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South Korea has handed its first mass-production contract for a multipurpose military robot to Hanwha Aerospace, and the real story behind that decision has less to do with cutting-edge robotics than with a shrinking pool of young men available to serve in uniform, according to GlobalData, a data and analytics firm that tracks defense industry […]View the full article

Eight robotic vehicles have spent six straight days working around the clock in one of the most punishing deserts on Earth, capping off a month-long deployment, and British soldiers never had to risk their own lives to keep them running. ARX Robotics UK, a defense technology company building autonomous ground vehicles, announced it completed Project […]View the full article

Three Taiwanese-built drones have searched a stretch of contested airspace together, coordinated by artificial intelligence rather than a room full of human pilots, and the demonstration marks the moment Taiwan’s own defense engineers proved they can run that technology without American hand-holding. Shield AI, a California-based defense technology company, and Taiwan’s National Chung-Shan Institute of […]View the full article

A defense contractor’s founder just accused one of the country’s most trusted business newspapers of running a story it knew wasn’t true, and the fight broke out in full public view on social media rather than behind closed doors. Palmer Luckey, the founder of Anduril Industries, a California-based defense technology company known for building autonomous […]View the full article

Show LinksNatalie Winters’s report on the GOFO China Trade Heritage’s report, Theater Missile Defense Inventory: Inadequate for a U.S.–China Conflict SummarySal reflects on the current state of national security, personal relationships, and geopolitical tensions, emphasizing the importance of preparedness, understanding human motivations, and the impact o… Read more View the full article

A very strange and rather short article came out yesterday from Richard Fontaine, the CEO at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). I shouldn’t have to say this, but I will: this isn’t personal, this is professional. I had to double-check the publication date as it just read, well, strange. But no, August 4th, 2026. Its title, Japan isn’t rearming. It’s adapting to a new era. It is something if it were written by someone else, I might ignore…but Richard isn’t just some rando anon pounding away on Substack…so here we go. In the name of all that is holy. I know Richard has been in DC a long time and is well soaked in the Beltway NATSEC miasma…but someone has to put …

UAE-based defense company has shown off a drone built to watch the sky nonstop, and footage of the aircraft reveals it shares its entire airframe with a hobbyist plane sold to private pilots for decades. EDGE Group, the state-owned Emirati defense conglomerate based in Abu Dhabi that builds everything from missiles to unmanned ground vehicles, […]View the full article

The U.S. Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama published a notice on Aug. 4, 2026, announcing its intent to award a sole-source contract, meaning a deal negotiated with only one company rather than opened up to competitive bidding, to Boeing for the production of up to 12 new AH-64E Apache attack helicopters, the […]View the full article

A U.S. Navy rocket team deliberately vaporized metal high above the Pacific Ocean this February, creating a plasma field in the upper atmosphere to study how that energy converts and behaves in space, and Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division has now revealed new details of the previously little-known test in a recent report. […]View the full article

A U.S. Marine Corps division has watched an American-made interceptor drone hunt down and destroy one of its own sister drones in a live demonstration, proving out technology the Corps is about to put in the hands of ordinary infantry units within weeks. The 2nd Marine Division’s Unmanned Systems Center of Excellence completed several days […]View the full article

The U.S. Army has proved its most common helicopter can double as a flying missile truck, launching and steering multiple armed drones from a Black Hawk cockpit during blistering July heat testing in California’s Mojave Desert, according to a report published by Maj. Sam M. Yoo, an assistant product manager for H-60 Development and Modernization, […]View the full article

The drones buzzing over U.S. military bases today are often too small, too cheap, and too fast for existing radar systems to reliably catch, and the Army just placed a multimillion-dollar bet on artificial intelligence closing that gap. The U.S. Army awarded Xtremis Inc., a technology company headquartered in Washington, D.C., a contract to research […]View the full article

A driverless military launcher can now fire a cruise missile at a target hundreds of miles away, then be reconfigured within the same mission to shoot down an incoming enemy missile instead, all without a soldier in the driver’s seat. Raytheon, the missile and defense systems business of aerospace giant RTX, detailed that capability in […]View the full article

An aerospace startup has walked away from millions of dollars in Pentagon prize money days before the biggest test of its technology, and the reason has nothing to do with money. Jetoptera, an aerospace propulsion company based in Edmonds, Washington, announced it is pulling its “Project Pegasus” aircraft out of DARPA’s Lift Challenge, a nationwide […]View the full article

A North Korean missile unit has begun moving into western Russia and could eventually field 120 ballistic missiles and six launchers aimed at Ukraine, Reuters reported, citing an official at Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence, the country’s military spy agency also known as GUR. Andrii Cherniak, a spokesman for the agency, told Reuters that Russia […]View the full article

Two cavalry scouts sat inside a brand-new armored vehicle atop a hill at Fort Hood, Texas, watching a sky full of drones do reconnaissance work that used to take an hour and now takes minutes, according to a report by Gina Cavallaro, Senior Staff Writer for the Association of the U.S. Army, published July 31, […]View the full article

A Lithuanian drone maker has given its battle-tested reconnaissance aircraft a built-in early warning system against the exact threat that has been shooting down surveillance drones across Eastern Europe’s front lines, and the company says every unit rolling off its production line already has the upgrade installed. Unmanned Defense Systems, a Vilnius-based defense technology company […]View the full article

The modern battlefield no longer belongs solely to armor thickness and engine power. Drones circle overhead, electronic warfare degrades communications, and sensor networks feed commanders more data than any single operator can process in real time. Against that backdrop, two companies from opposite ends of the defense technology spectrum are betting that the next leap […]View the full article

A company that has spent nearly two decades building bulletproof pickup cars for warlords, mining companies, and armies across 60 countries has revealed its new robot, and it wants that robot doing everything from scouting minefields to hauling ammunition without a soldier ever climbing inside. United Arab Emirates-based TAG Dynamics, an armored vehicle manufacturer established […]View the full article

Ukraine’s homemade ballistic missile is close enough to its first flight that its own maker won’t say when, in an exclusive interview with The War Zone, Fire Point CEO Iryna Terekh revealed the company is now casting the engine for its FP-9 ballistic missile, a weapon designed to reach Moscow, and expects a test launch […]View the full article