Ukraine's robotic gun turrets have scored their first kills of Russia's fastest attack drones
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The US Navy needs more ships. The workers building them are winning bigger paychecks.
Recent union contract wins in California and Maine are delivering pay bumps and better benefits and may reflect new industry trends, members said.
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Elite Navy special warfare boat crews may be returning to duty with undiagnosed brain injuries, Pentagon watchdog warns
The report said that sending service members back into high-risk environments with an undiagnosed brain injury could negatively affect operations.
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Pete Hegseth's got a vision for the military. It leans on drone swarms, chaplains, and tech leaders like Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey.
The defense secretary's newly unveiled plan to get the US military ready for future wars turns in part on autonomous warfare and big names in tech.
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Russia lost one of its irreplaceable Tu-95 nuclear-capable bombers in a deadly training crash
Six of the seven crew members on board died in the crash in Far Eastern Amur, the defense ministry said.
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A US military task force just showed it's ready to bet billions of dollars on answers to the drone problem
Military officials have said they see no silver bullet for stopping all drones. Instead, a layered defense of different counter-UAS systems is needed.
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More NATO countries are buying a US-made interceptor that has downed thousands of Russian drones in Ukraine
NATO allies, especially those along the Eastern flank, are looking to harden their defenses against repeated drone incursions.
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Ukraine's battlefield supply robots have learned how to swim
Ukraine said an amphibious robot completed a first-of-its-kind logistics mission across land and water.
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Ukrainians say their drone-on-drone war is clocking speeds faster than Formula 1 cars
Ukrainians reported intercepting a Geran-5 at a speed of 264 mph, fast enough to cross the length of a football field in less than a second.
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I turned down MIT to choose a little-known college my mom wanted me to attend. Not everyone understood my choice.
Hannah Mitchell turned down MIT for a the Merchant Marine Academy. Three months in, she says it was the right decision.
The US Navy’s shipyard overhaul is going to cost billions more and take decades longer than planned, watchdog warns
Unforeseen issues have led to increased costs and extended schedules for the overhaul program of the Navy's four public yards, the GAO said.
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NATO has been using fighter jets to stop drones. One ally says a new Ukraine-inspired anti-drone wall will handle them first.
NATO says its current reliance on expensive fighter jets to stop cheap drones can't continue. One member has a new plan for its Russian border.
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A Ukrainian commander tells us why troops attack in the day and roll out their war 'robots' at night
Ground drones, tracked or wheeled platforms designed to carry heavy loads, are much quieter on the battlefield, the battalion commander said.
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Fixing transportation issues is key to getting more workers into US submarine yards and keeping them, Navy official says
The Navy is tackling local barriers like transportation and housing as it works to recruit and retain more submarine workers.
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A NATO defense minister warns that the alliance needs to learn how to disperse weapons production before it's at war
Latvia is watching how Ukraine's arms makers work during wartime, including by producing in a host of sites so none can be a single point of failure.
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The British military is feeding a 'load of data' from the war in Ukraine into its next-gen Challenger 3 main battle tank
The Challenger 3 is a major upgrade over its predecessor, which has been in service with the British Army and the Ukrainian military.
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The Pentagon wants ultra-precise clocks that could help troops fight without GPS
GPS can be jammed. DARPA is making clocks that could keep military systems running without it and eventually enable completely new capabilities.
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Ukraine’s fast medical robots can outrun Russian attacks, but speed creates new risks, makers and medics say
Some robots built to rescue injured Ukrainian soldiers in battle can drive much faster to outrun Russian drones, but high speeds can cause problems.
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The British Army wants better drone pilots, so it makes them learn 'the hardest way to fly'
The British Army is teaching future drone pilots to fly manually because it's more difficult than using a stabilized platform.
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Russia's once-rare turbojet drones that fly twice as fast are now attacking Ukraine by the thousands
The surge indicates Russia has greatly expanded access to vital parts that Ukraine has repeatedly said can only be found on the global market.
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Russia is unlikely to break through in Ukraine, but risks to NATO are rising, Western intel warns
Danish intelligence warned of rising hybrid attacks and even the possibility, though less likely, of Russian military action against the alliance.
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The USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group's demanding deployment saw a wave of suicide attempts
The acting Secretary of the Navy said there were eight suicide attempts across the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group during its deployment.
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Drones only need 2 nights to lay a minefield that would take troops 2 weeks: Ukrainian corps
The Third Army Corps said it laid minefields about a quarter-mile deep in Donetsk, where its forces have launched an offensive near the city of Lyman.
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What new US Merchant Marine Academy plebes go through on day one
We got an inside look at what it's like on the first day for new plebes at the US Merchant Marine Academy .
Ukrainian commander says flying drones have disabled 300 tankers in Russia's shadow fleet
Maj. Robert "Magyar" Brovdi said his forces had "burned" 21 tankers in the last three days, as part of a campaign from early July to choke Crimea.
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The US Navy is figuring out new ways to turn human battle plans into orders autonomous aircraft can follow
A new tool was used in a recent demonstration involving an MQ-20 Avenger autonomous aircraft, which received the plans from the human operator.
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Ukrainian war robots with microphones and speakers are listening in and broadcasting surrender messages to Russian troops
Ukraine's war robots are increasingly using speakers and microphones to collect intel and tell the enemy to give up.
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Ukraine says heavy bomber drones air-dropped exploding war robots miles behind Russian lines during a secretive operation
Ukraine's UGVs and drones have increasingly been teaming up against Russia, and they're seeing success in the secretive Operation Vivaldi.
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NATO allies in Europe want more commercial satellite imagery to spot threats earlier, CEO says
Planet Labs CEO Will Marshall said growing European interest in commercial satellite imagery comes as countries see how Ukraine is using it.
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A US Army training command says it is updating its drone warfare curriculum every 60 days
Drone tactics and lessons change based on soldier feedback, as well as observations from ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine.
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Ukraine's growing fleet of new high-speed interceptors is downing Russia's fastest attack drones
Ukraine is developing a growing fleet of new high-speed interceptors to hunt the jet-powered drones Russia is launching in large numbers.
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Russia's secret plan to supercharge kamikaze drone production
Documents obtained by POLITICO show a Russian state company blueprint for increasing drone carbon fiber production as the Kremlin escalates air war over Europe.
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Ukraine's answer to Russia's new jet-powered drones takes a Shahed-like form
The unnamed turbojet drone was filmed attacking a Geran-5, which is reported to fly at speeds of up to 373 mph.
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Half the drones in a recent US Army combat exercise were designed to be expendable like ammo
Army leaders have said that only a few drones present soldiers with a niche capability, while having more increases combat power.
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The US Army is getting enough drones, official says. Now, it needs to train enough operators.
The service is buying tens of thousands of drones and delivering them to troops. The next challenge is ensuring they know how to use them.
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Ukraine's defense companies say soldiers want drones that do more on their own so one operator can control more at once
Ukrainian drone makers are building more autonomy into their systems so one operator can manage multiple drones.
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GM is making parts for Patriot missiles now
GM Defense is making parts for Lockheed Martin's PAC-3 interceptors as Detroit eyes military manufacturing as a growth business.
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Ukraine is testing homemade remote-controlled buggies for the first time to keep troops supplied this winter
Kyiv hopes the locally built vehicles can overcome the winter challenges that slow many ground robots.
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The US Army wants to give its soldiers more time to figure out new tech instead of handing it to them right before combat training
The Army has a new approach to keep soldiers from getting unfamiliar drones and other technology just before major combat training.
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NATO trainers say Ukraine's rapid wartime pace is spotlighting just how slowly the West moves in peacetime
NATO trainers say working with Ukraine has exposed how slowly Western peacetime bureaucracy moves compared with the pace of modern war.
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Hegseth's focus on fitness and grooming is back in the spotlight ahead of another big speech
Pete Hegseth is reportedly seeking only fit, impeccably groomed, and high-performing troops for another unusual military gathering at Quantico.
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NATO is shifting from air policing to a new ‘360-degree’ defense as drone and missile threats grow, official says
NATO's new approach to its air defense operations comes amid a sharp rise in Russian drone incursions into allied airspace this year.
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Inside the Viking-themed NATO camp where Ukrainian troops train for the front
Business Insider visited NATO's Viking-themed camp in Poland, where Ukrainian troops train in trenches, drone labs, and a mock village.
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The US fired over $22 billion in munitions fighting Iran and created stockpile shortages in the process, watchdog finds
The Pentagon inspector general also found that the US lost $3.7 billion in equipment during the war.
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Iranian strikes damaged or destroyed hundreds of buildings at US bases across 8 countries, Pentagon watchdog says
The tally includes facilities in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman, and Jordan.
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'Never let a lack of motivation put you on Iranian TV': US airman recounts intense Iran survival story after shootdown
A US airman recounts surviving a damaged parachute and evading capture for 50 hours after his F-15E was shot down over Iran.
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The US military is preparing for mass casualties in a major war. Its dentists say it's overlooking toothaches.
Army dentists warn toothaches and infections could sideline troops and strain evacuation systems in a future large-scale war.
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Anthropic says Russian and Chinese threat actors used Claude as a weapons engineering assistant for drone swarming and more
The report documents threat actors using Claude to research and develop drone swarms, anti-torpedo weapons systems, and targeting recommendations.
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Here's how 7 US cities still remember 9/11, 25 years later
Cities across the US — big and small — have found ways to commemorate the attacks and those affected by them.
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