The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has finished dismantling the SM-1 nuclear power plant at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, the Army’s first nuclear reactor and the first facility in the country to send nuclear-generated electricity into the commercial power grid. The Corps’ Baltimore District completed the last field work this year, closing out a project that […]

The U.S. Army has selected Fort Benning, Georgia, as one of five military bases that will host nuclear microreactors under a new Pentagon energy resilience initiative called the Janus Program, Army officials announced August 26, 2026. Fort Benning will pair with California-based Radiant Industries to install three of the company’s one-megawatt Kaleidos microreactors, adding a […]

Four defense-tech companies integrated an AI-enabled sensor, an unmanned helicopter, Ukrainian-made interceptor drones and tactical radios into a single counter-drone system, then tested it at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, during a Pentagon exercise called Falcon Peak 26.2. DataShapes AI, Evolved Aerospace, General Cherry and Persistent Systems built the combined system in about three […]

U.S. soldiers trained on a counter-drone defense system during a course at the Combined Arms Training Center in Grafenwoehr, Germany, the U.S. Mission to NATO said in a social media post. The training center, known as CATC, is run by the 7th Army Training Command and offers close to 60 courses for U.S. troops, ranging […]

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a U.S. federal agency, is moving to buy a single armored vehicle from Roshel LLC on a sole-source basis, saying its current fleet of armored trucks has aged to the point where some units date back to 2008 and are becoming too unreliable to drive long distances. […]

The U.S. Navy demonstrated a system last month that can refuel an unmanned surface vessel at sea without any crew on board, a step toward keeping robotic boats on station indefinitely instead of returning to port when they run low on fuel. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division ran the demonstration off the coast […]

Chinese company Shengying Technology says it has introduced a new interceptor drone called the H-07, a high-speed platform designed to shoot down other drones in the final seconds before impact. Interceptor drones have become one of the fastest-growing categories in air defense over the past two years, driven largely by the need to counter cheap, […]

Ukrainian forces have begun fitting their own armored vehicles with the same “hedgehog” anti-drone armor that Russian units pioneered last year, according to photos and video circulating from Ukrainian military channels. The images show a Ukrainian M1 Abrams from the 225th Separate Assault Regiment and a BMP-1TS operated by the 58th Motorized Infantry Brigade, both […]

Munich-based counter-drone company TYTAN Technologies said it demonstrated a new rocket-boosted interceptor drone to the German Federal Cabinet last month, presenting what the company described as a new category of system built for greater range and speed against aerial threats. TYTAN said the demonstration took place during the Cabinet’s annual retreat at Schloss Neuhardenberg in […]

Twenty-three of Kongsberg’s 31 nations operating the Protector remote weapon system gathered in Switzerland in June for the company’s 16th annual Protector Users Working Group, the company said. More than 300 users, industry partners and Kongsberg representatives attended the three-day event, hosted at the Wichlen shooting range in the Swiss mountains and co-hosted by armasuisse, […]

Leonardo DRS has adapted its ground-based counter-drone technology for use at sea, packaging it into a system called the Maritime-Mission Equipment Package, or M-MEP, the company said in a social media announcement. The M-MEP is built to detect, identify, track and defeat drones threatening ships, using a modular design intended to work across a range […]

A Ukrainian fighter pilot who runs the social media channel “Sonyashnyk” told the outlet Waypoint that jet-powered Shahed drones remain difficult to stop even as Ukraine’s air defense system continues to evolve, arguing that focus on the small number of drones that get through overlooks the far larger number destroyed before they reach populated areas. […]