Defense
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Czech Defense Company CSG Partners with Hanwha for U.S. Army Artillery Program
CSG, a leading Czech defense supplier, has partnered with Hanwha Defense USA to provide the truck chassis for a new whee...
USS Abraham Lincoln Returns From Record 321-Day Deployment That Tested Navy Readiness
The USS Abraham Lincoln came home after a record 321-day combat deployment, flying nearly 4,000 combat sorties and expos...
Latvia's Defense Minister: NATO Must Learn to Scatter Arms Production Before a War
Ukrainian weapons makers survive Russian strikes by hiding and moving production across multiple sites. Latvia says NATO...
Army Awards Palantir $48.1M to Consolidate Nine Ammo Systems
The U.S. Army is paying Palantir $48.1 million to consolidate nine legacy ammunition platforms into one lifecycle-tracki...
Ukraine Is Steadily Destroying Russia's Tu-95 Bombers — and Moscow Can't Replace Them
Open-source data shows at least 8 of Russia's 58 pre-war Tu-95MS bombers have been destroyed and 3 damaged, an 18% loss ...
Czech Defense Firms Flip From Recruiting Push to Inbound Talent
Record exports and NATO spending targets have turned Czech arms makers CSG and Excalibur Army into magnetic employers. T...
German Defence Ministry Page Provides No Transcript of Ukraine Contact Group Remarks
A page published by Germany's defence ministry references opening remarks from a virtual Ukraine Defence Contact Group s...
Ukraine's New Medium-Range Drones Turn Russia's Rear Supply Lines Into a 'Free Hunt'
Ukrainian operators say Starlink-equipped drones are hitting warehouses, vehicles and command posts 20–300 km behind the...
RAND: U.S. Space Workforce Cannot Rebuild Satellites Lost in War
Engineers, technicians and assemblers are too scarce to meet the 12- to 24-month reconstitution timeline a RAND study sa...
CSG Group to Debut Tatra Force, Tadeas and Patriot Mortar Vehicles at MSPO Defence Fair
The group will use Kielce's record-scale MSPO to push Polish production, new 4×4 armoured vehicles and NATO-standard amm...
U.S. Strikes Iran's Minelaying Forces in Hormuz; Iran Reportedly Fires at Jordan Base
First confirmed U.S. strike on Iran in weeks hits IRGC rocket launchers near the Strait of Hormuz, prompting reported Ir...
Peru's Army Deploys Engineering Battalions and Heavy Machinery to Piura Ahead of El Niño
Four army engineering battalions with bulldozers and dump trucks are moving to Piura to clear riverbeds and roads, part ...
China Builds Submarine-Warfare Data With Record Taiwan Surveys
Taiwan's coast guard says a record number of Chinese research and enforcement vessels operated around the island in July...
India Clears DRDO Conventional Missile Technology Transfer to Domestic Defence Firms
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's approval opens DRDO-developed conventional missile systems to Indian manufacturers, aim...
India's INS Sudarshini Brings Naval Diplomacy to Lisbon on 22,000-Mile Voyage
The Indian Navy sail training ship's Portuguese stop mixes maritime heritage with modern security outreach, from a rende...
Romanian F-16s Down Suspected Russian Drone Near EU Gas Project Neptun Deep
The Black Sea intercept near the Neptun Deep site highlights how the Ukraine war's security spillover now reaches a proj...
USS George Washington Reaches Middle East to Relieve USS Abraham Lincoln After 270-Day Deployment
The carrier swap comes amid congressional concern over reported crew strain aboard the Lincoln and leaves the Western Pa...
Ukrainian Long-Range Drone Unit Strikes Moscow-Area Logistics Hub in Deep-Strike Campaign
A rare Associated Press look at Ukraine's 413th Raid Unmanned Systems Regiment shows how long-range FP-1 drones are stri...
US Awards Raytheon a $22.9 Billion, Seven-Year Tomahawk Production Contract
The award is designed to lift Tomahawk output from about 60 missiles a year to more than 1,000 annually as the Pentagon ...
Trump Orders Substantial Cut to Joint South Korea-US Military Exercises
The instruction comes as the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise begins and North Korea steps up missile launches, reopening q...
Japan's 2026 Defense Paper Puts Unmanned Systems, AI and Arms Exports at Center
The new white paper adds a chapter on new forms of warfare and calls for a stronger defense industrial base, pointing to...
Why Japan's I-400 Submarine-Aircraft Carriers Failed to Change Naval War
Imperial Japan built huge submarines that could launch floatplanes, but a slow, costly design and a rapidly worsening wa...
Hanwha Aerospace Wins Preferred-Bidder Role for K9 Precision Fuse
South Korea’s DAPA has named Hanwha Aerospace preferred bidder to develop a GPS-guided 155mm course correction fuse for ...
Taliban Mark Five Years Back in Power With a Firmer Grip Than in the 1990s
Five years after retaking Kabul, the Taliban face no serious armed rival and have alternative patrons in Moscow and Beij...
Australia Becomes First Foreign Buyer of the Classified AIM-260 JATM
Canberra will spend about $520 million to arm its fighters with America's secretive long-range air-to-air missile, a ste...
The F-4 Phantom vs MiG-21: How Vietnam's Rules Changed Fighter Doctrine
The F-4 Phantom outmatched the MiG-21 on paper, but Vietnam's visual-identification rules and unreliable early missiles ...
Russia and Ukraine Escalate Air War as Long-Range Strikes Kill Civilians
Moscow reports one of the heaviest Ukrainian drone attacks yet, while Kyiv says Russian ballistic missiles killed at lea...
Iran Offers $30,000 Bounty for Killing or Capturing US Troops
Tehran's military says it will pay $30,000 for the death or capture of American troops — double for women — as disputes ...
Russia Strikes ArcelorMittal's Kryvyi Rih Plant; NATO F-18 Downs Drone Over Romania
Kryvyi Rih's steel mill was damaged in overnight Russian strikes, while Ukrainian drones killed one near Moscow and hit ...
Pentagon Gives Defense Contractors 21 Days to Detail Production Acceleration Plans
Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg has given Boeing, Lockheed Martin and other prime contractors 21 days to map cap...