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B. Ramsey, RCD What are the successes of the Department of War (DOW) since President Trump began his second term? And what things are not going so well and why. Source link

WASHINGTON — The Senate has confirmed Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd to be the next commander of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency. The 71-29 vote, means Rudd will pin on his fourth star and the two organizations will have a permanent leader after nearly a year with an acting commander. The Trump administration fired Gen. Timothy Haugh in early April just over a year into the job, still without public reasoning. Rudd comes into the job with virtually no direct experience in the signals intelligence and cyber world, having been a career special operations officer. However,…

The Pakistan Navy (PN) launched Operation Muhafiz-ul-Bahr on 9 March 2026 to escort Pakistani merchant vessels and protect the country’s sea lines of communication (SLOCs) amid the ongoing disruption to the Strait of Hormuz.According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the PN is conducting escort operations in close coordination with the Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC). At the time of the announcement, PN warships were escorting two merchant vessels, one of which was scheduled to arrive in Karachi the same day.The operation comes in direct response to the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz following the joint US-Israeli strikes…

R-L: OneArc president Rahul Thakkar and Danish Major Alex Voss, Branch Chief of Simulation Systems. Credit: © BAE Systems. The Danish Army has selected BAE Systems OneArc (OneArc) to provide the foundation for its new enterprise virtual training environment under a seven-year agreement. The contract will introduce a modernised simulation platform including VBS4, VBS Builder Edition, Blue IG, TerraTools Platinum, as well as software maintenance and on-site training services. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more The transitioning from VBS3 to VBS4 is in…

The central question of why the Indian Army appears to be ignoring DRDO’s Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile (QRSAM) despite repeated assurances of imminent orders is rooted in a mix of technical, procedural and strategic factors, rather than a simple lack of interest.On paper, QRSAM has completed multiple successful development and user-assistance trials, demonstrated core capabilities like “search on the move”, “track on the move” and “fire on short halts”, and has a defined production agency in Bharat Electronics Limited, yet firm orders continue to be pushed into the future.This disconnect between technological readiness and contractual closure is what fuels the…

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WASHINGTON — The Navy and the Marine Corps are zeroing in on amphibious warship readiness as a new board that aims to expedite progress and eliminate obstacles gets underway, according to the director of the Marine Corps’ operation division.  “We’re going to be identifying barriers to readiness, figuring out what levers we can pull to improve that readiness and make sure that we are managing and keeping an eye on the right metrics to make sure that we are increasing amphibious readiness,” Maj. Gen. Jason Morris said in an interview with Breaking Defense.  While amphibious warships and their readiness have…

The Pentagon and several Gulf states are in active discussions with Ukraine about acquiring Ukrainian-made interceptor drones to counter Iranian Shahed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), according to reporting by the Financial Times, Kyiv Post, and PBS News.The talks come as the ongoing 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis – triggered by the joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran beginning 28 February – has exposed a fundamental mismatch between the cost of existing air defence interceptors and the volume of Iranian drone attacks across the Gulf.According to multiple sources, Gulf states expended over 800 Patriot PAC-3 MSE interceptors in the first three days…

AV will design and integrate prototype test environments at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. Credit: Pavel Kapysh/Shutterstock.com. AeroVironment has received a three-year contract worth $97.4m under the US Army’s Aviation and Missile Technology Consortium to develop and deliver the Generative Environment for the Next Era of Spectral Imaging Stimulators, known as GENESIS. The programme will create a Hardware-in-the-Loop test environment for validating missile defence and electro-optical/infrared sensor systems. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more AeroVironment said it will design and integrate prototype test…

India must count on the Ghatak Combat UAV (initially designated as Indian Unmanned Strike Air Vehicle) stealthy unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) as a cornerstone of its air defence strategy against China, given the People’s Liberation Army Air Force’s rapid deployment of over 300 J-20 fifth-generation stealth fighters and emerging sixth-generation platforms. However, details of the project are classified.On July 1, 2022, DRDO carried out the maiden test flight of a new Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), an autonomous Flying Wing Technology Demonstrator, from the Aeronautical Test Range, Chitradurga, in Karnataka, this vehicle is the predecessor to the GHATAK UCAV,“Operating in…