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JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — Air and missile defense professionals from the U.S., Japanese, and Australian militaries (respectively) gathered at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Sept. 21-26, 2026, for the Pacific Simulation for Integrated Air and Missile Defense Modernization simulation event. Hosted by the 94th AAMDC at the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Flight Center, PACSIM provided participants with an opportunity to examine air and missile defense concepts, identify challenges and explore ways to improve integration between the three nations. The simulation brought together leaders and subject matter experts from across the Indo-Pacific theater to examine how different sensors, command…

Press Release | Sept. 30, 2026 JOINT BASE ANACOSTIA-BOLLING — The Defense Intelligence Agency released Analyzing Will to Fight, created to assist the intelligence community with assessing combatant “will to fight” across the conflict spectrum, on September 30, 2026. Military capabilities analysis at DIA asks analysts to answer the key intelligence question: “What mission(s) can the force accomplish in a given set of circumstances?” Analyzing Will to Fight addresses intangible elements in military capabilities analysis, including leadership, military culture and innovation. The 2026 edition is the second iteration of DIA’s unclassified analytic guidance on the topic. The framework enables analysts to assess…

September 15 – October 1, 2026 Welcome back to the WordPress.com changelog! You can now do more with the WordPress Agent on WordPress.com, more easily connect your site to a popular AI agent, and more efficiently review new content in the Reader. WordPress Agent knows plugins You can now ask the WordPress Agent about plugins! Activate, update, and install, directly from the chat. Cursor (and Grok Bot) can now easily connect to your WordPress.com site WordPress.com now has a plugin in Cursor’s marketplace, so you can manage your site straight from the AI agent you’re already coding in. The Reader…

Rheinmetall is strengthening its technological and production capabilities in Norway. On 1 October 2026, Rheinmetall Nordic AS, a subsidiary of Rheinmetall, officially opened its new site in Skoppum. This expansion will increase the company’s capabilities in development, production, system integration, logistics, and customer support. The site will support the Norwegian Armed Forces, international customers, and other Rheinmetall Group companies. The new site has a gross floor area of 4,579 square metres and is designed to accommodate 127 employees. At the time of opening, 100 employees will be based there. There is potential for future expansion of up to around 5,000…

In August 2009, my Ranger platoon was twenty hours into a twenty-seven-hour firefight in the Khowst mountains of Afghanistan. Three platoons inserted onto a high ridgeline in darkness, hunting enemy fighters in a network of mountain encampments. By daylight, we’d already taken several casualties, sustained hours of close combat, and climbed from seven thousand to ten thousand feet. Smoke from a burning ammunition cache drifted up the ridgeline and I could hear the unease in my squad leaders’ voices as we pushed toward enemy positions. Real-time radio intercepts told us the enemy was tracking our patrol and closing. My snipers,…

Soviet Union (1945)Heavy Tank – Blueprints Only With the discovery of the German Jagdtiger and Maus in spring of 1945, the Soviets realised that their most advanced heavy tank in development, the Object 257 (first iteration of the IS-7), was no longer going to cut it in terms of firepower and protection. Thus, requirements were arranged for a new heavy tank. In July 1945, Experimental Plant No.100 at ChKZ began work on several designs. While they had the same hull and turret, they had different engines and transmissions. These were indexed Object 258, 259, 260, and 261, keeping the umbrella…

Build your territory, train armies, recruit commanders, and form alliances across Westeros in GOT: Winter is Coming.Join famous houses and battle rival players for control of King’s Landing and the Iron Throne. Yoozoo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. has announced the early access of its new 4X strategy title, GOT: Winter is Coming, now available on Android in select Asian regions, including Japan, Thailand, South Korea, and more. This is an officially licensed HBO strategy game based on the hugely popular Game of Thrones series that originally released as a browser game in 2019. Build your kingdom and fight for the Iron…

Tel Aviv, Israel, October 1, 2026 – Axon Vision (TASE: AXN), a developer of advanced artificial intelligence solutions for defense applications, today announced the successful completion of a ForceField live-fire demonstration in Israel for a leading U.S. defense contractor with significant capabilities in ground systems and platform integration. Representatives of the U.S. company traveled to Israel specifically for the demonstration, which evaluated ForceField under operationally representative conditions against FPV drone threats. The demonstration achieved multiple successful kinetic defeats of operational FPV targets and validated ForceField’s complete Detect-Understand-Respond operational cycle, from passive detection that creates decision time, through AI-driven threat classification…

Team LionStrike has been selected to progress to the next stage of the UK Ministry of Defence’s Light Mobility Vehicle (LMV) competition, marking an important milestone for the team’s proposal to deliver a modern, adaptable and UK-supported vehicle capability for the British Army. Bringing together NP Aerospace, GM Defense and BAE Systems, Team LionStrike combines proven vehicle technology with UK engineering, manufacturing and through-life support expertise. The team’s proposal is designed around operationally proven platforms, configured to meet UK requirements while minimising unnecessary modification and integration risk. The approach also provides a clear pathway to increased UK industrial participation, supporting…

The Irish Department of Defence and the French Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA – the French defence procurement agency) have signed a contract for the acquisition of four of Thales’ Ground Master 400α (GM400 Alpha) radars and a Ground Master 200 Multi-Mission All-in-one radar to strengthen Irish airspace capabilities. The first deliveries are scheduled for 2027, highlighting Thales’ ability to deliver rapidly in response to customer needs. The Irish Department of Defence has signed an agreement with the French Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA) for the delivery of the Thales Ground Master 400 Alpha (GM400α) and the Ground Master 200…