Category: Defense One
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Ukraine’s Secret Weapon Isn’t Human
Ukraine’s war story is no longer just about survival.
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The Rise of Robot Warfare
Ukraine is turning war robots from battlefield experiments into frontline assault tools, even forcing Russian troops to surrender without Ukrainian infantry entering the fight.
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Hormuz Becomes Iran’s Weapon
Trump’s Iran strategy is buying time, but not leverage, and Tehran is turning the Strait of Hormuz into its biggest bargaining chip.
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The Fighter Jet’s New Best Friend
Anduril is accelerating into the Air Force’s drone-wingman race, moving YFQ-44A Fury production to its giant Ohio factory months earlier than planned.
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Surveillance Just Got Smarter
America’s border towers are getting an AI brain transplant. Smarter sensors, on-site image recognition, and solar-powered systems could help monitor more terrain with fewer humans, but they also sharpen the old question of what surveillance can solve, and what it cannot.
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Is AI Weakening Military Minds?
The Pentagon’s rush to embrace commercial AI is raising a quieter but more dangerous risk: what happens when the people making life-and-death decisions start trusting the machine too much?
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The AI That Can Hack Everything
Anthropic’s new AI model is so powerful at finding software flaws that it is being kept out of public hands, even as governments and cyber firms scramble to understand what it could mean.
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Hormuz Is On Edge
The Strait of Hormuz may not be fully mined yet, but the mere possibility has been enough to choke ship traffic and put the U.S. Navy’s mine-clearing readiness under the spotlight.
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The Middle East Is Gearing Up for Drone Wars
The Middle East’s drone war is triggering a defence-tech surge, with governments rushing to buy smarter, faster counter-drone systems.
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The $71M AI Bet To Fix America’s Warships
The US Navy is betting on AI and drones to fix one of its biggest weaknesses: too many ships stuck in repair for too long.