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South Korea’s KF-21 Boramae fighter jet has received final combat suitability approval from the Ministry of National Defense, clearing the indigenous aircraft for operational deployment after more than a decade of development and over 1,600 test flights covering roughly 13,000 flight test conditions. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration announced Thursday that the KF-21 Block-I, the […]View the full article

Türkiye has signed a definitive procurement contract for its KAAN fifth-generation fighter jet, committing to the delivery of 20 aircraft to the Türkiye Air Force between 2028 and the end of 2030. The contract covers 20 KAAN aircraft in the Block-10 configuration, with the first delivery planned for 2028 and the full batch scheduled for […]View the full article

San Diego drone startup Firestorm Labs has secured a $30 million contract under the Pentagon’s Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies program to deploy its 3D-printed Tempest Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and the containerized microfactories that produce them into the Indo-Pacific, the company announced in an exclusive release to Tectonic. The APFIT award, […]View the full article

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded a $9 million contract to Ohio-based ARCTOS Technology Solutions to develop next-generation aerothermoelastic structures technologies for high-speed airbreathing vehicles, a research program that addresses one of the most demanding unsolved engineering problems in hypersonic flight. The contract, awarded competitively after two offers were received, runs through June […]View the full article

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has awarded Lockheed Martin a $407 million contract modification to continue engineering and development work on the Aegis Guam System, pushing the total value of the underlying Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Weapon Systems contract past $1.9 billion. The modification covers work running through December 2029. Lockheed Martin’s Moorestown, New Jersey […]View the full article

Poland’s twelfth F-35 has completed ground and flight testing and is ready for delivery, Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz announced on X, adding that production of the next four aircraft is nearing completion at Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth, Texas factory. The announcement, posted directly by Kosiniak-Kamysz on his official […]View the full article

Redwire has delivered more than 200 Penguin uncrewed aerial systems to the Ukrainian Armed Forces since 2022, the company announced in its latest social media post. The disclosure, posted by Redwire on its official social media account, marks one of the more concrete public tallies of a Western UAS platform’s operational footprint in Ukraine. More […]View the full article

Satellite imagery published by the open-source intelligence community Exilenova+ has confirmed a successful Ukrainian strike on the research and production branch of the NTC Radar scientific center in Rostov, struck overnight between May 7 and 8. According to Exilenova+, the main building was completely destroyed, while a second structure partially burned out. Two additional drone […]View the full article

Rostec has dispatched a new batch of T-90M, T-80BVM, and T-72B3M tanks to Russian forces, the state defense conglomerate announced on Sunday. The shipment, described by Rostec as incorporating lessons learned from combat experience and direct feedback from frontline troops, represents the latest in a continuous production flow that Uralvagonzavod has maintained throughout the war […]View the full article

Russia commissioned its eighth Project 22800 Karakurt-class missile corvette into the Baltic Fleet on May 8, 2026, in a ceremony at Baltiysk — one day after Ukraine struck a vessel of the same class at a naval base on the Caspian Sea some 2,000 kilometers away. The new ship, named Burya with hull number 257, […]View the full article

Russia claims it has doubled combat aircraft production since the start of the war in Ukraine, defense heavyweight Rostec chief Sergei Chemezov told President Vladimir Putin at a meeting, according to the Kremlin’s official website. Chemezov made the claim directly to President Vladimir Putin at a formal meeting, according to the Kremlin’s official website. The doubling […]View the full article

Turkish defense company STM has unveiled ALPAGU-B, a larger fixed-wing loitering munition with a 40-kilometer line-of-sight range and artificial intelligence-powered target tracking, making its global debut at SAHA 2026. STM, formally known as STM Savunma Teknolojileri Mühendislik ve Ticaret A.Ş., describes ALPAGU-B as the newest member of its fixed-wing loitering munition family and a direct […]View the full article

Turkey unveiled its first domestically built mini-submarine at SAHA Expo 2026, a milestone that Istanbul Technical University-based defense company Datum Submarine Technologies announced after completing the vessel’s first dive tests off the coast of Karamürsel on April 14, 2026. The Multi-Purpose Mini Submarine, developed with support from Turkey’s Presidency of Defense Industries, completed assembly at […]View the full article

The U.S. government threw open its classified UFO files on Friday, releasing never-before-seen documents, videos, and photos through a new interagency program and making them freely accessible to any American with an internet connection — no security clearance required. The Department of War announced the initial release as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting […]View the full article

The U.S. Army is sending high-altitude balloons over northern Europe this month, launching a Micro High-Altitude Balloon training exercise from Sweden that will conclude with recovery operations in Latvia after roughly 24 to 30 hours of flight. Soldiers assigned to Multi-Domain Command Europe are conducting the event in early May 2026 in coordination with NATO […]View the full article

Thing about Lou is that just a few years before, he was just another dude trying to figure it all out. Instead, he became something even a fiction writer would have trouble making up; 1 of only 3 US Aces to claim kills agains all 3 Axis powers, (3 main powers: Germany, Japan & Italy). The ONLY one to shoot down a USAAF plane as well, and definitely the only one to shoot down his girl friend He was a POW for awhile to boot. There are a lot of stories out there about Lou, but this one from AcesOfWWII catches it about right; Lt. Curdes was circling low over one of his P-51 pilots who was bobbing in his dinghy just off Jap field Batan Island. Another pilot whose plane ha…

Huntington Ingalls Industries has secured nearly $37 million to keep its Lionfish underwater drone rolling off the production line, with the U.S. Navy exercising a contract option that locks in delivery through May 2027. The Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington awarded the $36,9 million modification to HII’s Unmanned Systems division on the existing contract […]View the full article

Slovenia’s Valhalla Turrets unveiled the MANGART 25 AD short-range air defense turret in its most operationally significant configuration yet, presenting the system integrated on a Patria 8×8 wheeled armored vehicle during a ceremony marking the Slovenian Armed Forces Air Defence Regiment’s 35th anniversary. The company announced the milestone on Friday, describing it as the first […]View the full article

Pakistan publicly unveiled the Fatah-3 supersonic cruise missile, a road-mobile precision strike weapon that pushes the country’s Fatah missile family into a new performance tier and positions Islamabad with a direct regional counter to India’s BrahMos, according to reporting by Clash Report. The Fatah-3 has been identified as a localized derivative of China’s HD-1 missile […]View the full article

Yuma Test Center has installed and fired a Proof Gun System for the first time, giving the U.S. Army a dedicated artillery testing platform that can swap gun tubes in and out without ever needing a complete howitzer on the range. The Proof Gun System was developed by the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command […]View the full article