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The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory wants industry to build and fly a combined-cycle rotating detonation rocket engine, a type of propulsion that runs on a continuous chain of explosions, as a step toward cheap, high-speed weapons that could be built in large numbers. The lab’s Rocket Propulsion Division at Edwards Air Force Base, California, […]View the full article

British aircraft maker Skyfly Technologies has raised $10 million to turn its two-seat electric vertical takeoff aircraft into Longbow, a hybrid-electric cargo drone designed to carry 200 kg (440 pounds) more than 640 km (400 miles) and take off from ships, fields or forward bases without a runway. The seed round, announced on Oct. 20, […]View the full article

A U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft flew off Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast near the ports of Varna and Burgas, a week after Russian drone attacks sank a cargo ship and damaged another in the area, flight tracking data shows. Tracking data published by the flight monitoring Itamilradar, using Flightradar24 data, shows the Boeing […]View the full article

A Russian Su-30SM fighter jet crashed during a training flight in the Chernyakhovsk district of Russia’s Kaliningrad region, coming down between the villages of Timofeyevka and Zelyony Bor, and both pilots ejected before impact. The two crew members were injured and taken to a military hospital, and Russian outlets published the first details of the […]View the full article

The U.S. Department of War and Lockheed Martin have agreed on a framework for a 10-year F-35 production and sustainment deal that covers 850 aircraft for the United States, along with spare parts, modification kits and international orders across production Lots 21 through 30. The framework keeps F-35 production at 156 aircraft a year and […]View the full article

L3Harris Technologies says it supplies the power distribution systems and universal modular masts on every Virginia-class submarine in the U.S. Navy fleet, and the company is now carrying that work into the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine program while preparing for the heavier electrical loads expected from directed energy weapons and other new naval systems. The […]View the full article

The U.S. military has used HAARP, the giant research antenna field in Alaska long at the center of conspiracy theories, as the transmitter for an experimental radar that detected aircraft beyond the horizon by bouncing signals off the upper atmosphere. Military personnel, scientists and international partners carried out the live-fly test from Sept. 7 to […]View the full article

For those in the business, one of the most triggering phrases you can read or hear is some pogue out there saying, ‘Well, we have wargamed this, and…’ and then you wait to see if you have a reasonable follow-on, or some cringe-inducing abuse of the military art. Way too many people are abusing war games for the wrong purposes. Everyone wants a national security 8-Ball to tell them the future, and some look to war games to hear what they want to hear. When you see that, it’s a tell. That person/institution does not understand what they are talking about. In the latest Naval War College Review, Charles Edward Gehrke has a simply outstanding article everyone needs to take a …

Ukrainian drone operators playing the enemy in a U.S. Army training exercise in Germany caused about 70% of an American armored brigade’s casualties in the first three days, according to an account by the brigade’s own commander and staff. The figures come from an article in Military Review, the U.S. Army’s professional journal, written by […]View the full article

A tracked ASCOD cargo carrier from General Dynamics European Land Systems has appeared at Spain’s Atlas 26 counter-drone exercise fitted with launch containers for ARMMO’s Bandit-X interceptor drones, turning the armored logistics vehicle into a mobile platform for hunting enemy drones. A screengrab from video shared by Spanish defense watcher ArmaduraXXI shows the ASCOD-based heavy […]View the full article

The Ottawa Police Service’s tactical unit has added a Roshel Senator armored vehicle fitted with a hydraulic assault ramp that can lift officers to second-floor windows and rooftops in seconds, giving Canada’s capital the same Canadian-built armored vehicle that Ukraine has used in large numbers on the battlefield. U.S. manufacturer Patriot3 announced that its LIBERATOR […]View the full article

Red Cat Holdings’ maritime division, Blue Ops, has opened orders for two new uncrewed surface vessels, an 18-foot boat built for reconnaissance and one-way attack missions and a 39-foot vessel already in low-rate production, as part of a new B-Series lineup named after each boat’s length. The company announced the family on Oct. 22, 2026. […]View the full article

British defense technology company Stratonex Defence Technologies is developing a range of unmanned ground vehicles, tactical drones, counter-drone systems and military mobility platforms, with a focus on reducing the exposure of personnel to battlefield threats. The company’s VARAN unmanned ground vehicle is among its central projects. The platform has undergone initial mobility and remote-control testing, […]View the full article

Britain has now received seven Challenger 3 prototype tanks for trials, with an eighth in the final stages of build, as the British Army works to prove the design of its next main battle tank before full production begins, UK Defence Journal reported. Defence minister Luke Pollard gave the figures in a written answer in […]View the full article

Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force has been carrying out live-fire air defense training since July 2026 at ranges in northern Japan and in the United States, where its medium-range missile units are firing alongside Japan Air Self-Defense Force Patriot batteries at McGregor Range in New Mexico. The Ground Self-Defense Force, Japan’s army, said on X that […]View the full article

U.S. Navy engineers in California have tested a prototype camera system designed to spot a sailor falling overboard and alert the ship’s bridge automatically, throwing a 35-pound rescue dummy off the side of a decommissioned destroyer to see whether the cameras would catch it. The test took place on Aug. 14 aboard the Self Defense […]View the full article

The U.S. Army has started flight testing four MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopters that the U.S. Navy was retiring, turning aircraft headed for long-term storage into flying testbeds for Army sensors and saving the Army just over $70 million in procurement costs. The Army’s Redstone Test Center at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, received the four aircraft […]View the full article

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey has pushed back against critics of Warhound, a new Texas startup he conceived with Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lamm that plans to clone and gene-edit working dogs for the U.S. military, law enforcement and emergency responders. Warhound emerged from stealth on Oct. 22, 2026, with a $200 million seed round, which […]View the full article

Czech company KBP International has unveiled GRYF, a long-endurance drone designed to carry interceptor drones and small missiles aloft so it can hunt down hostile unmanned aircraft, presenting the aircraft on Oct. 21, 2026, at the Future Forces Forum in Prague in the presence of Czech President Petr Pavel. GRYF works as a flying weapons […]View the full article

When will fate call you? What will you do? Will you take action on your own, or wait for someone to tell you to act? Remember the first terrorist attack at the shopping mall in Kenya back in 2013? Well, in 2019 there was another, when a member of the British SAS probably saved hundreds because…it was the right thing to do to run towards the gunfire. I give you a man known by his nom de guerre: Christian Craighead, The Attack: On the afternoon of January 15, 2019, five Al-Shabaab militants stormed the DusitD2 hotel and shopping complex using suicide bombings, grenades, and automatic rifles, killing 21 civilians and 1 General Service Unit (GSU) officer. The Man: Stationed…