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Lockheed Martin Turns to Italian Avio Solid Rocket Motors to Power HIMARS Missiles
Lockheed Martin has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Italy’s Avio to source ER GMLRS and PrSM solid rocket motors from Avio USA’s plant…
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Echodyne and ACS Pair EchoShield Radar With Bullfrog Counter-Drone Gun
Echodyne and Allen Control Systems have integrated EchoShield radar with the Bullfrog autonomous weapon station, feeding radar tracks to a standard machine gun for…
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US Army IBCS Expandable Van to Replace Tents in $21M Northrop Grumman Deal
Northrop Grumman will deliver two prototypes of an expandable van that replaces the tent housing the US Army’s IBCS Integrated Collaborative Environment, a $21…
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American Drone Maker PDW Eyes Ukrainian Defense Technology for US Production
Performance Drone Works and Revenant Technologies will screen combat-proven Ukrainian drones, counter-UAS, electronic warfare and sensor systems for U.S. integration and production in Huntsville.…
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L3Harris VAMPIRE Counter-Drone Kits Reach US Army Two Months After $106M Order
The U.S. Army has started receiving L3Harris VAMPIRE counter-drone kits less than two months after a $106 million order. Each palletized system pairs a…
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Europe’s MBDA to Offer Fortem DroneHunter Net Interceptors and Anti-Shahed FireThorn
MBDA will offer Fortem Technologies’ DroneHunter net-capture interceptors within customers’ existing air defense networks and jointly offer FireThorn, a co-developed interceptor armed with an…
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Honeywell Flies Its First Autonomous Aircraft in Six Weeks on Shield AI Hivemind
Honeywell Aerospace flew its first autonomous aircraft six weeks after starting Shield AI Hivemind training, against a 54-week internal estimate. On October 8, two…
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German Army Moves to Buy GARMR Drone Defense System for Panzerbrigade 45 in Lithuania
The Bundeswehr plans to buy Diehl Defence’s GARMR counter-drone vehicle in two steps: a G-Class qualification batch below the €25 million parliamentary threshold, then…
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USS Billings Returns to Naval Station Mayport After 2,500 kg Drug Seizures
USS Billings is back in Mayport after six months in the 4th Fleet area, supporting interdictions that seized more than 2,500 kg of narcotics…
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From Red Sea Combat to Agadir: USS Stout Leaves Morocco on Solo 6th Fleet Deployment
USS Stout (DDG 55) left Agadir, Morocco, on October 13, 2026, after a port visit on its independent US 6th Fleet deployment. The Red…
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U.S. Raytheon LIDS Contract Arms Qatar and Jordan With First Exported Coyote Drone Killers
Raytheon has won $729 million to supply KuRFS radars and Coyote interceptors for the LIDS counter-drone system to the U.S. Army, Qatar and Jordan,…
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Turkish MKE’s 20 kW TOLGA Laser Weapon Destroys Drone at 760 Meters in Live-Fire Test
MKE’s 20 kW fiber laser, the new layer of the TOLGA short-range air defense system, destroyed a drone at 760 meters during Ateş Serbest-2026…
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US Firm Oshkosh Begins DXPV Kaaiman Prototype, a Littoral JLTV for Dutch Marines
Oshkosh Defense has started building the first DXPV Kaaiman prototype for the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps, a JLTV derivative with maritime corrosion protection and…
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Pentagon Says Bath Iron Works Can Build the Destroyer the Navy Didn’t Request
The Department of War says Bath Iron Works now has the capacity and stability to build a second Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in FY2027. The…
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US Navy Moves DRAKE Counter-Drone System From Surface Fleet to Ohio-Class SSGNs
The US Navy is fitting Northrop Grumman’s DRAKE counter-drone system to its Ohio-class guided-missile submarines, including USS Ohio, to jam radio-controlled drones during surfaced…
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US Army Balloon Swarms Flew CENTCOM Missions, Exposing Logistics Limits
The Army’s G-2 redirected its SWARMS balloon demonstration from the Indo-Pacific to the Middle East, where dozens of autonomous balloons supported CENTCOM at once.…
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Taiwan Coast Guard Receives First Shield AI V-BAT VTOL Drones for Shipborne ISR
Taiwan’s Coast Guard Administration has received its first Shield AI V-BAT drones, the opening deliveries of a 12-aircraft Shipborne UAV order won with AIDC,…
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Norwegian Kongsberg to Build Counter-Drone Factory in Poland for 18 SAN Batteries
Kongsberg will build a facility in Poland to manufacture and sustain the counter-drone systems it is supplying under the SAN CUAS program, a NOK…
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US Army Unveils XM1776 Mobile Tactical Cannon and Confirms Order of Nine Prototypes
The US Army and Hanwha Defense USA named the wheeled K9 Mobile Howitzer the XM1776 Mobile Tactical Cannon at AUSA 2026, with nine prototypes…
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Rheinmetall HX CAML Shown at AUSA 2026 After Low-Cost Interceptor Live Fire
American Rheinmetall says its autonomous HX CAML launcher has live-fired a low-cost Furientis interceptor. The pairing is on show at AUSA 2026 as the…