Iranians are having fun playing drone sounds loudly causing police to flee the scene.
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Less-expensive, one-way attack drones are proving to be a meaningful weapon in U.S. forces’ arsenal as they hustle to overwhelm Iranian defenses in Operation Epic Fury. 
But, according to the Pentagon’s chief technology officer, the joint force’s current inventory of LUCAS (Low-cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System) drones is relatively scarce.
“They were not in full-rate production. So, we shipped what we had. And you saw with some shipments we were able to get out there, [commander of U.S. Central Command Adm.

Special Operations forces are the world’s most highly disciplined, mission-capable, and formidable units.
They undergo rigorous selection processes and training to conduct unconventional warfare tasks that exceed the capabilities of standard military forces. The truth is, the world may never know exactly what these teams have accomplished, but their public records contain enough to earn global respect.
Related: The third Delta Force sniper you didn’t see in ‘Black Hawk Down’In no particular order, these are 10 lethal special operations units from around the world
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As the United States continues to face Iranian

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Can you tell the difference between real and AI

Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Marzan, who was killed in a March 1 drone attack in Kuwait, was a ‘surrogate dad’ to so many in his Iowa-based reserve unit that some are now raising money to help dozens of his soldiers determined to attend his funeral in California later this month.
One of the organizers is Connor Kuehl, who said he was aimless when he enlisted in the Army in 2013 and met Marzan. Kuehl’s father wasn’t at home at the time, he said, and the senior soldier became the father figure who had been missing in his life.

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The Princess of Wales attended the Irish Guards

President Trump says he wants Nato members to s

At Armed Forces Press, we just ran a feature last month aiming to raise awareness about the historically buried and shocking British royal / Nazi duke trip across the US in Spring 1940, with hundreds of American elites visiting him at events, while the US was still neutral in WWII. That article links to a documentation webpage with seized and declassified US and Nazi German intelligence.

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has chosen the Cata launcher from Threod Systems for the British Army’s one-way effector (OWE) capability.

Norway could be seeing to acquire additional anti-tank mines, having earlier determined to obtain the German-origin DM22 munition.

The Defense Department’s ambitious homeland missile defense architecture known as Golden Dome is now expected to cost around $185 billion to account for additional space-based systems, according to the project’s director.
The Office of Golden Dome for America has been approved to spend an additional $10 billion in order to procure space capabilities needed for the architecture, Golden Dome director Gen. Michael Guetlein said Tuesday during the McAleese Defense Programs conference.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy claims forces have prevented an anticipated Russian offensive in the Donbas region.

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