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Americas Northrop Grumman won a $16.5 million firm-fixed-price delivery order for the KC-135 Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures (LAIRCM) Generation 3 Pods. This effort supports the production of the LAIRCM pod for the KC-135 aircraft. Work will be performed in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, and is expected to be completed by March 23, 2026. The US Army […]View the full article

Turkey’s leading defense electronics company, ASELSAN, reported robust financial performance for the first half of 2025, driven by sustained demand across core military sectors and rising export activity. According to the company’s financial report released this week, ASELSAN generated 53.7 billion Turkish Lira ($1.3 billion) in revenue during the first six months of the year—an […] The post Turkish defense giant lands $2.8B in defense deals first appeared on Defence Blog.View the full article

More than 100 M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicles are heading to Poland as the U.S. Army ramps up its latest rotational deployment in support of European allies. The 1st Cavalry Division is providing troops from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team’s 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment for the mission, while logistics units across Europe have prepared the […] The post U.S. Army strengthens NATO frontier with Bradleys first appeared on Defence Blog.View the full article

A Kremlin-linked media outlet has published rare footage reportedly showing a Russian air-defense drone intercepting and destroying a Ukrainian long-range loitering one-way attack drone, best known as a kamikaze drone. The interception highlights a new layer in Russia’s evolving counter-drone strategy amid continued long-range strikes by Ukraine. The video shows the downing of two different Ukrainian drones: one […] The post Russian drones shoot down Ukrainian “kamikazes” first appeared on Defence Blog.View the full article

Azerbaijan publicly displayed a Chinese long-range air-defense system for the first time during a military parade rehearsal in Baku, the defence outlet Militarnyi reported. Video from the rehearsal shows a characteristic FD-2000B launcher mounted on a four-axle transporter, matching export variants of the HQ-9B family, the report said. The appearance of the FD-2000B, an export […]View the full article

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has awarded contracts to more than 1,000 companies as part of the initial phase of the Golden Dome initiative, a major U.S. missile defense program intended to provide layered protection against ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats. According to a Department of War announcement, this first set of awards under […]View the full article

France said the military operation that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro violates international law, as Paris reiterated opposition to the use of force and warned of broader consequences for global security. In a statement posted Saturday, French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot said Maduro had “confiscated power from […]View the full article

A Florida-based advanced air mobility company, AIR, on Monday announced the public debut of the DrN-600, a sub-600 kg maximum takeoff weight uncrewed electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, developed in partnership with ST Engineering, marking a new step toward regulated electric cargo operations in Europe and Asia. The announcement was made through a company […]View the full article

Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. David Deptula criticized U.S. policy on military assistance to Ukraine during a Substack Live podcast hosted by military historian Phillips P. O’Brien, arguing that Washington delayed providing key combat capabilities early in the war because American leaders were deterred by Russian rhetoric. Deptula said “one of the biggest mistakes […]View the full article

Ukrainian drone manufacturer General Chereshnya and U.S.-based Wilcox Industries have announced the creation of a joint venture to produce FPV drones and interceptor drones in the United States, according to Militarnyi. The partnership centers on establishing localized drone production on U.S. soil, with an initial focus on the American defense market and Pentagon orders, while […]View the full article

The U.S. Navy has formally requested approximately $3.009 billion to procure 785 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles in its Fiscal Year 2027 President’s Budget, as sustained combat operations against Iran continue to drain one of the military’s most critical long-range strike assets. The request represents one of the starkest single-year escalations in cruise missile procurement the […]View the full article

Poland has taken operational control of its own radar satellite reconnaissance constellation less than twelve months after signing the contract to build it, a delivery timeline that ICEYE, the Finnish-American company that built the system, describes as the fastest deployment of an operational satellite program in the world. The handover of the POLSARIS system, which […]View the full article

The U.S. Army has awarded a $2.3 billion contract to keep its largest joint ammunition storage depot running for the next two decades, a commitment that reflects just how central Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada has become to the military’s ability to store, maintain, and destroy the munitions that underpin American and allied combat power. […]View the full article

A Ukrainian robotics company released video footage of its heavy unmanned ground vehicle crossing a plowed field at speed, visual proof that a machine built to haul two tons of ammunition, food, or wounded soldiers can actually handle the kind of broken, rough terrain that would stop a human-driven truck cold. Ukrainian developer VATAG posted […]View the full article

A Romanian robotics company says it has built a single platform that can fight wildfires, work construction sites, and operate as a counter-drone defense system, all from the same modular chassis. Maximus Labs Romania, alongside its manufacturing arm Maximus Lab, describes the Max1 as a modular unmanned ground vehicle capable of switching between operational roles […]View the full article

American Rheinmetall has won a $710,000 subcontract from Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace to produce machined components for the MCT-30 turret used on the U.S. Marine Corps’ ACV-30, the amphibious combat vehicle variant equipped with a medium-caliber gun. The work will be performed at American Rheinmetall’s Lapeer and Lansing, Michigan facilities, with deliveries scheduled throughout 2026 […]View the full article

Japan’s Ministry of Defense will start building at least 65 new ammunition depots for the Self-Defense Forces from fiscal 2027, using a single standardized design to get them into service faster, the Nikkei business daily reported Sept. 20. The push to store more ammunition follows lessons Tokyo has drawn from Russia’s war in Ukraine, where […]View the full article

Canadian defense contractor Calian Group has won a five-year contract worth about CA$47 million ($33.2 million) to keep writing the scenarios behind NATO’s major command exercises at the alliance’s Joint Warfare Centre in Stavanger, Norway. The Ottawa-based company said it won the contract after a competitive procurement and will continue an existing role as a […]View the full article

Americas General Dynamics Bath Iron Works won a $23.9 million contract modification to exercise options for the accomplishment of planning yard efforts such as engineering, technical, planning, ship configuration, data and logistics efforts for DDG-1000 class destroyers post-delivery and in-service life-cycle support. The Zumwalt Class is the largest and most technologically advanced surface combatant in the world. Zumwalt is the lead ship of a class of next-generation multi-mission destroyers designed to strengthen naval power from the sea. Work will take place in Maine and California. Estimated completion will be by December 2021. The US Army and Clemson University ann…

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