Iran told mediators it would limit the number of ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz to around a dozen a day and charge tolls under the cease-fire struck by President Trump, showing Tehran plans to tighten its grip on the world’s most important energy-shipping lane.
Israel launched a barrage of attacks without warning in Lebanon on April 8, striking more than 100 sites in 10 minutes as a fragile ceasefire agreement between the U.S. and Iran hangs in the balance.
U.S. Air Forces Central will buy up to $270 million worth of long-range, solar-powered scout drones from Kraus Hamdani Aerospace, the California-based company announced April 7.
Iran’s drone arsenal and weapons stockpiles are mostly depleted and its capacity to produce new assets is nearly gone, according to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine. ... However, some analysts warned it might be too soon to know the full extent of damage and Iran’s potential to rapidly resupply its armory, particularly without the completion of comprehensive combat assessments.
The Trump administration is expected to significantly scale back its plan to seek additional funding for the war in Iran ahead of what is likely to be a contentious fight over the request in Congress, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the matter.
France announced a €36 billion ($42 billion) boost to its defense budget for the next four years as part of an updated military planning law, while also mulling the development of a new, stopgap, main battle tank.
Anthropic’s decision to keep close hold on a powerful frontier AI model, paired with a new initiative to study its effects on global networks, is prompting intelligence-community discussions about the ways such tools might help friendly and adversary forces alike.
In another step toward what would be a major boost to the drone-killing capabilities of Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoons, BAE Systems test fired its air-to-air optimized variant of the laser-guided 70mm Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System rockets from one of the jets.
“For the last few decades, the “first duty” of military space professionals has been to deliver space effects down to the terrestrial domains in the form of space support. ... But as adversary threats in and from space proliferate, the first duty of the U.S. Space Force and U.S. Space Command will shift from space support to space superiority, with a primary focus of deterring and defeating adversaries within that domain,” writes retired Lt. Gen. John Shaw, former deputy commander of U.S. Space Command.
U.S. troops carried on one of the Global War on Terror’s most enduring battlefield traditions by downing millions of energy drinks during the Iran war. The topic came up during the April 8 Pentagon news briefing as Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, provided reporters with a string of final tallies for U.S. military operations against Iran following President Donald Trump’s April 7 announcement of a two-week ceasefire. Among statistics on battlefield targets struck, Caine addressed what troops had been chugging.
