Ukraineβs Third Assault Brigade destroyed a Russian Mi-8 military helicopter in the Luhansk region with two Hornet one-way attack drones after waiting for it to land, the brigade said on social media on Oct. 30. A drone crew from the SKYFOM strike-wing platoon of the brigadeβs unmanned systems battalion spotted the helicopter during a raid [β¦]Satellite imagery shows the wreckage of two Su-34 fighter-bombers destroyed at Russiaβs Marinovka air base in the Volgograd region, confirming Ukraineβs claim that its Neptune cruise missiles knocked out the jets on Oct. 29, open-source analysts said. The open-source monitoring group CyberBoroshno said the post-strike image shows the effects of hits in two parking spaces [β¦]MBDA is expanding its main German site at Schrobenhausen in Bavaria to about 100 hectares (247 acres) as it turns the plant into what it calls Germanyβs βmissile hubβ for air defense and long-range strike weapons, MBDA Deutschland said in a post after a visit by Defense Minister Boris Pistorius on Oct. 29. The company [β¦]North Korea has released new images of its Saetbyol-9 attack drone, a near copy of the U.S. MQ-9 Reaper, firing an air-launched tactical cruise missile during a live-fire demonstration Kim Jong Un watched, state news agency KCNA showed on Oct. 30. A KCNA photo taken from the droneβs own wing shows a black cruise missile [β¦]North Korea has shown off what appears to be a new large flying-wing stealth drone, along with first-person-view attack quadcopters and loitering munitions, at an exhibition on Oct. 29 where leader Kim Jong Un called for the country to seize βabsolute superiorityβ in drone technology, state news agency KCNA reported on Oct. 30. The exhibition, [β¦]A photo released by Saudi Arabiaβs Defense Ministry from a visit by its top military officer to King Khalid Air Base in the kingdomβs southwest appears to show a Royal Bahraini Air Force fighter pilot and a member of the Pakistan Air Force at the base, open-source analysts at OSINTWarfare pointed out in a post. [β¦]Poland will soon hand Ukraine two more MiG-29 fighter jets as part of a new military aid package worth about β¬50 million (about $56 million), Polish daily Rzeczpospolita reported on Oct. 29, in a story quickly picked up by Ukrainian defense outlet Milarnyi. Reserve Lt. Gen. Dariusz Εukowski, director of the Polish Defense Ministryβs Strategy [β¦]The U.S. Air Force is looking for companies that can repair and sustain the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System-2, or ASARS-2, the imaging radar carried by the U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane, even as the service asks Congress to retire its last U-2s by the end of fiscal 2027. The Air Force Life Cycle Management [β¦]Taiwan detected six Chinese military aircraft, seven Peopleβs Liberation Army Navy ships and one Chinese official ship operating around the island in the 24 hours to 6 a.m. local time on Oct. 29, the Ministry of National Defense said on social media. Five of the six aircraft sorties entered the northern, central and southwestern parts [β¦]Japan will host a final assembly plant for the AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missile after Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi and U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth agreed on Oct. 28 to build the facility as part of joint U.S.-Japanese missile production, Nikkei reported. The two met for about 30 minutes in Cebu, the Philippines, on the [β¦]Ethiopia has taken delivery of its first 12 Russian Su-35 fighter jets and will also receive four batteries of the S-400 long-range air defense system, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on social media on Oct. 28. Abiy said the jets arrived under an earlier agreement with the Russian government and a year ahead of the [β¦]Lockheed Martin has broken ground on a factory expansion in Troy, Alabama, that will triple the space it uses to build the AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon, the U.S. Air Forceβs first hypersonic missile to enter production. The company held the groundbreaking for the expansion of its Building P-20 on Oct. 27, the day after [β¦]Quantum-Systems has unveiled an armed version of its Reliant long-range drone, showing the aircraft fitted with a mixed load of 82 mm mortar rounds and 40 mm grenades. Dave Sharpin, chief executive of Quantum-Systems Inc., the U.S. arm of the German drone maker, shared images of the configuration on social media on Oct. 28, thanking [β¦]Photos have emerged of Russiaβs newest version of the Geran-5 light cruise missile, known as the Geran-5 K5-K and often described in the media as a jet-powered drone, lying in a field somewhere in Ukraineβs Odesa region after it came down during an attack, with the serial number ANS-3031 visible on the airframe. It is [β¦]An armed, reusable drone that fires 40 mm grenades and 12-gauge shotgun rounds and then flies back to be reloaded has been cleared for purchase and use across the U.S. military, after Skyborne Technologiesβ Cerberus MI was added to the U.S. Department of Warβs Blue UAS Cleared List, the company announced on Oct. 26, 2026. [β¦]Finnish drone electronics maker Arctic RAVN has secured β¬2.5 million (about $2.8 million) in convertible loan commitments in five days, passing its β¬2 million (about $2.2 million) target before it has officially launched a single product, and it plans to use the money to scale up production of the circuit boards that power and steer [β¦]The U.S. Air Force has put its first hypersonic weapon into production, awarding Lockheed Martin a $694 million contract on Sept. 29 to build and field the AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon, or ARRW, a missile the service had planned to abandon just three years ago, the Department of the Air Force announced on Oct. [β¦]Hypersonic missile startup Castelion has received a contract modification from the Air Force Research Laboratory to begin integrating its Blackbeard hypersonic weapon onto the F-16 fighter jet, the company announced on Oct. 26, bringing the missile one step closer to the U.S. Air Force after earlier work for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army. Castelion [β¦]The U.S. Air Force has put the Paladin, a heavy counter-drone multirotor built by California-based Zone 5 Technologies, through training with Joint Interagency Task Force 401 at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida on Oct. 8, with the drone carrying a Gen12 counter-drone launcher that fires net rounds to entangle and bring down hostile drones, [β¦]A Chinese H-6KG bomber has been seen carrying what appears to be a new large electronic jamming pod that closely resembles the pods carried by the J-16D, the Peopleβs Liberation Army Air Forceβs dedicated electronic warfare jet, military aviation analyst Andreas Rupprecht reported on Oct. 25. Rupprecht, who closely tracks Chinese military aircraft, said the [β¦]
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