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The German ships will support NATO missions in the Baltic and North seas, the Atlantic and the High North, according to the announcement.

The partnership will target introduction and support of loitering munitions in Australia and New Zealand

“Withdrawing these bombers to [the US] will provide an opportunity for more significant maintenance on the aircraft, but it does reduce the potential sustained strike capacity US forces could bring to bear against Iran,” Timothy Walton, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, told Breaking Defense.

For America’s 250th anniversary, Cogs of War ran ten essays on innovations forged in wartime that subsequently diffused throughout the civilian economy, or had a lasting impact on society, governance, and Americans’ relationship with technology. We received submissions on a wide range of technologies, ranging from a copying lathe built for musket stocks after the War of 1812 to the stealth bomber. Over the last few weeks, subscribers to our free newsletter voted, and we’re pleased to announce the winners of our contest below.One idea surfaced in most of the essays: Historically, the government’s role in innovation was as much The post Ten Wartime Technologies at America’s 250th appeared first on War on the Rocks.

In 1914, European armies entered a war with forces designed to move. Within months, they were digging themselves into the earth. Ffires from newly introduced machine guns and heavy artillery made movement across exposed ground a proposition far more deadly than in any war that had ever afflicted humanity. More than a century later, armies are confronting an unsettling echo of that experience in Ukraine.Drones and other robotic precision weapons fill the low-altitude airspace, detecting and destroying tanks and other large vehicles that appear anywhere near the Ukrainian front and devastating any attempts at mobile ground offensives by infantry. Western The post Achieving Breakthrough: Maneuver Warfare in the Face of Robotic Mass appeared first on War on the Rocks.

Novakovic, who has led GD since 2013, will be succeeded by Danny Deep on Jan. 1.

“Providing core software applications is a critical next step. It provides a foundation that can be rapidly scaled and trained with continuity across the force,” Joseph Welch, portfolio acquisition executive Command and Control (C2)/Counter C2, said in the release.

The U.S. and Greece are launching a joint security program to strengthen counterterrorism information sharing between their law enforcement agencies.

There is no single answer to the drone threat, pushing the Pentagon toward a broader mix of defenses.

After testing cUAS tech against heat and sand in the desert, the Pentagon is upping the exercise’s complexity by simulating a bustling city.

For this edition of The Atlantic Brief, the Royal United Services Institute and War on the Rocks present a dialogue on U.S. and European Perspectives on Nuclear Deterrence. Participating experts from the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and the United States bring decades of first-hand experience in the armed forces, diplomacy, and foreign policy. They explore evolving views of America’s extended nuclear deterrence, the role of the British and French nuclear forces, and assess implications for NATO.Speakers: Ankit Panda: Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and host of the War on the Rocks The post The Atlantic Brief: U.S. and European Perspectives on Nuclear Deterrence appeared first on War on the Rocks.

Like a militarized Alexa, Primordial Labs’ Anura AI is trained to understand soldiers’ voice commands and translate them into specific actions — but not deadly ones.

The contract signature follows on from Bucharest green-lighting the estimated €757 million ($845 million) deal in July.

The Indian government wants one of its biggest military aviation contracts to deepen the country’s local aerospace industrial base.

The U.S. Navy’s May 2026 shipbuilding plan, signed by Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao, uses the word “innovative” eight times. The plan applies that word, among other things, to the Columbia-class submarine, an acquisition strategy for the medium landing ship, and new approaches to running the public shipyards. Elsewhere, the shipbuilding plan notes that recent increases in wages at Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding got both yards to their required 2025 hiring rate and cut attrition by two to five percent.While added funding is a welcome salve to the Navy’s well-known problem of shipyard worker shortages, it The post The Navy’s Missing Welders Are Stocking Shelves appeared first on War on the Rocks.

Anthropic recently disclosed five cases in which users hid their countries while asking Claude for help enhancing pathogens or toxins. This added fuel to the ongoing debate over whether progress in AI should be slowed. Insider warnings of threats to human lives from artificial intelligence have been received as everything from prescient humility to a hoax or marketing stunt. But in a world where AI-designed biological viruses have already been grown in the lab, the threats should be reckoned with in any biodefense strategy.The “AI doomer” model of biological risks is that AI will develop intelligence beyond that of any The post How to Defend Against AI-Designed Viruses appeared first on War on the Rocks.

As violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank has escalated, often with the acquiescence or support of Israel’s military, and the Israeli government has increasingly constricted Palestinian daily life, the potential for a new intifada — or uprising — has intensified. The first Palestinian intifada began in late 1987 and continued for several years. Civil society played a major role in organizing the first intifada, which started as mostly nonviolent and included economic measures such as strikes and boycotts. The second intifada broke out in 2000 and lasted into 2005. It was much more violent than the The post Kindling, Catalyst, and Containment: Will the West Bank Ignite? appeared first on War on the Rocks.

The U.S. Army will begin fielding Sig Sauer’s M8 rifle in December, replacing the M7 with a lighter, shorter carbine based on soldier feedback.

The Pentagon named four directed energy weapons for a homeland counter-drone program, the first systems to be fielded and tested at U.S. bases.

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The US Navy faces its most challenging period since the end of the Cold War, and it needs someone with the right qualities to steer it back on course, says former SecNav John Lehman and AEI’s Anand Toprani.

France test-fired an upgraded version of its M51 strategic ballistic missile from a submarine for the first time on Tuesday.

The move is one more step in the EU’s long-running, but recently accelerated, effort to create “strategic autonomy” in the space arena.

Experts have called on GWEO efforts to diversify sources and ensure workforce readiness

Anduril will invest $3.7 billion to develop a new shipyard in Maryland to build critical components for the Navy’s Virginia-class submarines.

Boeing’s victory caps a significant turnaround for its defense business, while Breaking Defense reports from western Ukraine on technology and life in wartime.

Anduril’s Arsenal-2 is positioned to produce “complex components and large scale assemblies” for the vessels, according to the firm.

Lithuania is ready to pay the cost to set up a permanent U.S. military base if Washington should agree to establish one there, the prime minister said.

With the significant Israeli and U.S. military attacks against Iran in 2025 and early 2026, analysts have discussed and debated Iran’s ability to replenish its missile and drone arsenal. Since 2024, Iran has burned through thousands of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and one-way attack drones in its retaliatory attacks against Israel, U.S. military bases, and other targets in the region. In addition, air and missile strikes destroyed many more Iranian missiles and drones along with their launchers. Importantly, Israeli and U.S. attacks in 2024, 2025, and especially 2026 cumulatively caused severe damage to Iran’s missile and drone industry as well The post Iran Faces Severe Challenges to Rebuild Missile and Drone Production appeared first on War on the Rocks.