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The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. President Donald Trump climbed into a heavily armored Cadillac Escalade presidential limo after arriving in Davos in Switzerland to attend the World Economic Forum this morning. This may be the first time Trump has ridden in one of these SUVs, at least at such a high-profile event. The Escalade configuration limos also look to be a new addition to the U.S. Secret Service’s fleet of highly specialized cars and other vehicles. Trump had initially left Washington, D.C., for Davos last night on…

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Royal Air Force’s Typhoon aircraft. Credit: Crown/UK MoD. QinetiQ has secured a five-year contract extension valued at £205m ($274m) with the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to continue providing engineering services for the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) Typhoon fighter aircraft. The agreement aims to maintain the operational readiness of the Typhoon fleet and ensure pilot safety. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more It incorporates advanced AI and digital engineering tools to reduce turnaround times and costs associated with preparing the aircraft for missions.…

MILAN — Ukraine’s government-backed defense technology cluster, Brave1, has partnered with the American company Palantir to create a platform where artificial-intelligence models can be tested using sensitive military data.Dubbed the Dataroom, the secure digital environment will allow Ukrainian defense companies to train and validate their algorithms by relying on real-world intelligence on Russian aerial threats collected by the country’s military.The workspace has been envisioned with the goal of equipping interceptor drones with AI to enhance their target detection, classification and neutralization capabilities.“In the future, we plan to expand the Dataroom’s abilities to other areas related to autonomy and AI –…

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.org Some Colorado officials are seeking to distance themselves from the state’s lawsuit against the Trump administration over its decision to relocate U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs, Colo., to Huntsville, Ala.—signaling a decreased appetite for extending the yearslong political debate that has dogged the combatant command’s future plans. The Colorado Springs Chamber & Economic Development Corporation plans to file an amicus brief opposing the state’s suit, which they argue could…

SIRBAI launches AI-powered autonomous drone swarm technology at UMEX 2026. Credit: AETOSWire/Business Wire. The unveiling took place during UMEX 2026, an international event dedicated to uncrewed systems and autonomous technologies. According to SIRBAI, the new system enables several drones to cooperate autonomously in complex environments, thereby supporting a variety of defence-related tasks. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more The platform, intended for unmanned aerial systems (UAS), was developed by a team comprising more than 40 engineers specialising in AI, autonomy, and robotics. The development…

The House and Senate’s conferenced version of a fiscal 2026 defense budget would restore funding for the Navy’s next-generation F/A-XX fighter and up the Pentagon’s spending request on the Air Force’s F-47.In materials released Monday, the House Appropriations Committee said the compromise $839 billion spending bill would provide $3.9 billion for the military’s sixth-generation aircraft. That would include $3 billion for the Air Force’s F-47 fighter, which will be built by Boeing, and $972 million for the Navy’s F/A-XX, the House committee said.That would be hundreds of millions more than the Pentagon requested in its original proposed 2026 budget last…

Illustration of the LBTF project. Credit: Government of Canada. Construction has commenced on a Land-Based Test Facility (LBTF) at Hartlen Point in Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia, to support the introduction and lifecycle of the Royal Canadian Navy’s new River-class destroyers. The Department of National Defence (DND) is overseeing the project, which began in November 2025 and is projected to be completed in early 2028. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more PCL Construction, based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, is carrying out the construction, with…

The maintainer of popular open-source data transfer tool cURL has ended the project’s bug bounty program after maintainers struggled to assess a flood of AI-generated contributions. Curler-in-chief Daniel Stenberg last week lodged a GitHub commit named “BUG-BOUNTY.md: we stop the bug-bounty end of Jan 2026”. Readers may recall that Stenberg started complaining about AI-generated bug reports in early 2024, and by mid-2025 contemplated killing the project’s bug bounty program. After receiving some strong bug reports that a developer found with help from AI, Stenberg acknowledged that AI can be a fine bug-hunting aid. Stenberg addressed his decision in a mailing…

A soldier holds an anti-drone rifle,14 May 2022. Credit: Shutterstock / Drop of Light. Ukraine’s President has appointed Colonel Pavlo “Lazar” Yelizarov as Deputy Commander of the Air Force His promotion comes with a new responsibility to construct a counter-uncrewed air system (C-UAS) shield, which will provide coverage across the war-torn country The system will be designed not to respond post factum, but to destroy UAS threats while they are still en route Ukraine has resolved to pre-empt Russian drones with the construction of an anti-drone shield with coverage extending across the war-torn nation. Last year, the Ministry of Defence determined…