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Germany Eyes Thousands of Anthem Cruise Missiles and Ukraine’s Bars to Fill Deep Strike Gap
Germany is negotiating to buy thousands of low-cost deep strike weapons, led by a €1 billion-plus Anthem deal with US startup Covenant and talks…
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Italy Reportedly Awards Leonardo Rheinmetall Joint Venture €3.7B for First I-MBT Tanks and Lynx KF41 IFVs
Leonardo Rheinmetall Military Vehicles has reportedly won €3.7 billion in Italian Army orders, launching production of the Panther-derived I-MBT tank and adding 30 Lynx…
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Canada F-35 Deliveries Begin With First Two Stealth Fighters as Ottawa Weighs a Smaller Order
The RCAF has accepted its first two CF-35A fighters at Luke Air Force Base, where eight Canadian jets will train pilots before Cold Lake…
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Qatar Revives France’s VBCI 8×8, Signing Letter of Intent for Several Hundred Armored Vehicles
Qatar has signed a letter of intent selecting KNDS France and John Cockerill Defense to modernize its land forces, reviving the VBCI Mk2 8×8…
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Ukraine Confirms Starlink and Starshield Speed Cap Lifted, Restoring Links for Interceptor Drones
Ukraine says Starlink and Starshield service is back at pre-restriction speeds after a two-week velocity cap cut links for interceptor drones and Shahed-hunting helicopter…
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Turkish AKSUNGUR Drone Drops aselBUOY Sonobuoys at TURNAs-2026, Detecting Underwater Targets
Turkish Aerospace’s AKSUNGUR dropped three ASELSAN aselBUOY 100P sonobuoys off Antalya during TURNAs-2026, the first aselBUOY drop from a UAV. Acoustic data relayed to…
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Turkish Roketsan’s ALKA Directed Energy Weapon Hits Drones and a Ground Target in Live Fire
Roketsan’s ALKA Directed Energy Weapon System engaged rotary-wing and fixed-wing drones and a fixed ground target in live-fire trials tied to the Flying Eye…
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USS Pinckney Becomes First U.S. Navy Destroyer to Begin SPY-6(V)4 Radar Backfit to Boost Air and Missile Defense
USS Pinckney (DDG 91) has entered DDG MOD 2.0 phase two at General Dynamics NASSCO, the U.S. Navy’s first availability to replace a Flight…
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UK RAF Typhoons Join French Nuclear Exercise for First Time, Escorting Rafale Strike Jets
RAF Typhoons flew escort for French Rafale B jets on a simulated nuclear strike during Exercise Rummy, the first time British aircraft joined a…
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USS McFaul Returns to Norfolk From 11-Month Epic Fury Deployment Escorting Three Carrier Groups
USS McFaul has returned to Norfolk after an 11-month deployment that included Operation Epic Fury combat missions and Aegis air defense for three carrier…
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Spain Wires Aracne Counter-Drone System Into Air Defense, Linking It to Anti-Aircraft Artillery
Spain linked its Aracne counter-drone system to the national air defense network during the Atlas 26 exercise in Huelva, placing Indra’s sensors and jammers…
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Second Batch of Finnish F-35A Fighters Arrives in Finland, Doubling Home Fleet to Four
Two more Finnish F-35A fighters reached Rovaniemi on October 23, 2026, doubling Finland’s in-country fleet to four. One had waited weeks in the Azores…
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U.S. Air Force Justifies Record $20.7B AMRAAM Contract, Keeping Raytheon Sole Source to 2033
Newly posted notices show the Air Force’s $20.7 billion sole-source AMRAAM contract with Raytheon spans seven production lots and 16 export customers through 2033,…
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Pentagon Maps Autonomous Warfare Command Vision, Pushing Drone Dollars to Frontline Units
Project Agincourt’s leaders have set out how the Pentagon’s four-star Autonomous Warfare Command will work: frontline units as incubators, combat results deciding which drones…
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German Quantum Systems Completes All-Unmanned Forward Edge 26 Exercise Across Air, Land and Sea
Quantum Systems has wrapped up Forward Edge 26, a two-week exercise in central Germany in which unmanned air, ground, maritime and counter-drone systems from…
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US Navy Awards Northrop Grumman $43.9M to Design Trident II D5 Rocket Motor Facilities in Utah
Northrop Grumman will design new dry and grind facilities at the Navy-owned ordnance plant in Magna, Utah, under a $43.9 million contract supporting the…
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US Navy Raises Submarine Safety (SUBSAFE) Contract Ceiling by $98 Million Amid Repair Delays
The US Navy has raised its NUWC Newport SUBSAFE contract ceiling by $98 million, sustaining certified Level 1 submarine hardware work through November 2029…
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US Navy Awards Fluor $2.4 Billion Naval Nuclear Propulsion Deal for Submarine and Carrier Fleet
Naval Sea Systems Command has added $2.41 billion to Fluor Marine Propulsion’s contract for naval nuclear propulsion work at the Naval Nuclear Laboratory, as…
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F-35 Navigation Systems Get $114.6M Lockheed Martin Redesign as GPS and INS Parts Go Obsolete
Naval Air Systems Command has ordered Lockheed Martin to redesign the F-35’s GPS Electronic Unit and NAV100 inertial navigation system as key electronic parts…
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US Air Force CORONA Weighs Counting CCA Drones as Fighters After Fleet Fell 47 Jets Short
At Fall CORONA, Air Force leaders made wartime demand the yardstick for manning, ordered service-wide manpower floors, approved Force Design 2026 and will assess…