Defence`s Feeds

ADMIRAL MARK HAMMOND, CHIEF OF THE DEFENCE FORCE: Good morning, everybody. Thank you for joining us here today. Later on today we'll be announcing the Defence Innovation Science and Technology Strategy, which is a significant step forward for the Defence Department in allowing targeted investment of resources into innovative technologies that are really going to make a difference to the war-fighting potential of the Australian Defence Force. Advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, hypersonics, et cetera. I'll leave it to Professor Monro to fill in the gaps.

 If you're paying attention to the war in Iran (and many Americans ain't) then you heard that Israel hit the Islamic Republic's leadership while they were attempting to elect a new Ayatollah.

Meanwhile Trump was trying to push forward on another negotiated settlement to the war.

MAKE IT MAKE SENSE!

How can we expect a country to negotiate an end to hostilities if we (the US & Israel) keep knocking off their leaders?

You can't!

You can't negotiate with yourself and unless the other side has leaders then that is what you're in essence doing!

To add a twist to this mystery, Trump was promising devastating strikes to Iran's energy producing sector!

All while supposedly pushing said peace plan.

Someone explain it to me.  I just don't understand the thinking here.  What I do know is that the "Art Of The Deal" does not translate to the international stage.

Another thing.

I'm all for optimism.  Optimism is good.  But entering into somethings you need more than optimism.  You need plans readily available if sugar turns to shit.

This war turned to shit and its obvious that our planning is/was lacking.  We apparently only planned for best case scenarios and now that that is out the door we're in a hurtlocker.

Last thing.

We have had several cautionary tales about "allied" warfare.  This is the most stark in my lifetime.

If allies are not united in goals and how those goals are to be accomplished, and if we're not willing to shoulder the entire war solo then the war should not be fought.

 

Why are we making unmanned squad "gear" carriers so hard? The above video shows a commercial model being marketed on Instagram to HOMEOWNERS and corporations to carry/move stuff from area to area. Yeah it operates off a playstation controller (just like freaking NMESIS) so its not ideal but what happened to rapid prototyping and getting stuff out to the troops to test~!
It ain't that hard we did it during the 50's with no fanfare.  We even put several models of different systems into active duty and retired it shortly thereafter.
If China IS the big threat then we need to walk/run/sprint with haste.  Get out of the legacy procurement cycle and charge forward.
Our troops aren't the problem.
The problem is our BUREAUCRACY!
The problem is the military industrial complex~~!
Either we fix both with a quickness or a leadership more interested in protecting itself AND making money will have us losing another war!~

Today, the Department of the Navy announced a decisive step to sharpen its competitive edge, reclassifying nineteen planned Virginia Class submarines equipped with the Virginia Payload Module (VPM) as guided missile submarines (SSGN). This pivotal shift clearly differentiates these advanced platforms from traditional Virginia Class fast attack submarines (SSNs), signaling a leap forward in undersea warfighting capability, lethal combat power, and global deterrence.

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AFRICOM Commander Gen. Dagvin Anderson conducted a regional visit to Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, July 26-30, 2026.

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Mr. Nabil Fahmy, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, strongly condemned the brutal Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, which targeted tents sheltering displaced persons and residential apartments, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries.

Footage released by state media on Monday showed a rare scene of at least six DF-17 hypersonic missile launch vehicles of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Rocket Force appearing together in a single frame.

Почему везде показывают унылую Ф1 когда существует это? pic.twitter.com/mWMq6xruhR

— Awis (@Awisone) July 18, 2026

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An offer posted on encrypted messaging app Telegram on 26 February by an account claiming to belong to the cybercriminal group Lapsus$, has alarmed cybersecurity experts. Lapsus$ is an international group that claims to be apolitical and not affiliated with [...]

A businessman claiming links to China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has been spearheading a plan to move British microchip company [...]

Acronis AG, a Swiss software firm that was banned by the US's Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) [...]

The EU's diplomatic service, the EEAS (European External Action Service), led by former Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas, is looking for a new director to head its crisis management team.

The next meeting of the Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE) is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, 2 September 2026 from 9.00 - 12.30 and 14.30 - 18.30 and Thursday, 3 September 2026 from 9.00 - 12.30 in Brussels (room TBC).

Further information about the SEDE meetings can be found here.
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SEDE missions 2026:

• Canada - 26-28 May 2026
• Taiwan - 30 March - 2 April 2026
• Poland and Czechia - 16-18 February 2026
• Ukraine - 5-6 February 2026

SEDE missions 2025:

• Djibouti - 27-29 October 2025
  
• Greenland - 15-19 September 2025
  
• Norway - 27-30 May 2025
• Moldova and Ukraine - 14-17 April 2025
  
• Bosnia and Herzegovina - 24-27 February 2025
• Israel and Palestine - 5-8 February 2025

SEDE missions 2024:

• United Kingdom - 28-30 October 2024
• Ukraine - 25-26 October 2024

SEDE Committee meetings' calendar 2026
SEDE Committee meetings' calendar 2025
EP calendar 2026
Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

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The Permanent Representative of Cuba to the International Seabed Authority (ISA), Ambassador Tania López Larroque, addressed the 31st Session of the Assembly of this international body on the morning of 28 July.