
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is returning to advise the Trump administration by co-leading a Pentagon study called Project Meridian.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk will return to advise Donald Trump's government by co-leading a Pentagon study on the future of war called Project Meridian.
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Musk previously served as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency before departing in May last year.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk will make a return to officially advising US President Donald Trump’s government by co-leading what the Pentagon called a study on the future of war.
Musk served as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency before departing in May last year, having publicly fallen out with Trump.
In a speech at the Quantico military base, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said “Project Meridian” will be “an effort led by America’s best minds to study the future of warfare”.
“We are leveraging a unique source of American advantage, one our adversaries do not have: our innovators, our senior leaders and our technologists,” Hegseth said.

Faced with the frequent intrusions of Chinese Coast Guard ships into Taiwan's eastern contiguous areas, society has gradually become paralyzed. The author Zhang Houguang pointed out that this is a gray area tactic, and called for the establishment of joint sea and air defense, unmanned technology and inter-departmental dynamic response mechanisms to face threats with all-round maritime resilience.

The first batch of 66 new F-16V Block 70 fighter jets purchased by Taiwan from the United States is about to return to Taiwan across the sea. This batch of fighters is newly manufactured by the original American factory and is not a modification of old aircraft. It has a structural life of 12,000 hours and an exclusive radar power generation configuration.

In response to the trend of modern army building, the National Army has promoted the "self-made, self-repaired, self-flying" model of drones through the Army Unmanned Systems Training Command, requiring officers and soldiers to use 3D printing to assemble and repair suicide, bomb-delivery and FPV drones to enhance frontline ready-to-use and sustained combat capabilities.

Senior Japanese lawmaker Itsunori Onodera visited Kyiv to study Ukrainian drone technology and war experience, as Tokyo seeks ways to counter rising regional security threats.

The UAE's "Gulf News" reported on September 28 that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards seized a US military REMUS 600 unmanned submarine in the Strait of Hormuz early that morning. This is the second time that Iran captured a US-made unmanned submarine in just 20 days after capturing the US military's Dive-LD unmanned underwater vehicle on September 8.

After being stranded in Hawaii for more than a month, the first batch of F-16V Block70 fighter jets purchased by my country from the United States were confirmed to have taken off today. If the weather is stable, they are expected to fly back to Taitung Zhihang Base tomorrow morning and will become the backbone of eastern Taiwan's air defense.