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¦]
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¦]
Iranβs Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps released photographs Sunday of a downed drone its Ground Forces say they shot out of the sky over southern Iran, and the aircraft in the photos traces back to a U.S. Army Special Forces exercise conducted thousands of miles away in the Philippines just three months earlier. Babak Taghvaee, an [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¦]
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¦]
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¦]
The U.S. Air Force has told its biggest missile maker to build thousands more long-range weapons than it planned even a week ago, and the jump says a lot about how worried the Pentagon has become about running out of precision missiles in a real war. An amended government notice posted Wednesday raised the planned [β¦]
Twenty-five U.S. senators want to know why the Pentagon is still sitting on an investigation into one of the deadliest strikes involving American forces in more than three decades, and theyβre giving the Department of War exactly one week to start answering. Senators Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, joined by [β¦]
The Pentagon has told American metal suppliers it wants to know exactly how much titanium and magnesium the country would need to keep building fighter jets and military hardware if a real war cut off the foreign supply chains both materials currently depend on. The Defense Logistics Agency, the Department of Warβs supply and logistics [β¦]
The fast-attack submarine USS Tucson (SSN 770) slid into Apra Harbor on July 10, swapping its old home in Pearl Harbor for a new one at Naval Base Guam, in a routine-looking port call that carries real weight for how the U.S. Navy positions its undersea forces against a rapidly expanding Chinese fleet. Tucson, a [β¦]
U.S. Central Command finished its third round of airstrikes against Iran in a single week on July 11, hitting roughly 140 military targets after Iranian forces attacked another commercial vessel transiting the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that carries a fifth of the worldβs oil out of the Persian Gulf every day. The strikes, [β¦]
Russia has begun arming its large surface warships with new electronic warfare systems in an apparent attempt to counter Ukrainian drone attacks, according to imagery circulating in recent days on Russian military-affiliated social media channels. The anti-drone complex, identified as βPereyed-M,β has reportedly been spotted installed on four vessels of the Russian Navy: the Project [β¦]
Australia has fired a live missile from a prototype ground-based air defense system for the first time, hitting a cruise missile target at the remote Woomera Test Range in South Australia and marking the debut pairing of an Australian-made radar with the U.S. Navyβs Aegis Combat System. The Department of Defence in Canberra announced the [β¦]
The Pentagon just opened the door for private companies to pitch prototype hypersonic weapons capable of flying more than five times the speed of sound, releasing a formal Request for Solutions on July 9 that gives industry until August 10 to respond. The opportunity, titled Next Generation Hypersonics for the Department of War, runs through [β¦]
A shoulder-fired missile streaking toward a military cargo plane has mere seconds to find its target, and the U.S. Air Force has paid $60.4 million to make sure the aircraft sees it coming even faster. Northrop Grumman won a $60,438,241 contract to develop an enhanced sensor called the Optical Detection and Identification Node, or ODIN, [β¦]
Russian state-aligned outlet Izvestia has confirmed that Russian military units operating on the front have received T-72B3A tanks equipped with an upgraded version of the Arena-M active protection system, and that crews are now undergoing additional training before the vehicles are sent to support assault groups attacking fortified Ukrainian positions. Arena-M belongs to a category [β¦]
The Belgian government announced plans to acquire the Norwegian-built NASAMS air defense system, according to a press release from manufacturer Kongsberg, signing a cooperation agreement with the Netherlands at the NATO summit in Ankara, TΓΌrkiye, that would bring 10 NASAMS batteries into Belgian service as the centerpiece of the countryβs first serious rebuild of its [β¦]
Leidos received a contract modification worth roughly $27.2 million on behalf of USSOCOM to buy what the military calls All Up Rounds, meaning fully assembled, ready-to-fire missiles rather than components or prototypes, for the AGM-190A Havoc Spear Small Cruise Missile program, with the work centered in Huntsville, Alabama, and expected to run through February 2029. [β¦]
A fellow NATO member state has placed a new order for thousands of German-made artillery shells that will end up in Ukrainian hands, German defense manufacturer Rheinmetall announced today, the latest sign that European allies are still funneling significant firepower to Kyiv even as global attention shifts toward other flashpoints. The contract, recognized in Rheinmetallβs [β¦]
A Polish aircraft repair plant that has spent decades overhauling aging Soviet-era jets is about to start building brand-new American cruise missiles instead. Wojskowe ZakΕady Lotnicze Nr 2, a Bydgoszcz-based facility that operates under Polandβs state-owned defense conglomerate Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa, known as PGZ, signed an agreement paving the way for the assembly and production [β¦] 
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