Imagery captured Monday from an ImageSat International (ISI) Eros B satellite indicates Chinese preparations for new land-based missile installations on an increasingly strategic island base in the South China Sea.

Last week, a new generation of CSAR (Combat Search and Rescue) Operators joined the IAF upon completion of a grueling 18-month long training period. The fresh graduates began their journey with basic infantry training in the Paratroopers Brigade training base, followed by a Special Forces medics’ course. They also completed a unit specific basic training period and commanders course.

US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford landed in Israel on Monday as a guest of IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot.

During the visit, Dunford is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot, and additional IDF commanders to discuss cooperation between the two allied armies and mutual security challenges.

YL Ventures announced it had closed its third fund, YLV III. The new fund builds on the success of its two prior funds, both of which generated returns in the top quartile of all North American Venture Capital funds, according to Preqin.

Djibouti, with a population of 875,000 people and the size of only 23,000 square kilometers, is located at a strategic point, namely Bab al Mandab straits, linking the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. Djibouti is an increasingly vital economic and energy hub thanks to its geostrategic location – a path through which 10% of the world’s oil exports and 20% of commercial exports pass annually.

Iran tested a high-speed torpedo on Sunday that is capable of reaching speeds of 200 knots per hour, according to a US official. The test was conducted in the Strait of Hormuz, the vital waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea.

The Hoot torpedo has been tested over the past decade, with the most recent test taking place in February 2015. It is believed it is able to reach a speed four times faster than the top speed of traditional torpedoes.

DARPA's High-Assurance Cyber Military Systems (HACMS) program is creating technology for the construction of safe and secure cyber-physical systems. The program has adopted a clean-slate, formal methods-based approach to enable semi-automated code synthesis from executable specifications. HACMS has already transitioned some of its technology to both the defense and commercial communities.

In this video, HACMS software is used to protect the unmanned MH-6 Little Bird helicopter from malware-based hack attempts. 

On Wednesday, Russia's Izvestia newspaper reported that the Kh-35UE tactical cruise missile, an upgrade of the Kh-35 jet-launched subsonic anti-ship missile, has been incorporated into the Sukhoi T-50's array of potential armaments. 

The X-37B space plane landed at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The X-37B had been in orbit on a mission designated Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) 4 since a launch on an Atlas 5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on May 20, 2015. The US Air Force disclosed prior to the launch that the OTV-4 mission would carry a Hall effect electric thruster developed by Aerojet Rocketdyne and a materials science experiment provided by NASA, but did not disclose other plans for the mission.

Elbit Systems announced today that it was awarded a contract to provide the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD) with dozens of satellite-on-the-move (SOTM) systems. The contract is in an amount that is not material to Elbit Systems and will be performed over a two-year period.