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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

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

Auterion, the drone software company best known for the autonomy systems inside thousands of Ukrainian strike drones, has shown its Talon interceptor on a test range with Germany’s armed forces, the Bundeswehr, saying the system is built to take on both single drones and swarms. Footage released by the company this week shows several German […]View the full article

Finnish drone electronics maker Arctic RAVN has secured €2.5 million (about $2.8 million) in convertible loan commitments in five days, passing its €2 million (about $2.2 million) target before it has officially launched a single product, and it plans to use the money to scale up production of the circuit boards that power and steer […]View the full article

Spanish drone maker ARMMO Defense Technologies and General Dynamics European Land Systems’ Spanish unit, Santa Bárbara Sistemas, launched and flew ARMMO’s Bandit-X interceptor drone from an ASCOD Heavy Mission Carrier tracked armored vehicle during the ATLAS 26 counter-drone exercise in Huelva, Spain, turning the heavy vehicle into a mobile launcher for drones that hunt down […]View the full article

Two satellites from Russia’s Rassvet broadband constellation, the country’s answer to SpaceX’s Starlink, are expected to fall back into the atmosphere and burn up within the next day or two after failing to raise their orbits, Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysicist and satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell said, while most of the other Rassvet-3 satellites have now settled into […]View the full article

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has bought one of the largest metal 3D printers on the market, an AMCM M 8K additive manufacturing system, for its new hypersonic payload facility in Odon, Indiana, where the company prepares the experimental test vehicles it flies for the Pentagon’s MACH-TB hypersonic test program. Germany’s EOS, whose AMCM unit […]View the full article

KNDS Deutschland is promoting its Boxer RCT30 wheeled infantry fighting vehicle as a weapon against drones, saying the 8×8 combat vehicle, which Germany and the Netherlands are buying in large numbers under the name Schakal, combines mobility, protection and firepower in a design suited to countering the latest airborne threats. In a post this week, […]View the full article

Israeli company SMARTSHOOTER has fitted its SMASH computerized fire control sight to a Benelli shotgun, taking a system best known for helping soldiers shoot down small drones with rifles and putting it on a weapon that fires spreads of pellets at close range. The company announced the integration this week, saying it shows the flexibility […]View the full article

Aeon Industrial, a Texas company that already makes low-cost drone fuzes in volume, has unveiled the Armory, a planned 140,000-square-foot (13,000-square-meter) factory for missile systems, interceptors, high-voltage fuzes, seekers and other critical components, saying it wants to add production capacity where the U.S. munitions supply chain depends on too few suppliers. The company said the […]View the full article

Italy’s 13th military aid package for Ukraine, which is expected to include Aster 30 air defense missiles, is ready but frozen, and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government appears to be waiting for the outcome of the U.S. midterm elections on Nov. 3 before moving it forward, La Repubblica reported Tuesday. If the delay continues, Rome […]View the full article

Lockheed Martin plans to open a dedicated maintenance facility in Poland for Patriot PAC-3 interceptors, the company announced Tuesday. The PAC-3 Missile Maintenance Facility is being set up in coordination with the U.S. government and will serve NATO allies that operate the interceptors. The site will repair and recertify the missiles. According to the company, […]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