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A Slovak defense engineering company has signed a framework agreement worth up to $580 million with Slovakia’s Ministry of Defence for military excavator systems, structured under the European Union’s new SAFE financing program in a way that allows any other EU member state to join the contract without running its own separate procurement competition. CSM […]View the full article

The U.S. Army’s top civilian official sat down at the operator’s seat of a laser-armed pickup truck at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and personally checked the weapon at a drone target, the latest signal from Washington that directed energy weapons have moved from science fiction to serious policy in a very short […]View the full article

A San Francisco-based maritime technology company’s hydrofoiling electric boat stopped senior U.S. Navy admirals and captains in their tracks at the Sea-Air-Space conference, drawing repeated assessments of ‘game changer’ from operators who work with small naval craft for a living, Navier CEO Sampriti Bhattacharyya revealed following the company’s debut at the major naval exposition. The […]View the full article

A Los Angeles-based drone technology company has redesigned its ground control station for FPV attack drones to fit on a soldier’s body armor, cutting total system size by more than half while preserving the full 25-kilometer (15.5-mile) operational range that the previous version offered, and is already delivering the new hardware to customers. Neros Technologies […]View the full article

Canada’s Royal Canadian Navy will equip its next generation of warships with the same submarine-hunting sonar system that the British Royal Navy operates, after Thales Canada secured a contract from Lockheed Martin Canada to supply the S2087 towed array sonar for the future River-class destroyers. The award makes Canada the 20th navy worldwide to select […]View the full article

Poland and Britain are building artillery shells together at scale, and their governments and chambers of commerce have just given that partnership a formal award recognizing it as one of the most consequential industrial collaborations between the two countries. The British Embassy in Warsaw and the British Polish Chamber of Commerce jointly presented the British-Polish […]View the full article

The U.S. Army’s 52nd Air Defense Artillery Brigade has tested a new low-cost interceptor called Skyhammer in Europe, putting Cambridge Aerospace’s system through developmental evaluations designed to determine whether it can fill critical gaps in the layered air defense architecture that American and NATO forces are urgently trying to build along the alliance’s eastern flank. […]View the full article

A drone equipped with an airborne signals intelligence system successfully detected, classified, and geolocated every high-priority radio frequency emitter in a French military exercise earlier this month, demonstrating a capability that could fundamentally change how ground forces find and track adversary communications equipment, drone operators, and jammers without putting soldiers within range of the threats […]View the full article

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The U.S. Army is nearly doubling its investment in its primary short-range air defense system for fiscal year 2027, requesting $461 million for the Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense program, known as M-SHORAD, up from $296 million the previous year, as the service races to rebuild air defense capabilities it dismantled two decades ago and now […]View the full article

Poland signed a contract for 146 more of its domestically built infantry fighting vehicles, expanding a rearmament program that has become one of the most significant ground force modernization efforts in NATO Europe, with a deal worth approximately 7.5 billion Polish zloty, equivalent to roughly $2.07 billion at current exchange rates, funded through Poland’s SAFE […]View the full article

French Rafale fighters scrambled from Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania to intercept two Russian Su-30SM fighters that entered Baltic airspace without a flight plan, with France’s Armed Forces General Staff publishing footage of the intercept and confirming the alert launched on very short notice. The post from the official French military described the aircraft entering […]View the full article

Armenian Su-30SM fighter jets flew over Yerevan’s Republic Square on May 28, 2026, carrying what open-source analysts identified as Iranian-made precision-guided glide bombs, presenting the clearest public evidence yet that Armenia has armed its Russian-built fighters with weapons from Tehran rather than Moscow, resolving a procurement scandal that had dogged the aircraft since their arrival […]View the full article

The U.S. Air Force has opened an industry search for a new mission computer for its F-16 fleet, a move aimed at replacing aging avionics hardware that limits future upgrades to one of the service’s most widely used fighter aircraft. The program it is kicking off could define what the F-16 Fighting Falcon can do […]View the full article

Every GPS signal on the battlefield is a vulnerability waiting to be exploited, and Russia, China, and Iran have all demonstrated the willingness to exploit it. DARPA just announced it is going to solve that problem from the inside out, by building a navigation sensor so precise that it no longer needs GPS to know […]View the full article

A $48.5 million contract awarded to L3Harris to produce proximity fuzes for the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System is the latest signal that the U.S. military has found its answer to the drone swarm problem, and is now scaling that answer as fast as American manufacturing can deliver it. The Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian […]View the full article

The U.S. Marine Corps is expanding the fleet of unmanned missile-launching trucks that can hide on a Pacific island and sink Chinese warships, with a $70.6 million contract to Oshkosh Defense announced this week for additional ROGUE-Fires carriers that form the ground portion of the Corps’ most consequential new weapons system. Marine Corps Systems Command, […]View the full article

Ukrainian strike drones hit two Russian Tu-142 maritime patrol aircraft on the ground at Taganrog military airfield on the night of May 29-30, 2026, with video released by Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces showing the aircraft catching fire after multiple direct hits, marking the latest in a sustained campaign to destroy Russian military aviation assets far […]View the full article

Russia’s Uralvagonzavod concern publicly unveiled for the first time a prototype of the DT-3PM light articulated tracked all-terrain vehicle at the Gas. Oil. Technologies exhibition in Ufa, presenting a dual-use platform that its developers describe as equally suited for Arctic military operations and civilian industrial work in some of the world’s most remote and hostile […]View the full article

The top American general in South Korea described the Korean Peninsula as “the dagger in the heart of Asia” from China’s perspective, and China’s embassy in Seoul responded by publicly telling him he had crossed the line, injecting a pointed diplomatic confrontation into a week already complicated by the broader state of U.S.-China relations. General […]View the full article

Russian Su-57 stealth fighters have resumed high-tempo cruise missile operations along nearly the entire length of the Ukrainian front, with Ukrainian air raid monitoring services recording more than ten confirmed launch events during May alone, a pace of operations that had been significantly curtailed following a Ukrainian drone strike deep inside Russia earlier this spring. […]View the full article

I’m not sure another nation has the same underlying concern for prisoners of war (POWs) that Americans do. I don’t think anyone else has a POW/MIA flag flying all over the place, even if we don’t have any POWs. As everyone was reminded this spring, we will go to incredible ends to stop our people from being taken prisoner if we have to. We will try to rescue them if we can. Perhaps it is the legacy of the British prison ships of the Revolutionary War, the nightmares of the American Civil War camps, or the memory of how our POWs were treated in Vietnam and Korea. In WWII’s European Theater, conditions were rough, but they were not so bad that we couldn’t make a comedy series out of it—but there was nothing that could be made light of American POWs in the Pacific Theater. Unimaginable horror—though we tried. While we all like to focus on the big naval battles and island hopping in the last year in the Pacific theater, we were also grinding our way through The Philippines. On the islands, thousands of Americans languished in Japanese prison camps. Many were survivors of the Bataan death march at the start of the war. Starved, tortured, executed for sport—used for slave labor. As the American armies advanced, word spread that the Japanese were executing POWs who were no longer useful, or simply to prevent them from being liberated. The 6th Ranger Battalion and Alamo Scouts had been itching to get into the fight. The Filipino guerrillas have been at it for years. They decided to make a plan. They did. That is how we got the Great Raid on Cabanatuan. …nearly 150 Americans were executed by their Japanese captors on December 14, 1944 at the Puerto Princesa Prison Camp on the island of Palawan. An air raid warning was sounded so that the inmates would enter slit-trench and log-and-earth covered air-raid shelters, and there doused with gasoline and burned alive.[64] One of the survivors, PFC Eugene Nielsen, recounted his tale to U.S. Army Intelligence on January 7, 1945.[65] Two days later, MacArthur’s forces landed on Luzon and began a rapid advance towards the capital, Manila.[66] Major Robert Lapham, the American USAFFE senior guerrilla chief, and another guerrilla leader, Captain Juan Pajota, had considered freeing the prisoners within the camp,[67] but feared logistical issues with hiding and caring for the prisoners.[68] An earlier plan had been proposed by Lieutenant Colonel Bernard Anderson, leader of the guerrillas near the camp. He suggested that the guerrillas would secure the prisoners, escort them 50 miles (80 km) to Dibut Bay, and transport them using 30 submarines. The plan was denied approval as MacArthur feared the Japanese would catch up with the fleeing prisoners and kill them all.[14] In addition, the Navy did not have the required submarines, especially with MacArthur’s upcoming invasion of Luzon.[67] On January 26, 1945, Lapham traveled from his location near the prison camp to Sixth Army headquarters, 30 miles (48 km) away.[69] He proposed to Lieutenant General Walter Krueger‘s intelligence chief Colonel Horton White that a rescue attempt be made to liberate the estimated 500 POWs at the Cabanatuan prison camp before the Japanese possibly killed them all.[69] Lapham estimated Japanese forces to include 100–300 soldiers within the camp, 1,000 across the Cabu River northeast of the camp, and possibly around 5,000 within Cabanatuan.[69] Pictures of the camp were also available, as planes had taken surveillance images as recently as January 19.[70] White estimated that the I Corps would not reach Cabanatuan until January 31 or February 1, and that if any rescue attempt were to be made, it would have to be on January 29.[71] White reported the details to Krueger, who gave the order for the rescue attempt. Warfare History Network has a great summary of the operation that is worth the read, but if you can, take the time to watch The Operations Room video below. Amazing that this is not more well known. There is a great memorial where the camp used to be. Very well done. UPDATE: We have the best comment section in the business! It was pointed out that, yes, in 2021 there was a movie made out of it called, The Great Raid. Leave a comment Share This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. View the full article

More than a dozen countries are now waiting in line to buy the rocket artillery system that rewrote the rules of the war in Ukraine, and the U.S. Army just signed a contract to make sure all of them can keep it running. A $180 million award announced May 28 will put Lockheed Martin in […]View the full article

The U.S. Marine Corps has begun fielding its most heavily armed amphibious vehicle, a tracked fighting machine that can swim from a ship in open ocean, roll onto a hostile beach under fire, and engage enemy targets with a 30mm automatic cannon at ranges that far exceed anything the Corps’ previous amphibious platforms could match. […]View the full article