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The U.S. Army plans to test up to 15 counter-drone and base protection systems in Morocco next spring and aims to get the ones that work into soldiers’ hands within 180 days, under a new fast-track effort run by its Africa-focused command and a rapid acquisition team. U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa, known […]View the full article

Denmark is buying more Naval Strike Missiles from Norway’s Kongsberg to arm the coastal defense system it acquired last year, under a contract worth about 400 million Norwegian kroner ($42.4 million). Kongsberg announced the deal on Oct. 19, 2026, without saying how many missiles Denmark is getting. The sale is structured as a government-to-government agreement […]View the full article

China and Russia sent military intelligence aircraft toward Japan on four consecutive days this week, prompting the Japan Air Self-Defense Force to scramble fighters each day, as two Chinese Y-9 aircraft crossed the gap between Okinawa and Miyako-jima into the Pacific on Oct. 20 and 21 and Russian IL-20 aircraft flew over the Sea of […]View the full article

A Raytheon-Rafael joint venture in East Camden, Arkansas, has delivered the first Tamir interceptor for Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system built and assembled entirely in the United States, the Israeli Ministry of Defense said. The missile was handed over at a ceremony at the plant run by R2S, the joint venture between Raytheon and […]View the full article

Six Turkish military drones flew into Greek-claimed airspace over the Aegean Sea on Oct. 10, Greece’s Hellenic National Defense General Staff said, the latest in a run of near-daily incidents this month. The Greek military recorded eight infringements of air traffic rules inside the Athens Flight Information Region and five violations of Greek national airspace […]View the full article

Lockheed Martin has unveiled PAC-3 Edge, a new Patriot interceptor designed to reach higher, fly farther and maneuver harder than the PAC-3 MSE now in service. It is the company’s entry in the U.S. Army’s Future Interceptor competition. The company debuted the missile on Oct. 12 at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual meeting […]View the full article

Israeli loitering munition maker Uvision is showing an eight-canister launcher for its HERO 120 at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual meeting in Washington, pitching the remotely operated system as a way to spread strike capacity across land and maritime platforms and tie it to the company’s AI-enabled CORTEX mission management software. The Multi-Canister […]View the full article

Mooresville, North Carolina-based MSI Defense Solutions says its Self-Loading Equipment Deck, a removable mission pallet that can carry weapons and sensors on and off vehicles, appeared on several partner companies’ displays at this week’s Association of the U.S. Army annual meeting in Washington, including one built by General Dynamics Land Systems. In a series of […]View the full article

South Korea’s Cheongwang laser air defense weapon and a 30-kilowatt vehicle-mounted laser shot down all three target drones flown against them during a South Korean Army exercise on Oct. 14, manufacturer Hanwha Systems said. The demonstration took place during the Army TIGER+ Future Warfare Integrated Combat Exercise hosted by Republic of Korea Army headquarters, in […]View the full article

There she is…just look at her—a B-52G in all her Cold War 1980s livery that says, “Yes, my belly is bright white, because I’m going to nuke you and don’t want to get all hot afterwards” glory. For generations before us, and for generations to come, whenever a military competitor posed a challenge to our nation, you were usually one or two bullet points away from someone asking, “Hey, can we configure a B-52 to do that?” As one finds with platforms with built-in flexibility and square footage, the answer is usually “yes.” By the time the 1970s were over, the U.S. Navy realized that it didn’t just have a Soviet submarine problem, it had a significant Soviet surface fleet to…

Canadian defense contractor Calian Group has won a five-year contract worth about CA$47 million ($33.2 million) to keep writing the scenarios behind NATO’s major command exercises at the alliance’s Joint Warfare Centre in Stavanger, Norway. The Ottawa-based company said it won the contract after a competitive procurement and will continue an existing role as a […]View the full article

The U.S. Navy destroyer USS McFaul (DDG 74) has sailed all the way around Africa, stopping in Kenya, Ghana and Cabo Verde for fuel and supplies on a voyage of thousands of nautical miles from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic. U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa announced the completed transit on Oct. 14 in a release. […]View the full article

Israel’s Elbit Systems has won a contract worth about $235 million to supply PULS rocket artillery launchers and EXTRA-MR precision-guided rockets to an unnamed European country, along with additional rocket artillery platforms and integrated logistics support, the company said. Elbit did not identify the customer or say how many launchers and rockets the deal covers, […]View the full article

The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a $66 million order to retrofit MQ-4C Triton surveillance drones already in service with the U.S. Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force, bringing both fleets up to a common configuration. The firm-fixed-price delivery order covers engineering work, materials and spare parts to install 17 engineering change proposals […]View the full article

Way back even before the X-47B took off and landed on a carrier—and then was killed by the Fighter-Attack-Guy Mafia™—people would ask me what I wanted in a tactical drone. My feelings have not changed that much since—I want something designed to be stacked up like so many Pringles—or for you science fiction fans, how the Cylons in the Battlestar Galactica reboot kept their Raiders on their Basestars—ready for use in number. Sailor-proof and combat-ready. You hear the subject of “Drone Carriers” come up on a regular basis. You have to have the right drones to make it worthwhile, and if I were in charge of ship designations, they would be classified as CVQ. I’m willing to c…

The U.S. Air Force went looking for three new flight test ideas for its AI-controlled X-62 VISTA research jet and came away with more than 30, after the first research symposium built around the aircraft drew over 80 participants to Edwards Air Force Base, California, in August. The three-day meeting at the U.S. Air Force […]View the full article

Taiwan is paying General Atomics Aeronautical Systems $38.8 million to keep its new MQ-9B SkyGuardian drones flying, under a contractor logistics support deal that runs through August 2029, the U.S. Department of War said. The award, announced on Oct. 15 in the Pentagon’s daily contract list and signed on Oct. 1, covers sustainment services and […]View the full article

The British Army’s new Challenger 3 tank has now driven 2,000 km (1,240 miles) and fired more than 200 main gun rounds in testing, and it is set to start a tougher phase of trials in November, according to its builder, Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land. RBSL, the British-German joint venture building the tank, shared the […]View the full article

Israeli armored vehicle maker Plasan and off-road equipment specialist ASFIR 4X4 have unveiled Stormer, a light tactical vehicle for special operations forces built on a Jeep Gladiator pickup and designed to carry up to 12 people and more than 1,000 kg (2,200 pounds) of payload. The companies will show Stormer at the Association of the […]View the full article

Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation has delivered a new batch of Su-34 fighter-bombers to the Russian Aerospace Forces, the second batch of the jets handed over this year, the company’s parent, state defense conglomerate Rostec, said. Rostec did not say how many aircraft were in the batch. Photos and video released by UAC show at least […]View the full article