‘Totally new’: Nammo pursues rocket motor engine for latest IRIS-T air defense
The push comes as German defense firm Diehl targets a first Safety Integrity Level (SIL) firing test of the surface-launched IRIS-T SLX in 2027.
Concurrent attacks across multiple domains force rethinking of air-and-missile-defense
While overall effectiveness is high, damage to US bases and assets in the Iran conflict shows gaps in air-and-missile-defense.
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Island surge: the Army’s Next Generation Command and Control in action
Lightning Surge exercises are turning soldier feedback on NGC2 into operational software changes in days, not years.
CENTCOM launches multinational one-way attack drone force
The force “will employ one-way attack drones consisting of unmanned systems from above, on, and below the sea operated by military support staff from the United States and regional partners,” the command said.
Belgium splashes $3.5 billion to build shared air defense arsenal with the Netherlands
"After twenty years without one, Belgium will build again its own powerful air defence capability through this joint procurement,” said Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken.
Iran was the most successful failure in US airpower history
The US entered the conflict with a detailed plan for a war of destruction, but no serious plan for Iran’s war of disruption.
As 2-week ceasefire takes hold, Pentagon touts ‘decisive military victory’
“We've destroyed Iran's defense industrial base, their ability to reconstitute those capabilities for years to come,” said Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine.
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Ukraine inks defense agreements with Qatar and Saudi Arabia, with UAE to follow
“Ukraine has been countering [Iranian drones] for years [and] all features of this defense are of interest to the Gulf,” Samuel Bendett, adviser at Center for New America Security, told Breaking Defense.
With Formula 1 blueprint, MGI Engineering says it’s revving up to scale drone production
Before they turned to producing attritable one-way attack drones for the military, MGI Engineering collaborated with Formula One racing car teams in a design and consultancy capacity.
New UK sanctions for alleged Russian suppliers hit Turkish and Emirati firms, Iranian drone maker
The "landmark sanctions will further diminish Russia’s arsenal and close the net on supply chains propping up Putin’s now struggling defence industry," said UK foreign secretary James Cleverly.