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Iranian missiles and drones are flying across the Middle East, forcing the US, Israel, and the Gulf states to expend numerous costly interceptors on air defense operations in just a few days and draw on critical weapons stockpiles.Air defense battles get expensive — fast. Official figures for the Middle East…
The US and Israel’s fight with Iran shows just how key air defenses have become in higher-intensity modern wars, conflicts increasingly defined by long-range missile and drone attacks.The conflict, which killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, has been heavily focused on air defenses, either knocking them out to permit air operations or…
The Pentagon is pulling back on plans to cut ties with Scouting America, as long as the nonprofit organization adopts policies that echo new military directives, including eliminating diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and banning transgender youth from the Scouts.In a video posted to X Friday, Secretary of Defense Pete…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent issued a stinging rebuke of US defense companies on Tuesday, saying they’ve fallen short of their patriotic duty by not delivering weapons on time.”These defense contractors have let down the American people,” Bessent said during a livestreamed conversation at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.Bessent…
Around 2 million Ukrainians are dodging military drafts, while another 200,000 are absent without official leave, or AWOL, Kyiv’s newly appointed defense minister said on Wednesday.The tally revealed by Mykhailo Fedorov is a rare disclosure by the Ukrainian leadership about the troop shortages the country has grappled with throughout the…
President Donald Trump’s new defense regulations are sending ripples through the industry, and that’s a good thing, according to Palmer Luckey.”It’s good to scare people sometimes,” Luckey, the founder and CEO of defense technology startup Anduril, said in an interview with Bloomberg TV.”President Trump is saying that he wants to…
