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Britain’s longest-serving Conservative defense secretary since Winston Churchill says he personally urged Israel’s government to help Ukraine early in the war, and that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government turned him down because it didn’t want to anger Moscow, the UK Defence Journal reported. Ben Wallace, who ran Britain’s Ministry of Defence from 2019 to 2023 and became […]View the full article

Houthi media released footage this week showing a Rajum quadcopter dropping a munition onto a Royal Saudi Land Forces M1A2S Abrams main battle tank at a forward position in Marib, Yemen, followed by an explosion and a fire that engulfed the vehicle. The video has not been independently verified, and neither the Saudi-led coalition nor […]View the full article

A second Boeing KC-46 “Gideon” aerial refueling aircraft landed at Nevatim Airbase and joined the Israeli Air Force’s 46 Squadron, the service said Friday. The aircraft is the second of six KC-46 tankers Israel’s Ministry of Defense has purchased through the Pentagon’s Foreign Military Sales process. It joins the “Gideon” Squadron, formally Squadron 46, which […]View the full article

Sen. Richard Blumenthal toured a Ukrainian drone production line in Kyiv and said the country is manufacturing “thousands” of attack drones every day, offering a rare on-the-record look from a sitting U.S. lawmaker at the scale of Ukraine’s wartime drone industry. Blumenthal named the company as SkyFall, a Ukrainian defense technology firm, in a post […]View the full article

A landmark nuclear deal between the United States and Saudi Arabia is already unraveling into confusion, less than 24 hours after it was signed with fanfare in Washington. The agreement, laying the groundwork for American companies to help Saudi Arabia build a civilian nuclear power industry, immediately sparked concerns about a Saudi path to enrichment […]View the full article

Ukrainian drone maker Buntar Aerospace raised $10.4 million in funding from Axon Enterprise and Munkene AS, placing the round among the six largest disclosed funding rounds in Ukraine this year, according to venture capital firm Defence Builder, citing data from Vestbee. The full list, in order of size: language-learning platform Preply at $150 million, UFORCE […]View the full article

A sensor company that has spent 45 years building infrared cameras for the military just landed a piece of one of the Pentagon’s biggest new homeland defense contracts, supplying the eyes for a system built to spot drones before they ever reach American soil. Teledyne FLIR Defense, a division of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, announced July […]View the full article

Lockheed Martin fired multiple training rockets from a HIMARS launcher during a second flight test of its new Joint Reduced Range Rocket at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, the company said Friday. The test measured range, trajectory, accuracy and the performance of the rocket’s marking payload, which allows crews to see where a round would have […]View the full article

The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics Missions Systems a $194.1 million contract modification for engineering support work on the Nuclear-Armed, Sea-Launched Cruise Missile program, according to a Department of War contract announcement. The cost-plus-fixed-fee modification adds to a previously awarded unpriced letter contract and covers technical and engineering support for the missile’s Fire Control […]View the full article

U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded Boeing a $55.4 million order to supply Active Parallel Actuator Systems and related parts for the MH-47G special operations helicopter fleet, according to a Department of War contract announcement. The order, issued under a basic ordering agreement, will be performed primarily at Boeing’s Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, facility and is […]View the full article

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense has confirmed that a Swedish-supplied Saab 340 airborne early warning aircraft (AEW&C), known as the ASC 890, has been flying combat missions over Ukraine since March 2026, according to information the ministry released detailing the country’s expanding fleet of Western combat aircraft. Sweden first announced it would transfer the aircraft in […]View the full article

U.S. Marines with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit ran two separate forward operating sites at once during a training exercise near Camp Pendleton, California, testing whether the unit can track ships at sea, direct combat operations, and keep aircraft armed and fueled from multiple locations simultaneously rather than a single base. One site, called a […]View the full article

A Ukrainian gunsmith who services captured Russian assault rifles for Ukrainian troops says the newest generation of Kalashnikov rifle, the AK-12, consistently shows worse barrel quality than the decades-old AK-74 it was meant to replace, based on a detailed inspection of five trophy weapons spanning more than 40 years of production. Dmytro, who runs a […]View the full article

South Korea’s Navy released footage this week of a combat experiment where a humanoid robot called PIBOT took the helm of a naval vessel, gripping the ship’s rudder controls and holding its heading, the same way a human sailor would. The test ran August 23 at a ship-handling simulator operated by the Navy Education and […]View the full article

Israeli satellite company ImageSat International unveiled a new Earth observation satellite on September 8 designed to capture imagery sharp enough to identify small objects on the ground from orbit, while processing some of that data in space before it ever reaches an analyst. The satellite, called EROS NOVA, will capture imagery at a native resolution […]View the full article

Israeli drone maker Aero Sentinel says its G2 unmanned aircraft completed a week of demonstrations with a Romanian defense company during a Romanian Land Forces exercise, flying reconnaissance missions of up to 75 minutes despite heavy electronic jamming. Aero Sentinel did not name the Romanian partner company, the exact exercise, or its location and dates. […]View the full article

A robotic combat vehicle that can drive itself 280 miles while charging drones, powering radar and running a portable command post has rolled through a demonstration in the Utah desert for a room full of government, defense and technology leaders. Hypercraft, a Provo, Utah-based autonomous vehicle company, showed off its Razorback unmanned ground vehicle at […]View the full article

German ARX Robotics and its Ukrainian manufacturing partner Roboneers have delivered 30 unmanned ground vehicles to Ukraine’s Defense Forces, equipping a single regiment to run logistics, casualty evacuation and ammunition resupply missions with unmanned systems at the same time, the German company said. The regiment is now operating the vehicles across multiple mission types simultaneously, […]View the full article

Airbus Helicopters Inc. has been awarded a $115.4 million contract to build up to 12 more UH-72B Lakota helicopters for the U.S. Army, the Department of War announced Aug. 14. The contract covers the helicopters themselves, designated the MBB-BK 117 D3, along with jettisonable cockpit doors, air conditioning system installation, engine inlet barrier filters and […]View the full article

A Spanish F-18 fighter jet flying NATO air policing duty shot down a drone that crossed into Romanian airspace early Sunday, marking the fourth drone Romania has shot down this year, the country’s Ministry of National Defence said. Romanian radar systems detected the aircraft entering national airspace at 4:44 a.m. local time, arriving from neighboring […]View the full article