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US Army Receives First K9MH Mobile Tactical Cannon to Replace M777
The US Army has taken delivery of its first Mobile Tactical Cannon, Hanwha’s wheeled K9 Mobile Howitzer built to replace the M777. Nine prototypes…
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Armed USVs for the Baltic: WB Group and Kongsberg to Add Air Defense
Poland’s defense ministry confirmed that WB Group and Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace will integrate air defense and strike weapons on armed USVs for the…
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ASELSAN’s KORKUT 25 Gun Targets FPV Drones With 25mm Airburst Rounds
ASELSAN is stepping up promotion of KORKUT 25, a 25mm counter-UAV turret pairing AI-assisted detection with ATOM 25 airburst rounds. Light enough for 4×4…
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TYR Miniaturized Fixed-Wing Loitering Munition Debuts at AUSA 2026 With Four Nammo Warheads
Heaviside Industries unveiled the TYR loitering munition at AUSA 2026 with four interchangeable Nammo warheads and company-rated figures of 60-plus minutes aloft and 40-plus…
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French FREMM Provence Ends Nearly 11-Month Deployment With Red Sea Escorts
The French Navy frigate Provence is back from a nearly 11-month Indian Ocean deployment sustained by two rotating crews. Its final crew escorted merchant…
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Airbus U740 Valkyrie CCA Hits Mach 0.8 in Europe, Taking On Boeing’s Ghost Bat
Airbus and Kratos have flown the U740 Valkyrie in Europe for the first time, with a rocket-assisted launch, speeds up to Mach 0.8 and…
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Spain Leads €8M EDA Push for Autonomous Aerial Refueling of Several Drones
Spain, Germany and Belgium have launched the €8 million second phase of an EDA project to automate hose-and-drogue refueling, aiming to let several drones…
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IAI Unveils POINT@AIR Tactical Aerostat Radar With 150 km AESA Range at AUSA 2026
Israel Aerospace Industries is unveiling POINT@AIR at AUSA 2026, a mobile tactical aerostat radar from the ELM-2083 family that carries an AESA up to…
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Anduril Unveils Modular Steelfin Interceptor That Swaps Boosters to Match Cruise and Hypersonic Threats
Anduril’s Steelfin interceptor family pairs swappable solid rocket boosters with one common terminal stage, meant to span point defense to upper-tier ballistic missile defense.…
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France’s Black Crow 26 Jams Fighters and SAMs in Electronic Warfare Drill
France’s Black Crow 26 exercise ran more than 50 missions, including 180 fighter sorties, inside a deliberately jammed electromagnetic environment, with Belgian and Moroccan…
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US Army Buys Three PERCH Loitering Munition Prototypes for M1A2 Abrams
General Dynamics Land Systems will deliver four PERCH 2.0 prototypes to the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood by October’s end, three of them…
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Russian Geran Drones Gain Optical Navigation That Ukraine Struggles to Jam
Ukrainian intelligence says Russia’s upgraded Geran-4 and new Geran-5 K5 jet drones now carry Susanin, a camera-based terrain-matching system that keeps them on course…
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USS Patrick Gallagher Sails as Navy Ends Flight IIA Destroyer Line
USS Patrick Gallagher (DDG 127), the last Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, has sailed from Bath Iron Works to join the fleet, completing the…
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USS Oregon Docks in Arctic Norway as Russia Modernizes Its Northern Fleet
USS Oregon arrived at Norway’s Grøtsund port near Tromsø on October 6, 2026, the second Virginia-class call there in five weeks, as allied port…
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NATO Innovation Continuum Tests Arctic Surveillance Airship in Canada
NATO’s Allied Command Transformation closed its third Innovation Continuum cycle at SHINE 2026 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, where a Finnish hydrogen airship flew Arctic…
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Ukraine Drone Procurement Hits 5.5x 2025 Pace as FPV Deliveries Surge
Ukraine drone procurement is running at 5.5 times its 2025 pace, the Defense Ministry says, with FPV contracts already 54% above last year’s total…
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China’s New Productive Forces Plan Lets Private Firms Lead Key Tech Tasks
China’s new quality productive forces guidelines set out 19 measures that let capable private firms lead major national technology tasks, fully implement AI Plus…
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Ethiopia’s Mekelle Weapons Cache Holds US, Russian and Chinese Bombs
Ethiopian troops filmed a Mekelle weapons cache of guided bombs, R-73E missiles and apparent Mohajer-6 drone parts, presented as TDF stock. Every item needs…
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UK Startup Unveils Badger Mk1 Strike Missile and Container Launcher
British startup Cody Aerospace & Defence unveiled the Badger Mk1 strike missile, with up to 160 km of range, and a shipping-container launcher, targeting…
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ASELSAN’s 2 kg GÖKALP Interceptor Destroys Target Drone by Direct Hit
ASELSAN’s GÖKALP E1 interceptor destroyed a target drone by direct impact in a live test in Ankara, cued by an AURA radar through DRONEDEF.…