Inside the Army's extreme test lab, inventing futuristic food, gear, and warfighters

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A soldier aiming a gun at a virtual screen with digital people walking toward him.
Soldiers train on digital screens at Natick.

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Palantir's summary of CEO Alexander Karp's manifesto is generating buzz. Read the 22 bullet points.

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Alex Karp speaks during The New York Times' Dealbook Summit
Palantir posted a summary of a book its CEO, Alex Karp, co-wrote called "The Technological Republic" over the weekend.

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Iran's military says it has placed the Strait of Hormuz under strict control again

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A vessel at the Strait of Hormuz
A vessel at the Strait of Hormuz

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This Ukrainian counter-drone company is worried about missing its moment in the Iran war

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A man in a green balaclava holds a small black interceptor in a sunny blue sky
Ukrainian company General Cherry makes drones and interceptor drones.

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This is what Iran's drones and missiles look like up close

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Iran attacked the Erbil region in northern Iraq over 400 times during its war with the US and Israel. WELT's Chief Correspondent Ibrahim Naber got exclusive access to the wreckage of Iranian weapons used to strike the Kurdistan region.

Every test at the US Army's mad science lab

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Inside the Natick Soldier Systems Center, the US Army puts its own gear through extreme tests—burning uniforms, freezing equipment, and pushing soldiers to their limits—to make sure everything can survive the harshest environments on Earth.

The US Army has been surging cheap interceptor drone purchases to flip the cost war with Iran's Shaheds

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The American Merops drone system, deployed by Poland and Romania to defend Russian drones, is tested in Nowa Deba, Poland, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025.
The Merops system has been used in Ukraine and is now deployed to the Middle East.

AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski

Iran's arsenal still has teeth. US intelligence says it still has thousands of missiles and drones.

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Iran's domestically built missiles and satellite carriers are displayed in a permanent exhibition at a recreational area in northern Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, March 24, 2026.
Iranian missiles on display in Tehran last month.

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North Korean ballistic missiles were made with outdated methods from up to 50 years ago: Ukraine MOD

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Head of the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office Oleksandr Filchakov holds wreckage of a North Korean missile.
Ukraine said in 2024 that the debris it found was consistent with that of North Korean missiles.

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US Navy destroyers are at the center of the blockade squeezing Iran

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The US Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Murphy.
US Navy destroyers are at the center of the Pentagon's blockade of Iranian ports.

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