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GM Defense Unveils Silverado UGV With 8,000-lb Payload for Army Resupply at AUSA 2026
GM Defense unveiled a UGV built on the Chevrolet Silverado 3500 HD at AUSA 2026, rated for an 8,000-pound payload and aimed at the…
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BAE Systems Pairs MDACS Cannon With Microwave Weapon Against Drones at AUSA 2026
BAE Systems presented two counter-drone layers at AUSA 2026: the MDACS 155mm cannon firing guided Hypervelocity Projectiles, with an Army prototype battery due in…
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Barrett to Build Northrop Grumman’s 25mm Precision Grenadier System
Barrett Firearms will build the weapon for Northrop Grumman’s 25mm Precision Grenadier System in Tennessee under a teaming agreement announced October 12, 2026, as…
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Booz Allen to Put a Hivemind AI Co-Pilot on PDW Attack Drones in 2027
Performance Drone Works will offer Booz Allen’s Hivemind-powered mission autonomy on its AM attritable drone from Q1 2027, alongside secure fleet-wide over-the-air updates built…
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KAI FA-50 Bid to Replace Morocco’s Alpha Jets Gains Local MRO Partners
Korea Aerospace Industries signed an MoU with Maintenance Aero Maroc and SABCA Maroc at the Marrakech Air Show, tying a potential T-50 family offer…
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US Army Manufacturing Rodeo Will Push Industrial Base Until It Breaks
Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle announced a Manufacturing Rodeo at AUSA 2026: a production race among industrial partners in early 2027, built to strain…
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Poland Eyes F110 Engine MRO for Shield AI’s X-BAT Before First Flight
GE Aerospace, Shield AI and Polish state-owned WZL-2 will study an in-country MRO line for the F110 engine and AVEN thrust-vectoring nozzle behind X-BAT,…
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US Army BiNOD Night Vision: L3Harris NOVA Heads to Full-Rate Production
The U.S. Army has ordered $55 million in L3Harris NOVA night vision goggles under BiNOD, and the company says it will go straight to…
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One Year After AUSA 2025, Sikorsky U-Hawk Has Yet to Fly: Where the Program Stands
Sikorsky’s cockpit-less U-Hawk is still in fly-by-wire and autonomy integration, with first flight now planned for late 2026. No contract has been announced, and…
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Lockheed’s HIMARS FLEX Doubles Loadout and Lines Up PAC-3 Edge Interceptors
Lockheed Martin’s dual-pod HIMARS FLEX doubles the M142 loadout to 12 guided rockets or four Precision Strike Missiles and is slated to launch PAC-3…
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U.S. Navy Taps Raytheon to Extend SPY-6 Radar Detection Range via Software
The Office of Naval Research has contracted Raytheon to develop signal-processing algorithms and software-first upgrades designed to extend SPY-6 radar detection range and sensitivity.…
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KAI AAP Drone Flies With FA-50 in South Korea’s First Manned-Unmanned Teaming Flight
Korea Aerospace Industries has flown its 150-kilogram AAP jet drone alongside an FA-50 in what it calls South Korea’s first manned-unmanned teaming flight, a…
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Textron Unveils CoreMotion Kit to Turn Crewed Ground Vehicles Into Robotic Platforms
Textron Systems unveiled CoreMotion at AUSA 2026, packaging the robotic control layer of its RIPSAW UGVs as an autonomy-agnostic kit for new uncrewed vehicles…
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L3Harris Wins $250M GMLRS Rocket Motor Contract at Record Quantity
Lockheed Martin has placed a $250 million follow-on order with L3Harris for standard-range GMLRS rocket motors, the highest quantity in program history, to be…
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U.S. State Arizona to Field Eight Gray Eagle 25M Drones, a National Guard First
Arizona will be the first state to field the Gray Eagle 25M in the Army National Guard, with eight aircraft due in September 2027.…
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Raytheon Test-Fires Coyote Block 2C+RM With Rocket Motor for Faster Drone Intercepts
Raytheon’s company-funded Coyote Block 2C+RM upgrade has completed three developmental tests, including the first launches of a Coyote with a tactical rocket motor. A…
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Ukrainian Minehunters Destroy Practice Mines, Drill With HMS Dauntless
Five Portsmouth-based Ukrainian minehunters wrapped up the final phase of Exercise Lion Protector with gunnery, live Seafox mine disposal firings and formation drills alongside…
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Sikorsky Unveils Nomad 100 Fast Pack Container to Deploy Four VTOL Drones Off-Runway
Sikorsky’s Nomad 100 fast pack puts four VTOL drones, mission command, communications and power in one 20-foot ISO container for runway-independent operations. The aircraft…
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AeroVironment Says Halo_Shield C-UAS Handled More Drones at T-REX 26-3
AeroVironment is pitching Halo_Shield as a distributed OODA loop architecture for counter-drone defense. AV’s Mary Clum says the C-UAS handled heavier threat loads at…
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HMS Queen Elizabeth Leaves Belfast After First Carrier Visit Since 1965
HMS Queen Elizabeth has left Belfast after the first Royal Navy carrier visit to the city since 1965. NATO’s command ship until mid-2027, she…