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Before an F-35 takes off, pilots plan the mission on ground software and load it into the jet. The U.S. Navy is now lining up a five-year contract to help redesign that software, with an award expected next spring.
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Japan's first missile built to strike enemy bases sits at an army camp in a residential part of Kumamoto. After residents asked to see it, the base opened its doors and soldiers walked visitors through the launcher.
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If GPS gets jammed, warships still need to know where they are. Northrop Grumman just got $29.2 million to build navigation systems that work without it, and Canada and Australia are paying most of the bill.
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Japan's Type 25 missile is boosted up high by a rocket, then its warhead glides down toward the target at hypersonic speed, which makes it hard to shoot down.
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First look at the U.S. Army's next Abrams tank and the two vehicles fighting to replace the Bradley, all firing live rounds.
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The U.S. Air Force is paying Scale AI another $12 million to build AI agents for its next "doomsday plane," the flying command post leaders would use if ground headquarters were wiped out in a nuclear war.
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Northrop's YFQ-48A Talon Blue has flown, fully autonomous from taxi to landing at Mojave.
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Russia's new robot tank had a rough first outing. It kept losing contact with its operators during the Tsentr-2026 drills, so a human drove it for Putin's demo. It got stuck in the mud anyway.
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Italy's Leonardo took a 40mm gun built for warships and put it on land to shoot down drones. The first photo of the system being tested just surfaced online.
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Leonidas zaps drones with microwave energy instead of shooting them, and one burst can take down a whole swarm. Its maker says it just linked the weapon into a wider U.S. Army drone defense network during a recent exercise.
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A U.S. Navy surveillance drone the size of a small airliner ended up stuck at the end of a runway in Florida, right next to the St. Johns River.
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The U.S. military is turning Guantanamo Bay into a training site for drones and other unmanned systems. Some are already there, supporting operations against drug cartels across Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Russia showed a T-90M tank shooting down attacking drones during its Tsentr-2026 drills. The system spots incoming threats with radar and fires small charges to destroy them.
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Russia sent remote-controlled tanks into its big Tsentr-2026 war games. The catch: three operators run each one from another armored vehicle that has to stay within about 3 km, so the crew is still close to the fight.
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Russia has taken a missile its attack helicopters use in Ukraine and put it on a truck. At the Tsentr-2026 drills, the new launcher hit mock artillery positions. Russia says it can strike targets up to 20 km away.
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Russia's Pantsir air defense system is now riding on a heavy chassis built in Belarus. It appeared at Russia's big Tsentr-2026 drills this week. Ukraine already destroyed one of these near Mariupol back in February.
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Ukraine's president says about half of its F-16 fighter jets have been stuck in Europe for long repairs. He wants the work done inside Ukraine so the jets can get back in the air faster.
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AM General is building a next-generation version of the legendary Humvee with a new 250-horsepower diesel engine, up from about 190 hp in the standard armored model the U.S. military uses today.
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France has started building a 122-meter frigate for Sweden at its Lorient shipyard. It's the first of four, with air defense missiles, torpedoes and room for a helicopter. Sweden picked the French design mostly because it could be delivered fastest.
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Poland is spending about $23 million to rebuild a military electronics plant near Wrocław. Work on the first stage starts under a $5.5 million contract with a Polish builder, and the plant plans to hire about 100 more people.
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