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Russia’s state-owned tank manufacturer Uralvagonzavod has delivered another batch of T-90M “Proryv” and T-72B3M tanks to the Russian Army, the company said, timed to coincide with Russia’s Tank Crew Day. As with previous shipments, Uralvagonzavod did not disclose how many tanks were included in the batch or where they are headed. The company said the […]View the full article

The Office of the Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Air Force for Space Acquisition and Integration has awarded a $161 million Strategic Breakthrough contract to Antares, a California nuclear startup, to advance a reactor design meant to power spacecraft. The company describes it as the largest Department of War award to date focused specifically on […]View the full article

ELVO, Greece’s main military vehicle manufacturer, has shown off the first Mercedes G-Class “jeeps” modernized under a new refit program built to extend the life of the Greek Army’s aging vehicle fleet rather than replace it outright. The vehicles being upgraded are roughly 30 years old. ELVO is fitting a new engine and automatic transmission, […]View the full article

The U.S. Army has selected Fort Benning, Georgia, as one of five military bases that will host nuclear microreactors under a new Pentagon energy resilience initiative called the Janus Program, Army officials announced August 26, 2026. Fort Benning will pair with California-based Radiant Industries to install three of the company’s one-megawatt Kaleidos microreactors, adding a […]View the full article

Russia’s war against Ukraine has turned unmanned aircraft from a supporting capability into one of the central elements of modern battlefield operations. It has also forced drone manufacturers to confront a problem that peacetime testing cannot fully reproduce: how to keep an aircraft useful when tactics, electronic warfare threats and operational requirements can change within […]View the full article

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited a group of Ukrainian military pilots training in Canada on September 12, 2026, ahead of their eventual transition to Western fighter jets including the F-16 and Sweden’s Gripen. Four L-39 training jets flown by Ukrainian cadets performed a flyover to greet him at the airfield. The visit took place at […]View the full article

An autonomous machine gun system engaged drone targets in the Arizona desert, according to official photos from a U.S. military exercise. The system, called Bullfrog and built by Texas startup Allen Control Systems, pairs a standard M240 machine gun with a robotic turret, in this case bolted into the bed of a pickup truck. The […]View the full article

A fire and a series of explosions tore through an ammunition storage site in central Bulgaria overnight into Saturday, September 12, 2026, roughly five weeks after fire and explosions destroyed a separate EMCO storage building near Belitsa, Bulgaria, on August 10. No injuries were reported in either incident. The blaze broke out near the village […]View the full article

The world’s nine nuclear-armed states expanded their arsenals in 2025, according to a new assessment from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Researchers Hans M. Kristensen and Matt Korda found that most countries deployed new nuclear-armed or nuclear-capable weapons during the year, even as the overall number of warheads in the world continued to decline. […]View the full article

For a very long time on the anniversary of 9/11/2001, I have simply posted the Fox News recording of that morning that I had on in the background as I went through my daily routine in Bahrain, and generally left it at that. Last weekend, my 25-year-old daughter and a few of her friends decided to stay with me over the weekend as I did some preseason prep work on our hunting property. Just me and a hunt camp full of young, happy, professional, and accomplished women having dinner, drinks, even making S’mores over the fire-pit—it was a joy. It had me thinking of her, just a few months old when 9/11 took place. This reality is all that she has known: it just is. She is a gr…

Life comes at you fast; you better be ready for it. We are coming up on three years from the final wakeup call after October 7th, 2023, that conventionally armed ballistic missiles are the premier threat to critical capabilities ashore and at sea. In the U.S. at least, though production was minimal and inventories allowed to be too small, we at least had the technology to meet the threat from Medium, Intermediate, and Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. At sea, which will be our focus today, we just made it across the finish line in time with the RIM-161 SM-3, which built off the success of the iterative development of the SM-2 for decades. This work has paid off via th…

Yemen’s Houthi movement seized the Red Sea port city of Mocha on Thursday, forcing government-aligned forces to withdraw and pulling the Iran-backed group closer to full control of the Bab al-Mandeb strait. Four Yemeni government military sources told Reuters that Houthi fighters took the city after hours of fighting, while a separate military official told […]View the full article

Polish defense manufacturer WB Group has unveiled Gladius 2, a new loitering munition built for a reduced radar and heat signature and powered by a turbojet engine for a fast run into the target area. The company also refers to the weapon as Warmate 30, tying it to WB Group’s existing Warmate family of strike […]View the full article

Four defense-tech companies integrated an AI-enabled sensor, an unmanned helicopter, Ukrainian-made interceptor drones and tactical radios into a single counter-drone system, then tested it at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, during a Pentagon exercise called Falcon Peak 26.2. DataShapes AI, Evolved Aerospace, General Cherry and Persistent Systems built the combined system in about three […]View the full article

Two Bangladesh Army soldiers were killed and an officer was seriously injured on September 9, 2026, when a tank exploded during a live-fire exercise at the Hathazari Field Firing Range in Chattogram. The Bangladesh Army’s Inter-Services Public Relations Directorate, known as ISPR, confirmed the accident. ISPR said the blast happened while the crew was firing […]View the full article

Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck Russia’s naval base at Novorossiysk overnight on September 8-9, hitting the Kalibr-missile frigate Admiral Essen and starting a fire on its deck superstructure, according to Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence agency, known as HUR. HUR said operators from its Active Operations Department carried out the strike as part of a joint deep-strike operation […]View the full article

The U.S. Army has awarded Global Military Products a $12.9 million contract to integrate its Scorpion Light 81mm mobile mortar system onto the Army’s Infantry Squad Vehicle-Utility platforms. The company announced the award on September 3, 2026, under the Department of Defense Ordnance Technology Consortium’s Other Transaction Authority framework. The deal covers pairing the Tampa-based […]View the full article

V2X confirmed on September 8, 2026, that it has been awarded a $19 million contract by the U.S. Marine Corps to deliver Tempest counter-drone vehicles, along with the maintenance, software and training needed to keep them running. The announcement puts a public face on a deal the Pentagon had already disclosed. A contract notice dated […]View the full article

Australia’s Army has declared Final Operational Capability for its National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System, confirming the ground-based air defense system is ready to support Australian Defence Force operations. Defence announced the milestone on September 9, 2026. NASAMS is built to detect, track and destroy cruise missiles, aircraft, helicopters and drones. The system was […]View the full article

Russian aircraft dropped 8,766 glide bombs on Ukrainian front-line positions in August 2026, the highest monthly total recorded since the invasion began, according to Ukrainian General Staff figures compiled by the OSINT monitoring group Oko Gora. The total works out to an average of 283 bombs a day over the 31-day month. Oko Gora put […]View the full article