3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (459+ words) A joint force from Britain, Norway, and the United States tracked and confronted Russian submersibles rehearsing a covert attack on undersea cables near Norway’s Svalbard archipelago this spring, forcing the vessels to abandon the exercise and leave the area. This…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (531+ words) Israeli firm Axon Vision has won the first order for ForceField, an AI-driven gun turret built to shoot down the fiber-optic drones that radio jamming cannot touch, in a deal worth up to about 15 million shekels ($5.0 million) from an unnamed…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (416+ words) Finnish defense firm Patria completed assembly of the country’s first F135 fighter engine on September 3, giving NATO a domestic propulsion source on the alliance’s northern flank weeks before Finland’s first F-35A jets arrive at an air base near the Russian frontier....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (461+ words) Israel and Greece signed a €3 billion ($3.5 billion) agreement in Tel Aviv on August 31 for a nationwide, multi-layered air-defense network that marks the first time Israel has sold another country a complete integrated defense array rather than individual systems. Israel Ministry…...

2+ week, 9+ hour ago   (355+ words) Uzbekistan has confirmed it operates the Chinese-built Chengdu J-10CE fighter, becoming the type’s second export customer after Pakistan and the first Central Asian state to fly it. State television channel O’zbekiston 24 aired footage of the jets on August 28, part of programming…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (357+ words) Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence said Aug. 27 that front-line units have begun combat testing strike unmanned ground vehicles fitted with a turret that mounts two Kalashnikov assault rifles, the most widely used small arm in Ukrainian units. The ministry said Special…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (434+ words) Northern Command said a border task force laser defeated three unmanned aircraft judged hostile on August 25 and 26, the first AMP-HEL shots at cartel-linked drones on the southern border. AeroVironment confirmed one of its AMP-HEL systems was used but did not…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (299+ words) Italy plans to arm its Eurofighter jets with more than 5,000 low-cost guided rockets to shoot down drones, weeks after one of its fighters used an expensive air-to-air missile to bring down an intruding drone over Latvia. APKWS II is a…...

3+ week, 10+ hour ago   (255+ words) China’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) confirmed the exercise on August 14. Senior Colonel Chen Xi, MND spokesperson, said the training would cover air combat tactics, air superiority operations, combat search and rescue, and force employment drills, running from mid-August through…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (456+ words) A $533 million U.S. project to produce artillery shells for Ukraine at a General Dynamics factory near Dallas failed to deliver a single usable round, according to a ProPublica investigation and a Pentagon inspector general report. The factory in Mesquite, Texas, was…...