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BAE Systems built an armored vehicle with drone-killing capabilities in ten months and put it in front of soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, for training — without waiting for a government contract to fund it. The AMPV-30, a version of the U.S. Army’s Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle fitted with a 30mm cannon and a radar system […]View the full article

SRT Marine Systems announced it has signed a new $261 million contract with a sovereign government customer to deliver a national Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) system, the company said in a statement. The agreement represents a new addition to SRT’s Sovereign Partnership Programme and will provide the customer with an integrated platform for monitoring activity […]View the full article

A South Korean-developed remote-controlled weapon station capable of networking three or more units into a single coordinated fire system represents a significant step forward for the country’s homegrown defense industry, according to KFN Plus. The system, known as an RCWS, is a remotely operated weapon turret mounted on light tactical vehicles and wheeled armored personnel […]View the full article

A United States Army CH-47F Chinook transport helicopter was heavily damaged in what appears to have been an Iranian one-way drone strike at Camp Buehring in Kuwait in recent days. Photos from the Camp show the helicopter’s cockpit area torn apart, with visible destruction to the forward rotor assembly and front blades. The extent of […]View the full article

Soldiers from the Tennessee National Guard’s 278th Cavalry Regiment became the first licensed operators of the Infantry Squad Vehicle within their state last week, completing a new equipment training course hosted by the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell from March 31 through April 2. The training marks a concrete step in the 278th’s conversion […]View the full article

On April 14, teams from MBDA and Safran Electronics & Defense conducted the inaugural live test of THUNDART, a new long-range artillery rocket developed entirely within France, with support from the Directorate General of Armament Missile Testing division, known as DGA EM. The test took place at the Île du Levant test range and validated […]View the full article

What was the most unexpectedly valuable ship in the U.S. Navy over the last 12 months, as measured by the delta between what Big Navy and the usual suspects said it could do, and what the real world asked it to do? Well, of course, it was our Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB). Why? It is its inherent flexibility and “white space” that future-proofs the ship and lets it function as a multi-tool for the fleet commander to modify as needed to scratch the tactical itch at the moment. Flexibility…just a more mundane way of saying, “modular, multi-mission capable eleventy”. They are not complicated. They aren’t exquisitely designed. They don’t have some extreme requirement, like lud…

Armenia publicly displayed Iranian-made air defense systems at its Republic Day parade in Yerevan on May 28, confirming that Tehran has made its first known weapons export of the Majid AD-08 short-range missile system to a foreign military. Around four Majid AD-08 systems were spotted by open-source analysts during parade rehearsals in Yerevan’s Republic Square […]View the full article

Let’s pick up the topic we spent some time on back in March. After the invention of gunpowder, every time a navy faces conflict after a long time at peace, one of the first things they realize they have to do is to get more guns, and larger caliber guns, on their ships as soon as possible. This reality today also applies to a side-branch, missiles, as well, but today let’s focus on the gun proof. In peace, the accountants and those who are willing to shift their personal career risk onto combat risk worn by other people will happily divest platforms of money and people hungry weapons to buy cheaper, smaller, none—or if they are feeling a little guilty, will “fit for but n…

Turkish defense electronics giant ASELSAN has completed factory acceptance tests for its LGK-82 Laser Guidance Kit and commenced serial deliveries of the domestically developed precision munition conversion system, the company announced in its latest monthly bulletin. The announcement confirms that ASELSAN has reached what it describes as a serious serial production capacity for the LGK-82, […]View the full article

F-22 Raptors from Alaska and Virginia have arrived at Kadena Air Base in Japan, the latest rotation of America’s premier air superiority fighter through the island base that sits at the geographic center of U.S. air power in the Western Pacific. The aircraft come from two squadrons: the 90th Fighter Squadron at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, […]View the full article

It’s funny how some things stick in your head. Remember what was at the top of the list yesterday for the: “1 x special mission ship of unknown capability“ … UPDATE: the special mission ship is probably a replacement for this. It keeps popping into my head. In case you were too busy to follow the link, here she is. A leased civilian ship advertised as: …Kellie Chouest is deployed to the U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations to support Joint Interagency Task Force South’s mission, which includes counter-illicit drug trafficking missions in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. OK, it has a helo pad, 4th Fleet is the maker of smuggler’s blues: sure, fine. I’d move on to other t…

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

Germany and France have jointly decided to abandon the fighter jet component of the Future Combat Air System, known as FCAS, after years of industrial disputes between Airbus and Dassault Aviation proved impossible to resolve, according to Der Tagesspiegel. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron reached a shared conclusion that Airbus and […]View the full article

BAE Systems has publicly revealed its Multi-Domain Artillery Cannon System for the first time, offering the defense world its first look at a platform the defense giant is developing to give the U.S. Army a new way to shoot down drones, cruise missiles, and other aerial threats using artillery-style firepower. The images released by BAE […]View the full article

An aging French-built fighter jet has got a serious upgrade, and the company behind it wants the world to see exactly how far a decades-old airframe can stretch when paired with modern guided weapons. EDGE Group, the UAE’s state-owned defense conglomerate, published photos showing its Thunder (P-32 variant) precision-guided munitions mounted on a Mirage 2000 […]View the full article

China’s Ministry of National Defense on February 28 issued a formal statement accusing the United States of becoming “the greatest source of uncertainty for the international nuclear order and global strategic stability,” responding to recent U.S. allegations regarding Chinese nuclear testing activities. The remarks were delivered by Senior Colonel Zhang Xiaogang, spokesperson for China’s Ministry […]View the full article

Two unmanned systems companies have combined GPS-denied mapping with radiation detection in a single integrated package — giving CBRN teams the ability to see inside contaminated spaces in three dimensions, in real time, without sending a person in. Emesent and Teledyne FLIR Defense announced a partnership that puts Emesent’s Hovermap LiDAR payload onto Teledyne FLIR’s […]View the full article

The U.S. Army ordered 8,936 DAGIR-V1 laser systems to support the M7 rifle’s fire-control program, and the company building them happens to be a family-owned business that got its start making night vision gear five decades ago. B.E. Meyers & Co., a Redmond, Washington manufacturer, announced it has been awarded a contract to deliver the […]View the full article

A sprawling Cuban intelligence facility just 145 kilometers (90 miles) from the Florida coast has completed construction of a powerful new antenna array capable of intercepting and tracking American military communications across the southeastern United States and the Caribbean, the Center for Strategic and International Studies reported on June 18, 2026. Satellite imagery analyzed by […]View the full article