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Russia’s battlefield endurance in Ukraine is determined not by the size of Soviet‑era stockpiles but by a temporary industrial window—a period when production plus imports outpaces daily shell consumption. In 2025 Russian factories churned out about seven million artillery, mortar, tank and rocket rounds, excluding guided multiple-launch rocket system and loitering munitions—roughly nineteen thousand rounds per day—while open‑source estimates put Russian expenditure at ten to fifteen thousand rounds per day. As long as production and imports meet or exceed consumption, Moscow can sustain the war and rebuild reserves. When throughput falls below usage, the window closes and operational tempo shrinks.…

The leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan and Canada issued a joint statement on the Strait of Hormuz. They expressed their readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait. As things stand today however, such a task appears to be rather difficult. The joint statement reads: We condemn in the strongest terms recent attacks by Iran on unarmed commercial vessels in the Gulf, attacks on civilian infrastructure including oil and gas installations, and the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iranian forces.  […] We express our readiness…

The Trump administration is once again looking for employees to sound the alarm on diversity initiatives happening within their agencies, continuing a year-long crackdown on policies and practices it said interfere with the civil service’s merit system. The Interior Department issued a memorandum to staff on Wednesday reminding employees that they should report any suspected diversity, equity and inclusion activities, providing multiple channels for doing so and informing the workforce that such reporting represented protected whistleblower activity. Rachel Borra, Interior’s chief human capital officer, highlighted several examples of “DEI-related discrimination,” noting there is “no reverse discrimination exception” to civil rights laws. Any…

A Rapid Sentry air defence system undergoing a test fire exercise. Credit: RAF The RAF has highlighted Rapid Sentry; a short-range air defence system aimed at defeating drone threats It fires the Lightweight Multirole Missile (LMM/Martlet), made by Thales, with a range of up to 8km for small, fast targets Rapid Sentry may use Saab’s Giraffe 1X radar, 11 of which were ordered by the UK in 2023 The ongoing air combat operations in the Middle East and the threat posed by Iranian drones has brought into focus the need for air defence systems. Now, a hitherto little-known UK capability,…

A Royal Norwegian Air Force F-35A. Credit: Lockheed Martin Norway’s Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace has signed an agreement with US defence prime Lockheed Martin with an expected value of NOK 2bn ($208.6m) for deliveries of components to the F-35 fighter programme. Detailed in an 18 March release from Kongsberg, the agreement extends the company’s ongoing production of F-35 components through to 2030, supporting all three variants of the F-35 fifth-generation stealth fighter. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more The deliveries to production Lots…

Iran Press TV Wednesday, 18 March 2026 9:48 AM Penetrating the highly-advanced Israeli missile systems stationed across the occupied territories, Iranian missiles have inflicted heavy damage upon Tel Aviv, killing two settlers and wounding tens of others in the process. Hebrew news outlets reported that since the early hours of Wednesday, Tel Aviv and its surrounding areas have been struck by Iranian missiles at least twice, while Israeli missile systems have been unable to intercept the incoming projectiles. According to the news outlets, Iran’s massive missile and drone attacks resulted in the loss of electricity and evacuation of thousands of…

KNDS, the leading pan-European land defense systems company, is accelerating efforts in providing complete mission solutions for customer nations by combining its world-class know-how in tanks, armored vehicles, artillery systems and ammunition with advanced digital and networked capabilities designed for the battlefield of the future. “KNDS is a highly technology-driven company with eight specialized research hubs and more than 20 percent of our workforce dedicated to Research & Development. Based on our undisputed customer intimacy and our continuous focus on innovation, we design end-to-end mission solutions, combining manned and unmanned capabilities, including mission planning, training, simulation, and full lifecycle support.…

The Arc World Tour 2025-2026 Finals are upon us once again and this year they’re taking place in Goyang, South Korea. Qualified players for the games are RedDitto, FREE|Andross11, TSM|Leffen, Gamera, Tatuma, PAR|Daru, Umisho, Kanme|Monarch, ZangiefDream, Shio, Zane, Oushuu-Hittou, BBB|Defiant, Oplon|Skyll, PAR|Kojicoco, Kanme|Xerom, Space, FREE|Usagi, Debagame, Zeta|Tyurara, FLY|NitroNY, Fitizen, Socky, Kasausagi, Kshuewhatdamoo, ONi|TigerPop, Senaru, BBB|OmniDeag, Neffros, JF, YMST, PAR|Jack, Pixi, PataChu, MetallicCake and Jaca. There will also be open Last Chance Qualifiers with many more notables in them. …

When Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic a deadline to renegotiate its contract with the Pentagon to include “all lawful purposes” or be designated a supply chain risk — a classification typically reserved for adversarial foreign firms like Huawei — he framed it as a fight against “woke AI.” “Department of War AI will not be woke,” Hegseth declared during a speech at SpaceX in mid-January 2026. “We’re building war ready weapons and systems, not chatbots for an Ivy League faculty lounge.” Later on, President Donald Trump lambasted Anthropic as a “RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY.”The public confrontation, and the unprecedented…

The U.S. Army used Apache helicopters to shoot down drones in air-to-air combat in Europe for the first time during an exercise in Germany this week.During Operation Skyfall held at Grafenwoehr Training Area, soldiers of the 2-159th Attack Battalion, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, used the Boeing AH-64E Apache to pursue and attack Unmanned Aircraft Systems. It is not the first time that the Army has ever practiced using Apaches against drones. In December, the service held an air-to-air combat training exercise in Yuma, Arizona, that saw the Apaches destroy a a variety of drones in flight using a 30mm fragmentation…