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South Korea’s Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back confirmed that the country will begin operational deployment of the Hyunmoo-5 ballistic missile — known for its heavy warhead — by the end of this year. In an interview with Yonhap News, Ahn stated, “Hyunmoo-5 is currently in the force integration process and will enter active deployment starting at […] The post South Korea to field ‘monster missile’ by year-end first appeared on Defence Blog.View the full article

BAE Systems Ordnance Systems Inc., based in Radford, Virginia, has been awarded a firm‑fixed‑price contract valued at $20,348,798 to procure and store 6.4 million pounds of sheeted cotton linters, a primary raw material used to produce nitrocellulose for propellant manufacturing at the Radford Army Ammunition Plant. The award was issued on November 7, 2025. According […]View the full article

China’s newest long-endurance stealth unmanned aerial vehicle, the CH-7, has completed its maiden flight. State broadcaster CCTV said on Monday that China’s new high-altitude, high-speed, long-endurance CH-7 had recently completed its first flight. The outlet reported that the aircraft demonstrated long endurance, stealth, and high cruising speed, and was designed to meet “the needs of […]View the full article

The French Army has begun testing the next-generation Hermione unmanned ground vehicle at the Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan Military Academy, the service confirmed this week. The trials are being conducted under the Army’s Pendragon program, which focuses on integrating artificial intelligence-enabled combat systems into future military operations. According to the French Army, the objective of the first […]View the full article

Ukraine has developed and tested a new multi-caliber air defense system named “Shershen,” according to a report published by the Ukrainian defense outlet Militarnyi. The main developer and systems integrator is a company that is part of the National Association of Defense Industries of Ukraine (NAUDI), working with several Ukrainian firms responsible for missile guidance […]View the full article

UK-based SYOS Aerospace said on March 11, 2026, that its SA200 heavy-lift uncrewed helicopter has completed endurance trials and fully autonomous mission testing, clearing the aircraft for serial production. The company confirmed that the SA200 UAV successfully demonstrated autonomous take-off and landing from a moving platform during the final trials. The milestone comes as militaries […]View the full article

Ukraine’s Defense Forces carried out more than 9,000 missions with ground robotic systems in March alone, new data from the DELTA battlefield management platform show. The latest figure marks a sharp rise in the use of these systems. In November 2025, they were used in more than 2,900 missions. By January 2026, that number had […]View the full article

Britain’s newest drone-killing missile just proved itself in the desert, according to the latest UK government report. Cambridge Aerospace’s Skyhammer interceptor missiles and launchers successfully completed trials in Jordan less than two weeks after the UK Ministry of Defence signed a multi-million-pound contract with the veteran-led startup. The tests took place at one of Deep […]View the full article

American Rheinmetall and electric vehicle startup Harbinger announced a partnership on May 27 to develop and field a family of robotic and uncrewed ground vehicles for the U.S. Department of War, pairing a combat vehicle integration specialist with a commercially derived hybrid-electric chassis designed from the ground up for autonomous operation. The teaming, announced from […]View the full article

A small British aerospace company has successfully flight-tested a long-range strike weapon under a UK Ministry of Defence program, validating a development model that bypassed the traditional procurement bureaucracy and delivered a working one-way attack system at a fraction of the cost and time that established defense primes typically require. Rotron Aerospace, a UK-based advanced […]View the full article

A 17-meter robotic ship built to patrol the ocean alone for nearly two months at a stretch has just rolled off a British production line, and its arrival says as much about where naval technology is headed as it does about the vessel itself. ZeroUSV, a Plymouth-based maker of uncrewed surface vessels, confirmed that its […]View the full article

U.S. defense giant Northrop Grumman unveiled Raid Hunter on Aug. 11, a 50mm gun-based air defense system built to counter cruise missiles and drone swarms at short range around military bases and other critical sites. The system pairs the company’s XM913 Bushmaster III chain gun with newly developed precision-guided 50mm ammunition and a networked system […]View the full article

Russia’s war against Ukraine has turned unmanned aircraft from a supporting capability into one of the central elements of modern battlefield operations. It has also forced drone manufacturers to confront a problem that peacetime testing cannot fully reproduce: how to keep an aircraft useful when tactics, electronic warfare threats and operational requirements can change within […]View the full article

Northrop Grumman’s YFQ-48A Talon Blue, the company’s self-funded entry for the U.S. Air Force’s drone wingman program, has made its first flight, flying entirely on its own from taxi to landing in Mojave, California. The company announced the flight on Oct. 3. It said the aircraft taxied, took off, flew a series of maneuvers and […]View the full article

The U.S. Navy has added $2.4 billion to Fluor Marine Propulsion’s contract to run naval nuclear propulsion work at the Naval Nuclear Laboratory, the network of government labs that designs and supports the reactors powering every U.S. Navy submarine and aircraft carrier. Naval Sea Systems Command awarded the $2,409,077,590 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification on Sept. 24, 2026, […]View the full article

Americas Sikorsky Aircraft won a $19.4 million contract modification, which provides for non-recurring engineering, engineering change order, logistics and programmatic support of the Data Transfer Unit and Defensive Electronic Countermeasure System Replacement and ARC-210 program, to replace existing subsystems within the CH-53K production aircraft. The CH-54K is an all-new heavy-lift helicopter that will expand the fleet’s ability to move more material more rapidly. Work will take place in Iowa, Connecticut and Texas. Estimated completion will be in August 2021. The 103rd and 139th Airlift Wings of the US Air National Guard recently participated in an Agile Combat Empl…

Americas The US Air Force’s Golden Horde Vanguard program successfully completed the three objectives of the final flight test on May 25. Six Collaborative Small Diameter Bombs (CSDBs) were released during this test with four from one jet and the other two from another F-16. One objective of the test was to expand the coverage of the L3Harris Banshee 2 radio network to six weapons and to include a ground station into the testing. The ground station was able to send an In-Flight Target Update to the weapons while they were in flight, completing the second objective. The US Army has taken delivery of eight Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) prototypes that will be used in a seri…

Americas Lockheed Martin won a $2 billion contract, which provides logistics support, to include ground maintenance activities, action request resolution, depot activities, automatic logistics information system operations and maintenance, reliability and maintainability, supply chain management, pilot training, maintainer training, and training system sustainment in support of delivered F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter air systems for the Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Foreign Military Sales customers and non-US Department of Defense participants. Work will take place in Texas, Florida, South Carolina and the UK. Estimated completion will be in December 2021. Crow…

Lithuania has a tough history, but they are a resilient people. Only 2.8 million souls in a bit of cold, flat, damp land on the Baltic roughly the size of West Virginia, but they exist as other peoples have vanished. They know tyranny, and they know the importance of letting small nations know that they don't stand alone. How much support will brave little Lithuania get from her NATO allies? China has told multinationals to sever ties with Lithuania or face being shut out of the Chinese market, a senior government official and an industry body told Reuters, dragging companies into a dispute between the Baltic state and Beijing. China downgraded its diplomatic ties with …

Some warning will only be given so many times. We were warned a few months in to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. We were warned again five years later when we were trying to source what was needed to support the uplift in forces in Afghanistan while Iraq still had high demands. Our allies pretty much went Winchester in the 2011 operations against Libya. We can barely partially source small and medium sized conflicts ... we are not ready for a larger one. That is a simple fact that seems too painful for people to clearly look at. Like the US Navy excels in damage control by design and training, in theory the US military writ large excels in logistics. What good is the culture…