Mideast governments have long invested in air defenses—notably, U.S.-made THAAD and Patriot interceptors—and counter-drone defenses, particularly since the 2019 drone attack on Saudi oil infrastructure at Abqaiq. But recent weeks and months have seen a flurry of activity—in ventures by defense-tech companies and orders from nations under fire.Last June, SRC announced it…

Lawmakers have questions about the Pentagon’s increased keenness to take partial ownership stakes in companies, demanding details from defense officials while they weigh the need for legislation. Government equity investment adds pressure on companies to “stimulate growth” and production without “pursuing control,” Michael Duffey, the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer, said Wednesday…

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U.S. forces destroyed Iran’s military space command, Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of Central Command, announced Thursday, saying the move degraded the regime’s ability to coordinate retaliatory strikes. But experts told Defense One that the country’s nascent space capabilities never posed a significant threat. “We’ve also struck Iran’s equivalent of Space…

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency privately told stakeholders he left his role in the U.S. Coast Guard to address concerns about his ties to shipbuilding work that led a Republican lawmaker to place a hold on his nomination late last year.Sean Plankey told…

With a timeline for the U.S.’s war with Iran very much up in the air, a task force assigned to improving the U.S.’s ability to down small drones both at home and abroad is eagerly awaiting lessons from the conflict—while moving as quickly as possible to make sure bases around…

Baiting is one of the biggest hot-button issues in hunting. Regardless of species, everyone has an opinion. This is especially true for deer hunting, where antler inches can make toddlers out of grown men. Opponents of baiting often raise ethical or moral questions about the tactic itself and the risk…

The U.S.’s war with Iran is about to go up a notch, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday during a press briefing at U.S. Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Fla., as the bombing campaign’s sixth day came to a close.Hegseth batted away concerns about U.S. munitions stockpiles, seeming to suggest…

The inaugural deployment of the LUCAS drone, a near-clone of the Iranian Shahed-136, signals a big Pentagon step into the era of affordable mass.For years, Western military doctrine relied on the assumption that superior technology could defeat superior numbers. But the opening salvos of the U.S.-Israel war on Iran have…

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