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Mystery drones have appeared once again near US bases in the UK.

Mysterious Drones Have Descended Again On U.S. Air Bases In The United Kingdom (Updated)

By Tyler Rogoway, Howard Altman
Updated on Nov 25, 2024
The U.S. Army has received the first of its new High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES) aircraft, based on the Bombardier Global 6500 bizjet. Set to supersede a varied fleet of turboprop intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms, HADES will fly higher, faster, and farther, and for longer periods, while carrying a bigger sensor payload.

Army Gets Its First HADES Airborne Reconnaissance Jet

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Nov 25, 2024
U.S. Marine Corps

Marines’ New Sniper Rifle Declared Fully Operational A Year Early

By Geoff Ziezulewicz
Posted on Nov 23, 2024
Anti-aircraft missile system S-400 parade on Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square during the Victory Day ceremony devoted to the 71th anniversary of the end of World War II in St.Petersburg on May 9, 2016.

North Korea Getting New Air Defenses In Return For Supporting Russia In Ukraine: Official

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Nov 22, 2024
While it has turned out that the RS-26-based Oreshnik that Russia fired at Ukraine was not a conventionally-armed ICBM, it still highlights the very real interest in, if not more active development and even potential fielding of, a weapon of that kind globally.

Conventionally Armed ICBM Concept Highlighted By Unprecedented Russian Missile Attack On Ukraine

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Nov 22, 2024
SULYHIVKA, UKRAINE - MARCH 26: Emergency demining team carries out demining and destruction of explosives in Sulyhivka, Ukraine on March 26, 2024. A demining team works to destroy mines and other explosives in a remote area of the Kharkiv region. According to experts, it may take two or three years to completely clear this small area of explosives.

Anti-Personnel Landmines Included In U.S. Aid Package To Ukraine For First Time

By Howard Altman
Posted on Nov 22, 2024
A RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile vehicle during the rehearsals for the Victory Day Military Parade at the polygon, on April 18, 2022 in Alabino, outside of Moscow, Russia. About 12,000 soldiers and officers are expected to take pat at the Red Square Victory Day Military Parade, planned on May 9.

The Story Of Russia’s Secretive RS-26 Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Nov 22, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country's forces fired a previously unknown medium-range hypersonic missile called Oreshnik at Ukraine earlier today.

Russia’s Experimental Ballistic Missile Used To Strike Ukraine Is Based On The RS-26 Rubezh

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Nov 21, 2024
The U.S. military risks going into a potential major fight with China with insufficient stocks of Patriot surface-to-air interceptors and other key munitions due to obligations in the Middle East and Ukraine, the top officer in the Pacific has warned.

Conflicts ‘Eating Into’ Critical Munitions Stockpiles Needed For China Fight, Top U.S. Officer In Pacific Warns

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Nov 20, 2024
Picatinny Arsenal drone sighting

Army Arsenal Seeking Info On Mysterious Drone Flights Over Installation

By Howard Altman
Updated on Nov 20, 2024
Ukraine has used the U.S.-made Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) for the first time against a target inside Russia. The announcement comes soon after Moscow warned that the use of Western-supplied long-range missiles by Ukraine against Russia could trigger a nuclear response, after Russian nuclear war plans were updated.

U.S.-Supplied ATACMS Missile Strike Inside Russia Have Begun

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Nov 19, 2024
Key Trump nominee blasts BIden decision to allow Ukraine to use ATACMS in Russia.

Biden ATACMS Decision Spurs Russian Threats, Hope and Derision Elsewhere

By Howard Altman
Posted on Nov 18, 2024
The US Army has been exploring options for years now for a highly computerized 30mm Precision Grenadier System (PGS) that soldiers could use to engage targets ranging from enemy personnel behind cover to light armored vehicles to drones in the sky.

One Of These Futuristic Grenade Launchers Could Succeed Where The Army’s ‘Punisher’ Failed

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Nov 17, 2024
German Navy warships were once nearly armed with gun turrets taken from land-based PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzers. The installation was tested in experiments around a decade ago, with some positive results. Although it was ultimately considered too complex an undertaking, it reflected a broader focus on increasing the range and accuracy of naval guns, efforts which continue today.

The Time Germany Grafted An Army Howitzer Turret Onto A Frigate

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Nov 15, 2024
A photo has emerged showing examples of the North Korean-made self-propelled artillery system under transport in Russia, the clearest suggestion so far that Pyongyang is also now providing Moscow with these kinds of weapons for its war in Ukraine. That would hardly be a surprise at this point, with North Korea having supplied Russia with huge amounts of weaponry, as well as having committed to the deployment of thousands of troops for the conflict.

North Korean Long-Range Self-Propelled Artillery Appears In Russia

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Nov 14, 2024
SB>1 Defiant at the Army Aviation Museum at Fort Novosel.

SB>1 Defiant High-Speed Helicopter Put To Rest In A Museum

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Nov 13, 2024
A new palletized ground-based launcher concept that can be loaded with up to two dozen 227mm guided artillery rockets at a time – four times what an M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) can pack at once – recently broke cover.

Mobile Launcher That Can Fire Four Times More Weapons Than HIMARS Emerges

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Nov 13, 2024
Mosfilm, Russia's largest film studio, donated dozens of ancient tanks to the military last year.

Russia’s Largest Film Studio Donated Antique Tanks To The Military

By Howard Altman
Posted on Nov 13, 2024
Boeing is pushing ahead with plans for future upgrades to the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter. While the scope of what is tentatively known as the modernized Apache have been scaled back somewhat compared to how it once looked, the company is considering the lessons of the war in Ukraine as it seeks to optimize the AH-64 so that it can continue to serve the U.S. Army into the 2060s.

Boeing’s Plan For Modernized AH-64 Apaches Serving Into The 2060s

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Nov 13, 2024
Chinese Hypersonic Boost-Glide Vehicle Concept That Launches Its Own Weapons Emerges

Chinese Hypersonic Boost-Glide Vehicle Concept That Launches Its Own Weapons Emerges

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Nov 11, 2024
The curious North Korean Type 73 machine gun is getting new attention as a result of the Hermit Kingdom's expanding support for Russia's war in Ukraine, which now includes the deployment of thousands of troops.

North Korea’s Wacky Type 73 Machine Guns May Be Entering The Fight In Ukraine

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Nov 9, 2024
In major policy shift, Biden administration is allowing U.S. contractors to work in Ukraine fixing and maintaining donated weapons.

U.S. Contractors Will Be Allowed To Fix F-16s, Patriots In Ukraine: Report

By Howard Altman
Posted on Nov 8, 2024
Massive Chinese Anti-Drone High-Power Microwave Weapon Emerges

Massive Chinese Anti-Drone High-Power Microwave Weapon Emerges

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Nov 7, 2024
The Army has racked up 170 kills with Coyote counter-drone interceptors in operational deployments globally.

Army Coyote Drone Hunting Drones Have Scored 170 Combat Kills

By Joseph Trevithick, Howard Altman
Posted on Nov 1, 2024
Lasers, Microwaves, Missiles, Guns Not On The Table For Domestic Drone Defense

Lasers, Microwaves, Missiles, Guns Not On The Table For Domestic Drone Defense

By Joseph Trevithick, Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Oct 31, 2024
How The Army Will Use Its Super Integrated Air Defense System

How The Army Will Use Its Super Integrated Air Defense System

By Jamie Hunter
Posted on Oct 30, 2024
Taiwan is lining up to become the next customer for the combat-proven National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System or NASAMS air defense system, after the United States approved its sale to the country.

Battle-Proven NASAMS Air Defense Systems Approved For Taiwan

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Oct 30, 2024
NK Troops Ukraine

North Korea Gaining Modern Combat Experience Fighting Ukraine Is A Big Problem

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Oct 29, 2024
The Kremlin-appointed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has vowed to avenge a Ukrainian drone attack that struck a military training facility in Chechnya. The raid, which appears to be the first of its kind to hit the southern Russian republic, is one of the longest-range drone strikes that Ukraine has attempted. The target was special forces training center, but the attack also has significant symbolic value, due to Kadyrov’s vocal support for the Russian war in Ukraine.

Ukraine Strikes Chechnya With Long-Range Drones For The First Time

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Oct 29, 2024
The U.S. Army pushed back the start of work on a new integrated active protection system (APS) and autoloader for its planned next-generation iteration of the M1 Abrams tank, or M1E3, into the current fiscal year.

Next-Gen M1 Abrams Tank’s Active Protection System, Autoloader Development Off To Delayed Start

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Oct 29, 2024
A Russian-made, S-300 missile system drives in front of the officials' stand during a military parade marking the annual Iranian National Army Day in Tehran, on April 18, 2019. - Iran's President Hassan Rouhani called on Middle East states on April 18 to "drive back Zionism", in an Army Day tirade against the Islamic republic's archfoe Israel. Speaking flanked by top general as troops paraded in a show of might, Rouhani also sought to reassure the region that the weaponry on display was for defensive purposes and not a threat.

Israeli Strikes Knocked Out All Of Iran’s S-300 Air Defense Systems: Officials

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Oct 28, 2024
A total of 44 U.S. Army helicopters suffered various degrees of damage during a burst of extreme weather at Fort Carson in Colorado earlier this year.

Dozens Of AH-64, UH-60, and CH-47 Helicopters Were Damaged In Storm At Colorado Army Base

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Oct 28, 2024
The U.S. Marines are testing a heavily automated targeting system that helps physically point standard infantry rifles in the direction of the target as a new option to help shoot down drones.

Marines Testing Counter-Drone Rifle Aiming System With Automatically Moving Stock

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Oct 25, 2024
German Navy P-8

German P-8s To Fly From U.K. To Help Counter Russian Submarine Threat

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Oct 23, 2024
Satellite view of the island of Guam plus Mk 41 VLS from Aegis Ashore air defense system.

Our First Look At Land-Based Aegis Missile Defense System In Guam

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Oct 21, 2024
The U.S. Army is looking to give its still-in-development anti-tank guided 155mm artillery shells the ability to 'collaborate' with each other to help find their targets and otherwise be more effective.

Army Wants Its New Tank-Busting 155mm Artillery Shells To Work Cooperatively To Find Their Targets

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Oct 18, 2024
A CH-47 Chinook from B Co "Big Windy," 1-214th General Support Aviation Battalion lifts a 173rd Airborne Brigade tactical vehicle during Saber Junction 20 at Grafenwöhr Training on Aug. 5.

Army Confirms It’s Exploring Requirements For A New Heavy-Lift Helicopter To Replace Chinook

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Oct 17, 2024
General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) has unveiled a new Mission Command On The Move (MCOTM) concept and its supporting hardware centered on a hybrid-electric Stryker-based vehicle.

Command Center Stryker Teamed With Uncrewed Ground Vehicle ‘Wingmen’ A Sign Of Things To Come

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Oct 17, 2024
Directed-Energy Counter-Drone Stryker

Here’s What Leonardo DRS’ Laser-Equipped Counter-Drone Stryker Armored Vehicle Is Capable Of

By Jamie Hunter
Updated on Oct 16, 2024
The U.S. Army's Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) tiltrotor is shaping up to be significantly different from the V-280 Valor from which it is derived, from its drive train to its fuselage design to the configuration of the seats inside the main cabin.

Army’s Future Vertical Lift Tiltrotor Will Differ Significantly From V-280 Valor It’s Based On

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Oct 16, 2024
An Australian Army M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank fires its 120mm cannon during Exercise Gauntlet Strike, at the Puckapunyal Military Area, Victoria.

Australia To Send M1 Abrams Tanks To Ukraine (Updated)

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Oct 16, 2024
The U.S. Army is already interested in scaling down its new Typhon ground-based missile system, if possible, to help make it easier to deploy and operate.

Army Looking To Shrink Typhon Missile System After Lessons Learned From First Deployment

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Oct 15, 2024
V280 valor long range assaults

Army Already Preparing For V-280 Valor To Dramatically Transform Air Assaults

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Oct 15, 2024
Oshkosh Defense Medium Caliber Weapon System on a Stryker

Oshkosh Talks Its 30mm Cannon-Wielding Medium Caliber Weapon System On The Army’s New Strykers

By Jamie Hunter
Posted on Oct 15, 2024
.Two major defense players from Italy and Germany have teamed up to build tanks, and infantry fighting vehicles, initially for the Italian Army, but potentially also for other customers, as armored warfare makes a resurgence in Europe and elsewhere.

Joint German-Italian Battle Tank Venture Could Shake Up European Armor Landscape

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Oct 15, 2024
The U.S. Army is no longer pursuing a new interceptor for its Patriot surface-to-air missile systems. The disclosure as the service has also said it wants to reduce reliance on the highly in demand and heavily strained Patriot force and look more at tailored air defense force packages leveraging its Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) network.

New Patriot Missile Interceptor Axed By Army

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Oct 15, 2024
China has revealed a new tiltrotor drone concept, the Zhang Ying UR6000, that has clear military potential, despite initially being pitched for civilian missions.

China’s Large Tiltrotor Drone Breaks Cover

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Oct 15, 2024
THAAD being sent to Israel

Emergency THAAD Deployment To Israel Heightens Concerns On Strain To U.S. Air Defenses

By Howard Altman
Posted on Oct 14, 2024
Experimental Fly-By-Wire UH-60M Black Hawk To Become Autonomy Testbed

Experimental Fly-By-Wire UH-60M Black Hawk To Become Autonomy Testbed

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Oct 14, 2024
A new counter-drone focused variant of the 8x8 Stryker light armored vehicle armed with a laser directed energy weapon, laser-guided 70mm rockets, a 30mm automatic cannon, radars and other sensors has broken cover.

Counter-Drone Stryker Armored Vehicle Armed With Lasers, Rockets, Guns Unveiled

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Oct 11, 2024
Search For Barrett .50 Caliber Sniper Rifle Replacement Halted By SOCOM

Search For Barrett .50 Caliber Sniper Rifle Replacement Halted By SOCOM

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Oct 11, 2024
U.S. Air Force officials at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia are looking at installing anti-drone nets to help protect F-22 Raptor stealth fighters on the flightline.

Protective Nets To Shield F-22s Eyed For Airbase Swarmed By Mystery Drones

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Oct 9, 2024
Roadrunner Anduril

Anduril’s Roadrunner Drone Hunting Drone Gets Expanded Order From Pentagon

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Oct 8, 2024
Israeli defense contractor Rafael says it has developed a new version of its combat-proven Trophy active protection system (APS) that is better able to defeat top-down attacks including drones.

Trophy Armored Vehicle Protection System Gains New Ability To Defeat Drones

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Oct 8, 2024
Iran looks to have fielded a Chinese laser directed energy weapon capable of 'dazzling' drones or even destroying them in certain circumstances.

Chinese Laser Anti-Drone System Spotted In Iran

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Oct 8, 2024
Iranian attack on Israeli airbase shows some damage but nothing widespread

Clearer Picture Of Damage To Israeli Airbase From Iranian Ballistic Missiles Emerges

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Oct 4, 2024
Iran-Israel barrage missile

Surreal Missile Battle In The Sky Seen In Astonishing Video Of Iran’s Ballistic Missile Barrage

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Oct 3, 2024
AH64 firing hellfire at drone

AH-64 Apaches Practice Shooting Down Drones With Hellfire Missiles In Saudi Arabia

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Oct 3, 2024
Mysterious M60 Machine Gun Contract Awarded By U.S. Army

Mysterious M60 Machine Gun Contract Awarded By U.S. Army

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Sep 30, 2024
For the first time in more than four decades, China has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) out in the Western Pacific, ostensibly for training purposes.

First Chinese ICBM Test Into The Pacific In Decades Is A Big Deal (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Sep 25, 2024
A huge explosion has rocked the Tver region, in the west of Russia, with initial reports indicating that Ukrainian long-range attack drones targeted an ammunition depot there. Videos and pictures on social media from the scene show an initial explosion, with a very large fireball, followed by a significant visible shockwave, then several minutes’ worth of secondary explosions illuminating the night sky.

Massive Russian Weapons Depot Still Burning After Ukrainian Drone Attack

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Sep 18, 2024
Hezbollah pager

Hezbollah’s Exploding Pagers Could Be As Monumental A Cyber-Espionage Operation As Stuxnet

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Sep 17, 2024
Military vehicles drive down a road past a sign indicating that the border to Russia is approaching north of Sumy on August 15th 2024, in Sumy Region, Ukraine. Ukraines's incursion into Russia's Kursk has continued into a second week.

38,000 Russian Troops Committed To Kursk Counteroffensive: Report

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Sep 16, 2024
What appears to be one of the first looks at members of the German armed forces with new 5.56x45mm Heckler & Koch HK416 A8 rifles, also known as G95A1s, has come from an unexpected source: the U.S. Army. With help from the U.S. Army, the Germans have been stress-testing the guns in very hot and humid conditions at a facility in Panama and in the Arizona desert.

Germany’s New HK416 Service Rifles Appear At Panama Test Site

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Sep 13, 2024