Echodyne, a radar manufacturer based in Kirkland, Washington, announced Thursday it has built a plugin that lets its MESA radar systems plug directly into ATAK, the Android Team Awareness Kit software that has become the default shared map and situational awareness tool across much of the U.S. military and a growing list of public safety [β¦]
A Russian shipyard supplier best known for arming warships just patented a way to put its naval gun on wheels, and the design tells a story about a much larger program that appears to have stalled. Saint Petersburg-based Arsenal Machine-Building Plant, the manufacturer behind Russiaβs AK-100, AK-130, AK-726 and A-192M naval guns, has patented a [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¦]
Franceβs next long-range strike weapon might get its first real trial on Ukraineβs front line against Russian forces. According to French Aid to Europe, citing an anonymous source, prototypes of THUNDART, the system set to become the French Armyβs future deep-strike capability, are expected to be tested in Ukraine. βAccording to an anonymous source, prototypes [β¦]
A congressman whose own military career started at Fort Campbell has had four of his ideas written into the bill that funds and governs the entire U.S. military for the next year. Rep. Matt Van Epps, a Tennessee Republican representing the stateβs 7th District, announced Wednesday that four of his amendments were included in the [β¦]
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 [β¦]
TCOM 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 [β¦]
NODA 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 commanderβs orders even after enemy jamming or cyberattacks cut off their communications links. The contract funds an [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¦]
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 [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¦]
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Lockheed Martin unveiled a new, cheaper version of its Patriot air defense interceptor at the Farnborough International Airshow, announcing that the PAC-3 Adapted Capability Effector, known as PAC-3 ACE, will cost less than half as much per unit as the missile itβs designed to complement, the PAC-3 MSE, which runs roughly $4 million per round [β¦]
Britainβs longest-serving Conservative defense secretary since Winston Churchill says he personally urged Israelβs government to help Ukraine early in the war, and that Benjamin Netanyahuβs government turned him down because it didnβt want to anger Moscow, the UK Defence Journal reported. Ben Wallace, who ran Britainβs Ministry of Defence from 2019 to 2023 and became [β¦]
Photos released by a U.S. Army unit this week appear to show Americaβs newest hypersonic missile system training somewhere in the Pacific, and one open-source analyst believes he has pinned down exactly where. The X account η¬θΈη·δΊΊ, tracking military hardware sightings under the handle @lfx160219, said the U.S. Army may have deployed its Dark Eagle [β¦]
The U.S. State Department approved a possible sale to Greece of Switchblade 300 Block 20 systems, a portable loitering munition built by AeroVironment (AV) that a single soldier can carry, launch from a tube in under two minutes, and fly toward a target before the drone itself explodes, destroying both the target and the aircraft [β¦]
Canadaβs Prime Minister Mark Carney traveled to General Dynamics Land Systems-Canadaβs facility in London, Ontario, alongside National Defence Minister David J. McGuinty, to formally announce a new Strategic Partnership between the Canadian government and the company, along with a contract worth roughly $1.4 billion for 190 additional Armoured Combat Support Vehicles for the Canadian military [β¦]
Germany and France just reduced one of Europeβs most ambitious tank programs to a single, carefully worded sentence about βplatform-independent technology,β and defense analysts reading between the lines say that sentence effectively confirms the joint program is dead in everything but name, Waldemar Geiger reported for the German defense outlet hartpunkt. The Main Ground Combat [β¦] 
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