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The U.S. Navy has given Boeing a contract worth up to $80 million to keep developing and improving the MQ-25A Stingray, the uncrewed tanker designed to refuel fighter jets from aircraft carrier decks. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, announced by the U.S. Department of War, covers system improvements, development and integration of new aircraft configurations, production readiness […]View the full article

The U.S. Army has awarded Anduril Industries a contract worth up to $1.8 billion over five years to roll out its Next Generation Command and Control network, known as NGC2, starting with I Corps, the Army headquarters responsible for much of its force in the Pacific. The initial base period of the contract is valued […]View the full article

To say that the reporting of the last few days about the sudden departure of our B-1B bombers from RAF Fairford has been frustrating—for me at least—is an understatement. Airfield security has been a pebble in my shoe for a very long time. I assume everyone is familiar with my post from 11 months ago a bout the wake-up call at Whitman AFB? If not, give it a read, then come back. Let’s all get our reference point first from last week. Five men who were arrested on suspicion of explosive and terrorism offences after a major incident was declared at an RAF airbase in the west of England have been released on police bail. Three vans were spotted near RAF Fairford in the earl…

Spanish drone autopilot maker UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía is working with the European Space Agency on a way for military drones to navigate using signals from low Earth orbit internet satellites when GPS and other satellite navigation signals are jammed, spoofed or unavailable, the company said on October 8. The research is funded by ESA’s NAVISP […]View the full article

An uncrewed hybrid truck built by California’s Harbinger is powering a 30-kilowatt AeroVironment counter-drone laser at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual meeting in Washington this week, shown at American Rheinmetall’s booth. Harbinger CEO John Henry Harris said in a LinkedIn post on Oct. 12 that the company’s Praesidia vehicle is supplying power to […]View the full article

Ukraine’s partners warned it about three of the four waves of Russian ballistic missiles launched overnight into Oct. 14, but sent no alert before the first wave hit Kyiv, Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Col. Yurii Ihnat said on national television. Ihnat said he wanted to clarify the issue because many people had asked whether Ukraine […]View the full article

Leonardo DRS has won a spot on a Pentagon counter-drone contract worth up to $500 million, giving the company a path to sell its tactical radars to Joint Interagency Task Force 401, the U.S. Department of War organization set up last year to speed anti-drone gear to troops. The company announced the three-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award […]View the full article

The U.S. Navy has flown a drone through mission tasks and landed it on a pitching ship at sea with GPS jammed or unavailable and no pilot at the controls, using only the aircraft’s own cameras, motion sensors and onboard software, the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division said. NAWCAD, the U.S. Navy’s main aviation […]View the full article

Türkiye’s state-owned defense company MKE has delivered three more E-ZPT electric armored personnel carriers to the Turkish Land Forces Command, adding to a small fleet of rebuilt M113s that run on battery power instead of a diesel engine alone. MKE announced the handover in a post on X on Oct. 15, describing the E-ZPT as […]View the full article

A newly fielded U.S. Army Typhon missile battery assigned to Europe has fired its first Tomahawk cruise missile, launching it during a live-fire at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California, on Sept. 28, 2026, in what the service said was the third Typhon launch within the continental United States. The Mid-Range Capability Battery of […]View the full article

On certain anniversaries, I tend to repost some things I’ve written on the topic. On occasion I repost in full; other times I make slight modifications and updates. I’m going to do a 80/20 of the later today on a post I did on October 7th of last year. We have a few thousand more new readers this year than last, so they need a catch-up anyway. Some things are so fundamental, they don’t change all that much over time. Hard moments in history are clarifying events. The more difficult they are, the clearer they can make things for you. As I have mentioned before, one of the big wake-up calls I received after October 7th, 2023, was how much very real Jew-hate existed in moder…

Pakistan Air Force fighter jets are being used in strikes against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, a senior Pakistani military official told The New York Times, the first indication from inside Pakistan’s military that its air force has joined Saudi Arabia’s renewed war against the Iran-backed group. A second Pakistani official told the newspaper that Pakistan’s role […]View the full article

The Javelin Joint Venture, the Lockheed Martin and Raytheon partnership that builds the Javelin anti-tank missile, says it has nearly doubled its annual production capacity for complete Javelin rounds over the past two years to keep up with demand from the U.S. military and foreign customers. Lockheed Martin announced the milestone on Oct. 8 but […]View the full article

Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation said its Su-57 stealth fighter flew to an air show in Egypt this month using fuel tanks built into its internal weapons bays instead of the external drop tanks fighters typically carry on long ferry flights. UAC said the aircraft made the trip to the El Alamein International Airshow with one […]View the full article

L3Harris Technologies has won a $250 million contract from Lockheed Martin to build solid rocket motors for standard-range Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System rockets, the largest quantity ordered in the program’s history, the company said Oct. 12. The motors will be built at L3Harris’ new 60,000-square-foot (5,600-square-meter) plant in Camden, Arkansas, which the company says […]View the full article

General Dynamics Land Systems has brought its Wolf XM30 infantry fighting vehicle to the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual meeting in Washington, but only as a one-eighth-scale model, leaving the full-size vehicle out of public view while it undergoes U.S. Army testing. The company is offering the Wolf as a replacement for the M2 […]View the full article

The last 12 months have been good for our Navy. Regardless of what you think of this year’s operations against Iran and her proxies: Our surface forces built off their years of success in the Red Sea over the last year and have a level of experience in actual warfighting not seen since…well…WWII really. We saw a little bit of a threat in Korea, Vietnam, and a spot of bother now and then…but a sustained threat like this? Not seen in generations. Everything from low-speed drones to anti-ship cruise missiles to anti-ship ballistic missiles was thrown at our Aegis destroyers and our remaining cruisers…and nothing got through to them or the carriers and auxiliaries they suppor…

Ukraine’s ability to defend itself against Russian strikes has been limited by two U.S. moves in a single night: the country went without early warning of Russian ballistic missile launches from its partners for a second time in a row, and Starlink, the U.S. satellite service its frontline units depend on, was cut back for […]View the full article

Russia launched more than 850 Shahed attack drones at Ukraine in roughly a day and a half, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Oct. 15, an onslaught that came as a new speed cap on SpaceX’s Starlink network curtailed the interceptor drones Ukraine uses to shoot them down. Zelenskyy said the count covered the period from […]View the full article

Furientis, a missile startup founded just last year, has been picked as one of four companies to fly interceptors in a U.S. Army shoot-off at the end of fiscal 2027, competing to supply a second missile for the service’s Indirect Fire Protection Capability Increment 2 air defense system. Co-founder and CEO Brody Franzen announced the […]View the full article