Billionaire technology investor Peter Thiel said he’s skeptical of the US war with Iran and does not believe the United States should have launched it, putting the major Republican donor at odds with President Donald Trump over one of the administration’s defining foreign policy decisions, POLITICO reported. Thiel’s remarks, delivered on October 12 at a
The US Army’s training command in Germany is updating its drone warfare curriculum every 60 days in response to changes in this technology and the way it’s used on the battlefield. These changes reflect what soldiers are learning from using drones, as well as ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, and include electronic
The US Army says that its special battalion focused on drone warfare and lessons from Ukraine was always meant to be a temporary experiment, not a lasting element of the force. The Unmanned Assault Battalion was created last fall as an experimental unit in the 173rd Airborne Brigade specializing in drone tactics. The 3rd Battalion
Ukraine’s main military intelligence agency published a breakdown of Russia’s Zircon missile, a weapon Moscow has increasingly employed in its intensifying strikes. Russia has been investing heavily in advancing its missile arsenal, upgrading systems and making them harder for air defenses to intercept. That reaction to Ukrainian air-defense wins now represents a major challenge as
Severe backlogs could leave over a dozen US Navy attack submarines awaiting decommissioning sitting idle for more than 14,000 days through the end of the decade, and cost the sea service over $3 billion, according to a new watchdog report. Navy maintenance delays have already cost the sea service billions of dollars and sidelined active
US Air Force personnel recently trained on a layered approach to countering drones, using artificial intelligence to spot them, electronic warfare to disrupt them, and shotguns as a last line of defense. The recent exercise highlights the US military’s growing focus on having a variety of kinetic and non-kinetic systems to defend against uncrewed aerial
