Auterion’s Drone Swarm Demo Shows How Future Wars Will Be Fought
Somewhere over a test range near Munich, ten unmanned aircraft flew not as individual drones, but as a single predatory mind hunting in formation for the next big war.
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Slimming the SIG Sauer M7: How Soldier Feedback Reshaped the Army’s New Rifle
The M7 started life as the heavy new kid in the squad, but once soldiers had their say and engineers listened, it grew into a rifle worth carrying.
How Army Special Operations Forces Are Rewiring Green Berets and Rangers for the Next Great Power Struggle
The next Army special operations fight will unfold in the shadows of a digital battlespace, where dispersed teams use drones, data, and deception to stay alive inside a peer adversary’s sensor net.
Data Is the Battlefield. US Cyber Command Brings the Artillery
USCYBERCOM is the quiet joint warfighting machine that keeps America’s digital guns loaded, shields the Pentagon’s networks from hostile eyes, and hits back in cyberspace long before most people know a fight even started.
Better Than Tomahawks: Ukraine’s New, FP-5 Flamingo Missiles
Forged under fire by engineers who refused to wait for permission, Ukraine’s FP-5 Flamingo shows how a nation can build its own long-reach answer to Russian aggression—and hit harder than anyone expected.
Atlas Lion: AI Brings New Standards to Civil Affairs Training
Atlas Lion showed that AI can replace a crowd of observer controllers and still give commanders a sharper, doctrine-based read on how ready their Civil Affairs teams are for large-scale combat.
Chaos Industries’ $510 Million Surge Signals a New Era in Defense Tech
Chaos Industries is dragging defense technology into a new tempo where speed, warning seconds, and raw detection power decide who owns the sky.
Estonian Mark 1 Missiles for “Ending This Madness”
Estonia’s Frankenberg Technologies is betting that its AI guided, “good enough” Mark 1 mini missile, built cheap and in huge numbers, is the practical way to swat Russian drones out of NATO skies without going bankrupt.
Evening Brief: Pentagon Installs ‘Department of War’ Plaques, Renewed Clashes in Syria’s Sweida, Greece Showcases Homegrown Drones
Trump’s Pentagon rebrand stirs debate as new AI, drone, and defense shifts reshape warfare. Here’s what’s making headlines this Friday evening.
Russian Hacker Linked to GRU Arrested in Phuket
The arrest of a GRU-linked cyber-operative down the road was a reminder that the world’s sharpest edges have a way of slipping quietly into ordinary places.
Morning Brief: Trump Signs Funding Bill to End Shutdown, Russian Foreign Minister Urges US Restraint on Ukraine
Trump ends the record shutdown, Lavrov warns US on Ukraine, Myanmar rearms. Here’s your Thursday Morning Brief rundown, November 13, 2025.
Discover the Pentagon’s New “Top Gun” for Drones
At Camp Atterbury, the Pentagon is teaching a new kind of air combat—where pilots wear goggles instead of helmets, the aircraft cost a few thousand bucks, and victory depends on who can outfly chaos with a swarm of expendable machines.
