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A $163M armored vehicle program last active in 2019 is running again — this time for Ukraine. The MSFV was built for Afghanistan. Now it's being manufactured in Louisiana for a different war.
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A blacked-out minivan with no plates, cameras on the roof, and a uniformed driver showed up near Japan's biggest military exercise. Nobody's saying what it was.
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Italy and Germany built a new tank together — and it's going on display in Paris next week. The prototype carries an active protection system that shoots down missiles and drones before they hit
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Russia sent 1,400 jet-powered drones at Ukraine this year. All of last year: 180. These drones fly fast enough that some Ukrainian systems simply can't catch them.
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Sweden launched its fighter jets twice in one day to intercept Russian warplanes over the Baltic Sea. Two separate incidents — north and south — on the same Friday. Stockholm called it "very serious."
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The US Navy bought 50 prototypes of a new hypersonic missile designed to cost $300K per unit — a fraction of existing weapons. It also wants to fire them from unmanned ships.
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USAF awarded $400M 10-year IDIQ construction contract at Morón Air Base, Spain — three months after Madrid barred the base from Iran-related operations and forced 15 KC-135s to relocate to Germany.
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U.S. Navy awards Sikorsky $525M to develop and qualify advanced technologies for the CH-53K King Stallion.
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Nearly 1,300 F-35 stealth fighters fly across 12 countries. Keeping them all operational takes serious infrastructure.
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Australia keeps growing its new spy plane fleet. The third MC-55A Peregrine arrived — a plane that tracks ships, radar, and communications across the Indo-Pacific.
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No factory fix exists for the Abrams' drone problem. So Ukraine's crews built their own — a modular cage that protects the tank while still letting the turret rotate and fire.
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Rostec's Shvabe presented a mock-up of a neural network-guided drone interceptor system at Fleet 2026 in Kronstadt.
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A drone interceptor co-developed by Ukraine's former Minister was evaluated by Finland's military. Destinus Hornet Block 1 — radar-guided, AI terminal seeker, 75 km range, GNSS-denied capable.
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Three NATO nations already use Latvia's BLAZE drone-killer. Now they've formed a club to share battlefield lessons — and several more countries are quietly buying in.
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South Korea is building a dedicated hub for AI military robots — and one city just won the right to host it. Nonsan will get $32M to develop, test, and field the next generation of battlefield machines.
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Iran's blockade closed the sea route. So the UAE sent 8 military cargo jets to South Korea to fly home a missile defense battery that already proved itself against Iranian targets.
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South Korea is dismantling the military spy agency that helped a president try to seize power. The Defense Counterintelligence Command deployed troops and drafted arrest lists on the night of the 2024 coup attempt.
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The U.S. Army has a problem: keeping tens of thousands of troops supplied across months of war is too complex for spreadsheets. III Armored Corps hired an AI startup to solve it.
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Russia and China can jam or destroy today's giant military satellites. The U.S. Space Force's answer: smaller, maneuverable anti-jam replacements. Viasat got the contract to build one of the first.
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A drone locked onto a target 43km away with no GPS signal. That's wider than the Strait of Hormuz — where GPS has been jammed throughout the Iran war. The software runs on any drone.
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