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Ukraine Says Flamingo Missiles Hit Russian Rocket Plant Behind Starlink-Style Network
Kyiv claims long-range Flamingo missiles struck Russia's Progress rocket centre in Samara, hitting the plant that builds...
Iran Floats a 15,000-Kilometer Missile — and the Real Question Is Who Would Help Build It
A 15,000-kilometer Iranian missile would put all of the US in range. The real question is whether Russia and North Korea...
China's 49th Naval Taskforce Heads to Gulf of Aden for Escort Mission
Three PLAN ships led by the destroyer Kunming depart Sanya to relieve the 48th escort taskforce off Somalia, extending a...
Trump Memo Pushes Steam Carrier Reversal and Foreign-Owned US Yards
A 13 August memorandum orders a 60-day plan to swap CVN-81's EMALS for steam systems, expands foreign-owned US yard arra...
Rheinmetall Demonstrates Truck-Launched FV-014 Loitering Munition in Germany
The July 2026 Cochstedt test paired a 100km loitering munition with an 18-cell ISO-container launcher, formalising the h...
Hero-120 Loitering Munition Passes US Army Acceptance Tests for LUS Programme
UVision and Rheinmetall say the Hero-120 met every acceptance requirement in August 2026 tests under the US Army's Letha...
Chinese National Sentenced to Six Months After Photographing B-2 Base Despite Warning
The conviction of Qilin Wu at Whiteman Air Force Base shows how a 1950 Truman executive order still underpins prosecutio...
Ohio Father Offers 'Parent Swap' to Bring Navy Son Home From USS Abraham Lincoln
An Ohio father has asked Sen. Bernie Moreno to find any lawful way for him to take his Navy son's place aboard the USS A...
Zelensky: 10% of US Patriot Missile Stockpile Could Stop Russian Strikes
Ukraine's leader says he has about 1% of the interceptors he needs and wants Washington to approve a 5% or 10% transfer;...
Trump Orders Navy to Abandon Electromagnetic Catapults and Return to Steam on Carriers
The president's directive reverses a core Ford-class technology, potentially costing billions and unsettling France's ne...
Ukraine's Air Defenses Are Running Dry as Russia Steps Up Missile Barrages
Kyiv says it has received only a third of the interceptors it got by this point last year, while Moscow fired 198 ballis...
Marines’ Darwin Rotation Becomes First Certified Air-Ground Task Force in 15 Years
The 2026 Marine Rotation Force-Darwin is the program’s first certified Special Purpose MAGTF, operating across the Indo-...
Pentagon Signs $2.03 Billion in Battery and Critical Minerals Supply Deals
Conditional loan and equity commitments target battery cells, rare earth magnets and bauxite processing as the Defense D...
Ukraine Says 5% of US Patriot Stock Is Enough to Survive Winter Air War
Zelensky says Kyiv holds only 1% of the US Patriot interceptors it wants for the winter air war. Analysts put remaining ...
Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Sensor-Node Plan Targets Missile Defense—With a Czech Test Case
Lockheed Martin has detailed how F-35 sensors could shorten missile-defense kill chains from space to ground. Czech F-35...
A Decade On, China's Y-20 Has Become a Strategic Airlift Family
The PLA Air Force's Y-20 has grown from a single transport into A, B and tanker variants, with a domestically engined Y-...
USS John F. Kennedy Begins Acceptance Trials Ahead of March 2027 Handover
The second Ford-class carrier departed Newport News Shipbuilding for final at-sea evaluation, with Navy handover project...
Lockheed Martin Fires Kodiak Containerised Launcher in First Integrated Live-Fire Test
Lockheed Martin's containerised Kodiak launcher has completed its first integrated live-fire test at Yakima Training Cen...
Two US Army Soldiers Killed in Texas AH-64 Apache Crash as Safety Scrutiny Grows
A fatal AH-64E Apache crash near Fort Hood kills two soldiers. The accident follows Army safety data showing Apaches wer...
Trump Signs 100% Drone Tariff, With 15% Cap for Japan, South Korea, EU and Taiwan
Washington will impose an additional 100% tariff on high-importance drones from September and 25% on smaller models in 2...
Navy Whistleblower Returns to Command Under the Admiral She Is Suing
Kathryn Krepp is back at Naval History and Heritage Command reporting to Samuel Cox, the official she accuses of retalia...
Ukraine Claims Nvidia Jetson Orin Chips Found in Russia's New S-71 Cruise Missiles
Kyiv's military intelligence says Nvidia Jetson Orin modules and other Western components were found in Russian S-71 mis...
Taiwan Throttles Mobile Internet to 256 Kbps in Seven Cities During Invasion Drill
The 30-minute slowdown in Taipei and six other areas was part of Han Kuang civil-defense exercises simulating a Chinese ...
USS Abraham Lincoln's 250-Day Deployment Triggers Senate Demands on Crew Conditions
Families report exhaustion, broken toilets and jump attempts as the carrier passes 250 days at sea. Senator Blumenthal i...
Ukraine's June Aid Rebound Masks a Long-Term Slowdown and a Patriot Interceptor Squeeze
Military aid allocated to Kyiv reached €7.2bn in June, the most since April 2024, but the increase was driven by an EU l...
CSG and Dezamet Sign €100m Contract for 155mm Ammunition Components
Czechoslovak Group will supply Polish manufacturer Dezamet with pyrotechnic components and fuze subassemblies under a st...
Boeing Unveils Ultra-Low-Cost Radar Seeker Built From Commercial Parts
Boeing used the Huntsville missile-defense symposium to reveal the ULCS, an active radar seeker built largely from off-t...
Putin Threatens Mirror Response on Ship Seizures and Rebukes Japan During Pacific Fleet Drills
Speaking from the Varyag during Pacific Fleet drills, Putin promised a mirror response to any seizure of Russian merchan...
Latvia Weighs Embraer’s Super Tucano as a Baltic Drone Defense Layer
Riga is seeking cost and delivery data on the Brazilian turboprop after a senior air force commander urged treating it a...
China to Deploy 49th Naval Escort Fleet to Gulf of Aden
The People's Liberation Army Navy will rotate a destroyer, frigate and supply ship into the Gulf of Aden and Somali wate...