Australia's new submarines are still 2 decades away from delivery, but the Aussies are already looking out for spies

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Australian navy submarine HMAS Waller in Pearl Harbor in June 2008.

US Navy/MCS1 Michael R. McCormick

The US Air Force is using satellites and dirt runways to prepare its drones for a different kind of war

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A C-17 on a dirt airfield at Fort Hunter Liggett in California in March 2019.

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A jet on the bottom of the Mediterranean shows why even small parts can cause big problems for the F-35

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A Royal Air Force F-35B, its red intake blanks visible, at Amari Air Base in Estonia in March 2022.

Royal Air Force/Cpl Egan

The new T-14 tank Russia has been bragging about? We haven't seen it 'a single time,' Ukraine's military intel chief says

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A T-14 Armata tank during a rehearsal for the Victory Day parade in Moscow's Red Square in May 2015.

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A sneaky move at a Kremlin meeting may show why Putin took his time in eliminating Prigozhin

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People hang out portraits of Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin, a shadowy figure who managed Wagner's operations, as they pay tribute to them at the makeshift memorial in front of the PMC Wagner office in Novosibirsk, on August 24, 2023
Portraits of Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin at a makeshift memorial at the Wagner office in Novosibirsk on August 24.

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Recent arrests suggest Putin is quietly trying to rein in some of his most effective promoters of the war in Ukraine

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Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting at the Kremlin in February 2022.

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Ukraine may be cracking Russia's frontlines, but now it has to get Russian troops to crack as well

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Ukrainian soldiers during infantry training in Donetsk Oblast on August 11.

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British commandos have trained hundreds of Ukrainian marines in the 'art' of amphibious raids

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Ukrainian marines being trained in the UK in August 2023.

UK Ministry of Defence/LPhot Mark Johnson

NATO's 2 least-friendly members have a history of aerial showdowns, and they're both about to get new stealth jets

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a TF KAAN during a ceremony in Ankara on May 1.

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In a US showdown with China, there are some missions with no special-operations 'easy button'

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A competitor in the US Army Special Operations Command International Sniper Competition at Fort Bragg in North Carolina in March 2022.

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