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"Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security." - Edmund Burke [in 'Why Tweet?']

@mazzaboz The carriers hollowed them out. Just like our submarines will likely do the same to us (across all three services).

The RN has 11 escorts and Australia has 10? It'll be interesting and depressing to track these two 'fleets' for the next decade.

DZYNE Technologies' counter-drone kit mounted on a vehicle found a drone operator 17.9 km away near Washington D.C. — and put his exact location on a tablet inside the car. Read more: defence-blog.com/dzynes-new-veh…

Bluetooth-enabled tasers and body-worn cameras, used by thousands of Australian police officers, can inadvertently reveal their real-time location to any criminal with a phone or laptop. By @gracetobin ⁦@kirstenrobb⁩ #ABCInvestigations abc.net.au/news/2026-05-0…

NASA HAS RELEASED OVER 12,000 IMAGES OF THE ARTEMIS II MISSION. Unbelievable perspectives captured by the Crew! The aurora on the eclipse is incredible.

At a certain point the defence secretary is going to have to make a decision about his own future. Because at the moment the Treasury is making him look like an idiot.

I’m not shocked at this. It's a war; the enemy gets to take shots at you, too. However, the biggest tactical lesson of this war is the importance of drone and missile defences, and how bad it can get if you don't have enough of them. We have hardly any.

@EliLea1 @DylanMalyasov yes, beyond some niche airborne employment, it's a struggle to see the utility.

@DylanMalyasov @zbz555 All the protection of a golf cart at 200 times the price. The ISV is an appalling concept.

The U.S. Army just tested an ISV-mounted mortar in the Philippines that fires 8 rounds and drives away in under two minutes — before the enemy can shoot back. Read more: defence-blog.com/u-s-army-evalu…

Auch diese israelische Artillerieposition wurde von einer FPV-Kamikaze-Drohne der Hisbollah angegriffen. ➡️Keine Netze, keine sichtbaren Störsender, Munition unter freiem Himmel gelagert. Als hätte es den Russland-Ukraine-Krieg nicht gegeben. ➡️Zwölf IDF-Soldaten wurden hier verwundert. ➡️Ein letzter Warnruf vor einem möglichen Krieg in Europa. Wir müssen endlich umdenken, sonst gibt es ein ähnlich böses Erwachen, wie aktuell in Israel.

U.S. Green Berets sank a ship using drone boats based on Ukraine's famous Magura naval drone — now built in America. It happened at a major exercise 100 miles from Taiwan. defence-blog.com/u-s-special-fo…

On a synthetic training exercise at 📍 Nellis Air Force Base, @AusAirForce and @usairforce personnel integrated a RAAF E-7A simulator, Virtual Wedgetail 2, into USAF’s Joint Simulation Environment (JSE) for the first time. 🇦🇺🤝🇺🇸 The JSE is the United States’ most advanced synthetic battlespace, designed to deliver graduate-level preparation for complex, large-force combat operations that are difficult to replicate in live, open-air ranges. “Training in a shared synthetic battlespace means our forces can prepare for the complexity of future conflicts long before they deploy together”—Lieutenant Colonel Carfagno. ➡️ spr.ly/6017BBRfLX #YourADF #AusAirForce

One of the most extraordinary graphs I have ever seen.

Australia handed the U.S. its first autonomous submarine drone — built in Melbourne, christened by a robotic arm, and designed to swarm in numbers no conventional sub ever could. Read more: defence-blog.com/australias-spe…

An ANU @ouranu academic co-authored a paper with none other than Mohammad Javad Zarif urging Western governments to “reduce their sanctions pressures” on Tehran and revive the 2015 nuclear deal (which Zarif himself negotiated). This paper was put out under an ANU byline and indexed in ANU's own “research output” portal. This seems to be an example of soft power foreign influence par excellence. Both ANU and the Australian security agencies must investigate the academic concerned. How does he have access to the former Iranian foreign minister? How was it that they came to co-author an article together which, not coincidentally, advances Tehran's agenda on sanctions under the guise of scholarly 'research'? As any academic who touches on Iran will tell you, this sort of thing is just the tip of the iceberg. Universities are the soft underbelly, and continuing to do nothing about foreign interference and transnational repression is no longer an option. theaustralian.com.au/nation%2Fanu-l…

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Meink: Air Force Has Five More E-7s Under Contract airandspaceforces.com/meink-air-forc…

US Air Force plans to buy five more Boeing E-7A surveillance aircraft reuters.com/business/aeros…

They’ve made the Bradley again

@AbraxasSpa I'd like to get to know this guy

Details of the shaped warhead loaded into the USV