During recent operations against Iran, the U.S. military used AI to direct more than 2,000 munitions at 2,000 targets within 96 hours, per the Pentagon's chief digital and AI officer.

Former commanders frame the technology as accelerating analysis rather than pulling the trigger, drawing a line between AI supporting the kill chain and AI controlling it.

China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran are pursuing systems that let weapons fire autonomously on sensor cues, sharpening the policy stakes over human judgment.

The Army destroyed small drones in an April demonstration at Aberdeen Proving Ground using a CROWS weapon station running new fire-control software while the vehicle was in motion.

Called SWAT-FC, the system adapts targeting algorithms from the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program and uses constantly updating sensor data to track and hit moving targets.

Once matured, the capability could give maneuvering ground units a built-in answer to small drones, a gap exposed repeatedly across recent conflicts.

Hensoldt unveiled SkyBarrier at Eurosatory 2026, a portable broadband jammer that simultaneously disrupts GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou, including their encrypted military signals.

Two operators can assemble the mast-mounted system within minutes and activate it through a mechanical front-panel switch, with no software configuration required.

Built with only three physical interfaces and no external data links, the design targets buyers protecting infrastructure and personnel from navigation-guided threats.

A new Mitchell Institute report, drawn from a January workshop of about 50 experts, urges the Space Force to define conflict policies and rehearse wartime scenarios in orbit.

Scenarios ranged from satellite jamming and cyberattacks to an anti-satellite strike and an unattributed nuclear detonation in low Earth orbit, where attribution is often difficult.

Researchers warned that gray-zone ambiguity favors competitors by slowing U.S. decisions, calling repeated exercises essential to turning concepts into executable options.

Parts of the NSA lost access to Anthropic's Mythos 5 model after the administration imposed export controls this month, forcing the company to pull back its most advanced systems.

Analysts were notified Friday, though the agency may retain limited use of earlier versions; its access had run through Project Glasswing, an early-access program launched in April.

The cutoff follows a senator's account that Mythos penetrated most NSA classified systems within hours during a red-team test, a characterization a defense reporter later disputed.

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