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Taiwan broke ground Monday on an aerospace and drone industrial park in the southern county of Chiayi, where the island’s main military research institute wants to build a drone supply chain free of Chinese parts. President Lai Ching-te led the Sept. 28 ceremony, which also opened a new Minxiong campus for the National Chung-Shan Institute […]View the full article

A Russian Tu-95MS strategic bomber crashed in the Amur region of Russia’s Far East on Sept. 29, killing six of the seven crew members on board. The bomber went down near the village of Krasnoyarovo after an engine failure during takeoff, according to sources in the Russian military. The sole survivor was taken to hospital. […]View the full article

Turkish defense manufacturer Otokar has signed a $1.47 billion contract to export wheeled armored vehicles and logistics support to a customer it has not named, though the deal will not take effect until government approvals are in place and the buyer pays an advance. The contract, worth exactly $1,472,080,360, covers the supply of several types […]View the full article

About half of Ukraine’s F-16 fighter jets have spent long stretches in Europe for repairs and maintenance, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, and some have taken so long to come back that Ukraine lost time when it needed them most to defend its skies. Zelensky made the comments in an interview with the Financial Times published […]View the full article

BAE Systems will upgrade the GPS inside the U.S. Navy’s carrier landing system to the military’s encrypted, jam-resistant M-code signal under a $16 million contract from Collins Aerospace. The company will design and develop the M-code GPS solution for the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System, known as JPALS, BAE Systems said on Oct. 1. […]View the full article

The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a $29.2 million contract for early production of the AN/WSN-12 inertial navigation system, a shipboard navigator that keeps track of a vessel’s position without GPS, with Canada and Australia paying for most of the order. The contract covers low-rate initial production units and maintenance assistance modules, along with […]View the full article

The U.S. Navy has added $76.6 million to a Lockheed Martin contract for continued design work on the next generation of the Trident II D5 nuclear missile, part of a long-term effort meant to keep the submarine-launched weapon in service into the 2080s. The modification adds to an existing contract with Strategic Systems Programs, the […]View the full article

Israel has signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of War to buy 12 Boeing AH-64E Apache attack helicopters, the newest version of the Apache, with deliveries scheduled to begin early in the next decade, the Israel Ministry of Defense said on Oct. 14. The ministry’s director general, Maj. Gen. (res.) Amir Baram, instructed Israel’s […]View the full article

Azerbaijan’s army in the Nakhchivan exclave has received Sivrisinek kamikaze drones, the Baykar-built loitering munition also known as YIHA-III, the Azerbaijani defense outlet TURAN Defence AZ reported. The drones went to the Nakhchivan Separate Combined Arms Army, according to the post. Baku has not announced the delivery, and there is no word on how many […]View the full article

The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded Norway’s Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace a contract worth up to $404.4 million for full-rate production and support of Naval Strike Missile launchers and the fire control system that aims them, the U.S. Department of War announced Sept. 25. The firm-fixed-price contract covers the Naval Strike Missile Launcher Unit, its […]View the full article

The biggest improvements to MAUL, a Ukrainian unmanned ground vehicle built to carry wounded soldiers off the front line, have come from the troops using it rather than from artificial intelligence, the head of the company behind it said. An unmanned ground vehicle, or UGV, is a remotely controlled or partly autonomous vehicle that moves […]View the full article

Japanese radar satellite company Synspective has signed a contract with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to launch two of its StriX satellites on Japan’s H3 rocket in 2027, moving part of a constellation that feeds imagery to Japan’s Ministry of Defense onto a domestic launcher for the first time. The company announced the agreement Sept. 18. The […]View the full article

Turkish defense company ASELSAN has shown its KORKUT 35 air defense gun system shooting down drones and hitting a moving target while driving, in a live-fire demonstration watched by military delegations from 12 countries. The company released video of the firing. The demonstration focused on drones, and KORKUT 35 engaged fixed-wing, delta-wing and small mini […]View the full article

Redwire has now delivered more than 300 of its Penguin reconnaissance drones to Ukraine, the company said, and the version flying there today climbs much higher than the aircraft first sent in 2022 so that Russian FPV attack drones have a harder time reaching it. The U.S. space and defense company disclosed the figure in […]View the full article

The U.S. Army has picked five winners in a competition to test how commercial humanoid robots could be used by the military, including a two-legged robot called Alex that is built to take hits and carries ballistic protection. The Army announced the xTechHumanoid winners on Sept. 11, two days after nine finalists demonstrated their technology […]View the full article

Ukrainian defense company DevDroid put two of its armed ground robots through their paces with the Italian Army during AEGIS 26, a major exercise watched by Italian President Sergio Mattarella, operating them alongside an Italian robot and infantry in a simulated assault and linking them to a NATO battlefield information system. AEGIS 26 was held […]View the full article

Russian forces shot down one of their own Mi-8 military helicopters over the Voronezh region on Oct. 1, killing all three crew members, after a ground-based air defense crew mistook it for an enemy drone. The helicopter came down in a field in the Anninsky district, about 80 km (50 miles) from the city of […]View the full article

U.S. Southern Command has deployed unmanned systems to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the first step toward a training and mission-support site there for its new Autonomous Warfare Command. Marine Gen. Francis L. Donovan, the SOUTHCOM commander, saw the systems during a visit to the base, the command said in a post on X. […]View the full article

Every one-on-one meeting slot at the U.S. Air Force’s upcoming industry day for a new F-16 mission computer is already booked, and the service has now restricted access to the event’s sensitive briefings to companies certified to handle export-controlled military data. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s F-16 program office will host the event […]View the full article

Forterra and Hypercraft are showing a driverless off-road vehicle built for military resupply at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual meeting in Washington, pairing Hypercraft’s Razorback unmanned ground vehicle with Forterra’s AutoDrive self-driving system and a counter-drone turret from 9 Mothers. The companies say the vehicle is aimed at contested logistics, moving supplies through […]View the full article