A US strike on a suspected drug boat has the military in the hot seat. Its own law of war manual explains why.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended his role directing military attacks on suspected drug-runners during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended his role directing military attacks on suspected drug-runners during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday.

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The US is getting serious about cheap, one-way attack drones with a new force in the Middle East

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A line of grey, Shahed-looking drones are seen on a tarmac.
The Low-cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System are part of CENTCOM's one-way attack drone squadron.

Courtesy of US Central Command Public Affairs

A new combat-proven ballistic missile shield that shot down Iranian threats is now deployed to Europe

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An Arrow system test launch in Alaska in 2019.
Germany is now operating Arrow 3, Israel's top air defense system.

US Missile Defense Agency

North Korea's aging fighter jets have a new weapon, and it looks a lot like a certain Western cruise missile

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Kim Jong Un attends a showcase of military weapons.
Images provided by North Korea's state media agency showed Pyongyang's showcase of air assets during an 80th anniversary ceremony attended by Kim Jong Un.

Screenshot/KCNA

A US F-16 pilot outflew enemy missiles with extreme high-G turns for 15 minutes during a Middle East mission

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A US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon departs after being refueled over the US Central Command area of responsibility, February 25, 2025.
A US Air Force F-16 operates over the Middle East in February.

US Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. William Rio Rosado

Unjammable drones are leaving wires everywhere, forcing Ukrainian troops to move with caution

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The Stalker, a Ukrainian-made fiber-optic FPV drone, undergoes tests in Ukraine on July 3, 2025.
Fiber-optic FPV drones are dominating the battlefield in Ukraine.

Pavlo Bahmut/Ukrinform/Sipa USA via Reuters Connect

These drone startups are winning the war for government contracts

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A Ukrainian soldier controls a drone during a training flight on May 9, 2023, in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
Soldiers use Xbox-style controllers to fly drones.

Oleg Palchyk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images

A Ukrainian drone maker says its interceptor took down a Russian Shahed armed with an air-to-air missile

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A Sting interceptor drone closes in on a Russian shahed.
Ukrainian drone-maker Wild Hornets said its interceptor took down a Russian drone carrying an air-to-air missile.

Wild Hornets/Screengrab via X

Ukrainian special ops forces narrowly dodged a drone strike. A soldier says his driver 'drove like a god.'

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A Russian drone attacks a group of Ukrainian special operators in September.
A Russian FPV drone hunts down a group of Ukrainian special operators.

4th Ranger Regiment of the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine/Screengrab via X

Russia is throwing more of its new jet-powered Shaheds at Ukraine, but interceptor drones are rising to match them

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A black-and-white image shows the rear of a Geran-3 while in flight.
Serhii Sternenko published footage of what appears to be a jet-powered Geran-3 being approached from behind in the air.

Sternenko Foundation

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