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Bath Iron Works said the future USS Quentin Walsh, a Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, is now one of the ships taking shape at its Land Level erection stage, the point where large prefabricated hull sections are joined together before launch. General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine marked the milestone alongside National POW/MIA […]View the full article

Leonardo DRS will build the electric propulsion system for South Korea’s next-generation KDDX destroyer, the company announced, supplying technology for what will be the Republic of Korea Navy’s first full-electric-drive surface warship. DRS signed the contract with Doosan Enerbility, which will work alongside the American company to build the ship’s complete power and propulsion system, […]View the full article

The U.S. Northern Command tested Bumblebee interceptor drones from Perennial Autonomy during Falcon Peak 26.2, a counter-drone experiment underway at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, through Sept. 25. The command said on Sept. 22 that the exercise is pulling lessons directly from Joint Task Force-Southern Border to sharpen how the military detects and stops unauthorized drones […]View the full article

A U.S. Army heavy battalion equipped with M1 Abrams tanks and an engineer battalion will deploy to Lithuania, the country’s Defense Ministry said Thursday, ending a gap of several months without a U.S. rotational force in the Baltic state. Defense Minister Robertas Kaunas said both battalions will arrive at the end of October. The force […]View the full article

Japan’s Ministry of Defense will start building at least 65 new ammunition depots for the Self-Defense Forces from fiscal 2027, using a single standardized design to get them into service faster, the Nikkei business daily reported Sept. 20. The push to store more ammunition follows lessons Tokyo has drawn from Russia’s war in Ukraine, where […]View the full article

Photos taken at an air show in Novosibirsk captured a newly built Su-34 fighter-bomber still in factory gray primer, adding to a steady stream of the twin-seat jets Russia has produced for its air force even as it continues fighting in Ukraine. The aircraft was spotted at Mochishche Aerodrome in Novosibirsk during the 15th annual […]View the full article

Sweden will send JAS 39 Gripen fighter jets back into NATO’s air defense mission over Poland from October, where they will help protect the hub in the country’s southeast that funnels military and civilian aid into Ukraine, Defense Minister Pål Jonson said on Sept. 30. Most of the aircraft will fly from bases in Sweden, […]View the full article

The U.S. Air Force has awarded WindBorne Systems, a California startup that flies a fleet of self-steering weather balloons, a contract worth up to $48.7 million to supply atmospheric data for military weather forecasting and mission planning. The contract, awarded on Sept. 29, covers continuous, global and targeted vertical profiles of the atmosphere, from the […]View the full article

A Russian T-90M tank used its Arena-M active protection system to shoot down attacking drones during the Tsentr-2026 strategic exercise, in a staged attack on a tank column at the Chebarkul training range in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region. In the demonstration, several types of drones, including fixed-wing models and standard first-person-view (FPV) quadcopter drones, simulated a […]View the full article

Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck a Russian chemical plant in Volgograd overnight on September 10-11, 2026, using FP-5 “Flamingo” cruise missiles, according to Fire Point, the Ukrainian company that manufactures the weapon. Fire Point said the missiles hit their target directly and sparked a large fire at the facility. The target, Volgogradpromproekt, is a specialty chemicals […]View the full article

Zeebrugge. If you have been there, or visited its inner city of Bruges, you know what a beautiful and peaceful place it is - as most all of Belgium is today once you get out of the large cities like Brussels, Liege, etc. In 1918, though, Belgium was a nightmarish slaughterhouse where the bodies of millions were blended into the beaten earth—where like Okinawa and Iwo Jima over a quarter century later—the living earth would move with a blanketed mass of maggots. In one of history's subtle hints she will give you early if you wish to listen, Britain found herself on the edge of starvation due to a threat few understood or even knew of at the beginning of the war - the su…

The U.S. Navy plans to have Boeing redesign parts of the computer that controls weapons and external stores on its F/A-18 and EA-18G fleet, after concluding that the current unit can no longer be supported because key components are no longer available. Naval Air Systems Command’s PMA-265, the program office for the F/A-18 Super Hornet […]View the full article

Turkish manufacturer Otokar and Italy’s Leonardo have completed integration and live-fire testing of a 120mm turret mounted on Otokar’s Tulpar medium tank platform, a combination now being pitched as a potential replacement for Brazil’s aging Leopard 1A5 tanks. The companies ran the tests at Italy’s UTTAT Nettuno test range near Rome, fitting the Tulpar with […]View the full article

A Philippine government ship carrying fuel to Filipino fishermen was struck by a Chinese Coast Guard vessel on Friday, the latest collision in a South China Sea dispute that has grown more dangerous and more frequent throughout 2026. The Philippine ship, BRP Datu Magat Salamat, belongs to the country’s Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources. […]View the full article

A Russian military Mi-8 helicopter briefly entered Polish airspace Wednesday morning, flying north of the town of Braniewo near the border with Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave, Poland’s Operational Command said. The aircraft penetrated Polish territory to a depth of about 300 meters and remained inside Polish airspace for 42 seconds before returning to Kaliningrad airspace. Polish […]View the full article

The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman up to $123.8 million to buy long-lead parts for 67 AN/APG-85 radars, the new radar meant for the F-35 fighter, as brand-new jets continue to reach U.S. squadrons with ballast in their noses instead of radars. The contract, announced Sept. 24 by the U.S. Department of War, covers […]View the full article

Latvia is working to buy Anduril’s Barracuda long-range cruise missiles, President Edgars Rinkēvičs said after visiting the American defense company and meeting its founder, Palmer Luckey. Rinkēvičs wrote that he looked forward to completing the acquisition of the missiles and to further defense industry cooperation. During the visit he also witnessed the signing of memoranda […]View the full article

Ukraine’s National Guard just started fielding a robot roughly the size of a Humvee, built to haul ammunition into combat zones so soldiers don’t have to. Four units of Ukraine’s National Guard have received the first batch of Protector ground robotic complexes, part of a 100-unit contract funded by the German government, the National Guard […]View the full article

Ukrainian missile maker Fire Point has changed the published specifications of its FP-7.x anti-ballistic interceptor, now listing a combined infrared and radar seeker for the weapon instead of the infrared-only seeker it described earlier. The company posted an updated specification card for the missile on X, which it calls the FP-7.x Freyja interceptor. In August, […]View the full article

The CIA has restored the helicopter that carried the first American team into Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks, repainting it in the camouflage it wore in 2001 to mark the 25th anniversary of the mission. The Russian-designed helicopter sits on the grounds of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. It flew a seven-man CIA team, […]View the full article