'Broke in under an hour': Hegseth mocked as he unveils 'future of warfare' — and it fails

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced backlash after a new military artificial intelligence website appeared to fail immediately.

"The future of American warfare is here, and it's spelled AI," Hegseth said in an announcement posted to X on Tuesday. "And that's why today we are unleashing genAI.mil. This platform puts the world's most powerful frontier AI models, starting with Google Gemini, directly into the hands of every American warrior."

"We will continue to aggressively field the world's best technology to make our fighting force more lethal than ever before," he added.

Commenters quickly pointed out that they were unable to access the site.

"Site is down: upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: connection termination," one commenter said.

Another person suggested that the webpage "can't handle more then 500 visitors at a time."

"Couldn't even handle the general population we broke it in under an hour and u wanna pretend this is gonna stand up against state actors," another commenter pointed out.

Pentagon officials later told Daily Mail reporter Jon Michael Raasch that the website was working as intended.

"The link only works for military personnel with the use of a key card, the DoW says. Odd they would post the military-only portal publicly," Raasch reported.