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What if the next war is decided not by drone swarms, hypersonic missiles, or AI — but by good, old-fashioned human creativity? We have undervalued the mindset dimension that is critical to innovation yet it is the cornerstone of defense organizations’ adaptability and very difficult to scale. We cannot buy (military) innovators.One of the most important shifts happening inside NATO today is not a drone platform, a software suite, or a breakthrough in AI — it is the growing recognition that innovation is a transferable skill between people. The alliance needs to speed up the rate of transfer so that…

Bird of Prey demo flight – releases Mark I missile. Credit: © Airbus. Airbus has reported the successful maiden flight of its ‘Bird of Prey’ interceptor drone, which took place at a military training site in northern Germany. During the demonstration, the drone autonomously located, identified, and classified a medium-sized one-way attack drone within a simulated operational context. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more The Bird of Prey engaged the target using a Mark I air-to-air missile manufactured by Frankenburg Technologies, Airbus said.…

Munich, Germany | Kyiv, Ukraine – 01 April 2026 – Quantum Frontline Industries (QFI) has completed production of the first batch of drones. The systems will be delivered to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The delivery marks the transition from production setup to sustained serial output under the German-Ukrainian co-production model. With production now underway, QFI is focused on scaling capacity and accelerating deliveries throughout the year.  The battle-proven Linza systems developed by Frontline Robotics are produced under the “Build with Ukraine” initiative, combining Ukrainian development with German industrial manufacturing to ensure consistent, scalable output for the Armed Forces of…

Bloomberg After a weekend with some of the heaviest Iranian ballistic missile attacks on Gulf targets since the war began, increasingly effective strikes have consumed at least 2,400 interceptors — a number approaching those countries’ known prewar stockpiles. Despite unrelenting US and Israeli airstrikes, Iran has launched almost 1,200 ballistic missiles and 4,000 rudimentary Shahed cruise missiles at Gulf countries since the war began on Feb. 28, according to those countries’ official reports, which are not comprehensive. “Without active US support, most countries would have nothing left with which to defend themselves against Iranian missiles,” said Kelly Grieco, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center. In the past…

Terry Gerton I want to ask you first to refresh our memory. There are new Medicaid work requirements that are going into effect next January. Where did they come from? Why are they happening? David Lieb So remember that One Big, Beautiful Bill, also more formally called HR1, that was passed last summer and signed into law by the president on the 4th of July? That bill had a lot of tax cuts in it, but it also had some pretty significant changes to federal programs, particularly, in this case, Medicaid. The goal was to save money in Medicaid to…

Pictured is a B-52 aircraft. Credit: Bruno Ismael Silva Alves/Shutterstock.com. In an update yesterday, a senior US military official confirmed the start of B-52  bombing runs over Iran The opportunity presents itself after Iran’s air defence capabilities were degraded early on in the campaign Yet Iran still maintains an asymmetric advantage in controlling the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global waterway The US Air Force has started B-52 bombing missions over Iran, according to the Chairmain of the Joint Chiefs, US Air Force General Dan Caine, in a Department of War briefing on 31 March. Portraying the move as an…

27.3.2026 The Arak Heavy Water Complex, known as Khondab, was hit “in two stages” on March 27, according to a local government official. “The Khondab Heavy Water Complex was targeted in two stages by aggression from the American and Zionist enemy,” said Fars news agency, citing Hassan Ghamari, an official in the central Markazi Province. The Arak Heavy Water Complex is one of Iran’s major nuclear facilities and a center for heavy water production. The complex was previously targeted during the 12-day war between Israel and the United States against Iran. The official said there no danger to the people…

The Pentagon is eager to incorporate AI “agents”—software that can autonomously execute complex tasks like customer service, scheduling, or code writing—into more of what soldiers and defense civilians do. But a growing body of research shows that agents built from well-known large language models exhibit unpredictable and dangerous behaviors even in benign settings. Edgerunner AI, a veteran-founded startup, built a different kind of agent tool for the military, one trained by former operators and experts on actual military tasks and in real combat settings. The Wednesday release of the new tool, WarClaw, is part of a trend away from large, big-name…

27.3.2026 The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran announced that the Ardakan yellow cake production plant in Yazd Province had been attacked on March 27. Initial investigations indicate that the strike did not result in any release of radioactive materials outside the complex, the report said. The Israeli military also confirmed the attack, writing on X: “This facility is the only one of its kind in Iran. At this site, raw materials extracted from the ground are processed into material used for uranium enrichment. This constitutes a significant stage in the nuclear weapons production program of the Iranian regime and is…

I thought I’d help break up the monotony at the beginning of the week by providing you with a couple of ideas of RPGs which are right now very cheaply priced, and perhaps one of these may help make your week just a little more enjoyable, or possibly even fill your time during the weekend. Remember that the price-cut deadlines of each title vary greatly depending on the game. So as a result you can look at this article and see that the RPG you were looking at (and was probably going to buy) is no longer available for sale.…