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Pictured is the Centauro II 8×8 wheeled vehicle. Credit: Leonardo. Leonardo signed a contract to produce the first batch of 8×8 Centauro II wheeled vehicles to the Brazilian Army The company will deliver the first seven out of a total of 98 vehicles Centauo II is a unique “wheeled tank destroyer” with a 120mm calibre gun Leonardo signed a contract to begin serial production of the first batch of Centauro II 8×8 wheeled vehicles for the Brazilian Army and Marine Corps, according to a release issued on 1 September 2026. The company will deliver seven Centauro II vehicles out of…

WASHINGTON — In the sweltering 100-plus degree Mojave Desert heat, some of the Army’s Starlink ground terminals were overheating, reducing the throughput soldiers needed to pass and receive data. With no contractor support in the field, soldiers were left to troubleshoot solutions themselves.  Their straightforward fix: soaking T-shirts with water and draping them on the terminals’ antennas to cool them down.  “We did have a couple cases where things were overheating … but we see when you have commercial-first [tech], it’s not necessarily purely ruggedized, we see that we have some shortcomings in some of the technology’s ability just to…

Until March 2026, the primary threats to developing trade corridors across the Caspian Sea seemed to be inadequate infrastructure and falling water levels. Then Israel targeted Iranian naval assets in the sea, followed in July by a Ukrainian attack on Iranian military shipments in the waterway. Conflict in the Caspian Sea has made it clear that physical maritime security is essential to making the east-west route a viable, reliable alternative conduit for critical resources.  The Trans-Caspian International Transport Route, the east-west route known as the Middle Corridor, provides 4,250 kilometers of rail lines and 500 kilometers of sea connections between…

The Gulf of Thailand forms the second axis of the Cambodia-Thai border dispute. The 27,000-square-kilometer Overlapping Claims Area has been disputed since 1972 and is estimated to hold some 1.6 billion barrels of oil and 17 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Thailand terminated the 2001 memorandum of understanding governing talks over the OCA in early 2026, after fighting along the two nations’ disputed land border in July and December 2025. The outbreak of war reignited historic territorial and political animosities between the two Southeast Asian states and resulted in a border closure that still persists. The immediate cause of…

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto yesterday described his country as Russia’s gateway to Southeast Asia, as he pushed for closer trade and investment ties between the two nations. Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Vladivostok alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin, Prabowo urged Russian businesses to invest in Indonesia, stating that the Pacific should become a “highway between our two economies.” “For Eurasian businesses, Indonesia is a natural entry point to ASEAN,” Prabowo said, according to a report by the Straits Times. He described the two nations as having ” very profound and important historical ties that have lasted for…

LYNN, Mass.—Three decades ago, GE Aerospace tested a technology that could’ve made the F-16 more agile. It worked, but was never fielded. Instead, it sat in a box in a warehouse—until defense tech startup Shield AI called. “They reached out to us and said…‘Do you still have that capability? And the truth is, we hadn’t fielded it. After we did the demonstration, it basically went into storage,” said Steve “Doogie” Russell, VP and general manager of GE’s Edison Works. “And the solution that we’ve offered to Shield on that is an F110 engine with a nozzle in the back that we…

A Vietnamese court yesterday sentenced 11 people to death and 19 to life imprisonment in one of the country’s largest ever drug trafficking cases. The case dates back to March 2023, when four flight attendants for Vietnam Airlines were ‌caught carrying narcotics hidden in toothpaste tubes at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport, after arriving on Flight VN10 from Paris. The tubes contained more than 2.9 kilograms of ketamine and 8.3 kilograms of MDMA. The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court yesterday sentenced 11 people to death for illegal drug trafficking in connection with the case. This…

When Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae visited Vietnam in early May this year, she presented an “evolved version” of the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP), a key plank in Japanese foreign policy, which is being called FOIP 3.0. The “Updated FOIP” specifies as priority areas “Building economic infrastructure for the age of AI and data,” “Co-creation of economic growth opportunities through public-private collaboration and rule sharing,” and “Enhancing cooperation in the field of security to ensure regional peace and stability,” each with its own items for concrete cooperation. The FOIP was first proposed by the late Prime Minister Abe Shinzo…

WASHINGTON — Following steep losses of the General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper in recent combat operations against Iran, Air Force officials are accelerating efforts to replace the venerable drone with a new unmanned aircraft at a price of $10 million each. “As we get to the end of the MQ-9 life, there was some early talk of where do we want to go afterwards, and candidly, as a result of some of the losses that we’ve experienced in combat operations, that discussion sort of got accelerated,” Lt. Gen. Christopher Niemi, the Air Force’s chief modernization officer, said in a briefing with…