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President Donald Trump said on Friday that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed cyberattacks and espionage activities carried out by both nations during their bilateral meeting this week.Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One during his return flight to the United States, Trump, when asked if he raised the topics in their discussions, said, “I did. And he talked about attacks that we did in China. Y’know, what they do, we do too.”“They’re talking about the spying. Well, we do it too,” he said. “We spy like hell on them too.”“I told him, ‘We do a lot of stuff…

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu today laid the foundation stone for the ₹15,803 crore Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) infrastructure project in Puttaparthi, Sri Sathya Sai district.This landmark initiative will generate around 7,500 jobs and firmly position Andhra Pradesh as a hub for indigenous defence and aerospace manufacturing.The ceremony was described as a historic chapter in India’s defence history, with Rajnath Singh emphasising that the project marks the beginning of a new era for both Andhra Pradesh and the nation’s defence ecosystem.He underlined that the current global security environment demands India strengthen its…

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BELFAST and MILAN — A coalition of over 40 nations have said they’re committed to the Multinational Military Mission (MMA), led by France and the UK, to reopen the Strait of Hormuz once a ceasefire has been agreed. Those involved in the international project have disclosed plans to deploy a wide variety of high-end aviation and naval equipment to safeguard the troubled waterway — an effort that could revive global trade, long strained by Iran’s blockade. Paris and London co-chaired an international summit in April, initially paving the way for what they defined as an “independent and strictly defensive multinational…

Lawmakers ripped into Army leaders on Friday, asking why the service this week canceled the imminent deployment of a brigade combat team to Poland.But Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and acting Chief of Staff Gen. Christopher LaNeve had few answers about the decision. It wasn’t theirs, LaNeve told lawmakers at the House Armed Services Committee hearing.The general said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had ordered U.S. European Command boss Gen. Alexus Grynkewich to reduce forces.“I’ve worked with [Grynkewich] in close consultation of what that force unit would be, and it made the most sense for that brigade to not do its deployment…

Modern warfare increasingly begins not with missiles or tanks but with digital intimidation, disinformation, and cyber intrusions, according to a report by Michael Arizanti of The Times of Israel.The recent Doxxing of India’s newly appointed Chief of Defence Staff, Lt. Gen. N.S. Raja Subramani, highlights how China and Pakistan are adopting hybrid tactics that blend psychological pressure with information warfare.His personal contact and location details were circulated online through accounts linked to coordinated Chinese and Pakistani influence networks, illustrating how individuals at the highest levels of military leadership are now being directly targeted.Analysts such as Ruchi Wali have noted that…

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DETROIT — Aerospace firm AIRO, along with its brand Jaunt Air Mobility, unveiled new dual-use vertical-takeoff-and landing (VTOL) drones —  the JC250 cargo variant and the JX250 ISR variant — with  “slowed-rotor” architecture and hybrid-electric propulsion, at the Xponential/MDEX conference here.  “Hybrid provides us capabilities, not only for range, but also for going to remote areas where there may not be electrical charging available,” John Uczekaj, president and COO of AIRO Group, told Breaking Defense. “That provides a lot of flexibility going into rural areas or battlefield conditions.” The JC250 cargo variant and JX250 ISR variant were developed as a…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who last year gutted a Congressionally-created panel that oversaw his department’s legal community, is standing up a new one with a broader purview. Hegseth’s latest unusual move comes three months after he ordered a “ruthless” review of military lawyers that some saw as an attempt to evade accountability.On Monday, the secretary released a video in which he said the new panel would conduct an “ongoing, long-term, department-wide review of all aspects of the military legal system as it affects our warriors.”Hegseth ordered up the panel in a May 8 memo to service secretaries, the Joint Chiefs staff,…

Russia has reportedly made four major modifications to the conventional Kh-101 cruise missile so often used in its hybrid salvos. Source link