Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic an ultimatum this week: Open its artificial intelligence technology for unrestricted military use by Friday, or risk losing its government contract. Defense officials in the Trump administration also warned they could designate Anthropic, which ...

Kamikaze drones and armored-piercing drones popularly known as “tank killers” are coming to the U.S. Army in bulk thanks to a new $186 million delivery order with AeroVironment Inc. Announced today, the autonomous systems manufacturer will provide two types of ...

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine is concerned the White House’s National Defense Strategy “underplayed the threat posed by China and the U.S. military’s need to prepare for a potential future conflict in the Indo-Pacific,” CNN reported Wednesday.  “Caine hand-delivered ...

U.S. and Iranian officials gathered for talks in Geneva on Thursday against the backdrop of the largest American military buildup in the Middle East since the Iraq War. The negotiations were widely seen as a last-ditch effort to prevent the ...

Sydney, Australia – 26 February 2026 – DroneShield (ASX:DRO), a global leader in counter-drone technology, today announced the signing of a Bilateral Collaborative Research Agreement (CRA) with the Australian Department of Defence (Defence), through the Defence Science and Technology Group ...

“Acoustic rainbows” sound psychedelic. But the idea is no acid trip: By dispersing sound waves, noisy objects can actually be made silent. That’s why U.S. Special Operations Command is seeking acoustic rainbow emitters, or ARE, for its drones, according to ...

“And our nation’s capital itself, where we have almost no crime anymore, Washington, D.C. How did that happen?” President Donald Trump said Tuesday evening as he kicked off the national-security portion of his State of the Union speech with a ...

The Pentagon is building up the largest force of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East in decades, including two aircraft carrier strike groups, as President Donald Trump warns of possible military action against Iran if talks over its ...

Heavy rotor blades cut through the Iraqi night as American aviators raced towards a firefight unfolding below. In August 2023, French special operations forces had come under attack from Islamic State militants near Hawija and a New York Army National ...

COLOGNE, Germany — The German government plans to equip its military forces with one-way attack drones, setting up three domestic manufacturers for deals that could reach billions of euros. Lawmakers on the parliamentary budget committee on Feb. 25 approved contracts ...