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Smart Shooter, the Israeli developer of AI-powered rifle-mounted fire control systems, has secured a $10.7 million follow-on U.S. Army contract for its SMASH 2000LE fire control system, with delivery scheduled for the third quarter of 2026. The award was issued through PAE Defensive Fires and will be executed through Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc., according to […]View the full article

Stockholm-based defense investment firm Front Ventures closed a €5 million (approximately $5.4 million) share raise on May 8 to fund early-stage defense technology companies in Ukraine and Sweden, with the raise oversubscribed by 278 percent in a signal of how urgently private capital is chasing battlefield-proven innovation. The raise, structured as a rights issue of […]View the full article

Russian military aviation influencer Ilya Tumanov, who administers the widely followed Fighterbomber Telegram channel, has released the first photograph of Tu-160 serial number 8-04, named Deynekin, following its upgrade to the “M” standard. Previous imagery had shown the Deynekin undergoing modernization at the Kazan Aircraft Production Association plant as far back as 2020, making the […]View the full article

French-supplied CAESAR self-propelled artillery systems appeared publicly for the first time in Armenia during rehearsals for the country’s Republic Day parade, scheduled for May 28 in central Yerevan, signaling a concrete and visible shift in Armenian military hardware away from its traditional Russian-origin inventory. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had previously announced that the government […]View the full article

Ukrainian defense company Inguar Defence has unveiled a new six-wheeled armored recovery vehicle built on a domestically developed triaxle 6×6 chassis, filling a critical battlefield gap that has forced Ukrainian units to leave damaged equipment exposed or rely on inadequate recovery solutions since the full-scale invasion began. Artem Yushchuk, CEO of Inguar Defence, announced the […]View the full article

American forces deployed Hornet strike drones during the Balikatan 2026 exercise in the Philippines, using the small pneumatic-launched weapons to destroy maritime targets simulating Chinese ZBD-05 amphibious assault vehicles in live-fire drills — marking one of the first confirmed appearances of the system in the Indo-Pacific theater. Balikatan 2026, the annual U.S.-Philippine bilateral exercise, ran […]View the full article

India successfully flight-tested an advanced Agni ballistic missile equipped with Multiple Independently Targeted Re-Entry Vehicle (MIRV) capability on May 8, 2026, launching from Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha and striking multiple separate targets with a single missile. India’s Ministry of Defense confirmed the test through its official social media account, […]View the full article

The U.S. Army has fielded Mobile Fire Teams in Lithuania, adapting a concept developed and battle-tested by Ukrainian forces fighting drone swarms since 2022 and deploying it along NATO’s eastern flank as part of the Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative. Soldiers from the 5th Battalion, 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 52nd ADA Brigade conducted zeroing operations […]View the full article

The U.S. Navy is set to commission a warship in Ohio for the first time in the nation’s 250-year history, with USS Cleveland scheduled to formally enter active service on May 16 during a ceremony at North Coast Yard in the city that gave the vessel its name. USS Cleveland, designated LCS 31, arrived in […]View the full article

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has selected Odon, Indiana, as the site for a new mid-tier coupled arc jet and laser facility, the company announced, marking a concrete step forward for Project Helios. The site selection followed what Kratos described as an extensive, multi-state competitive review. Michael Johns, Senior Vice President at Kratos, confirmed the […]View the full article

Pratt & Whitney has completed a fully digital assembly readiness review for its XA103 adaptive engine, clearing the last major design-phase hurdle before the company begins procuring physical hardware for the first test build of an engine it says will outperform anything currently flying. The review, conducted entirely within Pratt & Whitney’s digital engineering environment, […]View the full article

South Korea’s KF-21 Boramae fighter jet has received final combat suitability approval from the Ministry of National Defense, clearing the indigenous aircraft for operational deployment after more than a decade of development and over 1,600 test flights covering roughly 13,000 flight test conditions. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration announced Thursday that the KF-21 Block-I, the […]View the full article

Türkiye has signed a definitive procurement contract for its KAAN fifth-generation fighter jet, committing to the delivery of 20 aircraft to the Türkiye Air Force between 2028 and the end of 2030. The contract covers 20 KAAN aircraft in the Block-10 configuration, with the first delivery planned for 2028 and the full batch scheduled for […]View the full article

San Diego drone startup Firestorm Labs has secured a $30 million contract under the Pentagon’s Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies program to deploy its 3D-printed Tempest Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and the containerized microfactories that produce them into the Indo-Pacific, the company announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic. The APFIT award, […]View the full article

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded a $9 million contract to Ohio-based ARCTOS Technology Solutions to develop next-generation aerothermoelastic structures technologies for high-speed airbreathing vehicles, a research program that addresses one of the most demanding unsolved engineering problems in hypersonic flight. The contract, awarded competitively after two offers were received, runs through June […]View the full article

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has awarded Lockheed Martin a $407 million contract modification to continue engineering and development work on the Aegis Guam System, pushing the total value of the underlying Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Weapon Systems contract past $1.9 billion. The modification covers work running through December 2029. Lockheed Martin’s Moorestown, New Jersey […]View the full article

Poland’s twelfth F-35 has completed ground and flight testing and is ready for delivery, Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz announced on X, adding that production of the next four aircraft is nearing completion at Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth, Texas factory. The announcement, posted directly by Kosiniak-Kamysz on his official […]View the full article

Redwire has delivered more than 200 Penguin uncrewed aerial systems to the Ukrainian Armed Forces since 2022, the company announced in its latest social media post. The disclosure, posted by Redwire on its official social media account, marks one of the more concrete public tallies of a Western UAS platform’s operational footprint in Ukraine. More […]View the full article

Satellite imagery published by the open-source intelligence community Exilenova+ has confirmed a successful Ukrainian strike on the research and production branch of the NTC Radar scientific center in Rostov, struck overnight between May 7 and 8. According to Exilenova+, the main building was completely destroyed, while a second structure partially burned out. Two additional drone […]View the full article

Rostec has dispatched a new batch of T-90M, T-80BVM, and T-72B3M tanks to Russian forces, the state defense conglomerate announced on Sunday. The shipment, described by Rostec as incorporating lessons learned from combat experience and direct feedback from frontline troops, represents the latest in a continuous production flow that Uralvagonzavod has maintained throughout the war […]View the full article

Russia commissioned its eighth Project 22800 Karakurt-class missile corvette into the Baltic Fleet on May 8, 2026, in a ceremony at Baltiysk — one day after Ukraine struck a vessel of the same class at a naval base on the Caspian Sea some 2,000 kilometers away. The new ship, named Burya with hull number 257, […]View the full article

Will The F-14 Fly Again? Maverick Act Passes U.S. Senate 😃🫣

Russia claims it has doubled combat aircraft production since the start of the war in Ukraine, defense heavyweight Rostec chief Sergei Chemezov told President Vladimir Putin at a meeting, according to the Kremlin’s official website. Chemezov made the claim directly to President Vladimir Putin at a formal meeting, according to the Kremlin’s official website. The doubling […]View the full article

Turkish defense company STM has unveiled ALPAGU-B, a larger fixed-wing loitering munition with a 40-kilometer line-of-sight range and artificial intelligence-powered target tracking, making its global debut at SAHA 2026. STM, formally known as STM Savunma Teknolojileri Mühendislik ve Ticaret A.Ş., describes ALPAGU-B as the newest member of its fixed-wing loitering munition family and a direct […]View the full article

Turkey unveiled its first domestically built mini-submarine at SAHA Expo 2026, a milestone that Istanbul Technical University-based defense company Datum Submarine Technologies announced after completing the vessel’s first dive tests off the coast of Karamürsel on April 14, 2026. The Multi-Purpose Mini Submarine, developed with support from Turkey’s Presidency of Defense Industries, completed assembly at […]View the full article