✈️ Jet-Powered “Wingman” Drone Concept Surfaces With Fighter-Like Performance

📬 In Today’s Defense Brief

🚤 Navy Wants a New USV That “Makes People Uncomfortable” Read More

🛰️ Space Force Plans to Weave AI Into Everyday Operations Read More

🧠 LANL Launches Frontier AI Models on the Venado Supercomputer Read More

⚡ U.S. Army Evaluating a High-Power Microwave Weapon for Counter-UAS Read More

✈️ Jet-Powered “Wingman” Drone Concept Surfaces With Fighter-Like Performance Read More

🎱 Plus 9 other news stories you may like

📰 Full Breakdown

🚤 Navy Wants a New USV That “Makes People Uncomfortable” Read More

• Navy leaders are signaling a break from incrementalism, asking industry for a purpose-built USV that challenges legacy ship norms.

• The goal is a platform designed around autonomy from day one, with payload agility, austere crewing, and resilient C2 for contested seas.

• Expect rapid prototyping and doctrine shifts as the fleet experiments with unmanned roles across surveillance, strike support, and logistics.

🛰️ Space Force Plans to Weave AI Into Everyday Operations Read More

• Guardians want AI embedded in routine workflows, from sensor tasking to anomaly triage, to speed decisions across crowded orbits.

• Leaders are pairing commercial tools with classified data, eyeing explainable models that commanders trust in time-sensitive ops.

• Early focus areas include SDA, cyber defense, and ops center automation, with tight guardrails for safety and mission assurance.

🧠 LANL Launches Frontier AI Models on the Venado Supercomputer Read More

• Los Alamos rolled out “frontier-scale” models on Venado to accelerate national security science, materials research, and simulation.

• The effort blends HPC and modern AI to shrink experiment cycles, validate physics, and push rapid hypothesis testing for mission needs.

• NNSA frames it as a foundation for trustworthy, auditable AI in sensitive domains where precision and provenance are non-negotiable.

⚡ U.S. Army Evaluating a High-Power Microwave Weapon for Counter-UAS Read More

• A new HPM concept aims to disable swarms by frying onboard electronics, offering magazine depth where interceptors prove costly.

• Trials focus on power management, beam control, and fratricide limits to ensure safe integration near friendly systems and people.

• If viable, HPM could slot into layered C-UAS with EW and kinetics, giving commanders cheaper volley options against massed threats.

✈️ Jet-Powered “Wingman” Drone Concept Surfaces With Fighter-Like Performance Read More

• A sleek, jet-powered loyal wingman design promises higher dash speed and payload than prop-driven adjuncts for escort and strike.

• The concept leans on modular bays and open architectures, aiming fast swaps from sensors to weapons as missions shift mid-campaign.

• Key questions remain around cost, attritability, and certifiable autonomy, but the performance envelope is drawing serious interest.

🌏 Other Important News

✈️ Air

• Portugal selects Embraer A-29N Super Tucanos for training and light attack Read More

• Poland fits F-16s with Viper Shield EW for modernized self-protection Read More

• Boeing teases elements of a sixth-gen fighter approach Read More

🛰️ Space

• Space Force leans on commercial providers for space domain awareness Read More

• Firehawk shows hybrid-rocket progress for responsive launch Read More

🌊 Sea

• Navy accepts LCAC-114 from Textron, boosting ship-to-shore lift Read More

• “Assault ship” concept highlights extreme payload capacity for amphib ops Read More

🛡️ Land

• Marines trial Scorpion light mortar on MRZR Alpha 6x6 for shoot-and-scoot Read More

• Saab’s Nimbrix system aims faster, smarter missile target generation Read More

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