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The debate about lethal autonomy—core to the Trump administration’s fight with Anthropic—obscures a deeper danger of the Pentagon’s rapid adoption of commercial AI tools: they might weaken the U.S. military’s ability to tell fact from fiction.New research suggests that relying on AI to do various tasks can erode one’s native ability to do them. Military commanders are taking note. “The more you use AI, the more you will use your brain in a different way,” said French Adm. Pierre Vandier, NATO Supreme Allied Commander for Transformation, in a conversation in Defense One’s “State of Defense” series. “And so [we need to] be able to…

The MARTE project aims to conduct study and design activities for a future MBT system that meets the needs of the EU states. Credit: Saab. The Main ARmoured Tank of Europe (MARTE) consortium has reached a “midterm milestone” in the development of Europe’s future main battle tank (MBT), following the European Commission’s formal approval of key deliverables. This milestone comes more than one year after the project’s official launch in December 2024, supported by a grant of approximately €20m ($23m) from the European Defence Fund (EDF). Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged…

India’s indigenous navigation satellite system, NavIC, has suffered a serious setback with the failure of its last operational atomic clock aboard IRNSS-1F. This malfunction, which occurred on 10 March, has left only three satellites capable of delivering position, navigation, and timing services.Experts warn that at least four satellites with functioning atomic clocks are required for the system to operate effectively, meaning NavIC is currently unable to provide reliable coverage.The implications of this failure are particularly grave for India’s security and strategic needs. Navigation systems like NavIC are designed with dual signals: an open civilian signal and a restricted military-grade signal…

Sergey E. Ivashchenko, RCD Naval warfare is undergoing a profound transformation and is increasingly

Defense acquisition has long been described as a three-legged stool: requirements, budgeting, and acquisition management. In practice, the stool has always been missing a leg.  The Pentagon treats industrial production capacity as an afterthought rather than a design constraint. Requirements writers inside the services seek the most capable system imaginable. Their incentives reward performance, not manufacturability. If a new fighter aircraft can fly farther, see more, and carry additional weapons, the requirement grows accordingly. The acquisition community then accepts those requirements and attempts to translate them into a program of record. Predictably, the system becomes complex, expensive, and slow to produce. What is insufficiently asked…

Gulf states targeted by Iranian drone strikes are turning to Ukraine for counter-drone expertise and interceptor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), creating what could become the first large-scale defence-export campaign for Kyiv’s wartime drone industry. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the UK Parliament on 17 March that 201 Ukrainian military experts are operating across the Gulf region, with a further 34 ready to deploy. Ukrainian Security Council Secretary Rustem Umerov subsequently confirmed that interception units are active in five countries – the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Jordan – with coverage expanding. The deployments followed requests from…

Soldiers train with small uncrewed aircraft systems. Credit: U.S. Army photo by Spc. Doniel Kennedy. The US Army has introduced the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Marketplace, a new digital platform intended to expedite the procurement process for drone technology. The online storefront, launched on 24 March 2026, will enable US Army units, government agencies, and allied nations to acquire “vetted” uncrewed aerial systems more efficiently. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more Developed in partnership with Amazon Web Services and the Army Enterprise Cloud…

The Tango Charlie, officially designated as the X-61 ISR unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), represents a significant milestone in India’s pursuit of strategic autonomy in defence technology.Developed through a high-stakes partnership between Cingularity Aerospace and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), this indigenous platform is tailor-made to address the unique security challenges of the Indian subcontinent.By combining Cingularity’s aerodynamic innovation with ISRO’s advanced satellite-link expertise, the developers have created a system capable of mastering the unforgiving atmosphere of the Himalayas. The drone is specifically engineered to patrol the Line of Actual Control (LAC), providing the Indian Army with a persistent eye in…

R. Brobst, B. Bowman & J. Leopold-Cohen, RCD Sometimes people surprise you. That can also happen with weapons systems. Source link

WASHINGTON — Earlier this year, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George said he expected the Bell-Textron-made MV-75 tilt-rotor long-range assault helicopter will be delivered to formations for testing by the end of this year or the beginning of next. But two months later, the Army’s Program Executive Acquisition for Maneuver Air said today it’s “too early to tell” if that timeline is still viable.  A lot’s gonna have to do with funding as we go into a new year,” Maj. Gen. Clair Gill told Breaking Defense. “So there are a number of variables that I don’t want to commit…