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A Leonardo-owned vehicle maker has revealed an uncrewed light tank designed to fight directly alongside crewed armor, the UK Defence Journal reported, marking one of the more striking unveilings at this year’s Eurosatory defense show in Paris. IDV, the Italian manufacturer behind the platform, calls it the CL2X, and the company is showing it off […]View the full article

The French Army has placed an order for several thousand FN Evolys machine guns from Belgian manufacturer FN Herstal, marking a major production order for the FN Evolys since the weapon debuted five years ago. The deal was signed at the Eurosatory defense exhibition in Paris, with French Defense Minister Catherine Vautrin and Belgian Defense […]View the full article

The Israeli Ministerial Committee on Procurement has approved the simultaneous acquisition of two new fighter squadrons — a fourth F-35 squadron from Lockheed Martin and a second F-15IA squadron from Boeing — in deals valued at tens of billions of shekels, the Israeli Ministry of Defense announced Sunday. The approval marks the opening move in […]View the full article

A surveillance drone that needs no runway, no catapult, and no dedicated launch infrastructure lifted off from the deck of a U.S. Navy warship in the South China Sea on June 17, 2026, and in doing so illustrated exactly the kind of warfare that keeps Chinese military planners up at night. Marines and Department of […]View the full article

The U.S. Army’s top civilian official sat down at the operator’s seat of a laser-armed pickup truck at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and personally checked the weapon at a drone target, the latest signal from Washington that directed energy weapons have moved from science fiction to serious policy in a very short […]View the full article

Raytheon has secured a $1.1 billion contract modification to produce nearly 2,000 AIM-9X Sidewinder air-to-air missiles for the U.S. Navy, Army, Air Force, and foreign military customers, cementing the latest production lot of America’s premier short-range dogfight missile as global demand continues to outpace manufacturing capacity. The contract, awarded to Raytheon’s Tucson, Arizona facility and […]View the full article

Textron Aviation Defense LLC has been awarded a five-year U.S. government contract valued at over $150 million to continue providing sustaining engineering and program management services for the T-6A, T-6B, and T-6D aircraft fleets operated by the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Army. The work will be performed in Wichita, Kansas, and the contract modification […]View the full article

Finland’s next generation of warships is getting armored protection from a specialist composite materials company, with Integris selected to supply advanced naval ballistic protection systems for all four Pohjanmaa-class corvettes currently under construction at Rauma Marine Constructions’ shipyard in Rauma, Finland. The partnership began at the earliest stages of ship design rather than as a […]View the full article

Aerostats, the tethered observation balloons that most people associate with World War II convoy protection, are getting a serious second look from the U.S. Army as a platform for counter-drone defense. One company’s second-generation tactical aerostat is now being evaluated as the foundation for a complete anti-drone architecture that could eventually carry and launch drone […]View the full article

Splash Industries has introduced a new mission module for its Typhoon uncrewed surface vessel that lets operators launch one-way aerial drones from the boat, the company said Monday. The module, called the Airstrike Pack, allows operators to deploy the aerial assets with the press of a button through Splash’s own command and control software, Splash […]View the full article

Photos of a new Ukrainian drone-dropped munition began circulating on social media this week, published among the first by the open-source intelligence community Exilenova+, showing a rectangular metal device with a sharpened wedge at its forward end specifically engineered to penetrate the overhead cover of Russian field fortifications rather than detonate on surface impact. The […]View the full article

U.S. Army armor officers argue that armored formations remain viable on the modern battlefield despite the spread of drones and precision-guided weapons, according to an essay published by the Modern War Institute at West Point. The piece, written by Lt. Col. Alan Hastings, Maj. James Casey and Capt. Elijah Leroux, responds to years of debate […]View the full article

A Russian drone was shot down over Kyiv on Wednesday by a Hellfire missile, with the intercept witnessed by numerous observers on the ground and from windows across the capital. The shootdown drew significant attention not for its outcome — drones over Kyiv have become a grim routine — but for what appeared to have […]View the full article

A ship that spent nearly a year in harm’s way, operating under persistent threat from Iranian missiles and one-way attack drones while the Ford Carrier Strike Group carried out or coordinated hundreds of strikes against Iranian targets, now needs fixing. The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics NASSCO-Norfolk a $17.6 million contract modification to perform […]View the full article

A Czech drone company with Ukrainian roots has signed a contract to supply reconnaissance unmanned aerial systems to U.S. Army units stationed in Europe, the company announced, marking what appears to be the first confirmed international defense export contract for U&C UAS and placing a European-manufactured ISR drone into American military service on the continent […]View the full article

The Pentagon’s top research arm, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), launched a new research program on April 23, 2026, calling on industry and academia to develop autonomous underwater vehicles capable of reaching full-ocean depth — the deepest points on the planet — at a fraction of the size of anything that exists today. The […]View the full article

A U.S. Marine Corps division has watched an American-made interceptor drone hunt down and destroy one of its own sister drones in a live demonstration, proving out technology the Corps is about to put in the hands of ordinary infantry units within weeks. The 2nd Marine Division’s Unmanned Systems Center of Excellence completed several days […]View the full article

Lockheed Martin has secured a $177.5 million contract modification to design and build three new F-35 flight science aircraft — one for each variant of the jet — as the U.S. military moves to prevent a testing capability gap and prepare the program for its next major upgrade block. Naval Air Systems Command awarded the […]View the full article

U.S. Marines demonstrated a new airborne drone relay tactic during a recent exercise, using UH-1Y Venom utility helicopters as flying command posts to extend the range and lethality of first-person view strike drones well beyond what ground operators can achieve. Marines with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 169, Marine Air Group 39, and 3rd Marine […]View the full article

The U.S. military gave the public its clearest look yet at AEVEX Aerospace’s Disruptor strike drone during Arcane Thunder 26, a multinational exercise that ran from April 6 to April 29, 2026, across Germany, Poland, and the United States, with the drone component tested at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California. Soldiers from […]View the full article