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US AeroVironment Seeks JUMP 20 Sustainment in Spain to Keep European Fleets Flying
AeroVironment and Madrid-based Alpha Unmanned Systems will explore local fielding, training, and maintenance for the JUMP 20 VTOL drone in Spain, and evaluate fitting…
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US Army Readies Gray Eagle Replacement Race for a Drone That Needs No Runway
The US Army is preparing an RFP for its Group 4+ S/VTOL drone, the planned Gray Eagle replacement. Leaders frame it as an architecture…
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Israeli IAI’s FIRE STORM 250 Drone Fires SIG SAUER M250 Machine Gun From a Hover
IAI and SIG SAUER have live-fired an M250 machine gun from the hovering FIRE STORM 250 quadcopter, which carries 200 rounds for up to…
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AeroVironment Mayhem 10 Launched Effect to Fuse Satellite, Cellular and Radio Against Jamming
AeroVironment is integrating Elsight’s Halo module into the Mayhem 10 launched effect, bonding satellite, cellular, and radio links into one layer as AV courts…
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Polish FlyEye Drone Glides Silently to Spot Russian Artillery, Now Built in Ukraine
Ukrainian crews in the Donbas fly Poland’s FlyEye reconnaissance drone to locate Russian positions and adjust artillery fire, able to glide with the motor…
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Why 389 Foreign Defense Firms Want Ukraine’s Captured Russian Weapons Data
Kinzhal debris, a T-90M tank, and North Korean KN-23 fragments give missile defense, anti-armor, and electronic warfare developers ground truth on Russian hardware. 389…
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Poland Submarine Lease: Sweden Lends Warsaw a Submarine Until 2032 to Bridge the A26 Gap
Sweden’s navy will train Polish crews and sustain HMS Södermanland, the Stirling AIP submarine leased to Poland until 2032, bridging the gap between Poland’s…
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Poland Scrambles Military Aircraft and Halts Airports as Russian Drones Hit Western Ukraine
Poland scrambled military aircraft and put air defenses on alert as Russian drones struck western Ukraine, halting Lublin and Rzeszów flights. Jet-powered Geran drones…
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US Navy’s Seahawk Unmanned Surface Vessel Is First to Deploy With a Carrier Strike Group
The Leidos-built Seahawk unmanned surface vessel deployed on October 8 with the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, the first US carrier group to sail…
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Romanian F-16s Shoot Down Two Jet-Powered Geran Drones Within Minutes Over the Black Sea
Two Romanian F-16s from the 86th Air Base Borcea shot down two jet-powered Geran-family drones over territorial waters off Sulina on October 17, capping…
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British Army’s Challenger 3 Trials Pass 2,000 km and 200+ Gun Rounds Before Tougher Phase
Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land’s Challenger 3 test fleet has driven 2,000 km and fired more than 200 main gun rounds. A tougher trials phase…
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Taiwan Orders AI Satellite Imagery System to Spot PLA Ships and Launchers in Minutes
Taiwan’s Communication Development Office has awarded ThinkTron a NT$46.555 million contract for an AI system that detects PLA ships, aircraft, missile launchers and radar…
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US Army Bolsters Its Arctic Division With New Logistics and Electronic Warfare Units
The 11th Airborne Division activated its own sustainment brigade at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on Oct. 16, 2026, and reactivated an intelligence and electronic warfare…
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Russian Tu-22M3 Bombers Fly 4 Hours Over Baltic Sea After Kaliningrad Nuclear Warning
Russian Tu-22M3 bombers flew more than four hours over the Baltic Sea on October 16, escorted by Su-35S and Su-30SM fighters, 16 days after…
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South Korea’s Hanwha Unveils Containerized KVLS-II Destroyer Launcher for Unmanned Ships
Hanwha used AUSA 2026 to show the CVLS-II, a 40-foot container holding two KVLS-II cells, the launcher built for South Korea’s newest Aegis destroyers,…
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Slovak Zuzana 2 Howitzer on Combat Duty With Ukraine’s Khartiia, Outranging Russian Msta-S
Ukraine’s 13th Khartiia Brigade has put a Slovak-built Zuzana 2 155mm howitzer on combat duty. Its autoloader, 40 ready rounds and 41 km reach…
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UK Sends HMS Prince of Wales and F-35s Back to the Arctic for NATO’s Operation Firecrest
HMS Prince of Wales is sailing for the Arctic and North Atlantic again under NATO command, escorted by HMS Dauntless and carrying F-35s, Merlin…
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Italian Eurofighters Train Slow Mover Interception With Lithuanian Helicopters
Italian Eurofighter Typhoons at Šiauliai trained with Lithuanian helicopters on October 12 and 13 to intercept slow-moving aircraft, a demanding task for fast jets,…
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Ukraine Hits Russia’s TOS-3 Drakon Thermobaric Launcher 12 km Behind the Lyman Front
Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps says Kraken 1654 drone operators hit a Russian TOS-3 Drakon about 12 kilometers behind the line of contact near Lyman,…
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US Army Trains Soldiers on LUCAS Kamikaze Drones to Strike Warships and Iskander Launchers
Army commanders used AUSA to explain how LUCAS kamikaze drones will be employed. The 7th Infantry Division trains soldiers to launch them and models…