Ukraine says its homegrown Flamingo missiles flew nearly 900 miles to strike an Iskander factory deep inside Russia

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A Tomahawk missile is seen mounted on a factory platform.
Ukraine has been touting the Flamingo as an alternative or complement to the long-range Tomahawk.

Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo

Shield AI says its Hivemind AI pilot just flew a drone vying to become a future Air Force uncrewed wingman

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A grey and blue aircraft flies against a clear blue sky.
Hivemind flew Anduril's YFQ-44A aircraft for the first time in a test over the Mojave Desert.

Shield AI

What happened after Elon Musk took the Russian army offline

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A computer screen
Drone footage gathered by the Ukrainian military shows widespread battlefield use of Starlink terminals by Russian troops.

Viktor Lysenko/BI

How the Pentagon picks what drones to buy in a Chinese-dominated market

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A small quadcopter drone flies in a blue sky with a trail of smoke behind it.
The Blue UAS List has a rigorous process for selecting drones that US military personnel can use.

US Army photo by Staff Sgt. Anthony Herrera

Medal of Honor pilot was hit repeatedly by machine-gun fire during the Maduro raid, Trump says, revealing mission details

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President Trump awarded the Medal of Honor to Army Chief Warrant Officer 5 Eric Slover during his Tuesday evening State of the Union address.
President Trump awarded the Medal of Honor to Army Chief Warrant Officer 5 Eric Slover during his Tuesday evening State of the Union address.

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NATO's falling behind in the race to build icebreakers, critical tools for a war in the Arctic

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An Icebreaker making the path for a cargo ship with an iceberg in the background near a port on the Alexandra Land island near Nagurskoye, Russia, Monday, May 17, 2021.
An icebreaker makes a path for a cargo ship near Russia.

AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko

Ukrainian soldiers are forced to heavily rely on drones, even when other weapons might work better

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Four figures in camouflage around a large black drone in a field
The drone fight is rapidly evolving, and schools need to stay on top of its developments.

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The US Army hasn't faced serious threats from above in years. The war in Ukraine is forcing a rethink.

Tech Insider : Business, Environment
A man in camouflage gear looks through binoculars with a grey sky and almost-bare trees behind him
Ukraine shows the US it may not be guaranteed control of the air in a future war, and soldiers will have to be far more suspicious of what's flying above them.

Spc. Richard Carlisi

Russia can't match NATO's conventional strength, so it's betting on submarines and nuclear asymmetry, commander says

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A Russian submarine is followed by British ships in the English Channel in 2025.
British forces track a Russian submarine in December.

Royal Navy

Ukraine is using powerful quadcopters to destroy nearly a third of all the Russian air threats it hits, commander says

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Ukrainian interceptor drones sit on a shelf.
Ukrainian interceptor drones are often propeller-driven.

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