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 is testing two rival versions of a new digital command network by putting them in the hands of soldiers in two active-duty divisions at once, and the service’s testing command says it can now judge how each performs within one to two weeks of a field exercise ending, down from the months […]

Russia’s state-owned tank manufacturer Uralvagonzavod has delivered another batch of T-90M “Proryv” and T-72B3M tanks to the Russian Army, the company said, timed to coincide with Russia’s Tank Crew Day. As with previous shipments, Uralvagonzavod did not disclose how many tanks were included in the batch or where they are headed. The company said the […]

ELVO, Greece’s main military vehicle manufacturer, has shown off the first Mercedes G-Class “jeeps” modernized under a new refit program built to extend the life of the Greek Army’s aging vehicle fleet rather than replace it outright. The vehicles being upgraded are roughly 30 years old. ELVO is fitting a new engine and automatic transmission, […]

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 […]

An autonomous machine gun system engaged drone targets in the Arizona desert, according to official photos from a U.S. military exercise. The system, called Bullfrog and built by Texas startup Allen Control Systems, pairs a standard M240 machine gun with a robotic turret, in this case bolted into the bed of a pickup truck. The […]

A fire and a series of explosions tore through an ammunition storage site in central Bulgaria overnight into Saturday, September 12, 2026, roughly five weeks after fire and explosions destroyed a separate EMCO storage building near Belitsa, Bulgaria, on August 10. No injuries were reported in either incident. The blaze broke out near the village […]

The world’s nine nuclear-armed states expanded their arsenals in 2025, according to a new assessment from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Researchers Hans M. Kristensen and Matt Korda found that most countries deployed new nuclear-armed or nuclear-capable weapons during the year, even as the overall number of warheads in the world continued to decline. […]

China’s nuclear weapon stockpile grew to an estimated 620 warheads as of January 2026, up from about 600 a year earlier, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s newly published World Nuclear Forces assessment. SIPRI researchers Hans M. Kristensen and Matt Korda say the increase is part of a broader expansion that shows no […]

The U.S. Army has added $39.1 million to a contract with Rolls-Royce Solutions America to build more engines for Israel’s Eitan armored vehicle, pushing the total value of that contract to roughly $158.9 million. The modification, the eleventh change made to the original deal, will keep production running at the company’s plant in Graniteville, South […]

The U.S. Army has awarded Olin Winchester a contract worth up to roughly $788.4 million for 5.56mm, 7.62mm and .50-caliber ammunition. The five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract combines firm-fixed-price and price-adjustment terms, runs through September 10, 2031, and was awarded without competition after only one bid was submitted. Army Contracting Command at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, is […]

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Yemen’s Houthi movement seized Perim Island, at the narrowest point of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, on September 11, 2026, after Yemeni government forces withdrew from the island a day earlier. Four Yemeni government sources told Reuters that Houthi fighters reached the island, also known as Mayyun, tightening the group’s grip on one of the world’s […]

The U.S. Army has handed Knight’s Armament Company, run by founder Charles Reed Knight Jr., a new five-year deal worth nearly $50 million to keep building M110 Semi-Automatic Sniper Systems. The firm-fixed-price contract covers the rifle, its variants, accessories, spare parts, special tools and training, and runs through September 10, 2031. Only one company bid, […]

The Houthi seizure of Mocha this week lands on top of a difficult year for Saudi Arabia’s position in Yemen, one that already saw its allied government nearly collapse under a separate rebellion months earlier. A offensive by the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council swept across southern Yemen in December 2025, briefly seizing roughly half the […]

KNDS Mobility unveiled Celeris 8×8, a new mobility kit for heavy wheeled combat vehicles, at the MSPO defense trade show in Kielce, Poland, on September 10, 2026. The kit is not a finished vehicle. It is a complete set of engineered components, engine, transmission, axles, suspension and onboard electronics, that vehicle makers and armed forces […]

South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace signed a contract with Croatia’s Ministry of Defence on September 10, 2026, to supply 18 K239 Chunmoo multiple rocket launcher systems, the company’s first defense deal with Croatia. The contract is worth 411.8 million euros (roughly $478 million). The signing ceremony took place at the Office of the Prime Minister in […]

Yemen’s Houthi movement seized the Red Sea port city of Mocha on Thursday, forcing government-aligned forces to withdraw and pulling the Iran-backed group closer to full control of the Bab al-Mandeb strait. Four Yemeni government military sources told Reuters that Houthi fighters took the city after hours of fighting, while a separate military official told […]

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 […]

Two Bangladesh Army soldiers were killed and an officer was seriously injured on September 9, 2026, when a tank exploded during a live-fire exercise at the Hathazari Field Firing Range in Chattogram. The Bangladesh Army’s Inter-Services Public Relations Directorate, known as ISPR, confirmed the accident. ISPR said the blast happened while the crew was firing […]