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France has fired its next-generation air-to-air missile from a Rafale at supersonic speed for the first time, clearing one of the most demanding technical hurdles in the weapon’s qualification program and moving MBDA’s MICA NG significantly closer to operational service. The second development firing of the MICA NG, which stands for Missile for Interception, Combat, […]View the full article

Ukraine has spent four years stress-testing defense technology at a pace no Western procurement system can match. Next month, British parliamentarians and defense industry leaders will gather at Westminster to ask an overdue question: how do you bottle that and bring it home? A parliamentary roundtable scheduled for June 23, 2026, at Portcullis House in […]View the full article

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on July 27, 2026, setting a new authorized size for the Russian Armed Forces at 2,426,130 personnel, of which 1,535,000 are uniformed troops, according to the text of the decree published on Russia’s official legal information portal, pravo.gov.ru. The order, numbered Decree 526, formally amends a 2004 decree that […]View the full article

Fresh Sentinel-2 satellite imagery has confirmed what local Russian officials initially denied: Ukrainian long-range attack drones struck the 15th Naval Arsenal of the Russian Navy at Bolshaya Izhora in the Leningrad region, triggering a massive fire and secondary detonations powerful enough that more than 600 residents of nearby settlements had to be evacuated while Russian […]View the full article

Strategic bombing campaign theory has only been with us for a century. People are still arguing everything from the utility of B-17s over Germany, B-29s over Japan, or B-52s over Vietnam, but the theory has always held promise for those who are trying to find a way to achieve from the air what would otherwise be outsourced to a long bloody slog paved with the bodies of young men in the mud. Books are filled with the results—hundreds of thousands of civilians burned alive, starved, or crushed under rubble to take out one railroad junction moving soldiers and supplies, a ballbearing factory seen as the key to war production, mining the approaches to a port bringing in food,…

Investigators have found a second impact crater from a North Korean ballistic missile fired at Ukraine, and the distance between that crater and the ruins of a family home that killed six people tells its own story about how these weapons actually behave once they leave the launch pad. Vladyslav Vlasiuk, the Ukrainian president’s commissioner […]View the full article

British paratroopers has spent 96 hours firing anti-tank missiles from the Canadian prairie while riding electric bikes into position, testing whether an aircraft-portable e-bike can genuinely replace the boots-on-the-ground tactics paratroopers have relied on since World War II, the British Army reported. The Anti-Tank Platoon of 2nd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, known as 2 PARA, […]View the full article

Ukraine’s commander-in-chief has approved a formal development concept for the country’s rocket forces and artillery through 2030, setting out a blueprint that prioritizes domestic weapons production, targets strike capability reaching 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles), and commits to phasing out Soviet-era artillery systems that can no longer be repaired or modernized. General Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander-in-Chief of […]View the full article

The U.S. Army has awarded a $2.3 billion contract to keep its largest joint ammunition storage depot running for the next two decades, a commitment that reflects just how central Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada has become to the military’s ability to store, maintain, and destroy the munitions that underpin American and allied combat power. […]View the full article

Two cavalry scouts sat inside a brand-new armored vehicle atop a hill at Fort Hood, Texas, watching a sky full of drones do reconnaissance work that used to take an hour and now takes minutes, according to a report by Gina Cavallaro, Senior Staff Writer for the Association of the U.S. Army, published July 31, […]View the full article

SummaryIn this episode, Sal discusses recent congressional testimonies by Navy leaders, the MQ-25 Stingray, and the realities of directed energy weapons on ships. He emphasizes learning from past military delays, the importance of technological progress, and the significance of understanding bureaucratic growth through Parkinson’s Law. Show LinksActing S… Read more View the full article

The U.S. Air Force published a request for information on May 20, seeking industry proposals to design and build a new external weapons pylon for the B-52 Stratofortress bomber capable of carrying munitions up to four times heavier than anything the current hardware can handle. The notice, issued by the Air Force Life Cycle Management […]View the full article

A Canadian startup has completed the design of what it describes as the first all-electric motorcycle purpose-built for military intelligence and reconnaissance missions, and the vehicle is now ready for trials with the Canadian Armed Forces, bringing a platform that operates below 50 decibels of acoustic noise, survives temperatures from minus 45 degrees Celsius to […]View the full article

Operation Epic Fury is officially over, but U.S. Air Force F-16s are still flying combat patrol over one of the world’s most volatile airspaces. Newly released photographs taken May 14 in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility show an F-16 Fighting Falcon carrying a weapons mix that tells the whole story of modern air […]View the full article

A Czech jet trainer that traces its lineage back to the Cold War just broke into two new continents in the same week, and the company behind it says its factory floor is now booked solid into 2027. AERO Vodochody AEROSPACE signed two new contracts for its L-39 Skyfox aircraft, one with a customer in […]View the full article

A robotic combat vehicle carrying an autonomous laser weapon system designed to shoot down drones rolled onto the floor of a Detroit manufacturing conference this week, placing one of the most futuristic weapons concepts in modern defense squarely in the middle of America’s industrial heartland. Aurelius Systems, a defense technology company developing autonomous directed energy […]View the full article

The U.S. Air Force’s VC-25B Bridge aircraft, the interim replacement for the aging Air Force One fleet, has completed modification and flight testing and is now being painted in a new red, white and blue livery, with a public rollout scheduled for this summer. The Department of War accepted a head-of-state configured Boeing 747-8i from […]View the full article

The U.S. Marine Corps is expanding the fleet of unmanned missile-launching trucks that can hide on a Pacific island and sink Chinese warships, with a $70.6 million contract to Oshkosh Defense announced this week for additional ROGUE-Fires carriers that form the ground portion of the Corps’ most consequential new weapons system. Marine Corps Systems Command, […]View the full article

A Munich-based artificial intelligence startup called SE3 Labs stepped out of stealth mode on June 26, 2026, announcing that its spatial AI platform is already under contract with the German Bundeswehr and operational in military exercises across Europe, where the company says it has reduced the time between detecting a target and engaging it by […]View the full article

Britain has delivered its 100th Boxer armored infantry vehicle to the British Army, hitting a landmark production milestone for one of the most significant land warfare modernization programs in the country’s recent defense history, with all vehicles built at two manufacturing facilities on British soil. The 100th Boxer Mechanised Infantry Vehicle rolled off the production […]View the full article