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Israeli defense electronics giant Elbit Systems announced on May 26 that it has secured a $1.4 billion contract from an undisclosed European customer to modernize that country’s military across multiple capability domains over the next five years, one of the largest single defense contracts the company has publicly announced. The customer’s identity remains confidential, but […]View the full article

Russia’s state defense conglomerate Rostec unveiled a new short-range air defense system called the ZAK-30 Tsitadel at the First International Security Forum, presenting a 30mm autocannon platform designed to destroy drones using programmable proximity-fuzed shrapnel shells that detonate at a calculated point along the target’s flight path rather than requiring a direct hit. The system, […]View the full article

The U.S. Department of War’s use of artificial intelligence has exploded by 1,775 percent over the past year, jumping from roughly 80,000 users to approximately 1.5 million across a workforce of more than 3 million personnel, the department’s top technology official disclosed at a special operations conference in Tampa, Florida. Emil Michael, undersecretary of war […]View the full article

Chinese state television has aired footage of a new armored troop transport vehicle conducting high-altitude driving exercises on the Tibetan Plateau, offering the clearest public look yet at what appears to be a purpose-built solution to one of the People’s Liberation Army’s most persistent logistical problems: how to move infantry safely across one of the […]View the full article

Building a military boat traditionally requires molds, fiberglass layup, skilled labor, a fixed factory, and weeks of production time. A Hawaii-based startup called Voltage Vessels is working to replace that entire process with a 3D printer, a spool of basalt-reinforced thermoplastic, and a digital file that can be sent anywhere in the Indo-Pacific and printed […]View the full article

New photographs of China’s experimental sea-skimming aircraft known as the “Bohai Sea Monster” have emerged online, and this time they reveal something that earlier images did not: four external weapons pylons mounted under the wings, strongly suggesting the craft is being developed with a combat role in mind, not just as a transport. The new […]View the full article

Britain’s most powerful tank is getting closer to frontline service, with Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land confirming that Challenger 3 development trials are advancing through a series of battlefield mission serials that are testing the upgraded vehicle under conditions representative of real operational use. The tests, confirmed by RBSL, cover cross-country mobility, road running, gunnery equipment […]View the full article

On May 22, the Heavy Vehicles Factory in Avadi, a city outside Chennai in southern India, rolled out the 1,000th T-90 Bhishma main battle tank built on Indian soil, completing a production run that began with Russian blueprints and foreign components two decades ago and ends with a tank that is roughly 80 percent Indian […]View the full article

Stealth technology has always been the exclusive domain of billion-dollar defense programs and classified government laboratories, built into aircraft through years of engineering work and applied through precision manufacturing processes that cost more per square meter than most countries spend on entire weapon systems. A Turkish startup is now claiming it solved the core problem […]View the full article

Ukrainian paratroopers operating Italian-supplied B1 Centauro wheeled tank destroyers say the vehicle shoots straighter than anything they have used before and can reach 105 kilometers per hour on a road, but its armor will not stop a heavy machine gun round from the side and would be shredded by the shaped-charge warheads packed into the […]View the full article

A South Korean submarine completed the longest voyage in the history of South Korea’s submarine force, crossing 14,000 kilometers of open Pacific Ocean to dock at a Canadian naval base, and the timing was not accidental. Canada is weeks away from one of the most consequential military procurement decisions in its modern history, and Seoul […]View the full article

Japan’s Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi flew to Chitose Air Base in Hokkaido on May 23 to watch his pilots rehearse one of the most demanding routine missions in the Japanese military: launching fighter jets on emergency intercept against Russian military aircraft approaching the country’s airspace. After the drill, standing before reporters at the northernmost major […]View the full article

Russia fired a nuclear-capable ballistic missile at the Kyiv region for the first time on the night of May 23-24, 2026, striking an industrial zone near Bila Tserkva, a city of 200,000 people sitting just 80 kilometers south of the Ukrainian capital. The launch was confirmed by Yurii Ihnat, head of communications for the Ukrainian […]View the full article

Operation Epic Fury is officially over, but U.S. Air Force F-16s are still flying combat patrol over one of the world’s most volatile airspaces. Newly released photographs taken May 14 in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility show an F-16 Fighting Falcon carrying a weapons mix that tells the whole story of modern air […]View the full article

The U.S. Army’s 52nd Air Defense Artillery Brigade is testing a low-cost kinetic interceptor called IonStrike in Europe this spring, evaluating whether the system produced by DZYNE Technologies can fill the mid-range gap in American air defenses against the one-way attack drones that have reshaped ground combat since Ukraine. Senior leaders from U.S. Army Europe […]View the full article

The U.S. Space Force has awarded Viasat and Intelsat General Communications a combined $437.7 million contract to build satellites for the Protected Tactical Satellite Communications-Global program, a new constellation designed to keep troops connected even when adversaries are actively trying to jam them out of the sky. The contract, announced May 22, covers the procurement […]View the full article

FN Herstal unveiled a modernized variant of the FN MAG general-purpose machine gun, introducing a Long Rail Conversion Kit that brings integrated day, night, and thermal optic capability to one of the most widely fielded belt-fed weapons in military history. The update, announced from the company’s headquarters in Herstal, Belgium, targets the growing gap between […]View the full article

Dutch Military Vehicles introduced the DMV Tasman as the newest addition to its vehicle family this week, presenting the militarized pickup to a select audience from the Netherlands Ministry of Defence and industry partners after months of preparation. The Tasman, built on a KIA Special Vehicles base platform with a gross vehicle weight of 3,500 […]View the full article

The U.S. Marine Corps awarded Polaris Government and Defense a new contract worth up to $98 million to continue producing its MRZR Alpha Ultra-Light Tactical Vehicle, locking in up to five years of additional deliveries for a platform that has become central to how the Corps moves small units through terrain that heavier vehicles cannot […]View the full article

X-Bow Systems has delivered its 600th rocket-assisted takeoff motor to AEVEX Aerospace under a $12.2 million contract to supply thousands of RATO kits and solid rocket motors for the Disruptor strike drone, giving the U.S. Army’s newest long-range unmanned system the ability to launch from unprepared surfaces and confined spaces without a fixed catapult or […]View the full article