weapons

The Pentagon wants to get troops new weapons faster, but its testing isn’t following best practices, according to a new government watchdog report.Current policies have often focused on looking for problems after weapons are already developed, slowing down the process. Policy changes, the report concluded, would ultimately help the Department…

Drones — and ways to defeat them — are evolving far too quickly for traditional weapons development cycles, a company making counter-drone systems said.Matt McCrann, CEO of DroneShield’s US arm, told Business Insider that “there’s very much a counter-counter fight going on,” and “things are definitely moving quicker.”Development cycles are…

A Latvian drone maker says a key lesson for the West from the war in Ukraine is to avoid overengineering weapons and keep focus on what works.Operating out of a NATO ally that shares a border with Russia, Origin Robotics has been closely following the war, even building combat systems…

President Donald Trump’s social media post on nuclear weapons testing is confusing and doesn’t make sense with what is publicly known about nukes.The post’s first sentence is off, and the rest of it raises more questions than it answers. Nuclear experts say they are not entirely sure what is on…

President Donald Trump said on Thursday morning that he had instructed the Pentagon to begin nuclear weapons tests, which would mark the first such trials in 33 years if carried out.”Because of other countries’ testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on…

Ukraine is moving closer to exporting its battle-tested weaponry for the first time.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday that the country’s program for the controlled exports of domestically manufactured weaponry should start in November.Ukraine effectively froze the ability of any company making weaponry to export its tech after Russia’s…