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6 July

Canada’s First CC-330 Husky Tanker Transport Aircraft Completes Maiden Flight

The Royal Canadian Air Force’s “Husky 006” — its first of four new incoming A330 multi-role tanker transport aircraft — has completed its maiden flight at Airbus’ Getafe facility in Spain.

6 July

M-tron Industries has provided RF components to counter-drone programs.

Ronald Watkins

M-tron Lands $4M Production Contract for US Electronic Warfare Program

M-tron has secured production contracts worth $4 million to supply radio frequency components for next-generation US electronic warfare.

6 July

British and American personnel train together on Exercise VIGOROUS WARRIOR.

Jodesz Gavilan

UK, US Expand Military Medical Training Partnership

The UK and US have signed a new agreement to expand joint military medical education and training.

6 July

(Representative image only.) Air National Guard personnel participate in a cybersecurity training exercise. Photo: Staff Sgt. Laura Virtue/DVIDS

Samantha Alexa

Anthropic Restores Global Access to Powerful AI Models After US Lifts Restrictions

Anthropic will restore global access to its most advanced AI models after the US government lifted restrictions imposed over cybersecurity and national security risks.

4 July

Nigerian Navy Special Boat Service soldiers conduct close quarters room clearing at Flintlock in Volta, Ghana, March 3, 2023. Flintlock is U.S. Africa Command’s premier and largest annual special operations exercise that strengthens key partner nations throughout Africa, in partnership with other international special operations forces. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Mario Hernandez Lopez)

Staff Writer With AFP

US Says Pulls Some Troops From Nigeria After Anti-IS Operation

The US has pulled out most of the troops deployed to Nigeria for a special operation against fighters of the Islamic State group in the country's northeast, the American military said.

3 July

Pfc. Derek T. Hall, a tube-launched optically tracked wire-guided (TOW) gunner assigned to Combined Anti-Armor Team 1, Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, fires a TOW missile during Integrated Training Exercise (ITX) 2-17 aboard Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, Feb. 16, 2017. ITX is a combined-arms exercise which gives all elements of the Marine Air Ground Task Force an opportunity to utilize capabilities during large scale missions to become a more ready fighting force. 1/3 is currently participating as the ground combat element for this exercise. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Aaron S. Patterson/Released)

Rojoef Manuel

Raytheon Set to Maintain US Army TOW Missile Targeting Systems Through 2030

The US Army is partnering with Raytheon in logistics support for the TOW Improved Target Acquisition System through the end of the decade.

3 July

Inder Singh Bisht

BAE Delivers 19 More Cold Weather All-Terrain Vehicles to US Army

The US Army has received 19 additional Cold Weather All-Terrain Vehicles based on BAE Systems' unarmored BvS10 Beowulf platform.

3 July

Military personnel observe the Buster-Jangle “Dog” nuclear test conducted at the Nevada Test Site in 1951. Photo: Daniel Gaffney/Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Samantha Alexa

CIA Chief Puts Advanced AI in the Same League as Nuclear Weapons

The US is increasingly treating frontier artificial intelligence as a strategic national security asset, with Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe likening the most capable AI models to nuclear weapons.

3 July

Akhsan Erido Elezhar

US Firm Turns Cellular Networks Into Silent Drone Detectors

US soldiers may soon be able to detect an adversary drone silently after Cohere Technologies secured a contract to transform existing cellular networks into a smart sensing system.

3 July