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Yesterday β€” 22 July 2026Defence Blog

U.S. Army pays $99 million more for Humvees

22 July 2026 at 09:34
AM General, the South Bend, Indiana manufacturer that has built the Humvee since the 1980s, was awarded a $98.7 million contract modification, according to a Department of War contract announcement, adding to an existing agreement for various models of the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, commonly known as the Humvee. The modification pushes the total […]

U.S. Army bets $447 million on giant surveillance aerostats

22 July 2026 at 09:29
Persistent Surveillance System-Tethered (PSS-T) aerostatTCOM LP, based in Columbia, Maryland, was awarded a $447 million contract by U.S. Army Contracting Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, to handle production, fielding, sustainment and lifecycle support for the Persistent Surveillance Systems-Tethered family of systems, an aerostat-based surveillance program the Army has relied on for more than a decade. The contract itself […]

Pentagon awards Rocket Lab $266 million for suborbital launches

22 July 2026 at 09:22
The Pentagon’s Space Systems Command awarded Rocket Lab USA a $266 million contract for suborbital launch services, according to a Department of War contract announcement, covering 12 confirmed launches with an option for six more, all to be conducted from the Pacific Spaceport Complex on Kodiak Island, Alaska, through the end of 2028. The contract […]

NODA AI wins $10M deal to make Pentagon drones work as one team

22 July 2026 at 09:09
Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) dronesNODA AI announced Wednesday it has secured a $10 million contract from the Department of War, the current name for the Department of Defense, to develop software that lets American military drones and autonomous vehicles keep executing a commander’s orders even after enemy jamming or cyberattacks cut off their communications links. The contract funds an […]

Another batch of American Strykers has arrived in Thailand

22 July 2026 at 09:03
Footage of Stryker armored vehicles rolling off a cargo ship at a Thai port has been circulating on TikTok this week, and an open-source account tracking the videos says it points to a fresh shipment of American military hardware arriving in Thailand. The account, run by a user posting as Hem on X under the […]

RTX’s Raytheon lands $1.8B deal for U.S. Navy’s SPY-6 radar family

22 July 2026 at 04:34
The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125)Raytheon, the RTX-owned defense manufacturer based in Andover, Massachusetts, announced that the U.S. Navy awarded it a $1.8 billion contract extension for hardware production and sustainment of the SPY-6 family of radars, building on an initial contract the company received in March 2022. The extension carries options that, if the Navy exercises all of them, […]

BAE unveils modular warhead built for the drone war era

22 July 2026 at 04:22
The British defense giant unveiled BlackThorn, a new family of modular warheads built specifically for the current wave of cheap, mass-produced weapons reshaping modern warfare, from autonomous drones and one-way attack munitions to counter-drone interceptors, missiles and unmanned ground vehicles. BAE Systems designed the warhead family to be modular, meaning the same core technology can […]

BAE, Boeing, Saab formalize deal for UK’s next fighter pilot trainer

22 July 2026 at 04:14
T-7 trainer jetBAE Systems, Boeing and Saab announced they have signed a formal teaming agreement to jointly pursue the UK’s next generation pilot training program, built around Boeing’s T-7 trainer jet, and the deal commits the companies to building a brand new final assembly and integration facility inside Britain. Advanced fast jet training currently runs through the […]

BAE Systems lets Ukraine start building its own 105mm artillery guns

22 July 2026 at 04:07
L-119 Light GunBAE Systems announced at the Farnborough International Airshow that it has signed a licensing agreement with an unnamed strategic defense partner to support local manufacture of the Light Gun artillery system inside Ukraine, giving Kyiv’s defense industry direct access to the technical know-how behind a weapon British and Commonwealth forces have relied on for half […]

Trump tightens the screws on defense contractors buying from China

22 July 2026 at 02:27
Bomb finsSomewhere in a Chinese factory right now, a machine is stamping out a rare earth magnet that could end up inside a U.S. missile, and until this week, the Pentagon had no reliable way to force American weapons makers to stop that from happening. President Trump signed an executive order on July 20, 2026 aimed […]

Pentagon’s top general confirms historic Ukrainian dogfight win

22 July 2026 at 02:16
Ukrainian Air Force F-16 fighter jet.A Ukrainian F-16 pilot did something no American-made fighter jet had confirmed doing before in this war: shoot down a Russian warplane in air-to-air combat. General Dan Caine, the four-star Air Force officer who serves as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and holds the highest military rank in the United States, told the […]

Ukraine’s ship-killer drone is coming to U.S. shipyards

22 July 2026 at 02:00
A Ukrainian drone maker that helped push the Russian Navy out of much of the Black Sea is bringing its combat-tested kamikaze boats to American shipyards. UFORCE, the London-registered parent of Ukraine’s MAGURA unmanned surface vessel program, signed a memorandum of understanding this week with RECONCRAFT, the Alaska-founded builder of Special Operations combatant craft, to […]
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UNEX UGV passes major test towing a 3.2 tonne howitzer

21 July 2026 at 07:01
An unmanned robot the size of a small truck just proved it can drag an artillery piece across a battlefield while hauling more than a ton of extra cargo at the same time, a feat that could let front-line units cut the number of vehicles and soldiers needed for a single resupply run. ABRIS DG […]

Pentagon calls on Johns Hopkins for its Sentinel missile program

21 July 2026 at 06:53
A booster for the LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM.Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, won a contract worth $199 million to provide research and development engineering support for the Sentinel program, the effort to replace the nation’s aging fleet of Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles, with work continuing through July 2029. Sentinel, formally designated the LGM-35A, represents the Air Force’s […]

U.S. Air Force expands its arsenal of small combat drones

21 July 2026 at 06:44
GUARDIAN-1 сounter-drone interceptorThe U.S. Air Force has handed a Georgia drone maker a contract worth up to $90 million to build small, expendable aircraft designed to deny enemies the ability to fly. Tandem Defense, based in Richmond Hill, Georgia, won a new contract, meaning the U.S. Air Force can order any quantity of equipment up to the […]

U.S. special operations unit to buy passive drone sensors for UK base

21 July 2026 at 06:34
Squarehead acoustic panelsThe U.S. Air Force wants to install a network of microphones at one of its most secretive bases in England, built specifically to hear enemy drones coming before anyone ever sees them. A newly published Air Force solicitation reveals that the 352nd Special Operations Wing at RAF Mildenhall is seeking a passive acoustic drone detection […]

UK plant will begin assembling next-gen surveillance gear

21 July 2026 at 05:02
Teledyne FLIR Defense announced it will begin assembling its Star SAFIRE line of thermal imaging camera systems at its facility in West Malling, Kent, after more than two years of planning and formal approval to produce the advanced surveillance systems locally for the UK Ministry of Defence. Star SAFIRE is a family of gimbal-mounted camera […]

U.S. Marines test drove their future reconnaissance vehicle

21 July 2026 at 04:56
The U.S. Marine Corps’ Program Manager Light Armored Vehicles held what the service calls a Marine Touchpoint event last month for the Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle, letting Light Armored Reconnaissance Marines get hands-on time with the new vehicle, including a test drive, months before the program reaches its next major design review. The Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle, […]

U.S. Marine Corps taps a AI-powered gun against cheap drones

21 July 2026 at 04:49
A robotic gun mount built by a Texas firm just landed a spot on one of the Marine Corps’ most important counter-drone vehicles, giving Marines a way to turn an ordinary machine gun into an autonomous, AI-guided weapon. Allen Control Systems announced that the Marine Corps selected its Bullfrog autonomous weapon station for the service’s […]

Sikorsky and BETA team up on unmanned supply aircraft

21 July 2026 at 04:03
A helicopter maker and an electric aircraft startup just proved they can bolt cutting-edge autonomy software onto a brand-new aircraft in under two weeks, a pace that would have sounded absurd for military aviation programs just a few years ago. Sikorsky, the helicopter manufacturer owned by Lockheed Martin, announced at the Farnborough International Airshow that […]
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