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NASA’s Perseverance measures Martian dust fine enough to reach the lungs, with consequences for astronaut suits and habitats NASA completes the solar array on NEO Surveyor’s sunshade, the asteroid-hunting telescope, with up to 2 kW of power Navantia launches the seventh corvette for Saudi Arabia’s navy, to be named NEOM Naval Group backs its FDI frigate offer to Denmark with three Danish companies USS Colorado to be the first US submarine rotating through Australia under AUKUS Japan’s 2026 Defense White Paper: China the “greatest strategic challenge”, North Korea a threat “more serious and imminent than ever”, strong concern over Russia Pentagon asks Congress to enshrine the name “Department of War” in law: “It belongs in statute, not just in an executive order” JIATF-401 at one year: how the Pentagon’s counter-drone task force buys and fields systems CISA 2030: America’s cyber agency moves from passive defence to proactive cyber defence and hardening of critical infrastructure Security Council splits over whether UN sanctions on Iran are in force as the UK demands IAEA inspectors’ return

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USS Porter DDG78 setting course for Black Sea

The Arleigh Burke-class AEGIS guided-missile destroyer USS Porter DDG78, forward-deployed to Rota, transits the Bosphorus toward the Black Sea on…

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