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The Spanish Army has received its first Aracne counter-drone systems, delivered to the 71st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment, which serves as the army’s lead unit for defending against drones. The army announced the delivery on Oct. 8. The system is built to detect drones, identify them and choose a response, and the regiment has already completed […]View the full article

Pakistan Air Force fighter jets are being used in strikes against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, a senior Pakistani military official told The New York Times, the first indication from inside Pakistan’s military that its air force has joined Saudi Arabia’s renewed war against the Iran-backed group. A second Pakistani official told the newspaper that Pakistan’s role […]View the full article

U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters flew alongside Moroccan F-16s on the opening day of the Marrakech Airshow, putting the jet in front of a country that has been reported to be interested in buying it and that already fields a growing list of American weapons. The airshow runs Oct. 7-10 at a […]View the full article

The U.S. Army has updated LOADOUT, its software for requesting and tracking military cargo and troop movements, with changes drawn from lessons of Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. campaign against Iran that began in February. The Army’s Combined Arms Support Command at Fort Lee, Virginia, which develops the system, said the latest upgrades respond to […]View the full article

The U.S. Army has started giving its long-range missile battalions their own heavy cranes, delivering two 40-ton all-terrain cranes to Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, in late August so the units can reload missile canisters and maintain launchers in the field without hiring outside equipment. The Army’s Product Manager Engineer, Maintenance, Support Equipment said on Oct. […]View the full article

Uralvagonzavod, Russia’s main tank manufacturer and the only plant building new T-90M tanks, is now taking on major repairs of T-90Ms wrecked in Ukraine, work that analysts say was traditionally handled by military repair plants and now competes with the factory’s production of new tanks. A train carrying heavily damaged T-90Ms was photographed on its […]View the full article

TOTE Services has signed a contract with the U.S. Maritime Administration to manage construction of a new missile-tracking ship for the Missile Defense Agency, and has subcontracted Hanwha Philly Shipyard in Philadelphia to build it. The first ship is scheduled for delivery in 2030. The vessel is the first of the Missile Range Instrumentation Vessel […]View the full article

A Raytheon-Rafael joint venture in East Camden, Arkansas, has delivered the first Tamir interceptor for Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system built and assembled entirely in the United States, the Israeli Ministry of Defense said. The missile was handed over at a ceremony at the plant run by R2S, the joint venture between Raytheon and […]View the full article

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency plans to pay a Utah company to build a prototype four-legged robot that can walk into hazardous areas on its own and produce a live 3D map of dangerous gases, according to a contract notice the agency posted on October 7. DTRA, the U.S. Department of War agency responsible for […]View the full article

The U.S. Navy plans to award Raytheon a sole-source contract for low-rate initial production of the Joint Multiple Effects Warhead System, a new warhead that lets the Tomahawk cruise missile strike bunkers and other hardened targets, according to a notice Naval Air Systems Command posted on October 7. The contract would move the warhead program […]View the full article

The U.S. State Department has approved a possible sale of up to 2,020 Javelin anti-tank missiles and 200 launch units to Egypt, a package estimated at $832 million that would give the Egyptian military the shoulder-fired weapon for the first time. The approval, dated October 2 and sent to Congress as a formal notification, covers […]View the full article

China’s military is training and building hardware to fight the kind of drone war seen in Ukraine, from sea drone attacks to airfield raids, and its analysts typically write up a new battlefield technique within about four months of its first use, according to a study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The […]View the full article

Spanish drone autopilot maker UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía is working with the European Space Agency on a way for military drones to navigate using signals from low Earth orbit internet satellites when GPS and other satellite navigation signals are jammed, spoofed or unavailable, the company said on October 8. The research is funded by ESA’s NAVISP […]View the full article

SummarySal discusses current geopolitical tensions, the state of Iran, the importance of reindustrialization, and the resilience of Western systems, providing insights into global security and policy strategies. Key TopicsGaza conflict and its implications Iran’s strategic trajectory towards Cubanization Reindustrialization efforts in the US, especially n… Read more View the full article

Romania has signed a contract for 12 Airbus H225M Caracal military helicopters, the first step in replacing the Romanian Air Force’s aging fleet of locally built IAR-330 Puma helicopters, Airbus Helicopters said on October 7. The deal was concluded through France’s defense procurement agency, the DGA, and is financed under the European Union’s Security Action […]View the full article

Israeli armored vehicle maker Plasan and off-road equipment specialist ASFIR 4X4 have unveiled Stormer, a light tactical vehicle for special operations forces built on a Jeep Gladiator pickup and designed to carry up to 12 people and more than 1,000 kg (2,200 pounds) of payload. The companies will show Stormer at the Association of the […]View the full article

X-Bow Systems has won a prototype agreement worth up to $69.7 million to develop and qualify a solid rocket motor booster for a next-generation U.S. Navy weapon, and to tool a production line in Luling, Texas, that can build up to 500 motors a year, the Albuquerque, New Mexico-based company said on October 7. The […]View the full article

On certain anniversaries, I tend to repost some things I’ve written on the topic. On occasion I repost in full; other times I make slight modifications and updates. I’m going to do a 80/20 of the later today on a post I did on October 7th of last year. We have a few thousand more new readers this year than last, so they need a catch-up anyway. Some things are so fundamental, they don’t change all that much over time. Hard moments in history are clarifying events. The more difficult they are, the clearer they can make things for you. As I have mentioned before, one of the big wake-up calls I received after October 7th, 2023, was how much very real Jew-hate existed in modern Western society. Not just there, but excused by a large part of our cultural and political system as well. People and institutions revealed themselves to us. Distressing, but clarifying. Don’t look away when you see what is being said and done today. No. Look closer. Remember. Note. Act. Don’t forget. Politicians, academics, the media, the entertainment industry, and just the people down the street revealed themselves. The mask did not slip; for many, it was gleefully ripped off. While the universities have quieted, a bit, the real important areas are thoroughly infected. Just look at the Senate race in Michigan. Look at some of the candidates for statewide office in Minnesota. Look at the newly elected mayor of New York City. Jew hate—and I am not interested in your nuanced spin about anti-Zionism, let’s be adults here—has been mainstreamed. And it started the same day the Palestinian Arabs in Gaza set forth on their murder, rape, pillage, and kidnapping. As for Gaza in 2026, I have no more sympathy for that city than I have for the cities of Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan that we and the British left in ruin. They started wars of aggression, and the victims of that aggression rose to the occasion to stand against evil. They started total war, they invited total war. Those who wanted total war, supported total war, or did nothing to stop total war—behold the feast you brought upon yourself. Either accelerationists or nihilists, it does not matter. Behold the wages of your enterprise. Israel was, if anything, restrained in this war—more restrained than almost any equally justified military in history. As we are now starting our fourth year of the Israeli-Gaza War of 2023, I’m not going to retell a lot that I’ve already written on the topic. If you want to catch up, see the posts with Gaza and Israel tags. I want to remind everyone how we got here. Talk to anyone familiar with the political realities on the ground on October 6th, 2023, and they will tell you that the communities that surrounded Gaza were, politically, the most accommodating and left-leaning you would find in Israel. The ones who had the most sympathy for Gazans. It was those Israelis who received the nightmarish wrath that extruded out of Gaza the morning of October 7th, 2023. Just look at the killings and kidnappings numbers for some perspective. Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been at war with the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas (a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization, or FTO), which led an attack that day from the Gaza Strip into Israel. More than 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals (including 46 U.S. citizens in Israel) were killed on October 7, and Hamas and other groups also seized some 251 hostages. How should Americans look at those numbers (besides the very real 46 fellow Americans killed). When adjusted for population, that would be as if in one day, 40,729 Americans were killed by an invading force. 8,519 Americans kidnapped. Would we do any less? I think not. That is just the murder and kidnapping. I would refer everyone to the Dinah Project Report if they want details of the campaign of rape on October 7th. The injured are in the thousands more. Now, today, see what is right in front of you. All across the world, the campaign of rape and murder that Gazans opened their war with has been rewarded by recognition of a state that never existed. Left-wing cities and college campuses have allowed open Jew-hate to flourish. Hundreds of thousands have marched from Amsterdam to Dearborn supporting Hamas, and, as such, wholesale rape, murder, torture, and kidnapping. It really is that simple. Those who excuse it are, in my mind, as morally bankrupt as those who support it. Never again? For the worst reasons, we have decided that, perhaps, just a little. Demand accountability and call it as you see it. Speaking of institutional rot, I would be remiss—because it is inside the Navy lifelines—if I did not once again remind everyone of the moral cowardice of one of our own institutions. In a venue that justified its existence largely on the lack of attention to the plight of women as victims of war, the staff that run the Women, Peace, and Security program at the Naval War College ignored—just weeks after the mass rape and slaughter of women and girls—the entire atrocity by Gaza. I am still waiting for full accountability there. Heck, I’ll just take partial at this point. Where to from here? I don’t know. What I do know is that anyone who calls for a “two-state solution” simply has not been paying attention. Even Israeli Arabs no long think this is possible. To finish things up, Konstantin Kisin has some points that need to be heard. As good now as then. Share Leave a comment This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. View the full article

Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation has delivered a new batch of Su-34 fighter-bombers to the Russian Aerospace Forces, the second batch of the jets handed over this year, the company’s parent, state defense conglomerate Rostec, said. Rostec did not say how many aircraft were in the batch. Photos and video released by UAC show at least […]View the full article

French defense startup Harmattan AI has unveiled IRIFI, an autonomous long-range loitering one-way attack drone system that the company says is designed to hit targets up to 2,000 km (1,240 miles) away without relying on satellite navigation or human control during flight. The company revealed the system on October 6, marking its move into deep […]View the full article

New U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress pilots are now making contact with a refueling tanker on their first live training flight, a skill that once took students several sorties to master, after the bomber’s training unit at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, built its air refueling instruction around a virtual reality trainer. A peer-reviewed study […]View the full article

The Florida National Guard fed drone video, unmanned boat data and troop positions from a training exercise at Camp Blanding, Florida, to U.S. Northern Command in Colorado Springs and to Joint Task Force-National Capital Region in the Washington area, where commanders viewed the information remotely. The link-up was part of Drone Crucible 26.3, which ran […]View the full article

The Italian Army has selected an armored version of the INEOS Grenadier 4×4, making Italy the first NATO country to place a large-scale military order for the British-designed off-roader. Deliveries are expected to begin in 2027. The army chose the Grenadier Enhanced Protection Vehicle, or EPV, in its armored configuration. The vehicles will mainly serve […]View the full article

General Dynamics Land Systems will show a version of its M-SHORAD Increment 4 air defense system mounted on a Ford Ranger pickup truck at the Association of the U.S. Army annual meeting in Washington, D.C., which runs October 12 to 14. The display puts a short-range air defense and counter-drone package on a commercial pickup, […]View the full article

A Ukrainian fixed-wing strike drone built to find Russian electronic warfare systems by their own radio signals and dive onto them has been listed on Brave1 Market, the government-run online store where Ukrainian military units order weapons, Ukrainian outlet Defender Media reported. The drone, called SHOT-L1, can strike targets up to 80 km (50 miles) […]View the full article