Under heavy cloud cover, Russia fired a massive barrage of Geran-2 attack drones, the Russian-built version of Iranβs Shahed-136, at western Ukraine early Sunday. The Ukrainian General Staff said Russia launched 863 drones at Ukraine over the previous 24 hours, one of the largest barrages of the war. French open-source analyst ClΓ©ment Molin wrote on [β¦]
A long-endurance surveillance drone built by Maryland-based Platform Aerospace was spotted taking off from a Jordanian air base used by U.S. forces on September 13, 2026, according to flight-tracking data shared by an open-source intelligence account. The MenchOsint described it as the first known sighting of the aircraft, known as Vanilla, operating from Jordan. The [β¦]
Ukraineβs Defense Forces struck a Russian chemical plant in Volgograd overnight on September 10-11, 2026, using FP-5 βFlamingoβ cruise missiles, according to Fire Point, the Ukrainian company that manufactures the weapon. Fire Point said the missiles hit their target directly and sparked a large fire at the facility. The target, Volgogradpromproekt, is a specialty chemicals [β¦]
The U.S. State Department has approved a possible $140 million sale of four UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters to Argentina, a deal that would give the Argentine Army its first Black Hawks. The approval, notified to Congress on September 10, 2026, follows through on a purchase Argentine officials confirmed earlier this year. The package includes the [β¦]
A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III landed at Camp Davis South, part of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, marking the first time the heavy-lift aircraft has touched down there in more than 20 years. The roughly 140-ton jet, longer than half a football field, landed alongside Canadian C-130 transports to support [β¦]
The U.S. Coast Guard held a ceremony at Air Station Sacramento, California, marking delivery of the stationβs first HC-130J Super Hercules, the aircraft that will eventually replace its smaller C-27J Spartan patrol planes. Vice Adm. Joseph Buzzella, commander of U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area, presided over the event. βThis is a monumental step forward for [β¦]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited a group of Ukrainian military pilots training in Canada on September 12, 2026, ahead of their eventual transition to Western fighter jets including the F-16 and Swedenβs Gripen. Four L-39 training jets flown by Ukrainian cadets performed a flyover to greet him at the airfield. The visit took place at [β¦]
Northrop Grumman said on September 10, 2026, that it remains in talks with Poland about supplying the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, a radar and command aircraft the U.S. Navy already flies from its carriers. According to the company, those discussions cover possible adoption, training and industrial cooperation, but Northrop Grumman stopped short of describing any signed [β¦]
A one-way attack drone built by Northrop Grumman flew a test flight in California, guided by a navigation system that never touches GPS. Instead, it reads faint variations in Earthβs own magnetic field, picked up by quantum sensors built by SandboxAQ, a Silicon Valley company spun out of Google. The test took place at Fort [β¦]
The U.S. Air Force just gave itself a lot more room to sell Boeingβs aerial refueling tanker overseas. In a contract modification worth $13.4 billion, the Air Force raised the ceiling on an existing Foreign Military Sales agreement for the KC-46A Pegasus tanker from $5.7 billion to $19.1 billion, more than tripling how much business [β¦]
Ukrainian drones struck Russian military aircraft near Anapa on September 9, 2026, destroying a helicopter and damaging a fixed-wing jet, according to both Russian and Ukrainian accounts of the same overnight operation that also hit Russiaβs naval base at Novorossiysk. Russian sources reporting on the strikes said a single drone destroyed a Mi-8AMTSh helicopter, tail [β¦]
Anti-junta fighters launched a wave of FPV drones at Myanmarβs Tada-U Air Base on September 10, 2026, and video posted online shows one striking the nose of a Yak-130 jet, according to resistance sources. Myanmarβs military government said the drones were all intercepted before causing any damage. Journalist Thomas van Linge shared footage on X [β¦]
Turkish drone maker Baykar has fitted its AkΔ±ncΔ± unmanned combat aircraft with Roketsanβs new 300-ER air-launched ballistic missile, with a first launch from the drone expected soon, according to Ulusavunma. Roketsan first showed the 300-ER publicly at the IDEF defense show in Istanbul in July 2025, presenting it as the longest-range weapon yet in a [β¦]
Embraer presented Uzbekistanβs first C-390 Millennium military transport aircraft on September 10, 2026, making the country the first C-390 operator in Central Asia. The Brazilian manufacturer confirmed the milestone in a social media post, without disclosing further details of the handover. Embraer had kept the Uzbek order under wraps for more than a year before [β¦]
Polish defense manufacturer WB Group has unveiled Gladius 2, a new loitering munition built for a reduced radar and heat signature and powered by a turbojet engine for a fast run into the target area. The company also refers to the weapon as Warmate 30, tying it to WB Groupβs existing Warmate family of strike [β¦]
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 [β¦]
Russian aircraft dropped 8,766 glide bombs on Ukrainian front-line positions in August 2026, the highest monthly total recorded since the invasion began, according to Ukrainian General Staff figures compiled by the OSINT monitoring group Oko Gora. The total works out to an average of 283 bombs a day over the 31-day month. Oko Gora put [β¦]
Two Royal Australian Air Force F-35A Lightning II stealth fighters landed at Ohakea in New Zealand on September 8, the first time the jets have visited the country, the New Zealand Defence Force said. The aircraft, from the RAAFβs No. 3 Squadron, flew training missions through September 10 alongside New Zealand forces, including mock bombing [β¦]
The Netherlands and Sweden signed a letter of intent for the Dutch government to buy a Saab GlobalEye surveillance aircraft, the Dutch Ministry of Defence announced September 10. The Netherlands does not currently operate an aircraft capable of this kind of long-range surveillance and instead relies partly on NATOβs aging AWACS fleet. The Dutch aircraft [β¦]
The U.S. Air Force has added $826 million to its bulk missile contract with Lockheed Martin, pushing the total value of the deal past $10 billion for the first time. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, issued the contract modification for continued production of the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff [β¦] 
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