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UAE defense giant has tested a military drone built on the same airframe hobbyists use to build their own planes in their garage. defence-blog.com/uae-defense-...
UAE defense giant tests drone built from a kit plane
UAE-based defense company has shown off a drone built to watch the sky nonstop, and photos of the aircraft reveal it shares its entire airframe with a hobbyist plane sold to private pilots for decades...
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The U.S. Army wants a dozen more AH-64E Apache attack helicopters. defence-blog.com/u-s-army-pla...
U.S. Army plans to buy a dozen new AH-64E Apache helicopters
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 comp...
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The U.S. Navy has revealed new details about a secretive test: a team vaporized metal high above the Pacific to study plasma energy, using a big rocket. Here's the story: defence-blog.com/u-s-navy-dis...
U.S. Navy discloses new details on plasma test over the Pacific
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,...
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2nd Marine Division became the first U.S. Marine Corps unit to train directly with Perennial Autonomy, testing the Bumblebee, Hornet and Merops AS-3 interceptor at MCAGCC Twentynine Palms. defence-blog.com/u-s-marine-c...
U.S. Marine Corps evaluates family of Perennial Autonomy drones
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...
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The U.S. Army's workhorse Black Hawk has learned a new trick: launching and steering its own armed drones mid-flight. defence-blog.com/black-hawk-g...
Black Hawk gets new job: launching swarms of armed drones
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 ...
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Small drones are hard for radar to catch. Now the U.S. Army is paying a tech company up to $46.8 million to build AI that can spot them before they get close. defence-blog.com/u-s-army-bet...
U.S. Army bets on AI to catch drones radar keeps missing
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 artif...
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Raytheon's DeepFires, a modular autonomous launcher that reconfigures for offense or defense, was demonstrated at PCC6 carrying Tomahawk and Patriot missiles. Developed with Forterra, Oshkosh Defense, Corvid Technologies and Collins Aerospace. defence-blog.com/raytheons-au...
Raytheon’s autonomous launcher passes major U.S. Army field test
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 witho...
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An aerospace startup just gave up a shot at millions in Pentagon prize money. Jetoptera says new safety rules in DARPA's drone contest didn't sit right, so it's testing its aircraft on its own terms instead. defence-blog.com/jetoptera-qu...
Jetoptera quits DARPA’s heavy-lift drone contest before finals
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 aerospa...
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Ukraine says North Korea is sending missile troops and up to 120 ballistic missiles into Russia, aimed at Ukrainian cities. defence-blog.com/north-korea-...
North Korea sending 120 missiles, six launchers to Russia
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...
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U.S. Army Cavalry scouts are learning to fight with a sky full of drones overhead, and it's changing how fast the Army makes decisions. Learn more: defence-blog.com/u-s-army-sco...
U.S. Army scouts learn to fight alongside a sky full of drones
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, accordi...
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Lithuania's UDS upgrades FORECASTER ISTAR platform with integrated RF-based drone detection and SwarmC2 remote mission operation, letting operators fly missions from safer, distant positions. defence-blog.com/lithuanian-s...
Lithuanian scout drone adds early warning against interceptors
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 Eur...
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EXCLUSIVE: Military vehicles are learning to think, not just drive. Two industry leaders explain how tech is changing the battlefield. Q&A with Supacat's Phil Applegarth and Distance Technologies' Urho Konttori Full story: defence-blog.com/tactical-veh...
Tactical vehicles evolve to fight in a hybrid battlespace
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 t...
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EXCLUSIVE: Military vehicles are learning to think, not just drive. Two industry leaders explain how tech is changing the battlefield. Q&A with Supacat's Phil Applegarth and Distance Technologies' Urho Konttori Full story: defence-blog.com/tactical-veh...
Tactical vehicles evolve to fight in a hybrid battlespace
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 t...
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A company known for building bulletproof cars has revealed its first robot, designed to scout, haul cargo, and carry weapons. defence-blog.com/uae-based-ar...
UAE-based armored vehicle maker enters robotics market
A company that has spent nearly two decades building bulletproof pickup trucks for warlords, mining companies, and armies across 60 countries has revealed its new robot, and it wants that robot doing ...
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Cheaper than Patriot, built in Ukraine. Fire Point's CEO opens up about the missile meant to change the math of air defense. Learn more: defence-blog.com/fire-point-c...
Fire Point CEO details FP-9 ballistic missile and Patriot rival program
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 compan...
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A new report warns four British Army battalions could be left without a working armored vehicle by 2027. defence-blog.com/report-warns...
Report warns UK faces armored vehicle gap by 2027
A defense think tank is telling the British government to reverse a decision it already made twice, warning that four of the Army's armored infantry battalions are about to be left without any working...
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Spot a tank, launch a backpack-sized drone, take it out. The U.S. Army is testing four systems built to give soldiers exactly that power. defence-blog.com/u-s-army-beg...
U.S. Army begins testing four rival drones for future soldiers
A U.S. Army initiative wants ordinary infantry soldiers carrying nothing more than a backpack to be able to spot a tank down the road and simply send a drone to destroy it, and that vision just moved ...
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The U.S. Army fired a hypersonic warhead out of a cannon in the Arizona desert, and it worked exactly as planned. defence-blog.com/u-s-army-fir...
U.S. Army fires hypersonic warhead from a cannon
Yuma Proving Ground, the U.S. Army's massive desert test range in southwestern Arizona, successfully supported a full-scale, live-fire hypersonic warhead test using a cannon-based test system, establi...
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A top Pentagon official just spent a week meeting with European allies, laying groundwork for a review that could reshape US troops in Europe defence-blog.com/us-pushes-na...
US pushes NATO allies to take on more of Europe’s defense
The Pentagon's top policy official has spent a week meeting with defense leaders from Germany, Britain, Italy, and Romania, laying the groundwork for a review that could reshape how many American troo...
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A vehicle built to survive an amphibious assault has no defense against a cheap drone. The U.S. Marine Corps is moving to fix that. defence-blog.com/us-marines-m...
US Marines move to arm amphibious vehicles against drones
A U.S. Marine Corps amphibious vehicle that can swim ashore from a warship still can't stop a hobby-store drone from watching it do it, and the Marines just confirmed the fix, and the company they int...
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The U.S. Army wants a new drone that can scout the battlefield, carry weapons, and even deliver blood to wounded soldiers. defence-blog.com/u-s-army-see...
U.S. Army seeks new battalion-level scout drone
The U.S. Army has told drone makers it wants a battlefield scout small enough to fold into a backpack-sized case, tough enough to carry a lethal weapon, and versatile enough to deliver two pints of bl...
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A small Arkansas Guard base is getting a highly secure new facility as it prepares to train F-35 pilots. defence-blog.com/contractor-w...
Contractor wins deal to build classified F-35 facility in Arkansas
A construction company has won a $37.6 million contract to build a facility so secure it needs its own classification category, part of a sprawling effort to turn a small Arkansas Air National Guard b...
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Russia's answer to Starlink now covers Ukraine with steady satellite windows, raising concerns about drone command and control. defence-blog.com/russias-star...
Russia’s Starlink rival gains steady coverage over Ukraine
A Russian satellite network built to rival Starlink has quietly reached a threshold Ukrainian defense officials have been dreading, providing at least two reliable windows of connectivity over Ukraini...
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The US is quietly building a swarm of spy satellites instead of a few big ones. Last week's launch adds another piece. defence-blog.com/spacex-launc...
SpaceX launches classified spy satellite into orbit
A rocket booster that has flown to space and back seven times carried a classified American spy satellite into orbit before dawn last week, the latest and least publicized entry in a launch campaign t...
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A new U.S. Navy destroyer has taken its first public step toward service, named for a medic who shielded a wounded Marine with his own body. defence-blog.com/u-s-navy-chr...
U.S. Navy christens new guided missile destroyer at Maine shipyard
A U.S. Navy warship named for a medic who threw his own body over a wounded Marine to absorb a grenade blast just took its first public step toward joining the fleet, breaking a bottle of sparkling wi...
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Rheinmetall just unveiled a new warship packing destroyer-level missile defense into a smaller, more affordable frigate hull. defence-blog.com/rheinmetall-...
Rheinmetall unveils new frigate packed with destroyer firepower
Rheinmetall has unveiled a warship built to outgun vessels twice its size, betting that a mid-sized frigate packed with the same missile defense technology found on America's largest destroyers can wi...
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A new helmet factory in Poland just shipped over 90,000 ballistic helmets to NATO allies in its first year of full operation. defence-blog.com/galvions-pol...
Galvion’s Polish helmet hub marks major first-year milestone
A helmet factory in northern Poland has spent its first year of operation shipping more than 90,000 ballistic helmets to NATO allies, and the company behind it says that pace confirms a bet made three...
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Maximus Lab says its Max1 UGV is NATO-approved and operational in the US, France, and Poland, with testing underway in 5 more countries. Modular payloads incl. RWS, EW, CASEVAC, firefighting cannons. defence-blog.com/one-robot-th...
One robot, three jobs: firefighter, farmhand, and soldier
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. Max...
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