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While some military hardware ages out quickly, the Army’s Avenger air defense system has instead spent nearly four decades getting upgraded piece by piece, and this week it received another one: a new contract worth up to $25.2 million for infrared sensors that let its crews spot targets in the dark. The Defense Logistics Agency […]View the full article

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Leidos an $85 million ceiling contract for digital design tools meant to help engineer future aircraft, the second company in as many days to win a spot under the same research program that Anduril Industries joined a day earlier. The Air Force Research Laboratory made the award to Leidos, […]View the full article

The U.S. Army has awarded a $10.6 million contract for Raybird unmanned aircraft hardware and services to Skyeton Inc., the American arm of Skyeton, a Ukrainian company that has spent the past several years proving the drone in combat over Ukraine. Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, issued the firm-fixed-price contract after soliciting bids […]View the full article

The U.S. Navy has awarded Kato Engineering a $49.3 million contract to keep maintaining the power system behind the electromagnetic catapults on its Ford-class aircraft carriers, covering engineering support, repairs and spare-parts sourcing through 2031. The contract covers the Energy Storage Subsystem of the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, or EMALS, the technology that replaced traditional […]View the full article

The U.S. Navy has added $76.6 million to a Lockheed Martin contract for continued design work on the next generation of the Trident II D5 nuclear missile, part of a long-term effort meant to keep the submarine-launched weapon in service into the 2080s. The modification adds to an existing contract with Strategic Systems Programs, the […]View the full article

Before an F-35 fighter jet can land at a new base and start flying real missions, someone has to build the entire support system around it first: spare parts stocked on shelves, specialized tools laid out, technicians trained, and computer systems wired into the global network that keeps the jet running. That unglamorous but essential […]View the full article

Russia has begun building underground production space for its Shahed and Geran attack drones at the Alabuga industrial zone in Tatarstan, according to Ukrainian open-source intelligence analyst Dnipro Osint, who estimated roughly 42,000 square meters of underground area has already been constructed there. Dnipro Osint said the shift underground appears to have followed earlier Ukrainian […]View the full article

Bath Iron Works said the future USS Quentin Walsh, a Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, is now one of the ships taking shape at its Land Level erection stage, the point where large prefabricated hull sections are joined together before launch. General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine marked the milestone alongside National POW/MIA […]View the full article

Turkish defense manufacturer ASELSAN demonstrated in live trials in Konya province that three of its airborne systems can work together on Bayraktar TB2 drones to detect, jam and photograph enemy radar in a single coordinated sequence, the company said, in a demonstration attended by more than 15 international defense delegations. The trial combined three pods: […]View the full article

Leonardo DRS will build the electric propulsion system for South Korea’s next-generation KDDX destroyer, the company announced, supplying technology for what will be the Republic of Korea Navy’s first full-electric-drive surface warship. DRS signed the contract with Doosan Enerbility, which will work alongside the American company to build the ship’s complete power and propulsion system, […]View the full article

A Philippine government ship carrying fuel to Filipino fishermen was struck by a Chinese Coast Guard vessel on Friday, the latest collision in a South China Sea dispute that has grown more dangerous and more frequent throughout 2026. The Philippine ship, BRP Datu Magat Salamat, belongs to the country’s Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources. […]View the full article

Ukraine’s Defense Forces destroyed a Russian S-400 air defense launcher in Russia’s Bryansk Oblast on Sept. 17, using FP-1 drones, according to Fire Point, the Ukrainian company that builds the drone. Fire Point said the launcher had been modified by Russian forces to strike ground targets and had previously been used against Kyiv. The company […]View the full article

The Battle of Leyte Gulf. The world's largest naval battle. Every type of action, night and day, for days, from air-to-air to battleship action. No one did it better than The History Channel, back in its prime (imagine this using modern computer simulation), in taking the time to put the battle into context. Get a cup of coffee. It is a two-part series, and in the opening of Part 1, as they describe the state of the Imperial Japanese Navy, ponder a bit if, in 2026, looking toward the next Great Pacific War, we are preparing ourselves to be the U.S. Navy of 1944, or the Imperial Japanese Navy of 1944. If you build yourself for a short war—founded on a hope/cope of Deterrence by Denial or Deterrence by Punishment—and your deterrence, you will be faced with a long war. Those who understand war know that only those with the vision, capacity, and capability to fight a long war win the long war. Population, culture, industrial capacity, access to resources. Rack-and-stack. While that is bouncing around in your nogg’n, let’s get back to 1944. This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Leave a comment Share View the full article

Finland’s first two F-35A fighter jets landed at the Lapland Air Wing in Rovaniemi on Sept. 18, opening the operational phase of a 64-jet purchase meant to replace the Finnish Air Force’s aging F/A-18 Hornet fleet. The two aircraft, tail numbers JF-510 and JF-512, left Lockheed Martin’s factory in Fort Worth, Texas, on Sept. 15 […]View the full article

Former DRDO Chairman Samir Kamat said India has exported its Akash surface-to-air missile system to Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, extending New Delhi’s defense export reach into Central Asia for the first time. The Akash is a medium-range air defense system built to intercept aircraft, helicopters, drones and cruise missiles. Bharat Dynamics Limited manufactures the missile, using […]View the full article

The U.S. Army has awarded Sikorsky a $234.5 million contract modification to build 16 new UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters, bringing the total value of the underlying contract to $356.3 million. The fixed-price-incentive modification adds to contract W58RGZ-26-C-0008, which the Army and Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, first signed earlier this year. Work will take place […]View the full article

The Air Force Research Laboratory has added $16.4 million to a Castelion Corp. contract for developing a low-cost, mass-producible long-range strike weapon, the latest in a rapid series of government awards backing the company’s Blackbeard hypersonic missile. The modification brings the total value of this particular contract to $37.2 million, up from $20.9 million. Work […]View the full article

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Anduril Industries a contract worth up to $85 million to develop computer-based design tools for future aircraft, part of a push to design and test new systems digitally before building physical hardware. The Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, made the award under a program […]View the full article

The U.S. Navy has awarded JRC Integrated Systems a $47.4 million contract modification to provide engineering and technical support for the Nuclear-Armed Sea-Launched Cruise Missile, or SLCM-N, the service’s effort to field its first new nuclear weapon since the Cold War. The modification adds to a contract Strategic Systems Programs, the Navy office overseeing the […]View the full article

Turkish manufacturer Otokar and Italy’s Leonardo have completed integration and live-fire testing of a 120mm turret mounted on Otokar’s Tulpar medium tank platform, a combination now being pitched as a potential replacement for Brazil’s aging Leopard 1A5 tanks. The companies ran the tests at Italy’s UTTAT Nettuno test range near Rome, fitting the Tulpar with […]View the full article

An Italian Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet was hit during an overnight attack on King Fahd Air Base near Ta’if, Saudi Arabia, Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto confirmed Friday. Crosetto said the aircraft, designated F-2000 by the Italian Air Force, was parked in a remote area of the base when it was struck. No Italian personnel […]View the full article

Social media users shared widespread footage Thursday evening of a glowing, tentacled shape in the night sky, with some posts claiming it showed a missile launched toward Ukraine. Within hours, astrophysicist and satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell offered a more mundane explanation, and Russia’s Ministry of Defense confirmed it the next day. “Russia appears to have […]View the full article

Paramount and India’s Kalyani Strategic Systems Limited unveiled a new 4×4 light armored modular vehicle (LAMV) called the Mbada at the Africa Aerospace and Defence exhibition in Pretoria on Sept. 17, marking the vehicle’s first public showing at an international defense show. The Mbada is built as a modular platform that customers can configure for […]View the full article

A counter-drone startup tested a low-cost interceptor missile at Yuma Proving Ground this month, loading it into an eight-shot launcher during a homeland-defense experiment involving U.S. Northern Command, NORAD and the Pentagon’s Joint Interagency Task Force 401. Perseus Defense, a company that went through Y Combinator’s 2025 batch, said each Mk-III interceptor it fired cost […]View the full article

"AUKUS has forced the United States to confront its "profoundly lacking" capacity to build and maintain naval submarines, but recent progress should inspire confidence in the defence deal, a former top White House official says." AUKUS felt 'too hard' at times, former White House offici...Five years after the pact between Australia, the US, and the UK was announced, three of its key architects assess its progress toward its goals, including arming Australia with nuclear-powered submari