Kit Gillet

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Four officials detained after a North Korean destroyer was badly damaged on the day of its ceremonial launch into the water face potentially fatal consequences at the hands of Kim Jong Un, North Korean experts told Business Insider. "I would say there's a very good chance they'd be executed," Joseph S. Bermudez, an analyst in North Korean defense at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, said.

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Drone warfare is evolving at breakneck speed, with Ukraine's battlefields becoming a testing ground where the most innovative defense tech companies can refine their products in real war conditions. This means that it's increasingly vital for those looking to develop the tech to have a presence there.

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Belgium's defense minister compared the revolutionary impact of drone warfare to that of gunpowder as European officials pledged to boost drone production for Ukraine. "I really believe that this is the future of warfare, like gunpowder was in the Hundred Years War, like an industrial revolution was in the First World War, and like nuclear capacity was in the Second World War," Theo Francken said, speaking at the Drone Summit 2025 in Riga, Latvia.

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A Ukrainian intelligence official has accused China of supplying resources to Russian military production facilities. Speaking to Ukrinform state news agency, military intelligence chief Oleh Ivashchenko said Ukraine had "confirmed data" that China was supplying 20 Russian factories. "There is information that China supplies tooling machines, special chemical products, gunpowder, and components specifically to defense manufacturing industries," he said.

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When Calvin Bailey — a member of the UK parliament — was a squadron commander in the country's Royal Air Force, he saw a shift in how his engineering-heavy workforce changed careers. In the early 2010s, people would leave the service "like for like," he told Business Insider — meaning they were leaving the military for complementary roles in the defense and aerospace industry.