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A Ukrainian fixed-wing strike drone built to find Russian electronic warfare systems by their own radio signals and dive onto them has been listed on Brave1 Market, the government-run online store where Ukrainian military units order weapons, Ukrainian outlet Defender Media reported. The drone, called SHOT-L1, can strike targets up to 80 km (50 miles) […]View the full article

Korea Aerospace Industries has flown its FA-50 light combat aircraft in formation with a jet-powered drone for the first time, a test the company says is the first real manned-unmanned formation flight in South Korea. The flight took place on Oct. 8 over the sea south of Goheung, in South Jeolla Province, KAI said on […]View the full article

Russia fired 39 ballistic missiles and more than 120 attack drones and loitering munitions at Ukraine’s energy and critical infrastructure overnight into Oct. 14, knocking out power to at least 600,000 people days after President Donald Trump announced a halt to strikes on energy facilities, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Zelenskyy said that the attack […]View the full article

Slovenian turret maker Valhalla Turrets is preparing a new version of its Skythunder air defense system armed with General Dynamics Land Systems’ 20 mm M197 Gatling gun and 70 mm laser-guided rockets, designed to shoot down drones and protect critical infrastructure. The company announced the system as “coming soon” in a social media post and […]View the full article

The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a $209 million contract modification to keep building the AN/SLQ-32(V)6, the electronic warfare system that warns U.S. Navy surface ships of incoming anti-ship missiles and the radars guiding them. The U.S. Department of War announced the award, made Sept. 30. The modification includes options that, if exercised, would […]View the full article

New U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress pilots are now making contact with a refueling tanker on their first live training flight, a skill that once took students several sorties to master, after the bomber’s training unit at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, built its air refueling instruction around a virtual reality trainer. A peer-reviewed study […]View the full article

The U.S. Army has received its first Mobile Tactical Cannon, a wheeled 155 mm howitzer built by Hanwha Defense USA that the service is testing as a replacement for the towed M777, less than a year after it first asked industry for proposals. Brig. Gen. Robert “RJ” Mikesh Jr., the Army’s portfolio management executive for […]View the full article

Leidos has picked X-Bow Systems, a New Mexico rocket motor maker, to develop and build the booster motors for the U.S. Army’s Low-Cost Containerized Munition, a ground-launched cruise missile the Pentagon wants to buy in large numbers. X-Bow announced the selection on Oct. 12 at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual meeting in Washington. […]View the full article

The U.S. Navy is building up its stocks of spare parts for the radars and fire-control gear on its Aegis warships, ordering $15.1 million worth of components from Raytheon in a deal it tied directly to the surface fleet’s goal of keeping 75 mission-capable ships ready on any given day. The Department of War contract […]View the full article

A U.S. Army soldier has been spotted assembling a Stork reconnaissance drone, built by Czech-Ukrainian company U&C UAS, during a major training exercise in Germany, showing the battle-tested design in American hands. The U.S. Army released the image from Combined Resolve 27-01 at the Hohenfels Training Area, part of the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in […]View the full article

Cummings Aerospace has fired two of its 3D-printed Hellhound S3 jet-powered drones from a launcher mounted on a utility vehicle, with a single operator using one handheld controller to send both on separate autonomous missions, the company said. The test took place on Aug. 25, 2026, at the Pendleton UAS Range in Oregon, where an […]View the full article

The U.S. Army has selected nine companies as finalists in a competition to find autonomous ground and air vehicles that can resupply troops spread across Pacific islands, and their systems will go before soldiers in Hawaii next month. The competition, called G-TEAD USARPAC ACE 27-01: Autonomous Sustainment, is run by the Army’s Global Tactical Edge […]View the full article

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency plans to pay a Utah company to build a prototype four-legged robot that can walk into hazardous areas on its own and produce a live 3D map of dangerous gases, according to a contract notice the agency posted on October 7. DTRA, the U.S. Department of War agency responsible for […]View the full article

China’s military is training and building hardware to fight the kind of drone war seen in Ukraine, from sea drone attacks to airfield raids, and its analysts typically write up a new battlefield technique within about four months of its first use, according to a study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The […]View the full article

Uralvagonzavod, Russia’s main tank manufacturer and the only plant building new T-90M tanks, is now taking on major repairs of T-90Ms wrecked in Ukraine, work that analysts say was traditionally handled by military repair plants and now competes with the factory’s production of new tanks. A train carrying heavily damaged T-90Ms was photographed on its […]View the full article

Romanian company Maximus Labs has released new footage of its Max1 unmanned ground vehicle and now says the tracked machine is deployed in a military theater of operations, although it has not named the armed force using it or where. Chief executive Alexandru Radulescu made the claim in a LinkedIn post accompanying the images, writing […]View the full article

A Russian military satellite has maneuvered to within about 5 km (3 miles) of a commercial radar imaging satellite owned by ICEYE and appears to be holding position there, in what independent tracker Jonathan McDowell said may be the first rendezvous in low Earth orbit between two active satellites without the consent of one of […]View the full article

Ukraine has joined a NATO procurement partnership that lets Ukrainian defense companies bid for contracts issued by the alliance’s main buying agency, the NATO Support and Procurement Agency announced on Oct. 22, 2026. Ukraine is now the seventh member of the agency’s Security Cooperation Support Partnership, alongside Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and […]View the full article

The U.S. Army’s 1st Cavalry Division has started fielding the M2A4E1 Bradley Fighting Vehicle, the first Bradley version fitted with an active protection system designed to destroy incoming anti-tank missiles, rockets and drones before they hit the vehicle. The division said in a social media post that its 6th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, is receiving […]View the full article

Ukraine’s Magura uncrewed surface vessels, the drone boats that have sunk Russian warships in the Black Sea, took part in a U.S. Army exercise in Michigan, where they were used as floating launch pads for aerial drones. The boats appeared during Bayonet Quest 26, which the 7th Infantry Division, part of Multi-Domain Command-Pacific, ran across […]View the full article