SOCOM begins fielding new battlefield biometrics system

Reveal Technology’s Identifi platform allows operators to collect fingerprints, facial scans, iris data and voice recognition in the field.

The US Navy is full speed ahead on building a laser fleet

Operation Epic Fury may have strengthened the case for laser weapons, but the U.S. Navy’s dream of putting one on every ship may take longer than expected.

Turkey to buy 100 one-way explosive naval drones for swarm attacks

Turkey eyes an arsenal capable of taking out enemy ships with unmanned systems.

Germany touts pan-German space command amid European push to supplant US tech

Austria’s Defense Minister Claudia Tanner reaffirmed that Austria plans to put three operationally designated military satellites into orbit next year.

NATO eastern deterrence strategy takes shape around ‘autonomous zone’

“What we see in Ukraine, no vehicle movements are in the gray zone at all,” one Latvian commander said. “Any movement is destroyed.”

Near Russian border, NATO grapples with ground robots in combat

“We are a little bit behind because we’ve been using only the air drones,” a Latvian commander said.

Blacklists, corruption and frontline needs: Ukraine tackles an arms-export puzzle

After years of struggling to arm its one million active-duty soldiers, Kyiv has been wary of allowing its domestic producers to sell their weapons abroad.

Marines mandate servicewide AI training by year’s end

The Marine Corps will require all Marines to complete a basic artificial intelligence course by the end of the year.

Ukrainian drone strike on empty Baltic fuel depot prompts top-level resignation – in Latvia

A Ukrainian official said Russia is spoofing Ukraine's drones, diverting them to strike nearby Baltic nations instead of targets in Russia.

NATO nations size up an interceptor-drone bazaar where low price is everything

A price point advantage is no longer measured in millions of dollars below the competition, but in mere thousands.

Ukraine could lift arms-exports ban this year as would-be buyers line up

Gulf countries threatened by Iran could be some of the first nations to buy Ukrainian air-defense technology at scale.

Dutch startup Intelic sets up drone marketplace for European militaries

BASE will allow defense ministries to explore systems that are ready to be used in a coalition framework, with interoperability guaranteed, says the firm.

Drone diplomacy wins Ukraine valuable allies, but now it must deliver

The Iran war has confirmed how central drones are to modern warfare and handed Zelenskiy a diplomatic trump card, analysts say.

The US military wants a fleet of missile-killing laser drones

The U.S. military is once again pursuing flying directed energy weapons to counter threats to American airspace.

Australia awards contracts for counter-drone tech based on lasers, interceptors

Both products will eventually integrate into a command-and-control system developed under the Army’s umbrella Land 156 counter-unmanned aerial system push.

Opinion

Inside China, artificial intelligence is a snake eating its own tail

AI researchers refer to this as “model collapse,” a phenomenon in which models trained on their own synthetic outputs degrade over successive generations.