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The U.S. Army awarded California-based AeroVironment a $117 million contract on June 3, 2026, to deliver 82 of the company’s P550 unmanned aircraft systems, giving ground commanders an organic reconnaissance and targeting capability that requires no runway, no catapult, and no launch crew beyond the soldiers already in the unit. AeroVironment (AV) is one of […]View the full article

Spain’s EM&E Group has carried out live-fire trials of its Aunav robotic ground vehicles equipped with Guardian Aspis remote weapon stations during a Spanish Army experimentation campaign, showcasing their ability to engage targets while on the move. The testing took place from April 7 to April 17 at the Álvarez de Sotomayor training base in […]View the full article

A still image pulled from a newly released Russian Ministry of Defense video on Su-34 strike aircraft operations against Ukraine has provided what Israeli defense analyst Guy Plopsky described as “the clearest view yet” of what appears to be a new dorsal antenna hump fitted aft of the cockpit on at least one variant of […]View the full article

A U.S. defense startup is bringing a next-generation counter-drone system to SOF Week 2026 in Tampa that takes a fundamentally different approach to the close-in drone threat: instead of aiming at incoming targets, it keeps multiple barrels constantly rotating through a full hemisphere, eliminating the aiming delay that makes conventional single-barrel systems vulnerable to fast-moving […]View the full article

I grew up with the Apollo Program and some of my earliest memories were watching astronauts during the lunar landings. You could see the Saturn V launches from my backyard. Just as I was getting old enough to really enjoy it, it all stopped. The 1970s. The worst people for the worst reasons killed the space program as it became part of the national malaise of the 1970s, the core of which was defined by the period from the last person on the moon in 1972 through the fall of Saigon three years later, and bookended by the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979-80. For those who received the promise of 1968’s 2001: A Space Odyssey as to what the future in space would be never fulfil…

Ukrainian defense forces struck the Sheskharis oil terminal in the port city of Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai, on April 6, 2026, hitting multiple locations across the facility in a drone attack that open-source analysts say has effectively halted export operations at one of Russia’s most strategically important petroleum hubs. Sheskharis is the terminal point for major […]View the full article

Ukrainian paratroopers operating Italian-supplied B1 Centauro wheeled tank destroyers say the vehicle shoots straighter than anything they have used before and can reach 105 kilometers per hour on a road, but its armor will not stop a heavy machine gun round from the side and would be shredded by the shaped-charge warheads packed into the […]View the full article

A Brazilian ammunition giant just took a step toward the U.S. medium-caliber market, and it picked an American partner to get there. CBC Global Ammunition and Paligen Technologies, a U.S.-based engineering and manufacturing firm, announced a Strategic Alliance Agreement on June 16, 2026, during Eurosatory, the defense exhibition in Paris. The deal sets up a […]View the full article

Soldiers assigned to the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment gave German Army Master Sgt. Steven Solis a hands-on familiarization with the M1A2 Abrams main battle tank at Camp Herkus, Lithuania, on April 2, 2026, as part of a two-week bilateral training exchange that paired German-led marksmanship qualification with U.S. armored vehicle instruction. The exchange grew […]View the full article

Airmen from the 39th Security Forces Squadron at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, completed Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station certification training at Aviano Air Base, Italy, on March 26, 2026, adding ten newly qualified operators to the installation defense network spanning two of the U. S. Air Force’s most strategically positioned bases in Europe and the […]View the full article

DroneShield and Defenture have signed a memorandum of understanding to combine the Australian company’s counter-drone hardware, software, command-and-control, and operational support with Defenture’s tactical vehicle platforms, including the GRF and Mammoth, betting that the pairing will give NATO armies the kind of mobile drone defense they have been scrambling to buy as cheap unmanned aircraft […]View the full article

Elbit Systems said Monday it has secured a $750 million contract to supply its Precise & Universal Launching System, known as PULS, to the Hellenic Armed Forces under a defense agreement between Israel and Greece. The award, first flagged in a December 2025 announcement, gives Greece a new long-range rocket artillery capability at a time […]View the full article

The U.S. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll visited U.S. Army Garrison Ansbach in Germany on April 30, where commanders from the 52nd Air Defense Artillery Brigade and 12th Combat Aviation Brigade briefed him on counter-unmanned aerial systems tested and implemented over the past year, and among the systems on display was the Merops AS-3 Surveyor counter-drone […]View the full article

The U.S. Air Force wants to keep the Minuteman III flying through 2050, and it’s now looking for contractors who can help figure out how to do it. The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center published a special notice on May 1, 2026, soliciting information from industry on how a contractor could assist in extending the […]View the full article

King Fahd Air Base in Taif, Saudi Arabia, has marked a significant milestone in the Royal Saudi Air Force’s drive toward defense self-sufficiency, completing the first scheduled heavy maintenance overhaul of an RSAF Eurofighter Typhoon following the aircraft’s accumulation of 2,500 flight hours. The operation was conducted entirely on Saudi soil over a period of […]View the full article

Rheinmetall UK has introduced Shadow Wolf, a new tactical vehicle competing for the British Army’s Land Mobility Programme, positioning it as a next-generation replacement for the aging light vehicle fleet that British ground forces currently operate across demanding operational environments. The announcement describes a platform built on the same proven architecture as the Caracal tactical […]View the full article

The French Navy has ordered five additional CAMCOPTER S-100 unmanned aerial systems under its naval unmanned aviation program, expanding its existing fleet and deepening the service’s long-running use of shipborne rotary-wing drones across multiple vessel classes. The order was placed through France’s defense procurement and technology agency, the Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA), with Naval […]View the full article

I’m not sure there is more to be said than what is in the man’s obituary from a small town in Tennessee. Thomas Edward Gwynn, Tullahoma’s oldest resident, passed this life on Monday, April 6th, 2026 at Life Care Center at the age of 106, just two months shy of his 107th birthday. Mr. Gwynn was born June, 2nd, 1919 in Moscow, Tennessee to the late Garland Ray Gwynn and Lula Mae Tacker Gwynn. He joined the United States Army in 1941 and served in World War II, fighting in numerous historic battles, including D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Normandy, and witnessed Victory in Europe Day on May 8, 1945, which marked the end of World War II. Five years later, he returned…

A Russian military-affiliated Telegram channel claims Ukraine used U.S.-supplied AGM-188 Rusty Dagger cruise missiles to strike the Sborka semiconductor plant in Voronezh, a claim that, if confirmed, would represent the first documented combat use of a weapon system the United States designed from scratch specifically to give Ukraine a mass-producible long-range strike capability at a […]View the full article

A Virginia-based counter-UAS training company has launched a program focused on the phase of a drone incident that most training programs ignore entirely: what to do after the drone is already on the ground. 38 Sierra announced Drone Incident Response Training, known as DIRT, on May 5, 2026, from Barboursville, Virginia, positioning it as a […]View the full article