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Chinese firm publishes satellite images of US Typhon missile system in Japan
MizarVision, a Chinese satellite imagery firm, released additional overhead images showing what it identified as elements of the U.S. Army’s Typhon Mid-Range Capability missile system positioned at Kanoya Air Base, a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force installation in Kagoshima Prefecture on the southern island of Kyushu. The Typhon system is not a single miss
Russia’s Engels bomber base reportedly under drone attack
Ukrainian drones reportedly struck Russia’s Engels air base, officially known as Engels-2, in the Saratov region overnight into July 16, according to Russian Telegram channels and independent monitoring groups, with residents of both Engels and the neighboring city of Saratov reporting a barrage of low-flying drones followed by a string of powerful explosion
Finland’s military buys radios built to resist jamming
Finland has placed its third order in less than a year for radios that can keep soldiers talking across hundreds of miles without satellites, cell towers, or GPS, a technology bet that keeps paying off as tensions with Russia push Nordic militaries to rebuild communications systems that can survive jamming and outages. The Finnish Defence […]
Ukraine’s ballistic missile program hits a milestone amid chaos
Ukraine’s government collapsed and a new ballistic missile flew successfully on the very same day, a coincidence the country’s outgoing defense chief made sure nobody missed. Mykhailo Fedorov, who stepped down as Ukraine’s Minister of Defense this week after just seven months in the post, announced that Ukraine conducted a successful test of a domestically [
Israeli firm Axon Vision launches ForceField AI system to counter FPV drone threats
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The Defence Blog19h agoU.S. Army partners with Auriga Space to test electromagnetic weapon
The U.S. Army has agreed to help test a weapon that fires interceptors using magnets instead of gunpowder or rocket fuel, betting that ditching traditional propulsion might finally solve a math problem that has been quietly draining America’s missile stockpiles. Auriga Space, a California company building electromagnetic launch technology, and the Army’s Com
Ukraine remains Germany’s top arms customer once again
Germany approved more weapons for export in six months than most countries manage in years, and the country that received the single biggest share of that approval, once again, is not a NATO member at all. It’s Ukraine. Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, the government agency responsible for reviewing and approving […]
Ukraine’s drone output hits 10 million a year, Zelenskyy says
Ukraine now builds roughly 10 million drones a year, a tenfold jump from the target President Volodymyr Zelenskyy first announced just three years ago, Radio Svoboda, the Ukrainian service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, reported. Zelenskyy delivered the figure during a ceremony in Kyiv marking Ukrainian Statehood Day, framing it as proof that a goal […]
25 senators press Pentagon to release findings on Iran school bombing
Twenty-five U.S. senators want to know why the Pentagon is still sitting on an investigation into one of the deadliest strikes involving American forces in more than three decades, and they’re giving the Department of War exactly one week to start answering. Senators Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, joined by […]
UK’s military innovation arm sets five priorities for new tech
Britain’s military just handed itself a $536 million-a-year budget and a five-point checklist for turning laboratory ideas into battlefield equipment faster than its notoriously slow defense bureaucracy has managed in decades. UK Defence Innovation, the Ministry of Defence’s newly consolidated innovation arm known as UKDI, announced Wednesday the five core t
UK company built a giant robotic ship
A 17-meter robotic ship built to patrol the ocean alone for nearly two months at a stretch has just rolled off a British production line, and its arrival says as much about where naval technology is headed as it does about the vessel itself. ZeroUSV, a Plymouth-based maker of uncrewed surface vessels, confirmed that its […]
Ukraine says its drone just took down a Russian Mi-28 helicopter
Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, the branch of the Ukrainian military built specifically around drone warfare, said operators from the Rarog unit struck a Russian Mi-28 attack helicopter with a FPV (first-person-view) drone, a small remote-controlled aircraft flown by an operator wearing video goggles that show a live feed from a camera mounted on the dron
From garage to Pentagon: Neros wins $500M U.S. Army drone deal
A drone manufacturer founded by two former teenage drone-racing prodigies has landed a Pentagon contract worth up to $500 million to supply first-person-view attack drones to the U.S. Army, the Wall Street Journal reported. Neros Technologies, based in El Segundo, California, will mass-produce the low-cost, expendable drones that have come to define modern b
Germany’s newest fighter jet just made its first flight
A brand new fighter jet lifted off from a runway in Bavaria for the first time this week, and the small crowd watching it climb into the sky understood something the average person scrolling past a headline might not: this single flight just bought Germany’s air force another 20 to 30 years of relevance in […]
Finland’s newest export: parts for the F-35 stealth jet
A Finnish factory floor in the small town of Jämsä, roughly 220 kilometers (137 miles) north of Helsinki, has started building parts for the most advanced fighter jet in NATO’s arsenal, and the milestone puts Finland in a club that includes almost no other country outside the United States. Patria, the Finnish state-controlled defense manufacturer, […]
GE wins the engine contract for UK’s newest helicopters
The British military’s newest helicopter fleet finally has an engine, closing a question that even reporters covering the program in real time couldn’t get UK officials to answer for months. GE Aerospace announced July 14 that Leonardo selected its CT7-2E1 engine to power all 23 AW149 helicopters being built for the UK Ministry of Defence’s […]
Ghostworks unveils MRLN, a new naval autonomy system
Ghostworks, a boutique shipyard based in Holland, Michigan, introduced MRLN, the Multirole Remote Logistics Node, on July 14 at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit, an event hosted by U.S. Senator Dave McCormick at the Army War College in Carlisle. MRLN is not a boat itself but a remote-piloting and autonomy system that installs onto […]
Satellite image confirms Russian patrol ship destroyed near Novorossiysk
A satellite passing over southern Russia captured the aftermath Tuesday evening, and the image leaves little room for doubt: the Russian border guard ship Izumrud sits partially submerged against its pier, the surrounding dock scorched black from fire, exactly as Ukraine’s navy said it would be after announcing the ship’s destruction earlier the same day. […
German firms test a drone boat fired from torpedo tubes
Two German defense companies just proved a submarine can fire a scout instead of a torpedo, completing sea trials of an uncrewed boat small enough to launch from a standard torpedo tube and surface on its own to spy on an enemy without ever putting the submarine itself at risk. GABLER, a German firm known […]
Ukraine sinks Russian patrol ship near Novorossiysk
Ukraine’s navy sank a Russian border guard ship near Novorossiysk using an unmanned strike boat. The Ukrainian Navy said its sailors sank the Rubin-class patrol ship Izumrud (354), a Russian Federal Security Service border guard vessel, using the Sargan-3000, a domestically built unmanned surface strike platform that has entered service with Ukraine’s naval