Military Tech

Ukraine firm tests 2,000 km drone intercept control system

Wild Hornets has begun serial deployment of Hornet Vision Ctrl, enabling STING interceptor drone control from up to 2,000 kilometers away. The system completed several...

Leonardo DRS integrates counter-drone M-MEP kit on naval drone

Leonardo DRS integrated its Maritime Mission Equipment Package counter-drone system onto the Sea Machines STORMRUNNER autonomous unmanned surface vessel for fleet protection. The M-MEP combines...

Jet-Powered JDAM Tested From Navy Super Hornet

The U.S. Navy has demonstrated a new, powered derivative of the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) precision-guided weapon from its Super Hornet fighter, signaling...

Sikorsky Announces New Armed Black Hawk Kit

The new Armed Black Hawk kit allows UH-60s to be quickly reconfigured for new mission sets, allowing greater flexibility and eliminating the need for...

Navy Fires Drone-Frying LOCUST Laser From Supercarrier USS George H.W. Bush

The U.S. Navy has disclosed the test of an AeroVironment LOCUST laser counter-drone system, which has been in the news recently, aboard the Nimitz...

Varmint round turns NATO rifles into drone killers

With a simple switch of a magazine, the Drone Round is claimed to turn a standard NATO caliber small arm into a drone-killing weapon...

Chinese laser counter-drone system launches for overseas sales

SKYON Capital Limited said it offers laser counter-drone systems ranging from 1 kW to 200 kW for export, including buyers in the Arab world....

U.S. firm develops interceptor drone with AI sound targeting

Talon Avionics of Boise, Idaho developed the SECTR autonomous counter-drone system, featuring AI-driven acoustic targeting and up to 100 interceptors per station. SECTR detects...

Ukrainian drones to get U.S.-made Zeus guided missile

Aeon confirmed an active integration partnership with a major unnamed Ukrainian drone manufacturer to fire Zeus guided missiles from drone platforms. A separate Ukrainian...

U.S. Navy launches affordable FLASH hypersonic weapon program

The Office of Naval Research launched the FLASH hypersonic prototype program solicitation on April 10, 2026, seeking industry proposals due by August 17, 2026....

U.S. Army tests micro-guided missile during Golden Shield exercise

The 1st Cavalry Division conducted Exercise Golden Shield live-fire counter-drone testing at Fort Hood from April 7 to 9, evaluating multiple cUAS systems. Perseus...

Russian FrankenSAM launcher spotted near Ukrainian border

A ground-based launcher carrying four R-77 air-to-air missiles was photographed in Oryol, Russia, roughly 100 miles from the Ukrainian border. Vympel data confirms the...

Turkish jet drone optical sensor detects target at 110 km

ASELSAN KARAT IRST system on Bayraktar KIZILELMA detected a passenger airliner at 110 kilometers during a recent performance validation test. KARAT is one of...

Raytheon Demos 1st-of-its-kind Event-Based Mid-Wave Infrared Camera

Raytheon, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, successfully demonstrated a new event-based mid-wave infrared (MWIR) camera that tracks high speed objects in real time while...

Autonomous wing-in-ground effect aircraft has US military in its sights

Regional Electric Ground Effect Nautical Transport (REGENT) has completed the maiden flight of Squire, an autonomous variant of the company’s Wing-in-Ground Effect Seaglider aircraft...

Ukraine develops new surface-to-air missile

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s video first publicly showed a new Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile alongside Vilkha and Neptune missile systems. Previous public models indicated the missile was...