Robotics company Target Arm Inc. said this week that its drone launch and recovery system has been integrated with unmanned ground vehicles built by HDT Global, a manufacturer of rugged robotic platforms used in military and industrial settings. The company announced the integration on social media on July 27, 2026. The combination pairs HDT Globalβs [β¦]
A rifle that decides, mid-trigger-pull, when to let the round go, not the shooter, is now fielded or in procurement across an estimated 10 to 15 European countries, according to Israel Weapon Industries (IWI). The system, called ARBEL, does not detect drones or aim the weapon. It does one thing: it controls the timing of [β¦]
President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on July 27, 2026, setting a new authorized size for the Russian Armed Forces at 2,426,130 personnel, of which 1,535,000 are uniformed troops, according to the text of the decree published on Russiaβs official legal information portal, pravo.gov.ru. The order, numbered Decree 526, formally amends a 2004 decree that [β¦]
Rocket Lab Corporation, the publicly traded space company known primarily for its small satellite launch vehicles, announced a $266 million multi-launch contract with the U.S. Space Force, the branch of the Department of War responsible for military operations in and through space, marking the largest single launch agreement the company has ever secured. The deal [β¦]
Russiaβs state defense conglomerate has delivered another batch of infantry fighting vehicles to its army, and according to the company that builds them, production has now tripled since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than four years ago. Rostec, Russiaβs state-owned industrial and defense holding company, announced that its High Precision Systems [β¦]
A Romanian F-16 fighter jet shot down a Russian-linked drone over the Black Sea on Sunday morning, marking the third such intercept in just three days, and Romaniaβs president says the country has had enough. President Nicusor Dan confirmed that Romanian Air Force pilots downed the drone at 10:13 a.m. local time roughly 12 kilometers [β¦]
Uzbekistanβs president just got a firsthand look at armored personnel carriers, a self-propelled howitzer, and an upgraded Soviet-era tank rolling out of a factory that barely existed five years ago, and the visit signals a country quietly building its own domestic arms industry from scratch. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev toured the Nurafshon Makhsus Tekhnika enterprise in [β¦]
An unmanned boat has launched a drone into the air over open ocean, all without a single person on board either vehicle, and the demonstration could change how the Royal Navy watches its own waters. British maritime robotics company ACUA Ocean and American sensor and drone manufacturer Teledyne FLIR Defense confirmed they completed two days [β¦]
A French rocket engine just fired 21 times in a row, and the company behind it says the hardware survived well enough to fly again. That combination, repeated ignition and confirmed reusability, is exactly what a small aerospace startup needs to prove before anyone lets its hypersonic drone near real flight testing, and this week [β¦]
The UK Ministry of Defence announced this week that it has chosen the Tekever AR5, a surveillance drone built by Tekever, a Portuguese aerospace and defence company with UK operations including a manufacturing facility in Swindon, to replace the British Armyβs aging Watchkeeper fleet under a deal worth up to $533 million over the next [β¦]
Romania shot down a second drone in its own airspace within 24 hours on Saturday morning, a milestone that would have been unthinkable for a NATO member just weeks ago and now marks the second time in two days that Romanian pilots have opened fire inside their own countryβs skies. President NicuΘor Dan announced the [β¦]
North Korea has resumed sending Russia one of its deadliest ballistic missiles, a weapon that started this war as a punchline for its terrible aim and has since become one of the most accurate short-range missiles in Moscowβs arsenal. Thatβs according to Polkovnik GSH, an open-source intelligence account with close ties to Ukraineβs armed forces, [β¦]
A Formula 1 engineering firm has unveiled a nearly supersonic combat drone designed to fly wing to wing with fighter jets, and it costs less than a fraction of what those crewed aircraft run. MGI Engineering announced the launch of the T-022 Vortex, describing it as the first UK-built Autonomous Collaborative Platform of its kind, [β¦]
Only two bidders remain in the running for Canadaβs nearly $5 billion program to supply new armored and unarmored land utility vehicles to the military, and one of them is Brampton-based Roshel, CityNews reported, citing reporting from Cristina Howorun. Roshel has built its reputation almost entirely outside Canada despite being headquartered just outside Toronto. Founded [β¦]
A Croatian drone manufacturer has laid out an ambitious bet that Europeβs appetite for weapons it doesnβt have to import from China or the United States is only getting bigger. Orqa announced Wednesday it is scaling its annual manufacturing capacity from roughly 290,000 products today to 500,000 by the end of 2026, a jump the [β¦]
The first publicly documented combat test of Russiaβs upgraded anti-drone tank defense system ended in failure, with footage showing a Russian T-72B3A tank taking a direct hit from a Ukrainian FPV drone despite carrying the modified Arena-M active protection system specifically built to stop exactly that threat, Militarnyi reported. The video shows the FPV drone [β¦]
HDT Robotics, doing business as BLADE, announced Wednesday it has been selected as one of five industry partners for the U.S. Armyβs Project Sustainment initiative, a program run through the National Advanced Mobility Consortium that focuses on automating how supplies reach troops in combat zones where the enemy is actively trying to disrupt that resupply [β¦]
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¦]
Photos of scorched, twisted wreckage now circulating from Russian sources may be the first physical proof that a Dutch-built cruise missile has actually been used in combat. Images shared by the open-source tracking account on Telegram show what is presumed to be the tail section of a Ruta Block 1 cruise missile, built by the [β¦]
Bosnia and Herzegovina is doubling down on Turkish anti-drone technology, signing a new contract to acquire 10 KANGAL/ADL 100 radio-frequency jamming systems from TΓΌrkiye-based defense manufacturer ASELSAN, Turkish defense outlet Ulusavunma reported. The deal marks the latest step in a defense relationship that has already put Turkish-made drones, armored vehicles and counter-drone hardware into Bosnian [β¦] 
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