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Americas Lockheed Martin won a $2 billion modification for Phased Array Tracking Radar Intercept on Target (PATRIOT) Advanced Capability-3 missile production. Work will be performed in Grand Prairie, Texas, with an estimated completion date of December 31, 2029. The PATRIOT Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) is a missile defense system developed by the United States, designed to […]View the full article

Americas Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday backed a suggestion by US counterpart Donald Trump for Russia, the United States, and China to all cut their defense budgets in half. “I think it’s a good idea. The US would cut by 50 percent and we would cut by 50 percent and then China would join if it wanted,” Putin said in a televised interview. Russia has massively ramped up military spending since launching its offensive in Ukraine in 2022, boosting economic growth but also inflation. GE Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney have passed the detailed design review of their offerings for the US Air Force’s Next-Generation Adaptive Propulsion (NGAP) program. The detailed …

South Korea’s military is under investigation over allegations that armed Apache helicopters conducted provocative flight operations near the Northern Limit Line (NLL) last year, accompanied by false radio transmissions suggesting imminent strikes on North Korean territory. The operations, reportedly ordered by higher command, are now part of a broader probe into whether Seoul sought to […] The post Seoul accused of using Apache helicopters to provoke North Korea first appeared on Defence Blog.View the full article

The U.S. Army has taken delivery of its first mobile laser weapon systems designed to counter unmanned aerial threats, according to a release issued September 3 by AeroVironment, Inc. The company confirmed the handoff of two prototype Laser Weapon Systems (LWS) under the Army’s Multi-Purpose High Energy Laser (AMP-HEL) program, a directed energy initiative managed […] The post U.S. Army gets first laser-armed squad vehicles first appeared on Defence Blog.View the full article

Ukraine launched a coordinated series of deep strikes overnight, damaging a Russian Buyan-M missile corvette operating in Lake Onega and targeting key elements of Moscow’s military infrastructure across several regions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said on October 4. The Buyan-M — a small missile ship capable of launching Kalibr cruise […] The post Ukrainian strike hits missile corvette deep inside Russia first appeared on Defence Blog.View the full article

Indonesia’s defense minister said the country has not finalized any agreement to buy Chinese J-10 fighter jets, tempering earlier expectations that Jakarta was close to a deal. “Not finished — we are window shopping,” Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin told Bloomberg News on the sidelines of a regional security conference in Kuala Lumpur when asked Friday […]View the full article

Frankly, this should have started in earnest years ago, but I have a theory. We’ll get to that in a moment, but here’s the summary of developments since we all fell into a turkey coma. Ukrainian naval drones hit two oil tankers from Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” as they travelled through the Black Sea, Ukrainian officials have said. Footage verified by the BBC shows waterborne drones speeding through the waves into the vessels, before detonating into a ball of flame, sending black smoke into the air. The targeted tankers were named by Turkish authorities as the Kairos and Virat, both flagged to the Gambia. Both were hit off the Turkish coast on Friday, with the Virat …

The United States has awarded Boeing a ceiling $8.58 billion contract to design, produce, and deliver new F-15IA fighter aircraft for the Israeli Air Force, according to a newly issued contract award notice released on December 29. The hybrid contract covers the design, integration, instrumentation, testing, production, and delivery of 25 new F-15IA aircraft, with […]View the full article

An Israeli drone manufacturer has secured a new foothold in Central Asia after Aero-Sentinel confirmed an exclusive distribution agreement in Kazakhstan, expanding its access to one of the region’s most established security and defense markets. The announcement was made on Sunday by Ofir Avram, chief marketing officer at Aero-Sentinel, who said the company had finalized […]View the full article

The Ukrainian Air Force has begun using French-supplied Mirage 2000 fighter jets to conduct airstrikes against Russian ground targets, according to reporting by Ukrainian defense outlet Militarnyi and footage released by the aviation-linked “Sonyashnyk” community showing precision-guided bomb employment on the battlefield. According to Militarnyi, video published by the Sonyashnyk community shows a Mirage 2000 […]View the full article

Iranian military officials have issued warnings to the United States over a potential ground operation targeting Kharg Island, as new footage circulating on social media shows preparations on the island, including deployment of FPV drones and construction of defensive positions. The statements and imagery emerged amid reports of possible U.S. force positioning in the region. […]View the full article

Shield AI announced on April 20, 2026, that the U.S. Navy has selected the company to provide contractor-owned, contractor-operated intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance services in support of naval and joint force operations. Under the arrangement, Shield AI will compete for up to $800 million in task orders alongside other selected industry partners, delivering persistent ISR […]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

A Russian Shahed attack drone struck a building at Ukraine’s centralized spent nuclear fuel storage facility before dawn on Sunday, June 7, 2026, approximately 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) from the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in what Ukrainian officials described as the latest act in a systematic campaign of nuclear terrorism. The strike hit the container […]View the full article

A spinning umbrella built to save armored vehicles from a kamikaze drone sounds like something out of a cartoon, but Russia’s military has patented exactly that. The Combined Arms Order of Zhukov Academy, one of the Russian Armed Forces’ premier officer training institutions, has designed and patented a rotating cartridge launcher meant to protect vehicles […]View the full article

Strategic bombing campaign theory has only been with us for a century. People are still arguing everything from the utility of B-17s over Germany, B-29s over Japan, or B-52s over Vietnam, but the theory has always held promise for those who are trying to find a way to achieve from the air what would otherwise be outsourced to a long bloody slog paved with the bodies of young men in the mud. Books are filled with the results—hundreds of thousands of civilians burned alive, starved, or crushed under rubble to take out one railroad junction moving soldiers and supplies, a ballbearing factory seen as the key to war production, mining the approaches to a port bringing in food,…

The U.S. Army just bought a small fleet of drones from a company most people have never heard of, and interestingly, only one company even bothered to bid for the job. The Army awarded Integrate DG LLC a contract worth up to $27.8 million to supply its Alphawing drone system, along with support gear and […]View the full article

Russia has delivered a new batch of Su-57 stealth fighters to its air force, and the jets come in what the manufacturer calls a “new technical configuration,” with upgraded onboard systems and an expanded set of weapons options. Rostec, the state conglomerate that owns manufacturer United Aircraft Corporation, announced the delivery but did not say […]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

F-16F “Desert Falcon” (click to view full) The most advanced F-16s in the world aren’t American. That distinction belongs to the UAE, whose F-16 E/F Block 60s are a half-generation ahead of the F-16 C/D Block 50/52+ aircraft that form the backbone of the US Air Force, and of many other fleets around the world. The Block 60 has been described as a lower-budget alternative to the F-35A Joint Strike Fighter, and there’s a solid argument to be made that their performance figures and broad sensor array will even keep them ahead of pending F-16 modernizations in countries like Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore. The UAE invested in the “Desert Falcon’s” development, and the …