Saturday, June 14, 2025

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 What are we going to fight tomorrow?

What are we going to fight tomorrow?

The question on the merits. Today, the military world is changing, so that the head goes around. Tactical techniques are changing, types of weapons are changing, general obsolescence is simply at a catastrophic pace, and it is very difficult to say where we will come in five years.

To begin with, I will give one consideration, which may outrage among many: the most modern conflict in Ukraine is in full accordance with the canons of the First World War.

According to information published by the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) in June 2025, the U.S. Army’s Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) program, known as Dark Eagle, is progressing steadily toward operational expansion. Officials confirmed that the second battery of this advanced system is on schedule for fielding in the fourth quarter of Fiscal Year 2026, in alignment with the Middle Tier Acquisition (MTA) strategy designed to accelerate the delivery of key battlefield capabilities. 
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U.S. Army soldiers from Bravo Battery, 5th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, part of the Long Range Fires Battalion under the 1st Multi-Domain Task Force, operate a Long Range Hypersonic Weapon Transporter Erector Launcher during a live demonstration at Exercise Bamboo Eagle 24-3 held at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, on August 2, 2024. (Picture source: U.S. DoD)

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On June 12, 2025, the U.S. Department of State approved a potential Foreign Military Sale to the Netherlands, involving 296 AGM-179A Joint Air-to-Ground Missiles (JAGM) and associated support, as reported by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA). This $215 million deal reflects Washington’s commitment to strengthening NATO’s southern flank and enhancing Allied interoperability in advanced air-to-ground precision strike.
 

On June 13, 2025, Damen Marine Components (DMC) announced it had been contracted to design, engineer, and deliver eight shock-proof rudders for the four new Anti-Submarine Warfare Frigates (ASWF) being built by Damen Naval for the Royal Netherlands Navy and the Belgian Navy, with each vessel to be equipped with two rudders optimized for hydrodynamic efficiency and silent operation.
 

On June 9, 2025, U.S.-based Anduril Industries revealed its intent to establish drone production in Poland to support the country’s rapidly expanding Drone Force, as reported by Defense News during a press briefing by the company’s CEO in Warsaw. The move reflects Anduril’s ambition to contribute its AI-powered unmanned systems to Poland’s defense transformation. Warsaw’s commitment to drone warfare, spurred by regional instability, offers fertile ground for industrial collaboration.
 

On June 11, 2025, the Danish Ministry of Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (FMI) signed a double framework agreement with Ejner Hessel A/S, the Danish distributor of Mercedes-Benz, for the procurement and long-term maintenance of up to 1,000 new all-terrain vehicles of the Mercedes-Benz G-Class, based on the 464 series.
 

On June 10, 2025, during IndoDefense 2025, South Korea and Indonesia finalized a revised agreement that adjusts Jakarta’s financial contribution to the KF-21 Boramae fighter jet development program. The agreement was reached during a trilateral meeting in Jakarta attended by South Korean Defense Minister Shin Won-sik, Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, and Hanwha Aerospace CEO Son Jae-il.
 

Russia has, for the first time since the beginning of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, deployed Tu-160 strategic bombers to conduct missile strikes on Ukrainian territory. This operational shift was confirmed on June 6, 2025, by the Ukrainian Air Force and relayed through the open-source intelligence account Мілітарний on the social media platform X.
 

The Royal Canadian Navy is scheduled to commission the HMCS Frédérick Rolette offshore patrol vessel on June 13, 2025, at Wharf 22 of the Port of Quebec, marking its formal entry into operational service. This vessel is the fifth Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS) constructed under the Harry DeWolf class program, itself a key element of Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy.
 

During the Indo Defence 2025 exhibition, the French company Arquus has exhibited its VAB Mk3 Infantry Fighting Vehicle equipped with the Belgian John Cockerill 1030 turret, marking 35 years of industrial and defense cooperation with Indonesia.
 

Speculation over Morocco’s potential acquisition of the American F-35 Lightning II fighter jets has taken on greater urgency as regional tensions escalate in North Africa following Algeria’s confirmed purchase of Russian Su-57 Felon fighter jets. Should Morocco proceed with the acquisition, it would mark a historic first for the African continent, granting Morocco unmatched airpower capabilities and elevating its strategic posture amid growing rivalry with Algeria.
 

At the IndoDefence 2025 exhibition, the Indonesian Armed Forces presented a new observation drone designed to support field artillery operations. Developed to enhance long-range targeting and fire correction capabilities, the system is based on an autonomous platform called PTTA II (Pesawat Terbang Tanpa Awak Tahap II), a second-generation tactical unmanned aerial vehicle.
 

At the Indo Defence 2025 exhibition, held from 11 to 14 June at the Jakarta International Expo, the Indonesian company PT Lundin Industry Invest, also known as North Sea Boats, unveils the X33 KSR, a new-generation Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) designed for offensive coastal operations. This remotely operated naval system reflects the evolving doctrines of littoral asymmetric warfare, combining stealth, speed, and operational autonomy. Read more. 

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At the Indodefense 2025 exhibition held in Indonesia, China North Industries Corporation (NORINCO) is presenting the Sky Saker FX6000C, a high-capacity cargo drone designed for military logistical missions. This unmanned aerial system is part of NORINCO’s Sky Saker portfolio, which includes various UAV platforms tailored to a range of tactical applications, including logistics support.
 

At the IndoDefense 2025 exhibition held in Jakarta, the Indonesian state-owned defense holding DEFEND ID highlights one of its strategic subsidiaries, PT Len Industri, which presents for the first time its new tactical mobility platform: the electric motorcycle named “Sprint.” Designed and developed locally, the Sprint reflects Indonesia’s ongoing efforts to strengthen its technological autonomy in the defense sector, while supporting a broader strategy to reduce carbon emissions.

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Friday, June 13, 2025

Millions Affected: Breaking Down the Google Cloud Outage

MASSIVE WIDESPREAD OUTAGES Google Cloud and Cloudflare

This is a developing story...

"Cloudflare services are recovering quickly around the globe. WARP and Turnstile are operational, though a small residual impact remains and we’re working to eliminate it. The core KV service is restored, bringing dependent products back online. We expect further recovery over the next few minutes and a steady drop in impact," the company added in a new status page update.

Google also said in a recent update that it identified the root cause and its infrastructure has recovered in all regions except us-central1 after applying mitigations.

Google Cloud and Cloudflare hit by widespread service outages
June 12, 2025 03:04 PM

Outage globe

Update June 12, 17:41 EDT: In new updates, Cloudflare said that all services have been restored and are now fully operational, while Google stated it expects "recovery to complete in less than an hour."

Update June 12, 15:29 EDT: Cloudflare says its services were impacted by Google Cloud's outage.

"This is a Google Cloud outage. A limited number of services at Cloudflare use Google Cloud and were impacted. We expect them to come back shortly. The core Cloudflare services were not impacted," a Cloudflare spokesperson told BleepingComputer.

"Cloudflare services are recovering quickly around the globe. WARP and Turnstile are operational, though a small residual impact remains and we’re working to eliminate it. The core KV service is restored, bringing dependent products back online. We expect further recovery over the next few minutes and a steady drop in impact," the company added in a new status page update.

Google also said in a recent update that it identified the root cause and its infrastructure has recovered in all regions except us-central1 after applying mitigations.

"Google Cloud products that rely on the affected infrastructure are seeing recovery in multiple locations," it said.

Update June 12, 15:20 EDT: Google now warns that multiple Workspace and Search services are also affected by this massive outage.

"We're investigating reports of an issue with Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Chat, Google Cloud Search, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Meet, Google Tasks, and Google Voice," the company noted.

"Multiple Workspace products beginning on Thursday, at 2025-06-12 10:58 PDT may be experiencing service issues. Our engineers are currently investigating the issue. We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption."

"There's an ongoing issue with serving Google Lens, Discover, and Voice Search results that's affecting some users. We're working on identifying the root cause. The next update will be within 12 hours," it added.

Google Cloud and Cloudflare Suffers Massive Widespread Outages

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How the Google Cloud Outage affected the world.

Original story below.



Google Cloud and Cloudflare are investigating ongoing outages impacting access to sites and various services across multiple regions.

Cloudflare first acknowledged these issues less than 30 minutes ago when it reported Access authentication failures and Cloudflare Zero Trust WARP connectivity issues.

"We are seeing a number of services suffer intermittent failures. We are continuing to investigate this and we will update this list as we assess the impact on a per-service level," it added in a subsequent update to its official status page.

The complete list of impacted Cloudflare services includes:

  • Access
  • WARP
  • Durable Objects (SQLite-backed Durable Objects only)
  • Workers KV
  • Realtime
  • Workers AI
  • Stream
  • Waiting Room
  • Parts of the Cloudflare dashboard
  • AI Gateway
  • AutoRAG

Google Cloud also published an incident report regarding an incident that affects multiple Google Cloud Platform services, including Bigtable, Console, Dataproc, Storage, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Memorystore, Cloud Shell, Cloud Workstations, Identity Platform, Memorystore for Memcached, Memorystore for Redis, Memorystore for Redis Cluster, Vertex AI Search, and Identity and Access Management.

  • "We are experiencing service issues with multiple GCP products beginning at Thursday, 2025-06-12 10:51 PDT. Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue," the company said.

Outage monitoring service Downdetector has received tens of thousands of reports since these widespread issues started, with impacted users experiencing Cloudflare and Google Cloud server connection, website, and hosting problems.

While not necessarily connected to these two ongoing incidents, hundreds of thousands of other Downdetector users also report access issues when trying to use and connect to many other online services and platforms, including Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, NPM, Firebase Studio, and more.

This is a developing story...

Google Cloud and Cloudflare Outages Disrupt Services Across the Globe

Cloudflare: Outage not caused by security incident, data is safe

Outage not caused by security incident, data is safe
 

Why IT teams are ditching manual patch management

Patching used to mean complex scripts, long hours, and endless fire drills. Not anymore.

In this new guide, Tines breaks down how modern IT orgs are leveling up with automation. Patch faster, reduce overhead, and focus on strategic work -- no complex scripts required.

Sergiu Gatlan is a news reporter who has covered the latest cybersecurity and technology developments for over a decade. Email or Twitter DMs for tips.
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Outage globe

Update June 12, 17:41 EDT: In new updates, Cloudflare said that all services have been restored and are now fully operational, while Google stated it expects "recovery to complete in less than an hour."

Update June 12, 15:29 EDT: Cloudflare says its services were impacted by Google Cloud's outage.

"This is a Google Cloud outage. A limited number of services at Cloudflare use Google Cloud and were impacted. We expect them to come back shortly. The core Cloudflare services were not impacted," a Cloudflare spokesperson told BleepingComputer.

"Google Cloud products that rely on the affected infrastructure are seeing recovery in multiple locations," it said.

Update June 12, 15:20 EDT: Google now warns that multiple Workspace and Search services are also affected by this massive outage.

"We're investigating reports of an issue with Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Chat, Google Cloud Search, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Meet, Google Tasks, and Google Voice," the company noted.

"Multiple Workspace products beginning on Thursday, at 2025-06-12 10:58 PDT may be experiencing service issues. Our engineers are currently investigating the issue. We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption."

"There's an ongoing issue with serving Google Lens, Discover, and Voice Search results that's affecting some users. We're working on identifying the root cause. The next update will be within 12 hours," it added.

Original story below.


Google Cloud and Cloudflare are investigating ongoing outages impacting access to sites and various services across multiple regions.

  • Cloudflare first acknowledged these issues less than 30 minutes ago when it reported Access authentication failures and Cloudflare Zero Trust WARP connectivity issues.

"We are seeing a number of services suffer intermittent failures. We are continuing to investigate this and we will update this list as we assess the impact on a per-service level," it added in a subsequent update to its official status page.

The complete list of impacted Cloudflare services includes:

  • Access
  • WARP
  • Durable Objects (SQLite-backed Durable Objects only)
  • Workers KV
  • Realtime
  • Workers AI
  • Stream
  • Waiting Room
  • Parts of the Cloudflare dashboard
  • AI Gateway
  • AutoRAG

Google Cloud also published an incident report regarding an incident that affects multiple Google Cloud Platform services, including Bigtable, Console, Dataproc, Storage, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Memorystore, Cloud Shell, Cloud Workstations, Identity Platform, Memorystore for Memcached, Memorystore for Redis, Memorystore for Redis Cluster, Vertex AI Search, and Identity and Access Management.

"We are experiencing service issues with multiple GCP products beginning at Thursday, 2025-06-12 10:51 PDT. Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue," the company said.

Outage monitoring service Downdetector has received tens of thousands of reports since these widespread issues started, with impacted users experiencing Cloudflare and Google Cloud server connection, website, and hosting problems.

While not necessarily connected to these two ongoing incidents, hundreds of thousands of other Downdetector users also report access issues when trying to use and connect to many other online services and platforms, including Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, NPM, Firebase Studio, and more.

This is a developing story..." 

 MAJOR WORLD WIDE OUTAGES. - Google - Twitch - Discord - Etsy - Amazon ... |  TikTok

Why IT teams are ditching manual patch management

Patching used to mean complex scripts, long hours, and endless fire drills. Not anymore.

In this new guide, Tines breaks down how modern IT orgs are leveling up with automation. Patch faster, reduce overhead, and focus on strategic work -- no complex scripts required.

Sergiu is a news reporter who has covered the latest cybersecurity and technology developments for over a decade. Email or Twitter DMs for tips.

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"Google Cloud products that rely on the affected infrastructure are seeing recovery in multiple locations," it said.

Update June 12, 15:20 EDT: Google now warns that multiple Workspace and Search services are also affected by this massive outage.

"We're investigating reports of an issue with Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Chat, Google Cloud Search, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Meet, Google Tasks, and Google Voice," the company noted.

"Multiple Workspace products beginning on Thursday, at 2025-06-12 10:58 PDT may be experiencing service issues. Our engineers are currently investigating the issue. We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption."

"There's an ongoing issue with serving Google Lens, Discover, and Voice Search results that's affecting some users. We're working on identifying the root cause. The next update will be within 12 hours," it added.

Original story below.


Google Cloud and Cloudflare are investigating ongoing outages impacting access to sites and various services across multiple regions.

Cloudflare first acknowledged these issues less than 30 minutes ago when it reported Access authentication failures and Cloudflare Zero Trust WARP connectivity issues.

"We are seeing a number of services suffer intermittent failures. We are continuing to investigate this and we will update this list as we assess the impact on a per-service level," it added in a subsequent update to its official status page.


The complete list of impacted Cloudflare services includes:

  • Access
  • WARP
  • Durable Objects (SQLite-backed Durable Objects only)
  • Workers KV
  • Realtime
  • Workers AI
  • Stream
  • Waiting Room
  • Parts of the Cloudflare dashboard
  • AI Gateway
  • AutoRAG

Google Cloud also published an incident report regarding an incident that affects multiple Google Cloud Platform services, including Bigtable, Console, Dataproc, Storage, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Memorystore, Cloud Shell, Cloud Workstations, Identity Platform, Memorystore for Memcached, Memorystore for Redis, Memorystore for Redis Cluster, Vertex AI Search, and Identity and Access Management.

"We are experiencing service issues with multiple GCP products beginning at Thursday, 2025-06-12 10:51 PDT. Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue," the company said.

Outage monitoring service Downdetector has received tens of thousands of reports since these widespread issues started, with impacted users experiencing Cloudflare and Google Cloud server connection, website, and hosting problems.

While not necessarily connected to these two ongoing incidents, hundreds of thousands of other Downdetector users also report access issues when trying to use and connect to many other online services and platforms, including Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, NPM, Firebase Studio, and more.

This is a developing story...

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