Air superiority and long-range strikes: what China's war games say about how it might assault Taiwan

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
A screen showing soldiers running is seen against a building in a city.
China's large military exercise around Taiwan comes after tensions with Japan and a major US arms sale.

Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

After hammering Russian ships on the open ocean, Ukraine's drone boats appear to be taking the fight into new waters

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The front of a dark-grey drone in a channel of water with golden foliage on both sides
Ukraine has a growing fleet of river drones to hunt more Russian targets.

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Robots are evacuating soldiers in Ukraine. A US veteran said they're best when they're cheap.

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A man in camouflage gear stands watching a robot with a man lying on top pulling another man along the ground in a field
Robots have started evacuating some wounded soldiers in Ukraine, and the West is watching the technology.

AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko

NATO is looking to Ukraine for ways to kill drones without wasting expensive missiles

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A US Army soldier launches an AS3 Surveyor interceptor drone during a live-fire demonstration at the Deba training grounds in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland, on November 18, 2025.
NATO has identified interceptor drones as a promising new tool for air defense.

Artur Widak/Anadolu via Getty Images

The US military is weird about hands in pockets, and the rules are all over the place

Tech Insider : Business, Travel
A solider pockets his beret in East Point, Ga., March 7, 2017.
A solider pockets his beret in East Point, Ga., March 7, 2017.

Staff Sgt. Ken Scar/US Army Reserve

Ukrainian soldiers have incredible tactical patience and are far happier moving slowly than the British military

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A man in camouflage gear and a helmet kneels in a rubble-filled room with destroyed walls
Experienced Ukrainian troops showed their Western trainers that, particularly in urban environments, they wanted to move slowly.

YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images

Taiwan is getting plenty of missiles and drones from the US. A top business leader says the arsenal is out of balance.

Tech Insider : Business
Two Taiwanese soldiers operate a tank, which is seen close-up, with a line of green trees and leaves in the background.
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Ukraine explains how it used a drone with an airburst warhead to set up its bold strike on a Russian submarine

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An aerial view of an IL-38N Sea Dragon, with a red circle added by Business Insider.
The SBU said it attacked the Sea Dragon with a drone-carried warhead that dispersed over 2,000 fragments at its target. Annotation in red by Business Insider.

Screenshot via YouTube/Security Service of Ukraine

Taiwan needs to flood the battlefield with cheap, mobile, and survivable weapons to counter China, former senior military officer says

Tech Insider : Business
Two people wearing camouflage crouch in front of a rotary-wing drone that's sitting on a patch of greenish brown grass.
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Ukrainian troops say a 'droid' with a .50-cal machine gun held off Russian attacks for 45 days in a row

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DevDroid's TW 12.7 is seen firing its M2 Browning in aerial footage.
NC13's DevDroid TW 12.7 is seen firing its weapon in this aerial footage. Red annotation by Business Insider.

Screenshot via 3rd Army Corps/Telegram

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