AvatarBusiness InsiderAvatarAvatar8 hours agoUS Army general says the 'future is not bright' for towed artillery, like the M777s America gave Ukraine to fight the Russiansverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Chris PanellaA US Army general said the age of the towed artillery cannon may be coming to an end and suggested the prioritization of other, more mobile options. The general's comments on towed artillery, systems like the M777 howitzer, come as these weapons are being used in the war in Ukraine. Artillery …
AvatarBusiness InsiderAvatarAvatar8 hours agoInside Marine Corps Officer Basic School at Quanticoverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Graham FlanaganWe got an inside look at how new United States Marine Corps officers are trained at The Basic School, a seven-month program that challenges newly commissioned second lieutenants physically, academically, and tactically. Chief video correspondent Graham Flanagan spent five days inside The Basic …
AvatarBusiness InsiderAvatarAvatar11 hours agoChina built a mock-up of key area in Taiwan's capital city at a desert training site, satellite images showverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Chris PanellaOut in the desert at a military training site, China has built a mock-up of a key area of Taiwan's capital city where the presidential office and other government buildings are located, satellite images show. The mock-up, like others before it, seems to indicate China's intentions and focus, though …
AvatarBusiness InsiderAvatarAvatar12 hours agoPalmer Luckey says Anduril is working on AI weapons that 'give us the ability to swiftly win any war'verified_publisherBusiness Insider - Polly ThompsonA Silicon Valley defense tech startup is working on products that could have as great an impact on warfare as the atomic bomb, its founder Palmer Luckey said. "We want to build the capabilities that give us the ability to swiftly win any war we are forced to enter," he told the Financial Times. The …
AvatarBusiness InsiderAvatarAvatar15 hours agoXi Jinping is caught in a bind: How do I undermine US power while also courting its investors?verified_publisherBusiness Insider - Tom PorterChina's President Xi Jinping presented an uncharacteristically affable image Wednesday, smiling broadly for US business leaders at a meeting in Beijing. The Chinese leader sought to assure investors including Cristiano Amon of Qualcomm and Stephen Schwarzman of the Blackstone Group that the downturn …
AvatarBusiness InsiderAvatarAvatar17 hours agoUkraine says a missile barrage against Russia's Black Sea Fleet was even more successful than it thoughtverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Sinéad BakerUkraine said that its weekend strikes on Russia's Black Sea Fleet were more successful than it previously revealed, with damage to two additional vessels. Ukraine's navy said on Sunday that it struck two of Russia's large landing ships, the Yamal and the Azov, in occupied Crimea, in an attack on …
AvatarBusiness InsiderAvatarAvatar1 day agoNATO ally Greece wants fifth-gen F-35 stealth fighters with the upgrades to cure past 'childhood illness'verified_publisherBusiness Insider - Chris PanellaGreece's military leadership has announced radical changes to its Armed Forces, particularly its air force, including plans to offload older combat aircraft and get new F-35 stealth jets. But Greece isn't in a rush to acquire the advanced fifth-generation fighters, Greek Minister of Defense Nikos …
AvatarBusiness InsiderAvatarAvatar1 day agoRussia's new river patrol force will likely have the same explosive problem battering its Black Sea Fleet, Western intel saysverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Jake EpsteinRussia's new river patrol force could be vulnerable to the same exploding naval drones that Ukraine has used to wreak havoc on Moscow's Black Sea Fleet, according to Western intelligence. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu last week announced the formation of the Dnipro River "Flotilla" and a …
AvatarBusiness InsiderAvatarAvatar1 day agoFox News threatened legal retaliation against a family suing the network over the death of their daughter in Ukraineverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Mia JankowiczDays before a Ukrainian family filed a lawsuit against Fox News over the death of their daughter, their lawyer received a letter from the network threatening retaliation. This came in response to a letter they'd sent laying out their grievance and seeking both information and damages. In …
AvatarBusiness InsiderAvatarAvatar1 day agoPalestinians are drowning trying to reach parcels airdropped into the sea, paramedics sayverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Joshua ZitserAt least 12 Palestinians drowned off the coast of Gaza while attempting to reach airdropped parcels that had landed in the sea, local paramedics said, according to CNN. The media office for Gaza's Hamas-run government said in a message to Business Insider that 12 Palestinians had died by drowning, …
AvatarBusiness InsiderAvatarAvatar1 day agoNorth Korea censored footage of a benign English gardening show because its presenter was wearing jeansverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Tom PorterNorth Korea censored footage of the TV presenter Alan Titchmarsh to hide the fact that he was wearing jeans. North Korea's Central TV broadcast Titchmarsh's 2010 show "Garden Secrets" recently, but obscured his trousers. North Korean media is known for being heavily censored — but this example raised …
AvatarBusiness InsiderAvatarAvatar1 day agoUkraine is in a race to stop Russia's mounting glide-bomb attacksverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Jake EpsteinRussia has increasingly relied on glide-bomb strikes to hammer Ukrainian defenses while keeping its attack aircraft mostly out of harm's way. It's a devastating tactic that underscores Russia's ability to adapt to some of the problems that have hamstrung its forces, and one that has helped Moscow …