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Photos published by military observer Massimo Frantarelli show a Russian Navy corvette in Kronstadt painted to resemble a waterfront building, with outlines suggesting windows and doors on its hull, alongside netting rigged over the deck to blunt drone strikes. The image, credited to M. Mishin and dated August 22, shows the ship at the Leningrad […]View the full article

Finland has placed its third order in less than a year for radios that can keep soldiers talking across hundreds of miles without satellites, cell towers, or GPS, a technology bet that keeps paying off as tensions with Russia push Nordic militaries to rebuild communications systems that can survive jamming and outages. The Finnish Defence […]View the full article

Lost in the 25th Anniversary remembrance weekend of 11 SEP 2001 was the fact that there were significant changes on the ground in the festering sore on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula from the Persian Gulf, Yemen. Bridget Toomey at FDD’s Long War Journal has a good summary. On September 10, the Houthis seized the strategic port city of Mocha on Yemen’s southern Red Sea coast. The next day, the Iran-backed group pushed south, culminating with the capture of the remaining Red Sea coast and Perim Island in the middle of the Bab al Mandeb Strait, the strategic chokepoint at the southern entrance to the Red Sea. The Houthis also seized the Hanish Islands, an archipelag…

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works division has finished restoring an F-117 Nighthawk stealth jet, known as Aircraft 818 and nicknamed “The Overachiever,” for permanent display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. The company said the aircraft will go on exhibit at the museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center later this fall. The move adds another […]View the full article

In my unending attempt to keep a well-rounded and diverse information flow, I was bouncing around and came across this quote from The West Australian. Privately, US officials are also alarmed at the protection levels of Australian bases, including HMAS Stirling and RAAF Base Darwin, where significant numbers of US personnel and military assets will be operating. Earlier this month a conservative and influential Trump-aligned think tank urged Australia to spend billions buying US-made missile interceptors to defend key bases from Chinese military attack. “At least three THAAD batteries and hundreds of interceptors to defend key bases, such as RAAF Base Darwin, from PLA att…

Jaguar Land Rover unveiled three variants of a new military vehicle called the Defender Wolf Series II at the British Army’s DVD 2026 exhibition in Bedfordshire on Sept. 16, aiming to replace the Land Rover that has served British forces for more than 70 years. The event, held at the Millbrook proving ground, is where […]View the full article

Ukraine has turned its signature long-range kamikaze drone into something considerably more dangerous: a standoff strike platform. The outlet Oboronka reported that its correspondent, present at the Farnborough International Airshow in the United Kingdom, saw an An-196 Liutyi drone displayed on a Ukrainian stand carrying four missiles mounted beneath its airframe, a configuration that would […]View the full article

Ukrainian drone maker Airlogix has agreed to establish a joint venture with Finnish technology company Innokas in Finland, Oboronka reported, citing a company statement. Airlogix Chief Financial Officer Oleksandr Androshchuk and Innokas CEO Janne Kostamo signed a letter of intent at the DALO Industry Days 2026 defense exhibition in Denmark. The planned production facility would […]View the full article

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Anduril Industries a contract worth up to $85 million to develop computer-based design tools for future aircraft, part of a push to design and test new systems digitally before building physical hardware. The Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, made the award under a program […]View the full article

BAE Systems, Boeing and Saab announced they have signed a formal teaming agreement to jointly pursue the UK’s next generation pilot training program, built around Boeing’s T-7 trainer jet, and the deal commits the companies to building a brand new final assembly and integration facility inside Britain. Advanced fast jet training currently runs through the […]View the full article

Russia’s Baltic Fleet has fitted several of its warships with improvised netting and irregular camouflage patterns as makeshift protection against drone strikes, according to footage circulating from a recent fleet exercise. The images show at least three vessels equipped with different combinations of netting, deformation-pattern paint and other visual countermeasures on their bridges, radar housings […]View the full article

Yesterday saw the fifth anniversary of the slaughter at Abbey Gate. Two years ago, I reposted what I wrote on that day as the news came in. I think it is time again. I will not forget. I found myself on X having a few contentious back-and-forths with people about Afghanistan this week, but on Wednesday night, a post from our friend Kristina just brought it all back to me. Good. Bit by bit, perhaps some wrongs can be made right, but much still needs to be done. Those in senior civilian leadership positions five years ago still have not been held to account. Some of the senior military leadership still avoid the topic, or try to discuss what a great NEO they conducted. Sti…

XTEND has deployed its first XOS-powered AtlasROVER ground robot to a customer in the Asia-Pacific region, the company’s public parent, JFB Construction Holdings. It’s the first such deployment since XTEND completed its acquisition of Latvia-based robotics company Atlas earlier this year. The deployment extends XTEND’s software platform, called XOS, beyond the aerial drones it was […]View the full article

Astroscale UK, the British arm of the Japanese company building spacecraft to clear junk from orbit, has earned an international information security certification as it prepares a planned debris removal mission and a defense program for the UK Ministry of Defence. The company said on Sept. 30 that it achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification after an […]View the full article

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has put Elon Musk, Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in charge of Project Meridian, a 120-day Pentagon study of where future wars will be fought and what weapons the U.S. military will need to win them. Hegseth announced the project on Sept. 30 during his […]View the full article

Elbit Systems has introduced FUSE, a new business line bringing together the Israeli defense contractor’s autonomous drone and ground vehicle systems under one portfolio, the company announced September 9 in Rosh HaAyin, Israel. FUSE centers on software called Dominion-X, which lets a single operator control multiple autonomous aircraft and ground vehicles at once, a setup […]View the full article

DroneShield, an Australian counter-drone technology company that has spent years building systems to detect and defeat hostile uncrewed aircraft, announced Tuesday the launch of RfRecon, a portable device designed to do something most current sensors cannot: not just detect radio frequency activity, but explain what it means, in real time, from a single handheld platform. […]View the full article

General Dynamics Land Systems will complete deliveries of Poland’s 250 M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams tanks by the end of 2026, the company said, finishing the order in under 24 months. Poland signed the contract for the tanks in April 2022, alongside Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with the deal valued at $4.75 billion. Beyond the 250 […]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

UFORCE, the London-headquartered maker of Ukraine’s Magura naval drones, is touting a series of Ukrainian strikes on Russian air defenses in Crimea as evidence for its pitch to the Pentagon, days before the deadline for a Defense Innovation Unit prize challenge seeking naval drones that can launch their own aircraft. Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence agency, GUR, […]View the full article