Australia is working with Pacific partners to lift disaster readiness. The activity builds stronger coordination, sharper response skills, and closer ties across the region—helping communities prepare for major emergencies together.

DARPA’s X-65 experimental aircraft, which uses active flow control instead of flaps, is facing delays. First flight now expected in late 2027 after cost overruns, technical challenges, and program restructuring.

The AH-64E Apache helicopter has proved highly effective in anti-drone tests, downing 13 of 14 drones using existing weapons. The tests confirm the aircraft’s evolving role as a multi-role counter-drone and battlefield sensor platform.

Chinese researchers conclude jamming Starlink over Taiwan is possible but requires an enormous EW force—about 935 to 2,000 airborne jammers—due to Starlink’s dynamic, resilient low-orbit network and frequency-hopping capabilities.

Dementia risk can be reduced by up to 45 percent by exercising in midlife and later life—even for some with a genetic predisposition. According to the findings, however, early adulthood activity has no significant effect.

The US peace plan for Ukraine, seen as requiring major concessions, faces strong scepticism. Analysts argue Putin’s imperial ambitions make Western cost-benefit strategies and economic incentives ineffective for ending Russia’s invasion.

SOCOM (US Special Operations Command) plans a 10-day course teaching operators to build and fly FPV (first-person view) drones, including soldering, wiring, software setup, and 40 hours of hands-on flight training, for rapid battlefield skills.

Defence forces are constantly reviewing uniform regulations as they underpin utility, morale and discipline. The USAF is introducing small changes to wearing colours and adding call signs to positively affect broader unit morale and cohesion.

Seeking power and influence at work is commonly thought of as bad management. This article argues that as long as it is sought for positive influencing and challenging, rather than simple self-aggrandisement, it can be effective.

People can be misaligned within jobs and this can be observed through disengagement, demotivation and lack of productivity. Managers cannot always find alternate roles, but can help personnel through working to their strengths and interests.