A landmark nuclear deal between the United States and Saudi Arabia is already unraveling into confusion, less than 24 hours after it was signed with fanfare in Washington. The agreement, laying the groundwork for American companies to help Saudi Arabia build a civilian nuclear power industry, immediately sparked concerns about a Saudi path to enrichment [β¦]Thailandβs military has confirmed the arrival of a new batch of American Stryker armored vehicles, resolving the mystery behind the grainy port videos that had been circulating on social media earlier this week. The Royal Thai Armyβs 11th Infantry Division Support Regiment posted the confirmation on its official Facebook page, saying its maintenance battalion deployed [β¦]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 [β¦]BAE 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 Kyivβs defense industry direct access to the technical know-how behind a weapon British and Commonwealth forces have relied on for half [β¦]Somewhere 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 [β¦]The 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 [β¦]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 [β¦]Lockheed Martin unveiled MORFIUS X-Rotor at the Farnborough International Airshow, an airborne counter-drone system built around a high-power microwave weapon that the company says can neutralize an entire swarm of hostile drones in a single mission, then land, get recovered, and fly again. A high-power microwave weapon, commonly shortened to HPM, works by blasting a [β¦]Anduril just unveiled a helicopter-killerβs replacement: a pilotless attack aircraft built specifically because attack helicopters have become too dangerous to fly. The defense technology company announced Thunder, an autonomous attack rotorcraft designed to fly alongside crewed helicopters like the Apache, absorbing the risk that increasingly cheap drones, loitering munitions, and persistent surveillance systems have turned [β¦]X-Bow Systems unveiled Buckler, a flight-tested interceptor built to shoot down Group 3 drones at supersonic speeds, with the company pricing the weapon below $100,000 per unit, a fraction of what traditional air defense missiles cost to defeat the exact same kind of threat. Group 3 drones sit in the middle of the militaryβs five-tier [β¦]The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Centerβs Command, Control, Communications, and Battle Management Directorate at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio published a market research notice this week seeking industry information on a new ground-based launcher built to shoot down both cruise missiles and drones ranging from small commercial-style quadcopters up to large, fixed-wing [β¦]Russian forces have grown increasingly willing to sacrifice a fake air defense system rather than a real one, a pattern that keeps surfacing in drone strike footage even as Ukrainian units continue to celebrate each new video as a confirmed kill. A recent example centers on footage released by Ukrainian military showing a Hornet kamikaze [β¦]Israelβs largest defense contractor is bringing a laser cannon that shoots down rockets with light, a missile precise enough to hit hardened underground bunkers, and a record-breaking $2.3 billion European air defense deal to one of the worldβs biggest aviation trade shows this week. Rafael Advanced Defense Systems announced it will showcase a wide portfolio [β¦]Nishati Power Technologies announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued it Patent No. 12,671,257, covering hybrid power generation technology built specifically to solve that problem for troops operating far from any power grid. The issue Nishatiβs patent addresses sounds technical, but it plays out as a very physical headache for soldiers in the [β¦]Super Powers Mobility, known as SPM, said it recently demonstrated its Energized Vehicle Kit, or EVK, to special operations forces at two separate demos in Nevada and Utah, showcasing a battery and power system built to bolt onto existing light tactical all-terrain vehicles, the small, rugged off-road trucks commonly known by the acronym LTATV that [β¦]A Ukrainian government official just told the countryβs electronic warfare industry to stop overselling itself, and the missiles falling on Kyiv this month are the reason why. Vladyslav Vlasiuk, Ukraineβs Commissioner for Sanctions Policy, posted a blunt public rebuke this week aimed at claims that Ukrainian jamming technology can reliably knock Russian ballistic missiles off [β¦]The worldβs first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is finally getting torn apart, and this time the Navy is paying more than $118 million less than it originally planned to spend doing it. The U.S. Navy awarded NorthStar Maritime Dismantlement Services, based in Vernon, Vermont, a $418.5 million contract to completely dismantle, recycle, and dispose of the [β¦]A robot small enough to throw through a window and tough enough to survive a five-story fall onto concrete is headed to Tunisiaβs military, part of a U.S. arms sale that will let North African soldiers see around dangerous corners before anyone has to walk into them. The U.S. Armyβs Contracting Command at Aberdeen Proving [β¦]Finland has placed its third order in less than a year for radios that can keep soldiers talking across hundreds of miles without satellites, cell towers, or GPS, a technology bet that keeps paying off as tensions with Russia push Nordic militaries to rebuild communications systems that can survive jamming and outages. The Finnish Defence [β¦]Japanβs military procurement agency has handed a German drone company a foothold in one of the most urgent defense priorities in the Indo-Pacific: figuring out how to shoot down enemy drones before they hit anything. Quantum Systems, a German unmanned aircraft maker, announced Wednesday that Japanβs Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency, the defense ministryβs procurement [β¦]
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