Defense
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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...
HII Wins $2.2bn SOUTHCOM Contract to Expand ISR and Counter-Threat Capabilities
The award under the ASTRO IDIQ vehicle gives HII Mission Technologies a multi-year platform for intelligence, surveillan...
Northrop Grumman Unveils Raid Hunter, a 50mm Palletised Gun for Drone and Cruise Missile Defence
Northrop Grumman's Raid Hunter concept pairs a 50mm chain gun with precision-guided rounds to counter mass drone and cru...
Patria and KNDS Sign German Assembly Deal for CAVS 6x6 Armoured Vehicles
The framework sets KNDS Deutschland Maintenance as Patria's local assembly partner for 6x6 armoured vehicles, with Bunde...
TKMS Lifts Guidance and Shares Jump 15% as Auto Managers Move to Naval Shipbuilding
ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems reports a €20bn order book, raises full-year targets, and sees shares top €100 as car-indust...
Rheinmetall’s Imperial Ambitions: The German Arms Giant Rousing French Suspicion
Armin Papperger has turned Rheinmetall into Europe’s dominant defence player, but his voracious appetite for consolidati...
Romanian Navy Destroys Two Gerbera Drones Near Black Sea Gas Project
The Romanian military neutralised two Gerbera-type drones found close to the Neptun Deep offshore gas perimeter, raising...
Federal Government Awards $768M Lab Contract Under NATO Defence Framework
The RSS Main project in Ottawa will house 275 scientists from four federal agencies, contributing $900M to Canada’s NATO...
USS Theodore Roosevelt Activates Carrier’s First Unmanned Air Warfare Center
The USS Theodore Roosevelt is now the Navy’s first carrier fully-equipped to operate the Boeing MQ-25A unmanned tanker, ...
Ukraine’s Cost-Driven Drone Defense Model Reshapes Modern Air Warfare
Facing massed drone barrages, Ukraine has built a layered, low-cost air defense doctrine using helicopters, gun-armed je...
Chinese Peacekeeping Chopper Unit Sets Flight Record in Abyei Emergency
Responding to a last-minute UN request, the 6th Chinese Peacekeeping Helicopter Contingent flew an 8-hour mission under ...
Raytheon Secures $745M US-Japan SM-3 Block IIA Missile Contract
The Missile Defense Agency awarded Raytheon a $745.39m contract to produce SM-3 Block IIA interceptors for the US and Ja...
GDIT Wins $1.3 Billion Contract to Modernize Army National Guard Networks
The seven-year ENOCS deal tasks GDIT with integrating AI and cybersecurity into classified and unclassified networks, ex...
Artec Lands Order for 69 More Boxer RCT30s for German, Dutch Forces
An option within a 2025 framework contract will see the Bundeswehr receive 35 additional Schakal vehicles and the Royal ...
German MoD Initiates Reactivation of Five Former Barracks for New Military Service
The German defence ministry is preparing five disused military properties in Speyer, Kusel, Sigmaringen, Soest, and Frie...
Pentagon Pressures Defense Contractors to Fast-Track Munitions After Iran Clashes Deplete Interceptors
The U.S. Department of Defense has given major arms manufacturers 21 days to submit plans for drastically expanding prod...
Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan Sign Joint Defence Pact in Mecca
The 'Mecca Joint Defence Agreement' treats an attack on one as an attack on all, amid rising Israeli and Iranian asserti...
Pentagon Issues 21-Day Deadline for Defense Firms to Ramp Up Arms Production as Iran War Drains Stockpiles
With Patriot and THAAD interceptor stocks down over 65%, the Pentagon tells manufacturers to submit aggressive delivery ...
Pentagon Demands Faster Weapons Production from Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon as Iran War Strains Stockpiles
Deputy Defence Secretary Steve Feinberg ordered major defence contractors to slash development timelines and expand manu...
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey forge mutual defense pact as regional security orders realign
The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement binds the three nations to view any armed attack on one as an attack on all, but falls...
Spain Ranks 18th Globally in Military Power, Keeping Significant Edge Over Rearming Morocco
Spain holds the 18th spot among 145 nations in the 2026 Global Firepower index, with a conventional advantage over neigh...
U.S. Army Develops Synthetic Human Tissue Models to Study Electromagnetic Exposure
The U.S. Army is building artificial skin, bone, and brain tissue to better understand how radar and communication syste...