War & Defense
The war in Ukraine, NATO, European defense and security coverage.
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9 nations back Ukraine’s Patriot alternative, Freyja — and want it flying in a year
Ballistic missiles are the one threat Ukraine can't stop with a weapon it makes itself.
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Lawmakers demand Pentagon release findings from probe of Iran school strike
Lawmakers demanded Monday that the Pentagon release its findings from an investigation into the Feb. 28 strike at a girls’ school …
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Reditus readies first launch of its re-entry vehicle/hypersonic target
The Missile Defense Agency is evaluating the company’s ENOS spacecraft as a hypersonic target/testbed under the SHIELD contr…
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Pentagon announces ‘immediate suspension’ of some CMMC mandates
Top Pentagon officials said as currently executed, CMMC is too prohibitive and burdensome on the Defense Industrial Base.
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US to begin enforcing maritime blockade on Iran on Tuesday
The U.S. military will begin enforcing a maritime blockade on Iran on Tuesday.
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In first, US uses sea drones in combat in Iran strikes: CENTCOM
The US military posted a video of the unmanned surface vessels appearing to approach docks and explode.
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NATO’s plan to buy Triton drones: Three cheers, two concerns
CBSA’s Travis Sharp and Ryan Kaufman analyze NATO’s recent decision to purchase high-dollar American drones.
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US arms exports triple as Washington uses foreign sales to fund rearmament
A new study shows the US defence industrial base is recovering from munitions shortages, but its strategy to use European arms pur…
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Space tag: Jackal, Puma spacecraft to chase each other Victus Haze demo
The Space Force’s TacRS program has at least three more Victus demonstration projects in the works, with a total of $300 mil…
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Auterion , Ukrainian drone-maker Skyfall to supply 50,000 FPVs
Skyfall said that the Shrike has destroyed a wide range of Russian military assets, with hits on targets including an Mi-8 helicop…
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Trump’s Nato remarks rang hollow – but he recognizes something real | Christopher S Chivvis
US political leaders must be more clear-eyed about our global alliances, without embracing his scorched-earth approach Donald Trum…
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Helsing raises $1.8 billion in Europe’s biggest defense-startup round
Defense technology has been one of the fastest-growing areas of venture capital funding on the back of rising military budgets, an…
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Canada to plug surveillance gaps with Aussie over-the-horizon radar
The system is called the Arctic Over-The-Horizon Radar (A-OTHR), and the deal is worth some US$1.75 billion to Australia.
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Europe’s Hydis project settles on concept for hypersonic interceptor
Europe's push to field a hypersonic-defense interceptor will come down to two competing projects.
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Death of US Ukraine aid backer Lindsey Graham leaves Europe exposed
The sudden death of Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a pivotal negotiator for US military aid to Kyiv, removes a rare hawkish de…
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Trump's volatile Nato summit accelerates Europe's defence shift
Donald Trump’s abrupt pivot from attacking Nato allies to praising them in Ankara underscores a deeper US strategic dysfunction th…
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Ukraine drone command targets Russian energy as wheat exports halt
Ukraine has created a dedicated military command to systematically strike Russian energy infrastructure, a strategy that has alrea…
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Advanced Russian drones batter Zaporizhzhia civilian infrastructure
Russia is using new drone technology to systematically target schools, transport and public buildings in Zaporizhzhia, a major Ukr…
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Air Force pushing contractors to purge Anthropic by Sept. 1: Memo
The Pentagon’s new target is to remove Anthropic department wide by end of September, even as the AI titan is suing the gove…
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Ukraine can soon build its own Patriots – but it could take years
Ukraine may soon possess a license the U.S. currently extends to only a handful of allies — but it could be years before Patriots …
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Zelenskyy taps European allies to build Freya, a cheaper Patriot-alternative to Russia’s ballistic missiles
Ukraine will hold its first coalition meeting on a homegrown ballistic missile defense system in France “in the coming days.”
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DIU, Navy launch containerized payload competition
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle has been on a “containerized capability campaign.”
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The state of play with the defense budget’s various moving parts
Here’s what we’re watching for after Congress comes back in July.
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US Marines successfully test-fire new medium-range air defense system
U.S. Marines on Guam successfully fired the service's new Medium-Range Intercept Capability system during Exercise Valiant Shield.