AI cut the UK's war planning cycle from 72 hours to just one, British Army's top general says

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Three Royal Marines open fire from behind cover of a military vehicle.
Royal Marines fire small arms during an exercise in Norway.

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US forces started running sea-drone rescue drills years before the downing of an Apache forced them to do it for real

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US military naval drones in the Gulf of Aqaba.
US forces have practiced in recent years how to rescue soldiers with sea drones before a real mission earlier this month.

US Central Command

Drone operators aren't spared from the horrors of war, and they're top targets

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A man crouches in a muddy trench holding a grey drone
Ukraine's drone pilots are hunted by Russia and at risk just like other soldiers.

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Ukraine's drone pilot scoreboard logged over 800,000 recorded hits against Russia in half a year

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A female Ukrainian soldier holds a drone in her right hand while her left attaches it to a launch system.
A female Ukrainian soldier prepares a fixed-wing drone for launch.

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Inside Ukraine's secret drone campaign destroying sites deep in Russia

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A technician with Ukraine's military intelligence agency, the GUR, prepares a Liutyi attack drone for a strike well inside Russia.
A technician with Ukraine's military intelligence agency, the GUR, prepares a Liutyi attack drone for a strike well inside Russia.

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The US Army has a new self-contained Pacific command built for a complex fight

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A US Army M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System fires on a beach.
The Army activated the Multi-Domain Command Pacific last week, combining the 7th Infantry Division and 1st Multi-Domain Task Force.

US Army video by Staff Sgt. Brandon Rickert

The end to years of brutal fighting is in sight for some of Ukraine's battle-weary troops

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A Ukrainia gunner smokes a cigarette in a trench.
Ukraine's longest-serving troops are set to be eligible for release from the war by late autumn, Fedorov said.

Dmytro Smolienko/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Inside the C-130 Hercules, a military transport aircraft that can land almost anywhere and haul almost anything

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A C-130E Hercules at the Air Mobility Command Museum on Dover Air Force Base.
A C-130E Hercules at the Air Mobility Command Museum on Dover Air Force Base.

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Ukrainian troops are losing days just getting to their positions in the kill zone. It's when they're most at risk.

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Soldiers from the 141st Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Land Forces, armed with rifles, walk along a road on the front line, March 19, 2026.
Drones have created a kill zone around the front line where any movement risks an attack.

ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters Connect

Ukraine says even its obsolete drone-war tech still has value for friendly countries bracing for Shahed-style attacks

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Two men lean over a large black drone on grass with concrete bricks stacked into a wall behind them
Ukraine has years of experience fighting drone barrages, and allies are interested in its counter-drone tech.

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