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Sweden puts Gripens back into NATO's IAMD over Poland from October, covering the Ukraine logistics hub in the southeast. defence-blog.com/swedish-grip...

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Swedish Gripens to protect Ukraine aid hub in Poland

Sweden will send JAS 39 Gripen fighter jets back into NATO's air defense mission over Poland from October, where they will help protect the hub in the country's southeast that funnels military and civ...

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The U.S. Air Force wants its newest F-15, the F-15EX, to warn pilots when a missile is fired at them. It's asking companies for systems that are already flying on other jets and can be bolted into six spots built into the aircraft. defence-blog.com/u-s-air-forc...

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U.S. Air Force plans missile warning upgrade for F-15EX

The U.S. Air Force is looking for a system that warns F-15EX Eagle II crews when a missile has been fired at them, and it wants one that is already proven on other military aircraft so it can be fitte...

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Ukrainian firm M-Fly makes the stabilized cameras that let drones spot targets at up to 350 km/h. It just raised a new funding round to expand production, with buyers in Ukraine and NATO countries. defence-blog.com/ukraines-m-f...

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Ukraine’s M-Fly raises cash as NATO buyers show interest

M-Fly, a Kyiv-based company that builds stabilized cameras and laser guidance systems for military drones, has raised a new funding round led by MITS Capital to expand production as orders from Ukrain...

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A British company building a spacecraft to grab dead satellites out of orbit passed an independent cybersecurity audit. It's also working on a UK military program to service satellites in space. defence-blog.com/british-firm...

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British firm set to clear space junk passes security audit

Astroscale UK, the British arm of the Japanese company building spacecraft to clear junk from orbit, has earned an international information security certification as it prepares a planned debris remo...

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A battery-powered craft that takes off from the water and skims the waves at up to 180 mph just got more U.S. Marine Corps funding. Total so far: $19.25 million, all for testing and demos. defence-blog.com/u-s-marine-c...

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U.S. Marine Corps to test electric seaglider in the field

The U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Lab has added $5 million to its work with REGENT Craft on the Seaglider, an electric craft that skims just above the water, bringing the total value of the partnershi...

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The U.S. Army picked the winners of a humanoid robot contest. One of them, a robot called Alex, has ballistic protection and joints built to take hits. The goal: keep soldiers out of the most dangerous jobs. defence-blog.com/u-s-army-sco...

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U.S. Army scouts armored humanoids for risky missions

The U.S. Army has picked five winners in a competition to test how commercial humanoid robots could be used by the military, including a two-legged robot called Alex that is built to take hits and car...

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The U.S. Army wants a missile that fits on a HIMARS truck and can hit a moving ship 1,000 km away. Five companies now have deals to build prototypes, and they'll compete in test flights starting next year. defence-blog.com/u-s-army-tap...

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U.S. Army taps five firms for 1,000 km HIMARS missile

The U.S. Army has picked five companies to build competing prototypes of a new Precision Strike Missile that can be fired from a HIMARS truck and hit moving ships and relocatable land targets 1,000 km...

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Russia says it could use nuclear weapons if NATO countries try to cut off Kaliningrad, its exclave between Poland and Lithuania. The Kremlin aimed the warning at what it called "hotheads in Europe." defence-blog.com/russia-raise...

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Russia raises nuclear threat as Baltic tensions grow

The Kremlin said on Sept. 30 that Russia's official policy documents provide for a nuclear response if NATO countries try to blockade Kaliningrad, the Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea wedged between ...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 15h

The U.S. Navy is buying 10 of Saronic's Marauder, a 180-foot ship with no crew that can carry up to 150 tons of cargo or gear. Average price: about $40 million each. First deliveries could come in 2027. defence-blog.com/u-s-navy-ord...

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U.S. Navy orders 10 of Saronic’s 180-foot autonomous ships

The U.S. Navy will buy 10 of Saronic's Marauder autonomous ships, a 55-meter (180-foot) uncrewed vessel built in Louisiana, after the ship passed at-sea testing under the service's new Medium Unmanned...

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The gun that shot down a Houthi cruise missile about a mile from USS Gravely in 2024 is getting a $247 million boost. Raytheon will build, upgrade and overhaul Phalanx systems for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army. defence-blog.com/u-s-navy-and...

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U.S. Navy and U.S. Army order more Phalanx guns

Raytheon has won a $247.1 million contract to build, upgrade and overhaul Phalanx close-in weapon systems for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army, covering the shipboard gun, its land-based counterpart and th...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 16h

The U.S. Navy is paying Boeing $16.7 million to help close down the factory line that builds the Super Hornet. Last new jets are due by spring 2027, but the fighter will keep flying for years. defence-blog.com/u-s-navy-pay...

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U.S. Navy pays Boeing to plan Super Hornet line shutdown

The U.S. Navy has paid Boeing $16.7 million to plan the shutdown of the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler production lines, including a full inventory of the government-owned tools and equipme...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 16h

The U.S. Navy's newest mine-hunting drone is small enough for two people to carry. It's called Lionfish, it replaces the older Swordfish, and the U.S. Navy just ordered $123.4 million more from HII. defence-blog.com/u-s-navy-ord...

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U.S. Navy orders $123M more Lionfish underwater drones

The U.S. Navy has ordered another $123.4 million worth of Lionfish small underwater drones from HII, exercising contract options for more vehicles, support equipment and related gear, the U.S. Departm...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 16h

The U.S. Army just signed counter-drone deals with 10 companies worth up to $4.15 billion combined. Radars, cameras, jammers, even a sight that helps soldiers shoot drones with a rifle. defence-blog.com/u-s-army-sig...

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U.S. Army signs $4.15B in anti-drone deals with 10 firms

The U.S. Army has awarded 10 companies counter-drone contracts with a combined ceiling of $4.15 billion, lining up commercial radars, cameras, jammers and weapons to detect and defeat hostile drones, ...

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The U.S. Navy picked Boeing to build its next carrier fighter. The F/A-XX will start replacing Super Hornets and Growlers in the 2030s, and the development contract alone is worth more than $20 billion. defence-blog.com/boeing-beats...

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Boeing beats Northrop to build U.S. Navy’s sixth-gen jet

The U.S. Navy has picked Boeing to build F/A-XX, its first sixth-generation carrier-based strike fighter, choosing the company over Northrop Grumman and awarding a development contract valued at more ...

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Mack built a hybrid big rig for the U.S. Army. It can run onboard electronics with the engine off and power gear outside the truck. It's part of a program to replace about 35,000 military logistics trucks. defence-blog.com/macks-hybrid...

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Mack’s hybrid tractor aims to replace U.S. Army’s M915 trucks

Mack Defense will display a hybrid-electric heavy tractor it built for the U.S. Army's Common Tactical Truck program at the Association of the United States Army's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., ...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 16h

A new identification system for the F-16 can quietly listen for friendly jets' coded signals and civilian aircraft broadcasts without sending out a single ping. The U.S. military just certified it. defence-blog.com/f-16s-get-ne...

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F-16s get new friend-or-foe system cleared for service

BAE Systems' new identification friend or foe system for the F-16 has been certified by the U.S. Department of War, clearing it for use on U.S. Air Force fighters, the company said Sept. 29. The AN/AP...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 16h

Argentine troops have carried the FAL rifle for about 70 years, including in the Falklands War. The first Israeli-made replacements just arrived, and the M-16s still in service will be swapped out too. defence-blog.com/argentine-tr...

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Argentine troops get first Israeli ARAD rifles

Argentina's armed forces have formally taken on their first IWI ARAD 5 and ARAD 7 rifles from Israel, the start of a program to replace the FN FAL and M-16 rifles now carried by troops in all three se...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 16h

The U.S. military wants soldiers to be able to down drones with the rifles they already carry. An Israeli company's AI-powered sight is now the sole pick under a new Pentagon contract worth up to $150 million. defence-blog.com/pentagon-buy...

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Pentagon buys Israeli smart rifle sights to shoot down drones

The Pentagon's counter-drone task force has awarded Israeli company Smart Shooter a contract worth up to $150 million for its SMASH rifle sights, which help soldiers shoot down small drones with their...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 29/09/2026

666 cruise missiles. About 2,500 drones. That's what Ukraine says its F-16 pilots have shot down since the jets arrived in 2024, while running short on weapons. They've also hit Russian ground targets more than 650 times. defence-blog.com/ukraines-f-1...

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Ukraine’s F-16s have downed over 3,150 Russian targets

Ukraine's F-16 pilots have shot down more than 3,150 Russian aerial targets, including 666 cruise missiles and about 2,500 drones, the commander of Ukraine's Air Force said during a meeting with Lockh...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 29/09/2026

A Russian strategic bomber of the type used to fire cruise missiles at Ukrainian cities crashed in Russia's Far East. Six of the seven crew died, and the lone survivor was hospitalized. defence-blog.com/russian-tu-9...

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Russian Tu-95 crashes on takeoff after engine failure

A Russian Tu-95MS strategic bomber crashed in the Amur region of Russia's Far East on Sept. 29, killing six of the seven crew members on board. The bomber went down near the village of Krasnoyarovo af...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 29/09/2026

The U.S. Navy is buying Sidewinder missiles by the thousands, and now it's widening the supply chain behind them, from the cooler that keeps the heat-seeker sharp to the warhead parts. defence-blog.com/raytheon-exp...

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Raytheon expands Sidewinder supplier base in U.S., Europe

The U.S. Navy is paying Raytheon up to $30.2 million to line up additional suppliers for key parts of the AIM-9X Sidewinder air-to-air missile, including the cooling engine for its heat-seeking sensor...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 29/09/2026

The Philippine Coast Guard is getting three King Air 350 turboprops to patrol its waters, two of them loaded with surveillance gear. The $39.6 million deal follows two deadly sea disasters earlier this year. defence-blog.com/u-s-to-send-...

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U.S. to send Philippine Coast Guard three spy-equipped planes

The United States will supply the Philippine Coast Guard with three secondhand King Air 350 turboprop aircraft, two of them fitted with surveillance sensors, under a $39.6 million contract that finali...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 29/09/2026

Laser-guided rockets are far cheaper than missiles. Add a fuze that detonates when a drone gets close, and each one becomes a drone killer. The Pentagon just ordered another $52 million worth of those fuzes. defence-blog.com/pentagon-ord...

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Pentagon orders more fuzes to turn Hydra rockets into drone killers

The Pentagon has ordered another $52.3 million worth of L3Harris proximity fuzes that turn laser-guided APKWS rockets into drone killers, more than doubling the value of a fuze contract signed just fo...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 29/09/2026

Honeywell is getting $25.6 million from the U.S. Air Force to perfect a small gyroscope that can guide a missile or satellite without GPS, and keep working in radiation that would fry ordinary electronics. defence-blog.com/honeywell-ge...

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Honeywell gets $25.6M for nuclear-tough navigation gyro

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded Honeywell Aerospace $25.6 million to keep developing a small, radiation-hardened gyroscope accurate enough for "strategic" use, the class of navigati...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 29/09/2026

The U.S. Air Force paid $64 million for an urgent high-altitude balloon project and named it "Swamp Gas," the same phrase once used to explain away UFO sightings in 1966. What the balloon will actually do is secret. defence-blog.com/u-s-air-forc...

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U.S. Air Force pays $64 million for secretive balloon project

The U.S. Air Force has awarded balloon maker Aerostar a $64.4 million contract to quickly build a prototype for an urgent high-altitude balloon requirement under a project called Swamp Gas. The contra...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 29/09/2026

Russia wants to spend more on its military next year than at any point since invading Ukraine: about $200 billion. Oil money is falling, so Moscow is borrowing more, raiding its rainy-day fund and raising taxes. defence-blog.com/russia-plans...

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Russia plans record $200 billion military budget for 2027

Russia plans to spend a record 17.1 trillion rubles ($201 billion) on its military in 2027, while its budget deficit this year is now expected to reach double the government's earlier forecast, accord...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 29/09/2026

The U.S. Air Force signed up to $20.7 billion for AMRAAM, the missile fighter jets use to hit enemy aircraft beyond visual range. Sixteen other countries are buying through the same deal. defence-blog.com/raytheon-to-...

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Raytheon to build record numbers of AMRAAM missiles

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon a multi-year contract worth up to $20.7 billion to build AMRAAM air-to-air missiles, a deal the company says will push production of the weapon to record levels...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 29/09/2026

Did Trump offer to sell American weapons to China? His ambassador says yes. Trump says it never came up, but adds that China would "probably like to buy it" and "maybe it's a good idea." defence-blog.com/trump-china-...

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Trump: China would ‘probably like to buy’ U.S. arms

President Donald Trump on Monday denied discussing U.S. weapons sales to China with Chinese President Xi Jinping, a day after his ambassador to Beijing said Trump had floated the idea, though Trump ad...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 28/09/2026

Denmark's FMI bought nine Dropla 4x4 UGVs for the Danish Defence Drone Center to train drone operators, conscripts included. Delivered unarmed, but FMI is already studying remote weapon stations and new comms, citing Ukraine lessons. defence-blog.com/denmark-buys...

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Denmark buys Ukrainian-founded firm’s ground drones

Denmark's armed forces have taken delivery of nine unmanned ground vehicles built by Dropla, a Danish company founded by Ukrainians, to train drone operators, including conscripts, at the country's mi...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 28/09/2026

CIA repainted the helicopter that flew JAWBREAKER into the Panjshir on Sept. 26, 2001, back to its 2001 scheme, including the Afghan pilot's "607" call sign. defence-blog.com/cia-restores...

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CIA restores helicopter that took first Americans to Afghanistan

The CIA has restored the helicopter that carried the first American team into Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks, repainting it in the camouflage it wore in 2001 to mark the 25th anniversary of th...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 28/09/2026

Ukraine's answer to the Patriot just changed how it finds its target. Fire Point's FP-7.x interceptor will now track incoming ballistic missiles by both heat and radar, not heat alone. defence-blog.com/ukraines-che...

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Ukraine’s cheap Patriot rival now has a two-mode seeker

Ukrainian missile maker Fire Point has changed the published specifications of its FP-7.x anti-ballistic interceptor, now listing a combined infrared and radar seeker for the weapon instead of the inf...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 28/09/2026

Russian FPV drones kept hunting Ukraine's Penguin reconnaissance drones. So the maker made them fly higher. More than 300 have now gone to Ukraine since 2022. defence-blog.com/redwire-has-...

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Redwire has sent Ukraine more than 300 Penguin drones

Redwire has now delivered more than 300 of its Penguin reconnaissance drones to Ukraine, the company said, and the version flying there today climbs much higher than the aircraft first sent in 2022 so...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 28/09/2026

Liminal Industries designed its unmanned ground vehicle to be cheap, adaptable and easy to build in large numbers. In a few weeks, U.S. troops in North Dakota will drive it and judge whether it's worth buying. defence-blog.com/liminals-mas...

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Liminal’s mass-producible UGV heads to Pentagon trial

Liminal Industries, a U.S. startup building unmanned ground vehicles meant to be produced and fielded in large numbers, has advanced to the second phase of the GroundBreaker 1 competition and will dem...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 28/09/2026

Russian state TV showed soldiers with shoulder-fired missiles that match nothing in Russia's arsenal, and they look Chinese. defence-blog.com/chinese-shou...

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Chinese shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles appear in Russian service

Russian air defense troops appear to be using Chinese-designed shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, according to an analysis by Ukrainian defense outlet Militarnyi of footage aired on Russian state ...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 28/09/2026

South Korea builds tanks, rocket launchers and air defense missiles that other countries line up to buy. For drone engines, it's now asking Turkish maker. defence-blog.com/south-korea-...

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South Korea eyes Turkish engines for its drones

South Korea's arms procurement agency has asked Türkiye whether it can buy the Turkish PD170 drone engine, a powerplant already flying on some of the world's most combat-tested drones, as Korean milit...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 28/09/2026

Taiwan wants drones with zero Chinese parts, and it just started building the place to make them. President Lai opened a new military drone research campus in Chiayi and broke ground on a park for about 100 companies. defence-blog.com/taiwan-build...

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Taiwan builds drone industry park to shed Chinese supply chain

Taiwan broke ground Monday on an aerospace and drone industrial park in the southern county of Chiayi, where the island's main military research institute wants to build a drone supply chain free of C...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 28/09/2026

A 9,700-ton U.S. Navy destroyer sailed into a small Alaska town of a few hundred people. On Saturday it officially joins the fleet there, named for the WWII pilot who represented Alaska in the Senate for 40 years. defence-blog.com/u-s-navys-ne...

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U.S. Navy’s newest destroyer arrives in Alaska

The U.S. Navy's newest destroyer, the future USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128), arrived in Whittier, Alaska, on Sept. 27, less than a week before it is due to be formally commissioned there in a ceremony the ...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 28/09/2026

The Pentagon is creating a permanent team whose only job is to find programs that waste money or do the same thing twice, and recommend killing them. defence-blog.com/pentagon-cre...

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Pentagon creates permanent team to hunt down waste

The U.S. Department of War is setting up a permanent team inside the Pentagon comptroller's office to find programs and processes it considers wasteful, inefficient or duplicative and recommend cuttin...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 27/09/2026

Japan's radar satellites that can see through clouds and at night have always launched from New Zealand. Next year, two of them will go up on a Japanese rocket instead. defence-blog.com/japans-spy-s...

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Japan’s spy satellites to ride home-built rocket

Japanese radar satellite company Synspective has signed a contract with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to launch two of its StriX satellites on Japan's H3 rocket in 2027, moving part of a constellation t...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 27/09/2026

A British startup wants to sell Japan drone-killing missiles for tens of thousands of dollars each, a fraction of what traditional air defense missiles cost. It plans to build them in Japan. defence-blog.com/british-dron...

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British drone-killer startup heads to Japan with cheap interceptors

British startup Cambridge Aerospace plans to build its low-cost drone interceptor missiles in Japan and offer them to Japan's Ministry of Defense, with each round priced at several million yen, or ten...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 27/09/2026

Japan is building ammunition depots from one standard blueprint so it can stockpile faster. The goal is about 130 new ones by 2032, and so far only three are done. defence-blog.com/japan-races-...

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Japan races to fill its ammo stores after Ukraine lessons

Japan's Ministry of Defense will start building at least 65 new ammunition depots for the Self-Defense Forces from fiscal 2027, using a single standardized design to get them into service faster, the ...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 27/09/2026

A Turkish twin-cannon gun truck shot down kamikaze drones while moving, in front of military visitors from 12 countries. It fires about 1,100 rounds a minute with shells that burst near the target. defence-blog.com/turkish-anti...

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Turkish anti-drone guns put on show for 12 countries

Turkish defense company ASELSAN has shown its KORKUT 35 air defense gun system shooting down drones and hitting a moving target while driving, in a live-fire demonstration watched by military delegati...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 27/09/2026

A U.S. Army team in Pennsylvania tested a drone that can drop practice munitions and see in the dark, looking at whether it can be used to train soldiers against real-world drone threats. defence-blog.com/u-s-army-fli...

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U.S. Army flies C100X drone to sharpen troop training

A U.S. Army program that builds realistic enemy threats for training flew Performance Drone Works' C100X drone at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 25, testing its thermal camera, its abilit...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 27/09/2026

U.S. Space Command sat down with 87 space companies this week to war-game what happens when satellites fly very low or out toward the Moon. It's the third of four such exercises this year. defence-blog.com/87-companies...

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87 companies join U.S. Space Command’s third wargame

U.S. Space Command held the third of four wargames with commercial space companies on Sept. 23, this time focused on spacecraft that operate outside the orbits most satellites use today, including ver...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 27/09/2026

U.S. Army soldiers in Hawaii spent two weeks testing new battlefield software in the field. One officer's takeaway: if a soldier can't figure a tool out quickly under pressure, it doesn't belong in combat. defence-blog.com/u-s-army-tes...

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U.S. Army tests battlefield data network in Hawaii jungle

Soldiers of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Division spent two weeks in the field in Hawaii this month testing new command-and-control software under realistic combat conditions, wrapping up the fifth r...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 27/09/2026

U.S. Army soldiers flew into a mock battle in India's Himalayas aboard Indian Army helicopters, while Indian troops slid down ropes to join them. defence-blog.com/u-s-and-indi...

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U.S. and Indian troops storm in Himalayas in joint air assault

U.S. and Indian soldiers flew into battle together aboard Indian Army helicopters on Sept. 25, seizing two objectives in a combined air assault in the Himalayan training area of Auli during exercise Y...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 26/09/2026

The U.S. Army wants cheaper missiles to shoot down drones, cruise missiles and short-range ballistic missiles alongside its Patriot air defense system. It just picked 30 companies to show what they can build. defence-blog.com/cheaper-patr...

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Cheaper Patriot partners: U.S. Army names 30 finalists

The U.S. Army has picked 30 finalists, from defense giants such as RTX and Northrop Grumman to startups in Australia and the United Kingdom, in a prize competition to find cheaper interceptors that co...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 26/09/2026

A Michigan company that started out building drones for light shows will now build 4,000 small attack drones for U.S. troops, after its Kiwi placed fifth in a Department of War shootout in Colorado. defence-blog.com/michigan-fir...

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Michigan firm to build 4,000 attack drones for U.S. troops

Michigan drone maker Swarm Defense Technologies has received an order for 4,000 Kiwi one-way attack drones under the U.S. Department of War's Drone Dominance Program, the company announced Sept. 22. T...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 26/09/2026

Ukraine uses an armored, remote-controlled vehicle to pull wounded soldiers out of drone-covered front lines. Its maker says the best upgrades come from the troops who drive it, not from AI. defence-blog.com/ukraines-res...

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Ukraine’s rescue UGV gets better from soldiers, not AI

The biggest improvements to MAUL, a Ukrainian unmanned ground vehicle built to carry wounded soldiers off the front line, have come from the troops using it rather than from artificial intelligence, t...

The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 26/09/2026

U.S. Army soldiers set up a drone-hunting system in India's Rajasthan desert during joint drills with the Indian Army. defence-blog.com/u-s-army-dro...

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U.S. Army drone-killing system tested in India

U.S. Army soldiers from the 11th Airborne Division took a mobile counter-drone system to India's Rajasthan desert during exercise Yudh Abhyas 2026, showing Indian Army troops how it finds and defeats ...