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The U.S. Army has awarded Northrop Grumman a five-year contract to produce the M1147 Advanced Multi-Purpose round, a single 120 mm (4.7 in) tank cartridge that replaces four separate legacy munitions carried by M1 Abrams crews and gives tank commanders the ability to switch between three different detonation modes depending on what they are shooting […]View the full article

American Rheinmetall is spending $41 million to expand and modernize six manufacturing facilities across Michigan, Ohio, and Maine, accelerating production capacity for some of the U.S. Army’s most important ground combat modernization programs while deliberately avoiding the time and cost of building entirely new factories. The German defense giant’s American subsidiary announced the capital investment […]View the full article

Satellite images showing a stealth fighter-shaped object at a former Chinese airport turn out to depict a fire-fighting trainer mock-up, according to Chinese aerospace analyst Andreas Rupprecht. Rupprecht made the assessment in an August 25 post on X, sharing images that show Chinese military firefighters conducting a live training exercise around the mock-up, including one […]View the full article

The U.S. Air Force awarded a combined $471 million in contracts to 28 different companies on a single day, spreading the work of exchanging and repairing aircraft parts for the KC-46 Pegasus tanker across facilities in more than a dozen states and Israel, in a move that targets one of the most persistent and least […]View the full article

A Russian Shahed attack drone struck a building at Ukraine’s centralized spent nuclear fuel storage facility before dawn on Sunday, June 7, 2026, approximately 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) from the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in what Ukrainian officials described as the latest act in a systematic campaign of nuclear terrorism. The strike hit the container […]View the full article

A wheeled cannon that looks nothing like traditional artillery has fired live rounds on camera for the first time, and the footage shows exactly why the U.S. Army is betting on it to solve one of modern warfare’s most expensive problems. BAE Systems released new test footage on July 2, 2026, showing its Multi-Domain Artillery […]View the full article

A torpedo-tube-launched robot built to secretly plant mines from American submarines just got another $14 million push toward becoming operational, as the U.S. Navy exercises new contract options with General Dynamics Mission Systems to keep developing the system. The Navy Sea Systems Command awarded the Massachusetts-based defense contractor a modification worth roughly $13.97 million on […]View the full article

The U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command awarded ReconCraft LLC, a boatbuilder based in Anchorage, Alaska, a $24.96 million contract for autonomous low-profile vessels, a category of uncrewed watercraft the military has openly borrowed from the same low-visibility, semi-submersible design smugglers pioneered to avoid radar and visual detection while running narcotics through open water. Autonomous low-profile […]View the full article

Germany will supply Ukraine with several thousand more IRIS-T guided missiles, funded through the European Union’s 90 billion euro ($105 billion) loan package for Kyiv, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said September 8. Pistorius made the announcement ahead of a video conference of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, the Ramstein-format meeting of Kyiv’s international backers, […]View the full article

SummarySal discusses recent geopolitical developments including Iran’s negotiations, US military operations, UK military decline, Ukraine’s resilience, and global strategic shifts. This episode offers insights into current international security dynamics and future implications. Chapters00:00 Introduction and Context of the Iranian Conflict 02:55 Goals an… Read more View the full article

An Israeli satellite company announced on May 26 that its RUNNER satellite can now detect and track moving objects from orbit around the clock, including at night, a capability the company describes as the first of its kind in persistent space-based surveillance. ImageSat International said the new capability uses onboard artificial intelligence to autonomously detect, […]View the full article

The U.S. Army has agreed to help test a weapon that fires interceptors using magnets instead of gunpowder or rocket fuel, betting that ditching traditional propulsion might finally solve a math problem that has been quietly draining America’s missile stockpiles. Auriga Space, a California company building electromagnetic launch technology, and the Army’s Combat Capabilities Development […]View the full article

A simply outstanding summary of the state of play in the re-vitalization of—and in parts re-imagining of—defense production capabilities can be found in an article in the June 5, 2026 Investors Business Daily, above the fold on page 1, by Harrison Miller and Paolo Confino. The White House is seeking expanded manufacturing commitments from defense contractors, is pressing automakers to convert spare production capacity to defense, and is urging NATO partners to supplement weapons production. The Trump administration aims not simply to rebuild stockpiles depleted by the war against Iran. It wants to revamp large segments of the traditional military industrial complex. Unlik…

A satellite photograph taken Sunday appears to confirm what Ukraine’s president claimed just two days earlier: a Russian strategic bomber sitting at Engels air base did not survive a recent drone strike. The open-source monitoring community AviVector published commercial satellite imagery from Planet Labs PBC, dated July 19, showing what the group identified as a […]View the full article

Ukrainian strike drones hit two Russian Tu-142 maritime patrol aircraft on the ground at Taganrog military airfield on the night of May 29-30, 2026, with video released by Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces showing the aircraft catching fire after multiple direct hits, marking the latest in a sustained campaign to destroy Russian military aviation assets far […]View the full article

Before any American strike package enters defended enemy airspace, an EA-18G Growler goes in first to blind the radars, jam the communications, and break the targeting chain that would otherwise kill the jets behind it. The Navy invested $61 million to significantly improve that aircraft’s ears. The Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River Naval […]View the full article

Esh-Tech, the Israeli laser defense company behind the pulsed-laser counter-drone system DroneLight, raised $18 million in a funding round led by Kinetica Ventures, the company announced June 30, 2026. The Defence Blog previously reported on DroneLight’s public debut, where the system’s central claim was a radical departure from how laser weapons have traditionally worked: instead […]View the full article

The U.S. Army, Navy and Space Force have tested an electronic warfare system at sea for the first time, and its name alone tells you what kind of punch the Pentagon expects it to pack. The joint services put a maritime version of a system called Hammer of the Gods through its paces in mid-July […]View the full article

An Estonian defense technology startup is launching a communications module designed to keep military drones and unmanned vehicles connected when adversaries are actively trying to cut those links, set to debut the product at Eurosatory 2026 in Paris from June 15 to 19 alongside a major expansion of its battlefield command platform to cover air, […]View the full article

The U.S. Army has proved its most common helicopter can double as a flying missile truck, launching and steering multiple armed drones from a Black Hawk cockpit during blistering July heat testing in California’s Mojave Desert, according to a report published by Maj. Sam M. Yoo, an assistant product manager for H-60 Development and Modernization, […]View the full article