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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

Israeli underwater defense company DSIT Solutions unveiled a layered Underwater Domain Awareness concept at CNE 2026, introducing for the first time its BlueShield counter-UUV sonar alongside an integrated architecture designed to give naval commanders a continuous, AI-supported picture of everything moving beneath the surface from diver-range distances to the approaches of major ports and straits. […]View the full article

Russia launched one of the largest drone attacks of the war against Ukraine on May 13, 2026, sending hundreds of Shahed-type drones in multiple waves across central and western Ukraine throughout the day, targeting railway infrastructure, residential areas, port facilities, and energy installations across 14 regions simultaneously. Ukrainian drone monitoring service Monitor recorded 168 drone […]View the full article

The U.S. Army has selected Teledyne FLIR Defense’s Rogue 1 loitering munition for its Low Altitude Stalking and Strike Ordnance (LASSO ) program, giving Infantry Brigade Combat Teams a man-portable precision strike weapon capable of destroying tanks and armored vehicles at ranges exceeding 12 miles without requiring a vehicle, launcher, or external support infrastructure. The […]View the full article

MatrixSpace is providing airspace awareness sensors to Operation Flytrap 5.0, a major U.S. Army-led counter-drone exercise running May 1 through 15 in Lithuania, after the company’s technology won the xTechCounter Strike competition at the preceding Flytrap 4.5 exercise in November 2025. The company’s participation comes with a competitive pedigree that distinguishes it from other exhibitors […]View the full article

German electronic warfare technology company Aaronia AG will make its first public presentation of the AARTOS DF2 direction-finding solution at AOC Europe in Helsinki from May 19 to 21, 2026. The AOC Europe conference, organized by the Association of Old Crows and described as the leading European electronic warfare symposium, brings together decision-makers from armed […]View the full article

RENK America has developed a drive-by-wire transmission upgrade that enables autonomous vehicle operation on the U.S. Army’s Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle, working with BAE Systems and Forterra to deliver a plug-and-play autonomy kit that requires no vehicle redesign and fits within the existing transmission space claim. The system centers on RENK America’s HMPT transmission drive-by-wire kit, […]View the full article

British aerospace company Rotron has successfully fired its SkyLance long-range one-way effector, validating the propulsion and system performance of a loitering munition platform that its new American parent company Ondas Inc. is positioning as a sovereign UK strike capability for NATO’s eastern flank and allied export markets. The firing milestone, announced by Rotron Aerospace, follows […]View the full article

Austria scrambled Eurofighter jets twice in two consecutive days after U.S. military aircraft entered Austrian airspace without proper clearance, the Austrian Ministry of Defence confirmed. Austrian Ministry of Defence spokesperson Michael Bauer confirmed both incidents publicly, posting on X that the first interception involved a Priority A alert and the deployment of two Eurofighters after […]View the full article

BZ to the folks who decided not to release it the Friday before Mother’s Day Weekend. Yesterday, Acting SECNAV Cao released the U.S. Navy’s Shipbuilding Plan. Let’s dive in, but first, the usual caveats we’ve used over the last couple of decades when reviewing such items. Ignore the out years. They are notoriously inaccurate in both numbers and type. Focus on what you see four years from the year it is issued. The next four years, meh. Beyond that…don’t bet your lunch money on it. There’s a LOT here to dive into. You need to read it all. I’m just going to hit the bright, shiny objects. I would argue that one of the more valuable things, if you are trying to get your min…