Ukraine has linked its military drones, sensors and weapons systems into a unified battlefield network, an integration Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told lawmakers Tuesday the U.S. military has yet to achieve.During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Driscoll lauded Kyiv’s “Delta” command and control system and praised its ability to “integrate every single drone, every sensor and every shooting platform into just one single network.” A stark contrast, he said, to fragmented American systems that struggle to communicate or share data. The secretary pointed to the Army’s newly launched “Operation Jailbreak,” an effort at Fort Carson, Colorado, where Army engineers and defense contractors are working to break down software barriers that prevent systems from exchanging information. The ability to quickly share information across systems on the battlefield allows forces to move targeting data between drones, sensors and striking systems, therefore speeding up how fast a military can identify and then attack a threat. “For decades our budget process incentivized companies to protect their intellectual property at all costs,” a process, Driscoll said, that “created walled gardens” in the country’s command and control infrastructure. Driscoll’s comments underscore just how heavily the American military is studying lessons from Ukraine as it adapts…

If you’re new to prepping and on a tight budget, you should take a look at this list. The survival items listed here aren’t just inexpensive, they could be very useful in a disaster scenario. Tarps, for instance, have at least 25 survival uses such as building shelter, patching leaks, collecting rainwater, and so forth. Duct tape has even more uses. You can use it to fix worn-out shoes, patch a leak in your tent, make a butterfly bandage, and more. By stockpiling multipurpose items, you won’t have to spend as much money on things that only have one function. This will save you some cash and make you more prepared. Here are some more useful and inexpensive items you should stockpile now. Want to save this post for later? Click Here to Pin It On Pinterest! Aluminum Foil Depression-era families saved aluminum foil because they knew its many uses. It can be folded into a small pot for boiling water, used as reflective signaling material, fashioned into improvised fishing lures, used to patch small holes, or wrapped around electronics as a basic Faraday cage to protect them from an EMP. Baby Wipes Whether or not you have a baby…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Brooks Nader suffered a wardrobe malfunction right before her big moment.The 29-year-old model and actress attended the 2026 FOX Upfronts in New York City to promote the new “Baywatch” reboot, and narrowly avoided a major wardrobe malfunction while on the red carpet.She shared a photo on her Instagram stories of her standing in front of a mirror in a small room with the back of her dress completely busted open in the back and her white lace underwear visible through the tear.”When you bust out of your dress 4 minutes before showtime!!! Classssssicc,” she wrote over the photo, adding two laughing crying emojis. COMEDIAN SUFFERS WARDROBE MALFUNCTION ON MORNING SHOW, RESPONDS WITH PERFECT COMEBACKNader followed that up with another photo of her getting sewn into the dress, captioning the photo, “We’ve got 4 earth angels sewing me back into this sucker.”The Sports Illustrated model later posed on the red carpet at the event in a red minidress with a halter neckline, matching the red she and the other “Baywatch” lifeguards wear on the show. She kept the accessories to a minimum and styled her hair in loose curls. In the new iteration…

The defense sector has donated nearly $5 million to members of Congress via political action committees and individual donations so far this year, according to a new report by NOTUS.The defense industry donations — comprising both traditional firms like Lockheed Martin, RTX (formerly Raytheon) and Northrop Grumman and newer companies like Anduril — make up only a small percentage of the cash going to Congress, according to OpenSecrets. Even so, the industry has enormous sway in politics through these contributions and through lobbying efforts.Republicans and Democrats alike benefit from these donations and notably, plenty of this money is directed at congressional decision makers who can influence legislation around defense acquisition, including the National Defense Authorization Act.California Rep. Ken Calvert raised roughly $200,000 in campaign funds from PACs and individuals affiliated with companies like RTX, BAE Systems, Leidos and others. Calvert, a Republican, is the head of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and will face a battle to keep his seat during the midterms this year.And it’s not just company PACs contributing, but individual donors — powerful corporate leaders like Anduril co-founder Brian Schimpf, who donated $7,000 to Washington Rep. Adam Smith last quarter.Smith is the Democratic leader on the House Armed…

This article was originally published by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge.  Kuwait and Iran are barely separated by a small section of Iraqi coastline at the head of the Persian Gulf, but they do share a maritime border. But given the small oil-rich Sunni sheikdom’s close proximity to the Islamic Republic, and given its historic role in hosting American forces and bases, it is to be expected that it would be heavily targeted in Iranian military operations. Indeed, Kuwait, alongside the UAE, absorbed some of the biggest ballistic missile and drone attacks from Israel during the US-Israeli Operation Epic Fury. US forces have even had to retreat to other locations deeper in the Middle East or even outside the theatre, given the repeated attacks and looming threat of new attacks, even amid the broader ceasefire. But in tandem with an air war, there has been a covert war happening in the shadows, with Kuwait’s interior ministry newly announcing on Tuesday that it has arrested four ‘infiltrators’ affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC). The ground attack incident is said to have happened earlier this month and involved heavy exchanges of fire. IRGC special operator, file image: Iran International The elite IRGC…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Democratic California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra is taking heat from critics over a contentious exchange he had with a local reporter about whether he was subjecting himself to a “gotcha piece.”Becerra, who is now widely considered a leading Democratic candidate in California’s jungle primary following the exit of disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell, sat down with KTLA’s Annie Rose Ramos as part of the station’s interview series on the top hopefuls in the race.However, in the interview that aired Tuesday, Becerra appeared to try setting the terms with the reporter.”By the way, this is a profile piece. This is not a gotcha piece, right?” Becerra began.MULTIPLE BIDEN OFFICIALS BASH FORMER CABINET OFFICIAL, GOBSMACKED BY THEIR RISE CA GOVERNOR RACE “Look, I think these questions are fair. It’s in order to learn about you as a candidate,” Ramos responded.”So long as it’s about the profile,” Becerra doubled down.”I don’t know how you define profile, but I’d like to begin the interview,” Ramos replied. “The way I describe profile is you talk about all the things I’ve done, things I want to do — along with some tough questions, but not only tough questions,” Becerra…

A national missile defense system, or Golden Dome, proposed by the Trump administration would cost $1.2 trillion to build and maintain over the next 20 years, the Congressional Budget Office estimated in a cost-projection analysis released Tuesday.Acquisition costs would total just over $1 trillion, said the CBO, a nonpartisan federal agency that provides budgetary analyses for Congress. The estimate is significantly more than the $185 billion the Trump administration set aside for the project in its proposed fiscal 2027 defense budget.That gap is due, at least in part, to the fact that there are no publicly available plans from the White House nor the Pentagon about what the system will look like, “making it impossible to estimate the long-term cost of the GDA system being contemplated by DoD,” per the report.“DoD’s stated cost appears to cover a shorter time frame than CBO’s analysis and may reflect a different scope of activities and budget categories,” the report continues. “Even so, that stated cost is far lower than CBO’s estimate for a notional NMD [national missile defense] architecture consistent with the ‘Iron Dome’ executive order.“That difference suggests either that GDA’s objective architecture is more limited than CBO’s notional NMD system or that…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A California Democrat running for Congress in a newly redrawn Central Valley congressional district has campaigned on bringing transparency to his local school board — but during his tenure, the board he served on reportedly settled multiple sex-abuse cases behind closed doors. Randy Villegas, running to represent California’s newly redrawn 22nd Congressional District in the U.S. House following passage of the state’s Proposition 50, is a college professor and most recently a school board member who ran on bringing transparency to the Visalia Unified School District (VUSD) in Central California. Meanwhile, on the website set up for his congressional candidacy, Villegas says he is running to “bring accountable, people-first leadership to Washington.” But, during his tenure as a Visalia Unified School District school board member, the district settled five confidential sex-abuse cases totaling nearly $14.4 million that included provisions to hide information from the public, according to data and documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times. In at least one of the settlements authorized unanimously by the board, Villegas was present, Fox News Digital could confirm. In that settlement agreement, Visalia Unified School District paid out $3 million following sexual assault allegations against a kindergarten…