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Leonardo Selects Shield’s Hivemind to Expand Proteus Autonomy for Royal Navy Sub-Hunting Missions
Leonardo will use Shield’s Hivemind SDK to build its own mission autonomy for Proteus, the uncrewed helicopter demonstrator it is developing with the Royal…
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US Navy’s USS Washington Undocks on Schedule at Portsmouth Amid Submarine Maintenance Delays
USS Washington (SSN 787) undocked on schedule at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on October 27, 2026. The second Block III Virginia-class submarine through the Maine…
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UAE’s EDGE Group Test-Fires Its First Homegrown 155mm Extended-Range Artillery Ammunition
EDGE Group’s LAHAB has test-fired its first UAE-designed 155mm Extended Range Full Bore round from a 52-caliber barrel, with all rounds landing in the…
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US Navy Awards $23.1M for Zero Trust Shipboard Power So Warships Can Fight Through Cyberattacks
The Office of Naval Research has awarded Integer Technologies $23.1 million under TRIDENT to develop zero trust frameworks for shipboard power systems, securing low-latency…
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Lockheed Martin Wins $43.7M to Upgrade F-35 Reprogramming Labs That Build the Jet’s Threat Library
NAVAIR has awarded Lockheed Martin a $43.7 million no-bid modification to upgrade operating systems in the F-35 reprogramming labs at Eglin Air Force Base,…
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Kuwait Air Force Pays $11.1M to Keep Boeing Instructors Training Its F/A-18 Pilots Through 2027
The US Navy has awarded Boeing an $11.1 million no-bid modification, funded by Kuwait, to keep F/A-18 instructor pilots and ground-training specialists with the…
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Shield AI Signs MoU to Explore Hivemind Autonomy on Qatar’s Barzan Unmanned Surface Vessels
Shield AI signed an MoU at Milipol Qatar 2026 with RBAT, Barzan Holdings’ joint venture with Rheinmetall, to explore integrating Hivemind autonomy into Qatari-designed…
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US Shipbuilder HII Dedicates First ROMULUS 151 USV Hull of 10 Drone Ships Ordered by the US Navy
HII dedicated the first ROMULUS 151 unmanned surface vessel hull in New Iberia, Louisiana, as it builds 10 vessels for the Navy’s 30-ship MUSV…
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Royal Navy Nuclear Submarines: Three of Four Vanguard-Class Trident Boats at Sea in Rare Deployment
Three of the Royal Navy’s four Vanguard-class ballistic missile submarines are at sea together while HMS Victorious stays in deep maintenance, a pattern pointing…
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Greece Unveils Achilles Shield Air Defenses and US Stryker Armored Vehicles at Thessaloniki Parade
Greece’s October 28 parade in Thessaloniki gave the first public look at its €3 billion Achilles Shield network, with David’s Sling, BARAK MX and…
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Dutch High Eye Airboxer Unmanned Helicopter Flies 4.5 Hours Carrying Maritime Surveillance Gear
High Eye’s Airboxer unmanned helicopter flew 4 hours 30 minutes carrying an EO/IR sensor, flotation gear and extended-range tanks, a test aimed at giving…
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German Quantum Systems Arms Its Long-Range Reliant Drone With 82mm Mortar Rounds and 40mm Grenades
Quantum Systems has shown its Reliant long-range VTOL drone carrying 82 mm mortar rounds and 40 mm grenades, a hardpoint variant built for U.S.…
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Ethiopia Receives First Russian Su-35 Fighter Jets Ahead of Four S-400 Air Defense Batteries
Ethiopia has received its first two Russian Su-35 fighters, a year ahead of schedule, from a 12-jet order, with four S-400 batteries to follow…
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US Military-Backed Electra Lands Ultra Short Aircraft at Manhattan Heliport With No Runway Required
Electra took off and landed its hybrid-electric Ultra Short aircraft at a Manhattan heliport, a first for a non-VTOL fixed-wing aircraft according to the…
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Canada’s Bombardier and UK’s BAE Systems Sign Combat Aircraft MOU as Ottawa Eyes GCAP Fighter
Bombardier and BAE Systems have signed a non-binding MOU to explore next-generation combat aircraft work in Canada, from mission-system design to sustainment. It follows…
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Finland Orders €84.5M in German RGW110 Anti-Tank Weapons Built to Defeat Reactive Armor
Finland will replace its 1980s-era APILAS with Dynamit Nobel Defence’s RGW110, a disposable 110 mm anti-tank weapon built to defeat tanks fitted with explosive…
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US MQ-9B Airborne Early Warning Drone Tracks Fighter Jets and Ships in Saab LoyalEye Radar Tests
An uncrewed MQ-9B carrying Saab’s LoyalEye radar tracked fighter jets, airliners and ships simultaneously over Southern California, GA-ASI said. The Royal Navy’s Carrier Strike…
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USS San Antonio Returns to NYC for Veterans Day After Venezuela Quake Relief and Drug Interdiction
USS San Antonio (LPD 17) arrives in Manhattan on November 9 for Veterans Day events, weeks after two back-to-back deployments that took the amphibious…
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Raytheon Beats Its Own SM-6 Production Goal in 90-Day Sprint as US Navy Missile Demand Climbs
Raytheon ran a 90-day, Navy-backed SM-6 production sprint at its Huntsville integration site and beat its highest target by one round, a stress test…
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Russia Test-Fires Bulava Missile Across the Country From Borei-A Nuclear Submarine in Sea of Okhotsk
Russia’s Pacific Fleet fired a Bulava missile from the submerged Borei-A submarine Generalissimo Suvorov in the Sea of Okhotsk, sending it across the country…