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The Department of the Air Force wants up to five spacecraft that can each carry a government payload of as much as 2,000 kg (4,400 pounds) into the space between Earth and the Moon, with the first launch in late 2029, according to a request for information updated on the federal contracting site on Nov. […]View the full article

Northrop Grumman won another $79.6 million from the U.S. Air Force for the radar going into its F-16 fleet, pushing a contract that started at $244 million in 2017 past the $2 billion mark. The award, announced Nov. 13 by the U.S. Department of War, is a modification “for Active Electronically Scanned Array radars of […]View the full article

The U.S. Army awarded Kraus Hamdani Aerospace a $14.9 million contract “to procure Battalion Reconnaissance Unmanned Aircraft Systems,” according to a U.S. Department of War contract announcement, putting a dollar figure and a program name on the K1000ULE drone selection the company disclosed on Nov. 12. The Hayward, California, company beat a crowded field. “Bids […]View the full article

Raytheon will build the newest production batch of the U.S. Navy’s Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band pods in an extended-frequency version under a $42.1 million contract change the U.S. Department of War announced on Nov. 13. The change brings “the mid-band extended configuration” into Lot Five, the batch the U.S. Navy ordered in May 2025 for […]View the full article

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A military truck with no unit markings, seen on a highway outside Tokyo this week, may be the first public sighting of Japan’s new short-range air defense missile system, according to Japanese military enthusiasts on social media. A user who posts as 柚子 (@RJR114C) wrote on Thursday that they had recently passed a Ground Self-Defense […]View the full article

An Italian Air Force radar plane flew toward the Black Sea for at least the third time in a week, and its position on public flight-tracking maps came out scrambled by heavy satellite navigation jamming, according to the Italian flight-tracking project ItaMilRadar. ItaMilRadar reported the flight on Thursday. It identified the aircraft as a Gulfstream […]View the full article

Shooting down a drone with a Patriot missile costs about $5.3 million, while an interceptor drone does the same job for about $15,000, according to a chart published this week by U.S. drone maker Powerus. The company, which builds counter-drone interceptors and attack drones, shared the comparison on social media on Friday in its weekly […]View the full article

Japan’s E-767 airborne warning and control aircraft will get new Link 16 datalink terminals under a $14.9 million contract modification the U.S. Air Force awarded to Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp., the U.S. Department of War announced on Nov. 12. The award falls under what the Air Force calls the “Multifunctional Information Distribution System Joint […]View the full article

You’re new on the job…or at least that is how it feels. The older officers treat you that way. That’s OK, you’re used to it. You patrol a very safe city in a very safe country by European standards. It’s a good job. It’s a beautiful city. It’s a beautiful day. Then the call came. Officers Jakub Kulik and Artur Morański responded like the legends they are. Without hesitation. Without delay. Outgunned, but did not care. Like their ancestors at Kahlenberg Hill. To their last full measure. A nation and its people cannot ask for better. Wiki has the best and most detailed description of what these two young men found themselves in. On 7 November 2026, around 14:59 CET, a black 3rd generation Subaru Impreza hatchback with an Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski number plate entered the Main Square in Kraków from Sławkowska Street. The gunman, Oksiński, fired into a crowd from the car for over a minute. He wore military-style tactical gear and used an AR-15–style rifle during the attack. The first emergency call was made around 15 seconds after 15:00. At 15:01, the first police patrol began pursuing the attacker. A tram driver reported that at 15:05, his vehicle was fired upon by the gunman from his car near the Main Square. The driver’s window was shattered, but no injuries were reported onboard the tram. Numerous tram lines were subsequently disrupted. The Zara shop in Kraków was also shot. The sounds were also mistaken for firecrackers. The attacker then drove along the eastern side of the Main Square and fired more shots on the corner of Sienna Street, wounding a person. Afterwards, the suspect drove his car south from the square, along Grodzka Street, at speed whilst pursued by the police. The pursuit led through the All Saints Square and the St. Mary Magdalene Square. The attacker crashed into another car at the intersection of Dietla and Stradom Streets and left his vehicle around 15:03.. The pursuing police car stopped behind him, and two officers, Jakub Kulik and Artur Morański, got out, armed only with handguns. An exchange of gunfire ensued. During the exchange, both police officers were shot, but the attacker was also wounded and fell to the ground. Despite his injuries, Kulik got back up and fired additional shots and incapacitated the attacker. As a result, Oksiński was apprehended by the officers. The suspect was arrested about one kilometre (3⁄5 mi) south of the square; approximately two minutes elapsed between the start of the pursuit and the exchange of gunfire As reported by the Lesser Poland voivode Krzysztof Klęczar, 1,146 police officers, along with 24 units of the State Fire Service and 62 firefighters and rescuers, took part in the operation following the attack Overall, 1,146 police officers, 88 firefighters from 35 fire crews, and 15 emergency medical teams were involved in the response during the first 24 hours. Just a bunch of Zoomers, right? Well, they’re Polish Zoomers. Polish President Karol Nawrocki has awarded state honors to two police officers who risked their lives to stop a gunman who killed six people and wounded 15 others in Krakow’s historic center on Saturday. The officers, Jakub Kulik, 24, and Artur Morański, 27, each received the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, one of Poland’s highest state decorations, Bartosz Grodecki, head of the National Security Bureau, an advisory body to the president, said on Monday. The awards were presented by Nawrocki during visits to the two officers at separate hospitals in Krakow. Though there were some politicians who tried to make hay out of this tragedy, as mentioned in the video above, this has been the exception—to those individuals’ shame. More will be found in the future, but the smart money is on evil. That is a distraction from what is really an incredible testament to the Polish people and their culture. It is how people respond to evil appearing in their midst—whether as individual police officers or as a nation—that demonstrates national character. In honor of the victims, a silent march. The Poles are a great people with a great national culture. I hope they preserve and nurture it. h/t PawelLeave a comment Share This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. View the full article

Pakistan is the buyer behind a Turkish deal for 100,000 small kamikaze drones, the largest export order a Turkish company has announced for the cheap, goggle-flown attack drones that have reshaped the war in Ukraine. Pasifik Teknoloji, a Turkish technology company listed on the Istanbul stock exchange, said in a filing with Turkey’s Public Disclosure […]View the full article

A fully electric drone that once stayed in the air for more than three days straight has been picked for a U.S. Army program of record, its maker, Kraus Hamdani Aerospace, said this week. The California company said in a statement that its K1000ULE was “selected as part of a major U.S. Army Program of […]View the full article

An Italian counter-drone turret that carries eight Benelli shotguns has been put through a live-fire demonstration for the Danish Armed Forces, according to Dualee, one of the companies behind it. Dualee, an Italian defense technology firm, said on social media on Thursday that its LIVET M4 remote-controlled weapon station “showcased its advanced capabilities in front […]View the full article

A new unmanned ground vehicle from North Defence Group, built to haul up to 1,500 kg (3,300 pounds) of supplies for frontline troops, has been put to work at a European military exercise in Switzerland, according to the company. Oliver North, founder and chief executive of North Defence Group, said on social media on Thursday […]View the full article

A Ukrainian handheld radio built for a war full of jamming has gone through two weeks of trials with troops in Portugal. Its maker, HIMERA, says two of its relay stations held a steady link about 11 km (7 miles) apart. The Kyiv-based company posted the results on social media on Thursday. It said it […]View the full article

Two weeks after showing its Reliant drone loaded with mortar rounds and grenades, Quantum Systems has shown the aircraft on its production line in Southern California. Dave Sharpin, chief executive of Quantum-Systems Inc., the U.S. arm of the German drone maker, shared the images on social media earlier this week from the company’s plant in […]View the full article

Ukraine’s second Turkish-built warship, the corvette Hetman Ivan Vyhovskyi, is close to completion in Istanbul and is preparing to put to sea for the first time, Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine’s Presidential Office, said on Thursday. “The work is in its final stages,” Budanov wrote on X after touring the ship, which the Turkish defense […]View the full article

New weapons arrive on battlefields following a familiar pattern. Aircraft are a good benchmark of a pattern we are seeing today with drones. At the start of WWI, aircraft were barely a decade past the Wright Brothers’ first flight. Aircraft were still fragile stringbags, but advances were happening at an incredible pace. The top aircraft this month may be obsolete before the season changes. At first, aircraft performed the most basic mission, one they were naturally suited for—reconnaissance. Now and then, aircraft from opposing sides would see each other and, being unarmed, simply wave. That didn’t last long. There were ramming attacks. There were pistol shots. Then on October 5, 1914, the French decided to bring a machine gun on a Voisin III and found an unarmed German Aviatik B.I. You know the rest of the story from there. Drones are not new today, and neither was aerial reconnaissance in 1914. What had changed was technology. For well over a century before WWI, balloons were used for aerial reconnaissance in Europe and North America. Engines, lightweight construction techniques, and just plain good thinking brought powered flight into existence and changed the way aerial reconnaissance was done. It was only a matter of time until we strapped a weapon to them. Humans will eventually find a way to arm just about anything they can. If you consider fire ships to be drones, which I do, drones have been used in war at sea for centuries. In the air and on the ground for decades. All that was needed was advances in enabling technologies. Communication. Code. Navigation. Seeker heads. Miniaturization of…everything. We have already seen drone-v-drone warfare in the air and on the ground—even having surface drones shoot down aircraft—but even though attack drones had been used quite successfully especially by the Ukrainians and Americans, we haven’t seen a drone surface fight yet—until just a few weeks ago. I can’t believe this slipped by my scan for so long. As described by Naval News about two months ago, For the first time in history, an uncrewed surface drone (USV – uncrewed surface vessel) has destroyed another USV in combat. The Ukrainian Navy Sargan-3000 USV, operating on intelligence from the Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR), interdicted a Russian attack USV in the Black Sea. The Russian naval drone was sunk. The Russian USV can be positively identified as an improved Orcan type Here’s the video of the fight. You can find the Ukrainian Navy’s upload from Telegram at this link. Of course she’s armed with Ma-Deuce…what a jewel of a multi-tool weapon. This is how it starts. Simple boats with a simple weapon, man in the loop. From here, things should advance quickly. The automation and software needed to run the fight on its own are already here. It just needs a few more tweaks, a nod from the JAG, and we’re off and running. Remember all your ASW waterspace management details? SAA, JTAA, ect.? Modify it for drones, give them geofenced waterspace and a set of if-then ROE, and let them cook. This is going to happen, with more deadly weapons. Without a man in the loop, except for a kill switch and override, it is only a matter who will be firstest with the mostest. Leave a comment Share This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. View the full article

Allen Control Systems, the Texas startup behind the Bullfrog robotic anti-drone gun, is starting a laser weapons business and has hired two senior U.S. Army directed energy officials to run it, the company said Tuesday. The Austin-based firm, which now brands itself simply as ACS, said in a press release that its new Directed Energy […]View the full article

The U.S. Army has awarded Safe Pro Group a $2.5 million contract to run the Florida company’s explosive-detection software aboard Anduril’s Ghost-X drones to help protect Abrams tanks, according to a company release. Safe Pro, based in Aventura, Florida, announced the award Tuesday in a release filed with regulators. It’s the company’s first prime contract, […]View the full article

AeroVironment has won a $405 million order for its LOCUST X3 anti-drone lasers from an unnamed customer in the Middle East, the Virginia-based company said Wednesday. The company, which goes by AV, called the deal an “international direct commercial sales order” in a release. That means AV negotiated it directly with the foreign buyer, instead […]View the full article

AEVEX Corp. raised its 2026 revenue forecast by about $120 million at the midpoint on Wednesday, its first report since buying drone-boat maker BlackSea Technologies, as sales from its core drone business more than made up for shrinking Ukraine-related work. The Solana Beach, California, company now expects full-year revenue of $820 million to $840 million, […]View the full article

Israeli defense company Elbit Systems has won a contract worth about $260 million to supply PULS rocket artillery launchers and munitions to an unnamed NATO country in Europe, the company said Thursday. The Haifa-based firm said in a release that the contract will be “performed over a period of 5 years.” It named the buyer […]View the full article

Fighterbomber, a Russian Telegram channel close to the country’s Aerospace Forces, posted a plain black square Wednesday morning. Underneath, channel owner Ilya Tumanov wrote that defending St. Petersburg from Ukrainian drones overnight “cost us very dearly.” “Very, very, very dearly,” he added. Another pro-war channel, Voevoda Veshchaet, went further. It said “3 experienced crews, seven […]View the full article

British Defence Minister Luke Pollard took the controls of STARK’s Vanta 12, a 12-meter (39-foot) uncrewed boat armed with Sea Venom anti-ship missiles, during a demonstration in Oslo this week, according to a company release sent to The Defence Blog. Pollard, the U.K.’s minister for defence readiness and industry, was in the Norwegian capital for […]View the full article