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Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), has unveiled the HYPNOSIS, an advanced navigation warfare (NAVWAR) air defence system, designed to counter a broad spectrum of aerial threats including unmanned aerial systems (UAS) deployed in large volumes by disrupting their satellite navigation systems. The satellite navigation systems onboard aerial systems need to receive the position and time data from the satellites in order to accurately reach their targets. When these systems are disrupted or neutralised, the aerial threats can no longer accurately navigate to their intended targets. Boaz Levy Chairman of IAI said that today’s battlespace demands integrated, multi-layered defence capabilities that can…

COLOGNE, Germany — German government leaders will study an offer by French President Emmanuel Macron to cooperate on the French-Italian SAMP/T air defense system, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius confirmed on Tuesday.Pistorius’ comments amount to the first official response to a proposal by Macron at a July 17 bilateral ministerial summit to include Germany in the co-production of Europe’s only locally made long-range air defense system and alternative to the Patriot.The German defense minister addressed the overture in a brief talk with reporters at a production plant operated by French-German-owned armored-vehicle maker KNDS in Kassel in central Germany.Berlin is open…

If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly newsletter, Soldier Systems Digest, you missed this entry form last week. Cold War Concepts The US Army has a long history of small units organized for deep reconnaissance. During the Vietnam War each Division along with a few other units had Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol Companies. Eventually they were reflagged as Companies within the 75th Infantry Regiment for lineage purposes. After the war, these units were deactivated. Despite reconstituting the 1st Bn, 75th Infantry and eventually the 2nd Bn not long after the conflict as the world’s premier light infantry, GEN Creighton…

For half a century, anxieties around the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important energy chokepoint, were about whether tankers could get through. Soon after the United States and Israel began their war against Iran on February 28, that fear was realized, and shipping collapsed within days. But Iran’s closure of the strait was expected and ultimately the least imaginative thing it would do. In fact, the instructive damage happened away from the water: A GPS spoofing campaign threw more than 1,100 vessels off their positions in a single day. Drones hit Amazon Web Services data centers in the United…

The UFC was in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on Saturday for a solid UFC Oklahoma City card. The main event saw former middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis taking on former welterweight champion Kamaru Usman in a pivotal fight at middleweight. Du Plessis was coming off a lopsided loss to Khamzat Chimaev, to lose his middleweight title. Usman, meanwhile, was moving back up to middleweight after he returned to the win column with a decision win over Joaquin Buckley at welterweight last time out. Ultimately, it was Du Plessis who won a clear-cut decision in a rather lopsided result to return to…

The Pentagon identified on Tuesday the soldier who was killed Saturday in northern Iraq during the controlled detonation of an Iranian one-way attack drone. Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was killed in action during the detonation of unexploded ordnance at Erbil Air Base, Iraq, a release states. Lt. Gen. John L. Rafferty, commanding general of Army Air and Missile Defense Command, said in a statement that Swinton died “during an operation to safeguard fellow soldiers.”The circumstances surrounding his death are under investigation. A second service member was wounded in the detonation and received treatment for a…

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. President Donald Trump on Monday issued several proclamations to impose an additional 50% tariff, starting Aug. 19, on many key imports from Canada, regardless of whether the goods originated through the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. The tariffs apply to a wide variety of products, ranging from raw agricultural and natural materials to chemicals, textiles, consumer goods, wood products, paper, machinery and tools, per annexes provided with each proclamation and reviewed by Supply Chain Dive.  The duties apply to all covered goods, regardless of…

First Person View (FPV) armed drones have become a major threat to land forces. Israeli units are attacked by these drones, most guided by fibre optic wires, in Lebanon almost daily. Israeli companies are in a race to develop countermeasures. Israeli company Axon Vision has launched the ForceField a new protection solution designed to safeguard manoeuvring forces against aerial threats. Developed using the company’s EDGE AI technologies, ForceField integrates detection, threat understanding, and rapid response into a single operational system. ForceField integrates the entire operational cycle: Detect, Understand, Respond. It combines passive threat detection with AI-driven analysis & engagement with…

Since returning to office, U.S. President Donald Trump has set out on a warpath against American cities. His administration has dispatched thousands of masked and armed agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to descend on urban centers across the country and deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Memphis, and Portland. It has clawed back billions of dollars already allocated for municipal infrastructure, throwing long-planned energy and transportation projects into disarray. And it has withheld and threatened to eliminate federal funding for local housing, homelessness, food, energy, and health programs.Attacks on national hubs of population, innovation, productivity,…

Companies Bring Joint Strike Missile Weapon System to Leading Uncrewed Platform FARNBOROUGH INTERNATIONAL AIRSHOW – 20 July 2026 – General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and KONGSBERG Gruppen ASA (KONGSBERG) completed the System Requirements Review (SRR) and Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the integration of the Joint Strike Missile (JSM) weapon system onto MQ-9B. This design and integration effort is a jointly funded project by both companies aimed at providing long-range strike capability for MQ-9B and its customers. These reviews were successfully completed in Kongsberg, Norway, on June 30. MQ-9B is an industry-leading uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) manufactured by GA-ASI…