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The Alexa Spatium UAS launches from a mobile catapult within minutes. Credit: Ukraine MoD. Ukraine has unveiled a new jet-powered interceptor drone, Alexa Spatium, designed to strengthen its air defence against Russian uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs).   The platform, developed by a Ukrainian engineering team, is now in service with the country’s Defence Forces.  Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more In a statement released on 21 August 2026, the Ukraine Ministry of Defence (MoD) stated that the Alexa Spatium interceptor is primarily engineered to counter…

English (Original) Spanish – Español French – Français German – Deutsch Arabic – العربية Chinese – 中文 Japanese – 日本語 Russian – Русский Portuguese – Português Italian – Italiano Korean – 한국어 Dutch – Nederlands Turkish – Türkçe Polish – Polski Hindi – हिन्दी 🤖 Hi! I’m here to help you understand this article. Ask me anything about the content! Send Britain is allowing classified information on long-range missile technology to be shared with Ukraine, as Kyiv seeks to strengthen its ability to strike deep inside Russian-held territory. The move was immediately condemned by a senior Kremlin official, who described…

English (Original) Spanish – Español French – Français German – Deutsch Arabic – العربية Chinese – 中文 Japanese – 日本語 Russian – Русский Portuguese – Português Italian – Italiano Korean – 한국어 Dutch – Nederlands Turkish – Türkçe Polish – Polski Hindi – हिन्दी 🤖 Hi! I’m here to help you understand this article. Ask me anything about the content! Send Hackers linked to Iran have been blamed for a cyberattack that forced a small British power facility to shut down for four days, raising concerns over the vulnerability of the UK’s energy infrastructure. The attack took place in July…

WASHINGTON — A pilot program run by the Pentagon’s counter-drone task force is planning to live fire directed energy weapons later this year, which could be bought on the spot if they perform well, according to the task force’s director.  “We’re going to run a directed energy shoot-off in December,” Army Brig. Gen. Matt Ross, director of the Joint Interagency Task Force 401, said Friday during a roundtable with reporters at a summit hosted by JIATF-401 in Alexandria, Va.  If officials identify “systems that perform effectively or successfully,” Ross said the event will be structured such that “it immediately results…

Saab’s concept model of a future uncrewed combat air system at the Jubilee Air Show at Malmen Air Base in Linköping, Sweden. Credit: Saab. Saab has revealed a full-scale concept model of its future uncrewed combat air system, designated A3-001, at the Jubilee Air Show held at Malmen Air Base in Linköping, Sweden. Dubbed A3-001, the new concept reflects a vision for a new generation of air systems where uncrewed and crewed platforms operate together as integrated forces. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out…

As the Space Force takes on new, multi-billion-dollar national security programs, the service has awarded a new contract to keep those projects on track and on budget, Defense One has learned. The service’s Space Systems Integration Office awarded Integrate, a Seattle-based firm, a multi-million dollar contract for its AI-enabled project management program. Last year, the company netted a $25 million contract with the Space Force’s Mission Manifest Office to manage the service major multi-payload launch operation project. Now, as the service embarks on massive programs such as building the Space Data Network and the Space-Based Airborne Moving Target Indicator, the service…

Bloomberg recently reported that the Trump administration will consider European countries’ ideological positions and support for U.S. policies as part of the European posture review that is currently underway. Whether a country has supported the 2026 Iran War, placed recent restrictions on U.S. forces based in their country, or “publicly opposed” regulations that constrain U.S. business in Europe will all be factors in determining where and how many forces remain stationed in Europe. These loyalty tests depart from decades of established practices of evaluating and adjusting U.S. force posture, are likely to backfire, and above all, could leave America less safe. The…

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is exploring how to scale the reliable transmission of quantum data and pave the way for a viable quantum internet by giving networking networking company Qunnect an award to further deploy networks designed to handle qubit traffic. Pursuant to the contract, Qunnect is granted new funding to further deploy its Carina quantum networking solution, the company announced on Thursday. Qubits are naturally more fragile than classical bits, and transmitting them from one node to another has been a persistent problem in scaling a viable quantum network. Carina addresses several outstanding problems in safely transmitting quantum data…

HONOLULU — Faster intelligence gathering and analysis enabled by AI is allowing special operators to pull off missions that would have been impossible years ago, U.S. Special Operations Command leader Adm. Frank Bradley, said Wednesday. But malign actors empowered by simple AI tools are undermining military and civilian leaders’ confidence in digital information, he said. That credibility decay, raising doubt about what is and is not true, will affect not just operations but the ability of the United States to “generate that unity of effort” to deter or defend against adversarial attack, he said. “I have been plagued by my own…

SINGAPORE — Taiwan’s budget agency has announced a proposed 18 percent increase in its defense budget for 2027 as the self-governing island continues efforts to deter a potential invasion from China.  The Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) of Taiwan’s cabinet released its budget statement for the coming fiscal year on Thursday, with 1.123 trillion Taiwan dollars (about $35.3 billion) set to go to defense.   This figure is the highest amount Taiwan and spent on defense and equates to 3.01 percent of the island’s projected Gross Domestic Product for the 2026 fiscal year, which runs from Jan. 1…