Finland will buy the RGW110 heavy disposable anti-tank weapon from Germany’s Dynamit Nobel Defence to replace the APILAS launcher its soldiers have carried since the 1980s, the Finnish Army said on Oct. 28. The purchase is worth about €84.5 million (about $94 million) excluding value-added tax, and deliveries of the weapons, training equipment and instruction […]

U.S. Army aviators and National Guard aviation officers spent a week this summer flying a virtual MV-75 Cheyenne II, critiquing cockpits and rehearsing maintenance in virtual reality, as the service brings soldiers into the tiltrotor’s design before the first test aircraft has flown. The sixth MV-75 Special User Evaluation ran Aug. 24 to 28 at […]

The U.S. Army has added nearly $500 million to a Boeing contract for engineering services and technical support on the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, extending the work through February 2031. Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, awarded the $499.8 million modification to Boeing’s Mesa, Arizona, operation on Feb. 21, 2026, according to the Department […]

The U.S. Army has picked Amazon Web Services and World Wide Technology to help build an autonomous cyber defense system that can find and stop network threats with little human involvement, choosing the two companies on Oct. 23, 2026, for a Project Griffin pilot worth a combined $2.6 million. The U.S. Army said it wants […]

NATO commanders spent 10 days in October rehearsing how they would fight a war against an enemy army of one million soldiers, running the alliance’s Avenger Triad 26 computer-assisted exercise from a command center in Wiesbaden, Germany, where about 150 officers from several countries tracked a simulated attack on alliance territory around the clock on […]

The U.S. Army has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems a $135.9 million contract modification that sets prices for buying complete retrofit kits for the Stryker armored vehicle’s Enhanced Power Distribution Unit Version 2, raising the total value of the contract to $162.4 million, the Department of War announced on Oct. 26. The kits are designed […]

Two Democratic senators with military and national security backgrounds, Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Mark Kelly of Arizona, have asked the Department of War and the National Guard Bureau to explain who commands the National Guard’s new “quick reaction forces,” under what legal authority they would deploy inside the United States, and whether they have […]

DARPA, a central research and development organization within the United States Department of War, put four autonomous unmanned ground vehicles through their first end-to-end test at Fort Knox, Kentucky, on Oct. 15, sending them as a team from a satellite-imagery tip all the way to a simulated strike on an enemy position, with a human […]

Philadelphia-based Raptor Defense Company is advancing in two U.S. Army programs with PIT VIPER, a small modular wheeled unmanned ground vehicle the company calls a “Personal Combat Vehicle” and designs to be fielded at the level of the individual soldier, the company announced. Raptor was selected for Phase II of GroundBreaker 1, a joint unmanned […]

U.S. Army soldiers in Germany are training with AZAK’s S26 unmanned ground vehicle. On Oct. 21, troops from 2nd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment used the robot to evacuate a casualty during a platoon situational training exercise at Grafenwoehr Training Area, the first field use of the system by the Vilseck-based regiment since it began receiving […]

Spanish defense company EM&E Group used remote weapon stations on armored vehicles and a jamming-equipped ground robot to detect and shoot down several drones during the Spanish military’s ATLAS 26 counter-drone exercise this week at the Médano del Loro firing range in Huelva, in southwestern Spain. The exercise was led by Spain’s Chief of the […]

L3Harris Technologies has received a three-year contract worth up to $60 million to develop a long-range, maneuverable missile for the U.S. Army that is designed to shoot down small and medium drones at greater distances than today’s interceptors. The company announced the award on Oct. 23, 2026, under the Xtended Range Counter-sUAS Missile program run […]

"To be clear to the market and to our partners — we're moving out. Good news is there is no gap, only consistent desire to move faster," Marc Andersen said.

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“CHRA will make a mistake … We'll fix them,” CHRA Director Karen Pane said. “In order to be creative, you sometimes have to have the possibility of failing.”

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The U.S. Army has started flight testing four MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopters that the U.S. Navy was retiring, turning aircraft headed for long-term storage into flying testbeds for Army sensors and saving the Army just over $70 million in procurement costs. The Army’s Redstone Test Center at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, received the four aircraft […]

The U.S. Army has awarded Longbow LLC a $419.6 million contract to supply fire control radar systems and post-production support for the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, keeping work on the Apache’s distinctive mast-mounted radar going into the next decade. The contract, announced on Oct. 22, 2026, covers the AH-64D and AH-64E versions of the helicopter […]

The U.S. Army has selected nine companies as finalists in a competition to find autonomous ground and air vehicles that can resupply troops spread across Pacific islands, and their systems will go before soldiers in Hawaii next month. The competition, called G-TEAD USARPAC ACE 27-01: Autonomous Sustainment, is run by the Army’s Global Tactical Edge […]

A U.S. Army Patriot air defense battalion at Fort Hood, Texas, has put its launchers, radars and support vehicles into the field for a battalion-wide readiness exercise, according to photos released by the service on Oct. 21, 2026. The exercise involves the 1st Battalion, 62nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment, part of the 69th Air Defense […]

General Dynamics Land Systems has rolled out an upgraded version of PERCH, a bolt-on kit that lets M1A2 Abrams tanks and Stryker armored vehicles launch AeroVironment’s Switchblade 300 loitering munitions, small drones that can scout ahead of a vehicle and then dive onto a target as a guided weapon. The company announced PERCH 2.0 in […]

The U.S. Army fired three prototype tank-killing artillery shells at a tank target in the Arizona desert at Yuma Proving Ground. The Army used the tests to check a new seeker that builds an image of the target area and steers the 155 mm round into an armored vehicle, including one that has moved since […]