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Defense
Trump orders Pentagon to release UFO files, says public can decide for themselves
President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the Pentagon to release a trove of classified UFO files, including 120 PDFs, 28 videos and 14 images, telling Americans “the people can decide for themselves, ‘WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?’”
Taiwan parliament passes $24.8bn special defense budget to deter China
Taiwan's parliament approved a NT$780 billion special defense budget on Friday, granting President Lai Ching-te a significant portion of the military spending he requested before his planned trilateral meeting with Trump and Xi in Beijing.
Pentagon awards Scale AI a $500m contract to sift battlefield data
The Pentagon has awarded Scale AI a $500 million contract to help process battlefield data and assist in operational decision-making, a five-fold expansion of a $100 million deal struck in September 2025 and the latest sign that the US military is wiring its planning workflow into Silicon Valley.
Vance presses Trump on Iran war intel as US missile stockpile fears mount
Vice President J D Vance has privately pressed President Donald Trump on whether the Pentagon is giving the White House an accurate read of the Iran war, including the scale of US missile-stockpile depletion. The report opens a rare crack in the administration's national-security discipline.
Inside Anduril: how a quiet engineer-CEO is building America's $31bn defense startup
Brian Schimpf, the soft-spoken former Palantir engineer who co-founded Anduril with Palmer Luckey in 2017, runs a $30.5 billion private weapons company whose Lattice software is being written into nearly every major Pentagon counter-drone program.
Taiwan defense budget stalls for third time as Trump-Xi summit nears
Taiwan's ruling and opposition parties on Tuesday failed for the third time to break a deadlock over a NT$1.25 trillion ($40 billion) special defense budget, with the latest negotiation collapsing days before US President Donald Trump's mid-May trip to China for a summit with Xi Jinping.
US ships $2.1bn in cheap APKWS rockets to Israel, Qatar and UAE as Iran war drains stockpiles
The State Department on May 1 cleared three emergency foreign military sales totalling $2.1 billion for the APKWS guided rocket, a Korean War-era weapon retrofitted as the West's cost-effective answer to Iranian Shahed drones. Israel and Qatar each get 10,000 rounds; the UAE gets 1,500 air-to-air guidance sections.
