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Russia has lost another attack helicopter in Africa, this time to Tuareg rebel fighters in Mali rather than to the war in Ukraine that has already cost Moscow dozens of similar aircraft. The Azawad Liberation Front, a Tuareg-led rebel coalition known by its French acronym FLA, claimed its fighters shot down a Mi-24P, a Soviet-designed […]View the full article

Albania has become the third country in the world to buy Turkey’s domestically built BORAN howitzer, signing a contract with Turkish state manufacturer MKE just days before NATO leaders gather in Ankara for this year’s summit, defense outlet Ulusavunma reported. The deal covers six BORAN 105mm towed howitzers along with an undisclosed quantity of ammunition, […]View the full article

Japan’s military has apparently been flying a helicopter modification nobody outside a small circle of aviation watchers knew existed, until a Japanese photographer caught the aircraft airborne and posted the images online. A user posting under the handle nobita0114 published photographs on X showing a Japan Ground Self-Defense Force UH-2 utility helicopter in flight fitted […]View the full article

A machine gun once reserved for infantry squads and vehicle mounts has found a new home strapped to the back of a motorcycle, and the company behind the setup says this is only the beginning of a rapidly evolving niche in European special operations equipment. French tactical equipment distributor TR Equipement staged a live demonstration […]View the full article

A small aircraft lifted off a dirt airstrip in western India after rolling forward just 22 meters (72 feet), roughly the length of two school buses, and that short hop has validated a technology an Indian startup hopes could eventually move troops and supplies into places no runway has ever reached. Ahmedabad-based Cligent Aerospace confirmed […]View the full article

A Swedish aerospace startup has let journalists watch its foot-long, carbon-fiber interceptor drone chase down and destroy a target aircraft in real time, the first live public demonstration of a system the company hopes will help defend against the wave of cheap attack drones reshaping modern warfare. Nordic Air Defence held what it called a […]View the full article

A Russian tank fitted with the country’s signature radar-guided missile defense system has turned up again on the Ukrainian battlefield, this time firing from a hidden position rather than facing the enemy head on. Photographs published by Russian state media outlet RIA Novosti show a T-72B3A main battle tank equipped with the Arena-M active protection […]View the full article

A small tracked robot that can launch its own quadcopter, watch a target from the air, and then land the drone right back on its own chassis has surfaced in a newly published Russian patent, a design open-source trackers have nicknamed the “tracked Mavic” after the popular DJI consumer drone it resembles in miniature. The […]View the full article

Turkish defense manufacturer Roketsan conducted a live-fire test of its TAYFUN Block-3 ballistic missile, striking a free-moving, unmanned surface vessel roughly 7 meters (23 feet) long, built to represent a small fishing boat, with a live warhead traveling at hypersonic terminal speed. The company described the hit as achieved with surgical precision, and Turkish officials […]View the full article

Ukraine has publicly shown off a truck-mounted missile launcher it received in secret four years ago and has kept hidden from cameras ever since, revealing for the first time exactly what its American-supplied Harpoon coastal defense system looks like. During a visit to Ukraine’s Odesa region this week, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s military officials displayed the […]View the full article

Rostec, Russia’s state-owned defense conglomerate, announced on July 3, 2026, that its subsidiary High Precision Systems has begun delivering the first production batches of an anti-drone cartridge called Mnogotochie, a name that translates roughly to “ellipsis,” to troops in the field. The company says full-scale serial production is now underway, with an initial experimental batch […]View the full article

A Russian fighter jet parked on a runway in occupied Crimea burst into flames overnight, and Ukraine’s military intelligence agency says its drone operators are responsible. Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence, known by its Ukrainian abbreviation GUR and distinct from the country’s domestic security service, announced Saturday morning that its Department of Unmanned Systems struck […]View the full article

A firearm attachment once reserved almost exclusively for special operations units is quickly becoming standard-issue equipment for ordinary infantry soldiers worldwide, according to a July 3 report from German defense outlet hartpunkt. The report examines the growing military adoption of what the article calls signature reducers, the more technically accurate term for devices commonly known […]View the full article

Britain’s Ministry of Defence is still sitting on 42 SEPECAT Jaguar attack jets nearly two decades after the Royal Air Force retired the type, and nine more have already been shipped off to India to keep that country’s aging combat fleet flying, the UK Defence Journal reported. The figures came from a written parliamentary answer […]View the full article

A next-generation stealth fighter that nearly stalled out over a funding dispute severe enough to cost two British officials their jobs has received a $6.1 billion vote of confidence from the three countries building it. The Global Combat Air Programme, known in Britain as Tempest, awarded an 18-month, £4.6 billion ($6.1 billion) contract on July […]View the full article

A wheeled cannon that looks nothing like traditional artillery has fired live rounds on camera for the first time, and the footage shows exactly why the U.S. Army is betting on it to solve one of modern warfare’s most expensive problems. BAE Systems released new test footage on July 2, 2026, showing its Multi-Domain Artillery […]View the full article

Two of NASA’s most storied research jets have traded their usual gray paint for a full red, white, and blue makeover, and the aircraft getting the treatment have spent decades doing work most Americans have never heard of despite watching some of its results on the evening news for years. NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center […]View the full article

Ukraine’s most powerful long-range strike weapon, a six-ton cruise missile capable of hitting targets 3,000 kilometers (1,865 miles) away, runs on the same free, publicly available flight software that hobbyists use to fly camera drones. French science outlet Futura reported that its journalists identified ArduPilot, an open-source autopilot system widely used across the unmanned aircraft […]View the full article

In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty…

A photo circulating from inside Russia appears to show a T-90M main battle tank fitted with the Arena-M active protection system riding on a tank transporter, a sighting that, if confirmed, would mark one of the clearer visual indications yet that Russia’s newest hard-kill defense against incoming threats is moving beyond limited trials and into […]View the full article