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The United States will supply the Philippine Coast Guard with three secondhand King Air 350 turboprop aircraft, two of them fitted with surveillance sensors, under a $39.6 million contract that finalizes a deal the two countries signed in February. The U.S. Department of War announced the firm-fixed-price award to Technology Service Corp., a small business […]View the full article

HMS Queen Elizabeth is due to leave Portsmouth Naval Base at 6:20 p.m. on Saturday, September 5, carrying more than 800 sailors on a three-month deployment around British and northern European waters, according to UK Defence Journal. The deployment is the first extended sea period for the 65,000-tonne carrier since it took on a new […]View the full article

The U.S. Army has awarded 10 companies counter-drone contracts with a combined ceiling of $4.15 billion, lining up commercial radars, cameras, jammers and weapons to detect and defeat hostile drones, the U.S. Department of War announced. Seven companies received ceilings of $500 million each: Allen Control Systems of Austin, Texas; Digital Force Technologies of San […]View the full article

The U.S. State Department has approved a possible $750 million sale of 60 AGT-1500 tank engines to Saudi Arabia, notifying Congress of the deal on September 4. The engines, along with spare parts and years of contractor support, would go toward sustaining Saudi Arabia’s existing fleet of M1 Abrams tanks rather than funding new tank […]View the full article

The U.S. Navy will buy 10 of Saronic’s Marauder autonomous ships, a 55-meter (180-foot) uncrewed vessel built in Louisiana, after the ship passed at-sea testing under the service’s new Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel program. Saronic announced the production award on Sept. 30, a day after the U.S. Navy said it had given production agreements for […]View the full article

The U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Lab has added $5 million to its work with REGENT Craft on the Seaglider, an electric craft that skims just above the water, bringing the total value of the partnership to $19.25 million, the Rhode Island company said on Sept. 30. The new money funds a fourth phase with six […]View the full article

Naval Group has started building the first of four new frigates for Sweden, cutting steel for the future HSwMS Luleå at its shipyard in Lorient, France, on Oct. 1, just one month after Stockholm signed the contract. The first ship is due for delivery in 2030, the French shipbuilder said. Sweden’s Defence Materiel Administration, known […]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

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

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

Houthi forces shot down a Royal Saudi Air Force F-15 fighter jet over Marib governorate on Sept. 16, 2026, using a locally manufactured missile, according to Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree. Houthi military media released images and video of the wreckage, showing armed fighters standing on a large piece of tail section bearing a Saudi […]View the full article

Raytheon has won a $247.1 million contract to build, upgrade and overhaul Phalanx close-in weapon systems for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army, covering the shipboard gun, its land-based counterpart and the missile-armed SeaRAM, the U.S. Department of War announced. Naval Air Systems Command awarded the firm-fixed-price contract to the RTX business without competition. It […]View the full article

The Kremlin said on Sept. 30 that Russia’s official policy documents provide for a nuclear response if NATO countries try to blockade Kaliningrad, the Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea wedged between Poland and Lithuania. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russian diplomats were reminding “hotheads in Europe” of those documents after what he described as […]View the full article

Russia has shown an upgraded Pantsir-S1M air defense system mounted on a Belarus-built MZKT-7930-312 chassis during its Tsentr-2026 strategic exercise, the first official confirmation that the gun-and-missile system now rides on the heavy Minsk-built chassis. Until now, the configuration was known only from a leaked supply contract and from a single vehicle that Ukrainian drone […]View the full article

Under heavy cloud cover, Russia fired a massive barrage of Geran-2 attack drones, the Russian-built version of Iran’s Shahed-136, at western Ukraine early Sunday. The Ukrainian General Staff said Russia launched 863 drones at Ukraine over the previous 24 hours, one of the largest barrages of the war. French open-source analyst Clément Molin wrote on […]View the full article

The Battle of Leyte Gulf. The world's largest naval battle. Every type of action, night and day, for days, from air-to-air to battleship action. No one did it better than The History Channel, back in its prime (imagine this using modern computer simulation), in taking the time to put the battle into context. Get a cup of coffee. It is a two-part series, and in the opening of Part 1, as they describe the state of the Imperial Japanese Navy, ponder a bit if, in 2026, looking toward the next Great Pacific War, we are preparing ourselves to be the U.S. Navy of 1944, or the Imperial Japanese Navy of 1944. If you build yourself for a short war—founded on a hope/cope of Deterr…

The U.S. Space Force wants companies to pitch satellites that can chase down and inspect objects in orbit on short notice, according to a request for information Space Systems Command published September 18. Space Systems Command asked industry September 18 to pitch designs for a spacecraft that can chase down another object in space, close […]View the full article

Assistant Secretary of War for Critical Technologies Michael Dodd said the Department of War needs to move directed energy weapons out of testing and into the field, arguing in a Sept. 22 post on X that high-energy laser programs have proven the technology works and now need ruggedized, deployable systems for air and missile defense. […]View the full article

Global Military Products has been selected as one of several contractors on a new U.S. Special Operations Command indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for U.S. and foreign weapons, ammunition, and personal protective equipment, the Tampa, Florida-based company said Sept. 21. The five-year contract has a ceiling of $19.5 million, and GMP will compete against other […]View the full article