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Czech air defense troops have test-fired a remotely operated twin machine gun mounted on SVOS’s Mars 4×4 armored vehicle against small drones, as Czech industry offers the vehicle as a cheaper counter-drone option alongside the missile-armed version the Army of the Czech Republic has already ordered. Soldiers from the 25th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment in Strakonice […]View the full article

The Netherlands and France held the first meeting of a new bilateral Nuclear Steering Group on Oct. 14, opening high-level talks on how French nuclear forces and European conventional forces could work together to deter attacks on Europe, the Dutch Ministry of Defence said. The ministry announced the meeting in a statement on Oct. 15, […]View the full article

Lockheed Martin plans to create 6,000 jobs across the United States, including 2,000 in Texas, as it expands munitions production. At the center of the plan is a $300 million expansion of its Grand Prairie missile parts plant, where defense manufacturing startup Hadrian will install an automated machining cell. The company announced the plan on […]View the full article

The U.S. Air Force has added three small companies to a contract worth up to $5.4 billion for privately flown “Red Air” adversary aircraft and close air support training, including a firm that flies small planes made to mimic enemy drones and cruise missiles. KestrelX of Driggs, Idaho, A2G International of Melbourne, Florida, and Fleet […]View the full article

The U.S. State Department has approved a possible $140 million sale of four UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters to Argentina, a deal that would give the Argentine Army its first Black Hawks. The approval, notified to Congress on September 10, 2026, follows through on a purchase Argentine officials confirmed earlier this year. The package includes the […]View the full article

Latvia’s government decided on Sept. 15 to buy Czech-made 155mm wheeled howitzers for the National Armed Forces, choosing the Morana system from Excalibur Army after Sweden’s competing Archer howitzer proved too costly and slow to deliver under the country’s current defense budget. The Cabinet of Ministers based its decision on the cost of the offers, […]View the full article

Lockheed Martin is pitching the U.S. Air Force on a new version of the F-16 fighter, designated the F-16G, as a way to replace aging Fighting Falcons faster than the F-35 production line can keep up. Multiple people familiar with the aircraft told Aviation Week that the F-16G builds on the current Block 70 F-16, […]View the full article

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces struck a Russian military airfield in Rostov-on-Don overnight into Sept. 17, destroying one An-12 and two An-26 transport aircraft along with three helicopters. Zelensky said Ukraine’s Security Service, the SBU, carried out the airfield strike as part of a broader overnight operation that also hit the Slavneft-YANOS oil […]View the full article

The Missile Defense Agency wants industry to build a new mobile radar that can be flown into a war zone aboard a C-17, set up within hours and torn down again in minutes, according to a pre-solicitation notice posted September 16. The program, called Forward Based Mode Radar Next, is meant to replace or supplement […]View the full article

The third prototype of Russia’s Yak-130M, an upgraded version of the Yak-130 jet trainer reworked to carry radar and guided weapons, has made its first flight, Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation said. The aircraft, carrying side number 137, took off from the Irkutsk Aviation Plant in Siberia with Yakovlev test pilots Oleg Mutovin and Alexander Guskov […]View the full article

Japan’s Ministry of Defense is considering leaving the Type 10 main battle tank out of its fiscal 2027 budget request, after a shell exploded inside one of the tanks in April and killed three soldiers, according to Japanese defense newspaper Asagumo. Gen. Masayoshi Arai, chief of staff of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, disclosed the […]View the full article

BIRD Aerosystems has installed its Airborne Missile Protection System on a Bombardier Global 7500 business jet and received European Union Aviation Safety Agency certification for the installation, giving the long-range VIP aircraft protection against shoulder-fired, heat-seeking missiles. The Israeli company, part of U.S.-listed Ondas Holdings, announced the milestone on Oct. 12. EASA approval means the […]View the full article

Satellite imagery of Russia’s Borisoglebsk air base shows that a Ukrainian Neptune missile strike destroyed four Su-34 fighter-bombers and badly damaged two more, backing up the Ukrainian Navy’s claim that it hit six of the jets on the night of Oct. 14–15. The images, published by the Ukrainian aviation monitoring channel AviVector, compare the airfield […]View the full article

Aurelius Systems is showing its Archimedes autonomous laser weapon mounted on an American Rheinmetall unmanned ground vehicle at the Association of the U.S. Army annual meeting in Washington this week, where the two companies are pitching mobile laser defense against small drones to U.S. Army buyers. The San Francisco-based startup said in a post on […]View the full article

A U.S. Army program that builds realistic enemy threats for training flew Performance Drone Works’ C100X drone at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 25, testing its thermal camera, its ability to drop inert practice munitions and whether it could be used in future training scenarios. The flights were carried out by members of the […]View the full article

BAE Systems will build electronic warfare systems for three more production lots of the F-35 Lightning II under a new contract from Lockheed Martin, the company said on Oct. 6. The contract covers AN/ASQ-239 systems for F-35 Lots 20 through 22, along with systems to retrofit and modernize older aircraft already in service. BAE Systems […]View the full article

South Korea’s military has concluded that North Korean troops deliberately planted the land mines that wounded three South Korean soldiers inside the Demilitarized Zone last month, and it has removed the remaining mines, but President Lee Jae Myung’s description of the blast as an “unfortunate accident” has drawn sharp criticism at home. The explosion happened […]View the full article

DARPA, the Pentagon’s research agency, has awarded Abram Scientific a contract worth up to $8.3 million to develop CoagCare, a handheld device that shows how well a wounded person’s blood is clotting in under 10 minutes from a single drop, so medics can decide on transfusions far from a hospital. The Defense Advanced Research Projects […]View the full article

North Korea test-fired two types of submarine-launched strategic cruise missiles in the sea east of the Korean Peninsula on Oct. 14, state media said, in what South Korean analysts believe was the first missile launch from the Hero Kim Kun Ok, the submarine Pyongyang unveiled three years ago as its first “tactical nuclear attack submarine.” […]View the full article

Naval Group has rolled out Rubis, the fifth of six Barracuda nuclear-powered attack submarines it is building for the French Navy, moving the boat out of its construction hall at the company’s shipyard in Cherbourg on Oct. 16, 2026. The submarine was transferred onto the yard’s floating shiplift platform in the presence of Catherine Vautrin, […]View the full article