[ad_1] TOKYO—A first-ever gathering of defense chiefs from Japan, South Korea, and the United States here produced a trilateral security agreement, “grave concern” over increasing Russian-North Korean cooperation, and vague opposition to “unilateral attempts to change the status quo”—a reference to China and Taiwan.  Separately, the United States and Japan announced a new effort to ...

[ad_1] A new report from AI company OpenAI reveals that actors based in Russia and China have used generative artificial intelligence to bulk up their disinformation operations around topics like Ukraine, Taiwan, Moldova, and the United States. The report details five separate information operations over the last three months that used OpenAI tools to improve ...

[ad_1] The U.S. Navy is nearly $1 billion in the hole after defending Israel from Iranian missiles last weekend and fighting off Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping since October, the service’s secretary said Tuesday in a bid to convince House lawmakers to approve $95 billion in supplemental funding. “I would argue that the President’s ...

[ad_1] DUBAI, UAE—An upgraded electronic warfare suite that will give F-16 fighter jets the ability to detect multiple enemies at once should be ready for production in late 2025.  L3Harris is building “Viper Shield,” a fully digital radar warning receiver that detects the radio emissions of an adversary, for international customers of Lockheed Martin’s F-16 ...

[ad_1] The U.S. Army has warehouses packed with weapons its soldiers no longer need. But the service doesn’t know where they all are, nor what condition they’re in.  Now, amid increased demand from U.S. allies and partners, Army leaders are pushing for an updated database of those stored weapons. “Sometimes we don’t really know where all ...

[ad_1] Many U.S. observers are waiting in dread for China to attempt a military takeover of Taiwan sometime before 2027, but beneath the threshold of armed conflict, China is already attacking vital Taiwanese information streams, both physically and virtually, while the island develops new tools and techniques to resist. In April, a Chinese fishing vessel, ...

[ad_1] A shutdown of the U.S. government could reduce arms transfers to Ukraine by stymieing the small workforces that approve arms transfers and arrange weapons’ contracts—even as Ukraine battles to liberate territory in its south.  The State Department has not issued guidance yet for how it will handle a shutdown, but past shutdowns have meant ...

[ad_1] It may take the Navy “years” to recover from the promotion delays caused by a military nomination hold, the nominee to lead the service said during her Senate confirmation hearing Thursday. “Senator, I think just at the three-star level, it would take about three to four months to move all of the people around, ...