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Russia’s Amur Shipbuilding Plant has launched the multipurpose corvette Grozny, the fifth Project 20380 warship it has built for the Russian Navy’s Pacific Fleet, the fleet’s press service said. The ceremony took place on Oct. 23 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, in Russia’s Far East, more than five years after the ship was laid down on Aug. 23, […]View the full article

Hypersonic missile startup Castelion has received a contract modification from the Air Force Research Laboratory to begin integrating its Blackbeard hypersonic weapon onto the F-16 fighter jet, the company announced on Oct. 26, bringing the missile one step closer to the U.S. Air Force after earlier work for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army. Castelion […]View the full article

A photo of what is said to be a brand-new Il-78 aerial refueling tanker, freshly painted dark gray, has appeared online, and a marking on its tail that resembles part of the Chinese air force insignia has revived speculation that Russia is building the tankers for China. The image was shared on the Sino Defence […]View the full article

Britain’s Royal Navy could be left with just one frigate available for operations at any given time next year, as two more of its five remaining Type 23 frigates are expected to be declared unseaworthy within months, leaving three ships in service in 2027 with one at sea, one in training and one in maintenance, […]View the full article

French underwater drone maker SEABER has launched RAVEN, a compact autonomous underwater vehicle for hunting naval mines and surveying the seabed that weighs 13 kg (29 pounds) and can be launched by a single operator, and the company says it will offer performance comparable to high-end conventional mine-hunting drones at about one-third of their price, […]View the full article

A computer simulation run by South Korean and U.S. forces during this summer’s Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise ended with North Korean troops breaking through allied defensive lines and advancing to the outskirts of Seoul, South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper said, a result that has deepened a dispute over when Seoul should take wartime command of […]View the full article

Fighters from a local armed group in Myanmar have destroyed several Chinese-made ZSL-92 infantry fighting vehicles belonging to the Myanmar Army using first-person-view (FPV) drones, open-source analyst Jesus Roman reported on Oct. 24, attributing the strikes to Monywa Scout, a resistance group named after Monywa, the main city of Myanmar’s Sagaing Region in the country’s […]View the full article

Chinese Type 08 infantry fighting vehicles fitted with anti-drone roof cages and side grilles carried assault troops during Karakoram 2026, the first joint army training between China and Pakistan, now under way in Korla in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported on Oct. 21. The exercise has moved into its main drill […]View the full article

South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) has barred LIG Defense & Aerospace, the maker of the Cheongung air defense missile formerly known as LIG Nex1, from bidding on government contracts for two years after prosecutors accused the company of paying a DAPA official hundreds of millions of won in bribes during weapons development tenders, […]View the full article

Israel’s Elbit Systems has won contracts worth about $200 million from an unnamed country in the Asia-Pacific region to supply helicopter targeting sensors, cockpit head-up displays and support for airborne combat training systems, the company announced on Oct. 26. The work will be carried out over up to five years. Elbit did not identify the […]View the full article

Japan Ground Self-Defense Force troops deployed the new Type 25 surface-to-ship missile system to the Ōnohara training area in Nagasaki Prefecture and rehearsed anti-ship strikes using targeting information from U.S. forces and higher headquarters during Keen Sword 27, Japan’s largest joint field exercise with the United States, the GSDF’s Western Army said. The Western Army […]View the full article

BLADE, the Ohio-based defense contractor formerly known as HDT Global, has won a contract to continue developing the large version of the Critical Equipment Decontamination System, a transportable system that cleans chemical and biological warfare agents off sensitive equipment used by U.S. special operations forces so the gear can be put back into service instead […]View the full article

In 1QFY2026, there cannot be anyone in Europe or North America—much less anyone in a NATO nation—who still thinks that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is a good-faith business partner unless they are compromised or thick as a brick. Let’s speak as adults. Yes, there is a large percentage of mercantilists on both sides of the Atlantic who will happily sell the rope used to hang them. There are equally significant numbers of people who refuse to accept any of the lessons of history and are as happy to sell off their national industrial capital to the PRC and buy all their hydrocarbons from Russia. They neither care nor are curious to know why others do care. All they …

X-Bow Systems will build the solid rocket booster that launches CoAspire’s ground-based cruise missile under the U.S. Navy’s CHAOS program, an effort to give allied nations a low-cost weapon for striking ships and land targets. The Albuquerque, New Mexico, company said Tuesday that CoAspire, the prime contractor, selected it to develop and produce the ground-launched […]View the full article

German defense AI company Helsing on Oct. 26 unveiled Contra, an autonomous, AI-controlled air defense system designed to protect countries against large-scale drone and missile attacks, along with two new interceptor missiles, the jet-powered AD-1 Inferno and the rocket-powered AD-2 Ambush, the company announced. Helsing said Contra fuses data from sensors and weapons into a […]View the full article

NATO commanders spent 10 days in October rehearsing how they would fight a war against an enemy army of one million soldiers, running the alliance’s Avenger Triad 26 computer-assisted exercise from a command center in Wiesbaden, Germany, where about 150 officers from several countries tracked a simulated attack on alliance territory around the clock on […]View the full article

The U.S. Army has picked Amazon Web Services and World Wide Technology to help build an autonomous cyber defense system that can find and stop network threats with little human involvement, choosing the two companies on Oct. 23, 2026, for a Project Griffin pilot worth a combined $2.6 million. The U.S. Army said it wants […]View the full article

Posts on X lamenting the state of Japan’s Kawasaki P-1 maritime patrol fleet have drawn more than 100,000 views, as Japanese aviation enthusiasts urged the public to spread the word about the hardships facing Maritime Self-Defense Force units after reports that some newly delivered P-1s are arriving without their patrol equipment and are being stripped […]View the full article

The U.S. Air Force has put the Paladin, a heavy counter-drone multirotor built by California-based Zone 5 Technologies, through training with Joint Interagency Task Force 401 at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida on Oct. 8, with the drone carrying a Gen12 counter-drone launcher that fires net rounds to entangle and bring down hostile drones, […]View the full article

The Netherlands will buy more CV90 infantry fighting vehicles, additional bridge-laying tanks, a replacement for its unreliable Kodiak combat engineer vehicle, and new tracked support and heavy recovery vehicles from Germany’s FFG, Dutch State Secretary for Defense Derk Boswijk told parliament in a letter on Oct. 26, the Dutch Ministry of Defense said. The ministry […]View the full article