With rising Russian activity making security in the High North, North Atlantic, and Baltic Seas more fragile, the German Navy has acquired its first of eight Boeing P-8A Poseidon Maritime… Continue reading "Germany Receives the First Boeing P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft"
Raytheon announced it has successfully tested a ground-launched variant of its StormBreaker smart weapon. The live-fire trial took place in the spring of 2025 at a private range in the… Continue reading "Raytheon Successfully Tests Ground-Launched Precision Strike System StormBreaker"
Spain’s Council of Ministers had approved a significant defense modernization plan that includes buying up to 45 Turkish-made TAI Hürjet advanced jet trainers to replace its aging Northrop F-5M fleet.… Continue reading "Spain Signs Deal for 45 TAI Hürjet Supersonic Jet Trainers to Replace F-5 Fleet"
Sikorsky (a Lockheed Martin company) has secured a $10.86 billion defense contract from the U.S. Navy to build up to 99 CH-53K heavy-lift helicopters for the U.S. Marine Corps over… Continue reading "Sikorsky Awarded $10.8 Billion Contract for CH-53K King Stallion Helicopters"
The Pentagon announced on September 29, that it has awarded Raytheon a $5.04 billion Army contract to procure its Coyote counter-UAS system and Ku-band radar sensors. Under this cost-plus-fixed-fee deal,… Continue reading "Pentagon Awards $5.04 Billion Contract to Raytheon for Coyote Counter-Drone System and KuRFS Radars"
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order late on Sunday blocking the Trump administration’s attempts to federalize and deploy National Guard units from any state to Portland, after the… Continue reading "Federal Judge Issues Temporary Block To Trump’s National Guard Deployments To Portland"
The Indian Navy commissioned its second state-of-the-art Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW-SWC), INS Androth, at Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam on 6 October. The commissioning ceremony was presided over by Vice… Continue reading "Indian Navy Commissions its Second Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft – INS Androth"
The Indian Army has issued a tender to procure five to six regiments of the Anant Shastra Air Missile Defence System (AMDS) to the state-owned Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL). The… Continue reading "Indian Army Issues $3.4 Billion Contract for BEL’s Anant Shastra Air Defence System"
The United States has approved a U.S.-Germany missile deal authorizing a $1.23 billion sale of advanced air-to-air missiles to Germany. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) confirmed that Berlin requested… Continue reading "U.S. Approves $1.23 Billion Missile Deal With Germany"
India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully tested the Agni-Prime ballistic missile from a specially designed rail-based mobile launcher on September 24. The intermediate-range missile was fired under a… Continue reading "India Successfully Launches Agni-Prime Missile from Rail-Based Mobile Launcher"