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Footage released by Yemen’s Houthis appears to show a Saudi National Guard AH-6i helicopter being struck by a loitering munition over Saudi Arabia’s Najran province, after the Saudi-led coalition said the aircraft crashed because of a technical malfunction, killing its two crew members. Coalition spokesman Maj. Gen. Turki al-Maliki said on Oct. 18 that the […]View the full article

British company SatVu has launched HotSat-3, a satellite that maps heat on the ground from orbit, giving it a second working spacecraft and the ability to photograph any spot on Earth in thermal infrared once every 24 hours, day or night. The satellite lifted off on Oct. 1 aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare mission from Vandenberg […]View the full article

Norway’s Kongsberg will build a factory in northern Poland to manufacture and maintain counter-drone systems for the Polish SAN program, investing more than 200 million zlotys (about €45 million, or $51 million) in a plant that will create over 100 permanent jobs once it reaches full capacity, the company announced on Oct. 13 at the […]View the full article

Oshkosh Defense has started building the first prototype of the Dutch Expeditionary Patrol Vehicle, a version of its Joint Light Tactical Vehicle known in the Netherlands as the Kaaiman, for the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps, the company said on Oct. 13. The Netherlands Ministry of Defence ordered 150 of the vehicles in June 2025 at […]View the full article

The U.S. Navy demonstrated a new system for planning and controlling autonomous combat aircraft during Gray Flag 2026, a large-force test event held at Point Mugu Sea Range in California this month. The Navy calls the system Collaborative Autonomy Mission Planning, or CAMP. The demonstration used a General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger acting as a surrogate […]View the full article

Türkiye has signed a supply contract with missile maker Roketsan for land-based CAKIR cruise missile systems for the Turkish Land Forces, Haluk Görgün, head of the country’s Presidency of Defense Industries, announced on Oct. 15. Görgün said in a post on X that the contract is meant to strengthen the army’s long-range strike capability, and […]View the full article

The U.S. Marine Corps has turned a 2nd Marine Division artillery battalion at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, into its first medium-range missile battalion, built around a launcher that fires Naval Strike Missiles at enemy ships from land. 1st Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment was formally re-designated on Oct. 9, 2026, under the service’s Force Design 2030 […]View the full article

X-Bow Systems has won a prototype agreement worth up to $69.7 million to develop and qualify a solid rocket motor booster for a next-generation U.S. Navy weapon, and to tool a production line in Luling, Texas, that can build up to 500 motors a year, the Albuquerque, New Mexico-based company said on October 7. The […]View the full article

French defense startup Harmattan AI has unveiled IRIFI, an autonomous long-range loitering one-way attack drone system that the company says is designed to hit targets up to 2,000 km (1,240 miles) away without relying on satellite navigation or human control during flight. The company revealed the system on October 6, marking its move into deep […]View the full article

SummarySal discusses current geopolitical tensions, the state of Iran, the importance of reindustrialization, and the resilience of Western systems, providing insights into global security and policy strategies. Key TopicsGaza conflict and its implications Iran’s strategic trajectory towards Cubanization Reindustrialization efforts in the US, especially n… Read more View the full article

BLADE, the robotics company formerly known as HDT, said its Hunter WOLF unmanned ground vehicle has been selected for the second phase of GroundBreaker 1, a U.S. Department of War demonstration in which service members will put industry-built ground robots through field trials at Camp Grafton, North Dakota, on Oct. 19-23. The company said Hunter […]View the full article

Retired Rear Adm. John Meier, the first commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), has joined mining investor Appian Capital Advisory as a senior advisor on defense supply chains. Appian announced the hire on Oct. 13 together with two other appointments. Brian Greeley, who was chief banking officer at the […]View the full article

Israel Aerospace Industries and SIG SAUER have completed a live-fire test of FIRE STORM 250, a vertical-takeoff drone armed with SIG SAUER’s M250 machine gun, in which the aircraft hovered over a simulated battlefield, picked out targets with its onboard camera and hit them in single-shot and semi-automatic modes. The companies announced the result on […]View the full article

A small Performance Drone Works quadcopter carrying a Leonardo DRS laser designator guided precision mortar rounds onto targets beyond the normal maximum range of a 120 mm mortar during a recent test for U.S. Army special operations forces at Dugway, Utah, Leonardo DRS said on Oct. 14. The company said its STAG-5 electro-optical and infrared […]View the full article

The U.S. Navy is paying Huntington Ingalls Industries another $99.1 million to take USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG 1002), the last of its three angular Zumwalt-class stealth destroyers, through sea trials as the ship is fitted to carry hypersonic missiles. The contract modification, announced by the U.S. Department of War, raises the ceiling on an […]View the full article

Japan has put its longest-range missile system on public display for the first time since deployment, showing the Type 25 surface-to-ship guided missile launcher to local residents at the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force’s Camp Kengun in Kumamoto on Oct. 3. Four vehicles, including the missile launcher and an ammunition carrier, were lined up inside the […]View the full article

The Sparrows Point Shipyard outside Baltimore has a history dating back to 1887. She is one of the many neglected and underused monuments to a once great industrial power just waiting for the right people with the right vision to return. I think we have it. Via Howard Altman and the good people at TWZ, …the Trump administration on Tuesday announced that Anduril is building a new two-million-square-foot facility in Baltimore designed to help speed up the production of Virginia class nuclear-powered attack submarines. The plant, dubbed Arsenal-2, will eventually produce components like torpedo tubes and spherical air flasks, which will then be sent to the two shipyards that…

The U.S. military’s V-22 Osprey program office and manufacturer Bell Boeing have brought 14 new companies into the tiltrotor’s supply chain as they work to keep the aircraft flying past 2055, after years of gearbox failures, fatal crashes and flight restrictions that have kept large parts of the fleet on the ground. The new suppliers […]View the full article

The U.S. Navy has put the destroyer USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) into dry dock at Navantia’s shipyard in Cadiz, Spain, the first time one of its Europe-based destroyers has been dry-docked in the region since the Navy began stationing them in Spain more than a decade ago. The ship entered the dock on Oct. […]View the full article

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine did not strike any energy facilities inside Russia overnight into Oct. 12, after President Donald Trump announced an immediate halt to attacks on energy targets, but that Russia kept hitting Ukraine’s gas and power infrastructure. Zelenskyy made the comments in a live interview with Fox News on Monday. Trump […]View the full article