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News November 20, 2025 Dan Taylor Technology Editor Military Embedded Systems Image via Helsing MUNICH, Germany. Helsing and Saab Germany will integrate Helsing’s artificial intelligence software into the Eurofighter’s future electronic warfare (EW) system under a contract valued in the triple-digit million-euro range, the company announced in a statement. According to the statement, Helsing will provide its AI-based Cirra software for use within Saab’s Arexis sensor suite. The companies plan a three-year integration effort that will enable the Eurofighter to conduct EW missions, including operations against modern air defense networks. The work also supports a broader Luftwaffe effort to expand…

When venture capital lights up defense tech like the Vegas strip at midnight, and the radar hums in the background with precision, you know the battlefield is shifting. Chaos Industries has just closed a staggering $510 million Series D funding round, catapulting its valuation to roughly $4.5 billion. This move is more than a win for one startup; it’s a vivid symptom of how investors are placing massive bets on the future of defense technologies as drone threats escalate around the globe. The Radar Revolution: Vanquish and Coherent Distributed Networks Chaos Industries isn’t just another radar company. They’re showing up…

What was the difference between Chelsea’s humiliating 8-2 aggregate defeat against Barcelona in April and being inches away from beating them in November?“My tactics,” head coach Sonia Bompastor said forthrightly after Thursday’s 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge.“Probably, last season, I was too ambitious. I wanted to try to be really high with a high block, high press, being really aggressive. But when you play against Barcelona, this team has so much technicality in their team and I think it’s difficult. So you have to almost be perfect if you want to do that.“So I think we changed that plan a…

Comics let creators bend reality, dabble in magic, and throw Tony into any era or dimension. The MCU, however, needs internal consistency — a world where Iron Man is still Iron Man. These eccentric suits are masterpieces of comic-book creativity, but on film, they’d risk derailing tone, power levels, and audience believability. Some armors belong in the pages, not the theaters, and that’s okay. After all, even Tony Stark can’t out-engineer style. Here’s a look at six of Tony’s strangest suits that are just too weird for the MCU to ever fully embrace. 7. The Arctic Armor The Arctic Armor,…

VISUAL INVESTIGATION China is mobilizing an armada of civilian ships that could help in an invasion of Taiwan – a mission that could surpass the Second World War’s Normandy landings. Reuters used ship tracking data and satellite images to monitor the role civilian vessels played in Chinese maritime exercises this summer. The drills revealed that China is devising concrete invasion plans, naval warfare experts say, and rehearsing new techniques aimed at speeding up beach landings of troops and equipment in a bid to overwhelm Taiwan’s defenders. Published Nov. 20, 2025  06:00 AM EST An interactive section showing maps and satellite images…

Japan’s export of lethal weapons sent an “extremely dangerous signal” indicating expanded military capabilities, Chinese observers and media said on Thursday as relations between the two countries continued to nosedive.The assessment followed Japanese media reports on Wednesday that Japan had exported domestically produced Patriot surface-to-air missile interceptors to the United States.The US would use the missiles to replenish its own stockpile as it provided military support to Ukraine in the war against Russia, Kyodo News reported.Japan’s export of lethal weapons has been heavily constrained by its Three Principles on Transfer of Defence Equipment and Technology, guidelines for the country’s arms…

In his Nov. 7 address to industry, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon will be more willing to buy a system that provides “the 85% solution” and can be iterated to 100% over time.That approach means fundamental change is coming to how the Defense Department thinks about tradeoffs in speed, cost and quality for how it acquires technologies and deploys them into the field.Speaking Tuesday at an event hosted by our Defense One colleagues, a panel of industry executives spoke to those tradeoffs as they pertain to risks DOD is willing to take in different categories.“It starts with how much…

The Rafale will undoubtedly elevate Ukraine’s defensive efforts against Russia.

An image from the ‘Aisios Oionos’ (Fortuitous Omen) tactical field exercise held earlier this month in the Evros border region. [InTime News] Greece is close to finalizing the list of defense procurement programs it will submit for funding under the European SAFE regulation, which supports joint European rearmament and industrial cooperation. According to the information provided, the list consists of systems already included in Greece’s 12-year Medium-Term Defense Equipment Planning program and addresses “real and pressing needs.” Greece is expected to obtain loans of approximately 788 million euros through SAFE. Among the most significant projects is the procurement of new…

CINCINNATI (WXIX) – Suspects on the run after police say two people robbed an armored money truck at gunpoint in the parking lot of a United Dairy Farmers in Mt. Healthy, Thursday afternoon. The Mt. Healthy Police Department said they were dispatched to the UDF after 911 calls began pouring in around noon, from both bystanders and the victim. “Yeah, he’s in the van, they’re trying to get him out of the van so they can get the money, I guess. I don’t know, I just see them roughing him up,” one witness said of the robbery,” a witness said…