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California-based DZYNE Technologies has developed Blitz, a Group 1 expendable unmanned aircraft system designed for mass deployment and swarm operations, announcing the system on May 14, 2026 ahead of its public display at SOF Week 2026 in Tampa. The Blitz fits within an 80-liter rucksack, can be assembled and mission-ready in under two minutes, and […]View the full article

A multi-company team has successfully tested a mobile counter-drone and anti-armor system mounted on a light utility vehicle, combining an Echodyne radar, a Dillon Aero M134 minigun, APKWS guided rockets, and Aeon’s Zeus missile in a single modular platform. The system is built on Moog’s Flexible Mission Platform, a modular weapons integration architecture that the […]View the full article

Red Cat Holdings has partnered with satellite communications company Kymeta to integrate multi-orbit connectivity into its Blue Ops Variant 7 uncrewed surface vessel, announcing the collaboration on May 14, 2026. Kymeta, a flat-panel satellite terminal manufacturer that has shipped more than 9,000 units across deployments in more than 80 countries and territories, joins Red Cat’s […]View the full article

Britain has signed a nearly £1 billion, approximately $1.33 billion, contract for 72 RCH 155 remote-controlled howitzers, the Ministry of Defence announced May 13, 2026. The contract was awarded by the Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation, known as OCCAR, on behalf of the British Army to ARTEC GmbH, a joint venture between KNDS and Rheinmetall. […]View the full article

Ukrainian defense company Fire Point has joined an anti-ballistic missile coalition and unveiled a pan-European ballistic missile defense project called Freya, presenting a system architecture built around a domestically developed interceptor missile and designed to integrate with NATO-standard protocols and existing Western and Ukrainian air defense infrastructure. “Despite attempts to interfere and many distracting factors, […]View the full article

Murderers’ Row. Ulithi anchorage, December 8th, 1944. Just three years after the attack on Pearl Harbor. One of the most iconic pictures of WWII. The carriers are (from front to back): USS Wasp (CV-18), USS Yorktown (CV-10), USS Hornet (CV-12), USS Hancock (CV-19) and USS Ticonderoga (CV-14). The oldest of those ships, Yorktown, was only 19 months old. The youngest, Hancock, was commissioned only a little under eight months earlier. All were laid down and took from a bit under three to a bit under four years to build. Just a year prior, the US Navy was so short of aircraft carriers, it had to borrow a carrier from the Royal Navy. At first glance, it appears to be a flex o…

Romanian manufacturer IRUM has unveiled the IRON-690, a modular autonomous ground drone designed for defensive support operations, at the Black Sea Defense and Aerospace exhibition in Bucharest. The prototype was presented at BSDA on May 13, 2026, according to IRUM’s press release. The IRON-690 is not a conventional vehicle but an adaptable autonomous platform configurable […]View the full article

The U.S. Department of War has signed framework agreements with five defense companies to produce more than 10,000 low-cost cruise missiles and 12,000 hypersonic missiles over the next several years, in the most aggressive American missile mass-production commitment in decades. The announcements, made through official Department of War and company channels, establish two parallel programs. […]View the full article

Edge Group, the Emirati state-owned defense conglomerate, has released footage of a test of its SHADOW 25 jet-powered loitering munition, a canister-launched one-way attack system. Edge Group published the test footage alongside a statement describing the system’s rapid deployment capability. “Canister-launched SHADOW 25 moves from standby to airborne in seconds, reducing the logistics footprint and […]View the full article

Ukrainian drone interceptor manufacturer Wild Hornets announced Thursday that its STING interceptor drone downed more than 300 targets in a single day and overnight period, with three units responsible for over 200 of those kills and one crew alone accounting for 120 intercepts. The announcement came directly from Wild Hornets’ official account on X, posted […]View the full article

The U.S. Army’s 11th Airborne Division at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska is training soldiers to detect, evade, and counter small drones using commercial off-the-shelf aircraft loaded with tennis balls to simulate explosive drops. Donovan Fredericksen, a training developer and integrator with U.S. Army Pacific’s G3 Home Station Training Team supporting the 11th Airborne Division, […]View the full article

A Ukrainian software company has developed an AI-powered drone detection system that runs entirely offline on standard consumer hardware, detects targets as small as four pixels at distances up to 2.5 kilometers depending on optics, and automatically alerts military units through messengers with photographs and coordinates within milliseconds of identifying a threat. The system, called […]View the full article

L3Harris Technologies has developed software that turns existing tactical radios into AI-enabled counter-drone sensors, announcing Wraith Shield as a capability that allows soldiers to detect, classify, and disrupt small unmanned aerial systems using communications equipment they already carry, without adding new hardware to an already heavy infantry load. The announcement, published May 13, 2026, describes […]View the full article

Chinese-made FN-16 man-portable air defense systems have appeared in service with soldiers of the air defense battalion of Ukraine’s 160th Mechanized Brigade, photographs published by the brigade’s press service confirm. The brigade’s press service published the imagery alongside a statement describing the unit’s around-the-clock mission. “Fighters of the anti-aircraft missile battalion keep the sky under […]View the full article

Ethan Gossrow over at Naval News did a detailed look at the carrier portion of the 30-year shipbuilding plan that gives some texture for those who, like myself, are concerned about the slow approach to bringing new carriers online. Even though today is no different from any other day over the last half decade, there are those who will continue to try to explain why the USN’s CVNs are “obsolete” and not worth the investment. However, reality continues to get in their way, as he quotes from the Plan: “Underpinning Expanded Maritime Maneuver (EMM) the CVN serves as a persistent, survivable, mobile sea base that enables the Navy to dominate contested environments and deliver …

Reveal Technology says its Identifi mobile biometric system has been formally adopted as a Program of Record by U.S. Special Operations Command, placing the company’s handheld identity tool inside SOCOM’s official tactical biometrics portfolio as initial fielding begins. The veteran-founded defense technology company announced the adoption on May 13, saying Identifi is designed to let […]View the full article

Australian Skyborne Technologies has received a U.S. Department of War Limited Safety Release for its CODiAQ armed quadruped robot, clearing the system to proceed into Operational Test and Evaluation and combat assessments with U.S. Special Operations Command units and a partnered foreign ally. The safety release, granted through a competitively awarded research, development, test, and […]View the full article

The U.S. Army has evaluated CX2’s Wraith, an autonomous airborne electronic warfare drone capable of geolocating and identifying radio frequency threats without GPS, during Exercise Ivy Mass at Fort Carson, Colorado, with an EW platoon from the 4th Infantry Division executing nearly a dozen autonomous missions over two weeks of operational testing. Apache Company’s Electronic […]View the full article

A French startup has completed ground avionics testing of an unusual fixed-wing aircraft with a pneumatic wing structure, targeting long-endurance cargo logistics missions with a design that trades speed for dramatically reduced energy consumption per kilogram transported. “Celeste isn’t a blimp, it’s a fixed-wing aircraft,” the company stated. “Lift is aerodynamic, not buoyancy. What’s pneumatic […]View the full article

The U.S. Navy has awarded a San Diego defense contractor a contract to deliver command, control, communications, and cybersecurity capabilities to Taiwan, with the work conducted both on the island and in the continental United States under the framework of U.S. government international agreements with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office. Naval Information Warfare […]View the full article