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American Shield AI Rolls Out First X-BAT Prototype of Its Vertical-Takeoff Jet Combat Drone
Shield AI has completed X-BAT 001, the first full-scale prototype of its tail-sitting jet combat drone, and moved it to Kansas for flight tests.…
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France Orders UCUV Underwater Drone Demonstrator Built for Long Missions Without Remote Control
France has ordered a UCUV underwater drone demonstrator from Naval Group, with sea trials set for 2028. Built on a self-funded XL-UUV testbed, it…
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Germany’s STARK Unveils Vanta 24 Autonomous Vessel Built to Carry Anti-Ship Missiles in the Baltic
STARK has unveiled Vanta 24, a roughly 24-meter uncrewed surface vessel built for Baltic Sea conditions. Fitted for anti-ship missiles and a 30 mm…
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UAE’s EDGE Launches First Locally Built BR71 MK II Corvette for the Angolan Navy
EDGE’s Abu Dhabi Ship Building has launched NRA Nimi-ya-Lukeni (F301), Angola’s second BR71 MK II corvette and the first of its class built in…
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France Qualifies Airbus Aliaca VTOL Drone for Navy Ship Patrols in the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean
France’s DGA has qualified the VTOL variant of Airbus Helicopters’ U010 Aliaca drone after land and sea trials. Eight of 34 SMDM systems will…
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Canada’s Falcon Supersonic UAV Picks French Safran Turbojets to Mimic Supersonic Missiles
Safran Power Units will supply twin turbojets for UVAD Technologies’ Falcon, a reusable supersonic aerial target, under a partnership announced at Euronaval 2026. Flight…
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U.S. Army Trains Soldiers on 20 kW AMP-HEL Laser Already Used Against Cartel Drones on the Border
Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division trained on the 20-kilowatt AMP-HEL laser near Fort Hancock, Texas, on November 2. The AeroVironment weapon, mounted on…
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Polish Firms Team Up to Build Ukraine’s Combat-Proven 2S22 Bohdana Howitzer for Export Markets
PK MIL, the Polish-Ukrainian joint venture set up to build Ukraine’s Bohdana howitzer in Poland, has signed an MoU with SZCZĘŚNIAK Pojazdy Specjalne to…
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British BAE Systems Unveils Sea Tridon Naval Gun Family to Protect Ships From Drones and Missiles
BAE Systems unveiled Sea Tridon at Euronaval 2026, leading a four-member family of 40mm naval protection systems that runs from a containerized mount to…
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British Tanker RFA Tideforce Fuels Both UK Carriers and Shadows Russian Units on Arctic Mission
RFA Tideforce spent six weeks under Combined Task Force 320 in the North Atlantic and Arctic, delivering more than 2.9 million litres of fuel…
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US Army Opens Competition for a Production-Ready Tracked Howitzer to Succeed the M109A7 Paladin
The U.S. Army wants a tracked 155mm howitzer it can buy off an existing production line, with six prototype sets in 18 months, U.S.…
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South Korea Launches ROKS Seo Hui Lithium-Battery Submarine Built to Stay Submerged Longer
South Korea has launched ROKS Seo Hui, its second 3,600-ton-class KSS-III Batch-II submarine, at Hanwha Ocean’s Geoje yard. The boat carries 70 domestically developed…
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Japan E-767 AWACS: $16.9M US Deal Keeps Boeing Supporting the World’s Only Four 767 Radar Planes
The U.S. Air Force exercised a $16.9 million option for Boeing to keep supporting Japan’s four E-767 AWACS through November 2027, covering software maintenance,…
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US Navy’s First Flight II Amphibious Ship Harrisburg LPD 30 Clears Builder’s Trials With SPY-6 Radar
HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding has completed builder’s sea trials for Harrisburg (LPD 30), the first Flight II San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, testing propulsion, mission…
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US Air Force Wants 1,000-Plus ERAM Cruise Missiles That Hit Within 10 Meters Under GPS Jamming
The Air Force wants more than 1,000 Extended Range Attack Munition rounds within 15 months: a 500-pound-class cruise missile with 250 nautical miles of…
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American L3Harris Hunterwater Unmanned Surface Vehicle Hunts and Destroys Mines Without Sailors
L3Harris has detailed Hunterwater, a fielded unmanned surface vehicle that searches for, identifies and destroys naval mines on its own, pairing a sonar-equipped ROVSCAN…
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French Naval Group Unveils SCX 26 New Concept Ship Armed With a 100 kW Laser and an Electromagnetic Gun
Naval Group unveiled the SCX 26 at Euronaval 2026, an 8,000-tonne concept ship combining more than 100 missile cells, an electromagnetic gun, a 100…
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USS Gridley Returns After Seven-Month Deployment Escorting Nimitz and Patrolling for Southern Spear
USS Gridley (DDG 101) is back in Everett after a seven-month deployment that began escorting USS Nimitz around South America and ended with counter-narcotics…
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US Clears Jordan to Buy 1,500 APKWS II Laser-Guided Rockets to Strengthen Its Air Defense
Washington has cleared Jordan to buy up to 1,500 APKWS II laser-guided rockets with proximity fuzes, a $100 million air defense package that follows…
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France’s Renault and Belgium’s John Cockerill Unveil Forefront Concept UGV for Military Trials
Renault Group and John Cockerill have unveiled Forefront Concept, an electric, remotely operated ground robot targeting a 400-kilometer range and a one-tonne payload. Developed…