Technology

USCYBERCOM is the quiet joint warfighting machine that keeps America’s digital guns loaded, shields the Pentagon’s networks from hostile eyes, and hits back in cyberspace long before most people know a fight even started.

Forged under fire by engineers who refused to wait for permission, Ukraine’s FP-5 Flamingo shows how a nation can build its own long-reach answer to Russian aggression—and hit harder than anyone expected.

Atlas Lion showed that AI can replace a crowd of observer controllers and still give commanders a sharper, doctrine-based read on how ready their Civil Affairs teams are for large-scale combat.

Chaos Industries is dragging defense technology into a new tempo where speed, warning seconds, and raw detection power decide who owns the sky.

Estonia’s Frankenberg Technologies is betting that its AI guided, “good enough” Mark 1 mini missile, built cheap and in huge numbers, is the practical way to swat Russian drones out of NATO skies without going bankrupt.

Trump’s Pentagon rebrand stirs debate as new AI, drone, and defense shifts reshape warfare. Here’s what’s making headlines this Friday evening.

The arrest of a GRU-linked cyber-operative down the road was a reminder that the world’s sharpest edges have a way of slipping quietly into ordinary places.

Trump ends the record shutdown, Lavrov warns US on Ukraine, Myanmar rearms. Here’s your Thursday Morning Brief rundown, November 13, 2025.

At Camp Atterbury, the Pentagon is teaching a new kind of air combat—where pilots wear goggles instead of helmets, the aircraft cost a few thousand bucks, and victory depends on who can outfly chaos with a swarm of expendable machines.

The arrival of the NH90 Caïman TTH TFRA Standard 2 — a semi-matte-black, Special-Forces-tailored evolution of the multinational NH90 family, fitted with EuroFLIR, TopOwl helmet displays, heavy .50-caliber mounts and extended-range tanks — marks a decisive step for France (and Europe) toward fielding a stealthier, more capable rotary-wing enabler for clandestine troop insertions beginning in June 2026.

The battlefield is about to drown in cheap, buzzing machines, and the Army is betting its future on swarms that die by the dozen so soldiers don’t have to.

The lens hummed, the mud stilled, and for a heartbeat I couldn’t tell who was hunting who.