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American Rheinmetall and electric vehicle startup Harbinger announced a partnership on May 27 to develop and field a family of robotic and uncrewed ground vehicles for the U.S. Department of War, pairing a combat vehicle integration specialist with a commercially derived hybrid-electric chassis designed from the ground up for autonomous operation. The teaming, announced from […]View the full article

A Texas-based startup has reached a milestone in its effort to fundamentally change how the United States manufactures rocket fuel, completing end-to-end propellant operations for two manufacturing systems at its facility in partnership with the Air Force Research Laboratory, X-Bow Systems announced. The milestone covers both the company’s Rocket Factory in a Box, a containerized […]View the full article

Elbit Systems has folded another autonomy company into its defense portfolio, acquiring Israel’s Blue White Robotics through its FUSE unit in a deal aimed at turning ordinary off-road vehicles into self-driving military and security machines. The Haifa-based defense company said FUSE completed the purchase of 100% of Bluewhite’s shares, adding an Israeli developer best known […]View the full article

North Korea tested three different weapons systems on May 26 under the personal supervision of leader Kim Jong Un, including a lightweight multipurpose missile launcher that analysts have compared to the American HIMARS rocket artillery system, a new 240mm guided rocket with expanded range, and a tactical cruise missile that Pyongyang claims can hit any […]View the full article

One of America’s most battle-tested rocket artillery systems just got a new round of engineering investment, with the U.S. Army awarding Lockheed Martin a $14 million contract modification to sustain and improve the Multiple Launch Rocket System across all its production variants. The award, issued by Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, brings the […]View the full article

Canadian armored vehicle manufacturer Roshel will debut three new military platforms at CANSEC 2026 in Ottawa, leading with a modular light utility vehicle that can convert from a standard unprotected configuration to a STANAG Level 2 armored vehicle in approximately two hours, offering NATO-aligned militaries a way to maintain battlefield-ready protected transport without sustaining large […]View the full article

Every cruise missile, every fighter jet, every missile defense interceptor, and every military helicopter flying today depends on a class of magnets so powerful and so small that the weapons systems built around them would be unrecognizable without them. For most of the past two decades, almost all of those magnets came from China. Two […]View the full article

Every time an F-35 lands, its brakes absorb an enormous amount of heat. The world’s most advanced stealth fighter weighs more than 29,000 pounds fully loaded, lands at speeds exceeding 150 miles per hour, and stops using a braking system that has to dissipate that kinetic energy within the length of a runway. When the […]View the full article

The Javelin Joint Venture delivered the first Lightweight Command Launch Units to the U.S. Army, putting a next-generation launcher into soldiers’ hands that offers twice the target detection and recognition range of the unit it replaces while cutting weight by 25 percent and size by 30 percent. The delivery, announced from Tucson, Arizona where Raytheon […]View the full article

Thales completed the first successful test firings of its new X-Fire multiple rocket launcher, confirming that France is moving at serious pace toward a sovereign long-range strike capability that does not depend on foreign ammunition for its core operational function. The system, developed jointly with French vehicle manufacturer Soframe and mounted on an agile 8×8 […]View the full article

Beretta Defense Technologies will unveil a new remote-controlled weapon station for counter-drone operations at Eurosatory 2026 in Paris next month, bringing to the exhibition a platform that mounts eight Benelli Drone Guardian shotgun systems on a single automated turret capable of tracking and engaging drone targets without requiring an operator to physically aim the weapon. […]View the full article

Three American defense companies have been selected to compete in the Phase II qualifier of the Pentagon’s Drone Dominance Program in June 2026 at Camp Grayling, Michigan, putting them in contention for a share of a program that aims to deliver more than 300,000 drones to U.S. forces by 2027 under a total budget of […]View the full article

Teledyne FLIR Defense announced a major upgrade to its Rogue 1 loitering munition at SOF Week in Tampa, doubling the system’s operating range to more than 12 miles and adding an anti-armor warhead that uses shaped charge jet technology to defeat more heavily protected targets than the original platform could engage. The Rogue 1 Block […]View the full article

Teledyne FLIR Defense unveiled a new throwable reconnaissance robot at SOF Week in Tampa that shares a common controller with the company’s Black Hornet 4 nano-drone, allowing a single soldier to operate both a ground robot and an aerial drone without switching equipment or relearning workflows. The FirstLook 125, announced at the special operations conference […]View the full article

So, half a decade after we started the program to design our next oiler, all we have is this circa-1998 MS Paint graphic. We have what we have. Let’s look at where it started. The TAOL program (referred to in some documents as the NGLS or Next-Generation Medium Logistics Ship program) was initiated in the Navy’s FY2021 budget submission. The program envisages building a new class of CLF ships (or a family of CLF ship designs) that would be smaller and individually less expensive to procure than the Navy’s current CLF ships. Figure 1 shows a sketch of a Navy notional TAOL design concept. The Navy states that the TAOL is planned to be, “a new class of ships to augment the …

The Netherlands sent more than 60 Toyota Hilux pickup trucks to Ukraine, dispatching them by rail for use by Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Force Command, the branch of the Ukrainian military that operates the country’s drone forces and has become one of the most consequential fighting formations in the war against Russia. The Dutch Ministry of […]View the full article

A French startup’s experimental cargo drone lifted off the ground for the first time in Le Havre, confirming that a pressurized textile wing, an inflatable structure replacing the conventional rigid skin and internal ribs of a standard aircraft, generates enough aerodynamic lift to fly a real aircraft in real weather conditions. Celeste Ecoflyers announced the […]View the full article

An Israeli satellite company announced on May 26 that its RUNNER satellite can now detect and track moving objects from orbit around the clock, including at night, a capability the company describes as the first of its kind in persistent space-based surveillance. ImageSat International said the new capability uses onboard artificial intelligence to autonomously detect, […]View the full article

More than a thousand patients in war-torn Ukraine completed nearly nine thousand sessions of mixed reality therapy across 47 organizations over six months, a new study released May 26 shows, providing the most detailed real-world evidence yet that immersive headset-based mental health tools can function at scale inside an active conflict zone’s care infrastructure. The […]View the full article

Elbit Systems crossed a milestone it has never reached before, reporting a record order backlog exceeding $30 billion for the first time in the Israeli defense company’s history, as first-quarter 2026 revenues hit $2.19 billion and the company announced a separate $1.4 billion European modernization contract on the same day. The results, published May 26 […]View the full article