1+ hour, 21+ min ago  (325+ words) Joint Interagency Task Force 401 (JIATF-401), the Pentagon's counter-drone task force, validated CACI International's Sky Valor counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) for operational use across the joint force. The validation followed a two-day evaluation at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, concluding…...

1+ day, 35+ min ago  (511+ words) A U. S. Navy drone boat rescued the crew of a U. S. Army Apache helicopter that went down in the Gulf of Oman, in what is believed to be the first known military search-and-rescue operation conducted by an unmanned surface vessel (USV). The…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (338+ words) A Panama-flagged container ship operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) was struck by an unknown projectile approximately 40 nautical miles southeast of Umm Qasr, Iraq on June 1, according to United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO). The strike triggered a large explosion…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (266+ words) Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise company, has notified nearly six million customers that their personal information was exposed in a cyberattack detected in April. The company said a threat actor gained access to a portion of its information technology…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (247+ words) The U. S. Air Force lifted its fleet-wide operational pause on the T-38 Talon on May 28, 2026, authorizing aircraft at four major commands to begin returning to flight after completing inspections. The Safety Investigation Board (SIB) probing the May 12 crash that triggered the grounding…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (267+ words) The French Navy boarded the sanctioned crude oil tanker Tagor in the Atlantic Ocean on May 31, detaining the vessel more than 400 nautical miles west of Brittany after it was found flying a Cameroonian flag from a registry Cameroon had closed…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (482+ words) U. S. Special Operations Command expects to begin receiving the MK24 rifle from LMT Defense before the end of September, replacing the MK17 SCAR-H with a multi-caliber weapon that lets operators swap between 7. 62 NATO and 6. 5 Creedmoor barrels depending on the mission. The SCAR-H, chambered…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (503+ words) A Russian Mi-26 heavy-lift helicopter lowered a Pantsir-SMD-E air defense system onto the roof of a 42-story Moscow skyscraper this week, installing a counter-drone weapons platform at roughly 560 feet above street level while rain fell over the city." Video of the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (385+ words) An F-35 Lightning II pilot commanded an airborne MQ-20 Avenger unmanned jet from the cockpit of a grounded aircraft using a beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) tactical proliferated low Earth orbit data link in a Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) demonstration, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI)…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (203+ words) Sweden will donate 16 JAS 39 Gripen C/D multirole fighter jets to Ukraine armed with long-range Meteor air-to-air missiles, with deliveries set to begin in early 2027, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson announced at Uppsala Air Base on May 28 during a joint press…...