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  1. The Pentagon's 'Agent Network' puts AI agents into the targeting cycle The Department of War's second AI "pace-setting" project runs Palantir and Lumbra software agents that hand commanders targeting options in seconds. USA · Autonomy · Palantir
  2. The Air Force is buying AEVEX drones that strike without GPS AEVEX, public since April, won a $50 million Air Force contract for a long-range strike drone built to fly and hit without satellite navigation. USA · Autonomy · AEVEX
  3. Dominion Dynamics raises Canada's largest defense-tech Series A for Arctic ISR A year-old Ottawa startup whose sensor network already rode with the Canadian Rangers raised $139M, the largest Series A in Canadian defense history, as Ottawa rearms the north. Funding · Dominion Dynamics · AuraNet
  4. Poland buys three Saab A26 submarines, putting quiet boats under the Baltic Poland's $4.8 billion order for three Saab A26 submarines is NATO's largest Baltic undersea buy in decades, aimed straight at Russia's Kaliningrad fleet. Europe · Naval · saab
  5. Marine Corps buys Overland AI's autonomous ground vehicles, a US production first The Marine Corps' first production buy of a fully autonomous ground vehicle hands a Seattle startup a $19.7M deal to resupply its frontline counter-drone system. USA · Autonomy · Overland AI
  6. China Turned Its Rare-Earth Grip Into a Weapon. Japan's Defense Industry Is the Test Case.Pro Beijing doubled its export-control blacklist of Japanese defense and dual-use firms to 80 entities on June 29, weaponizing the rare-earth and component supply chain the drone age runs on, with Tokyo's own unmanned-systems makers among the first cut off. China · Policy · Japan
  7. Ukraine's drone startups are becoming missile makers The war is pushing Ukraine's battlefield-proven drone and electronic-warfare firms up the value chain into missiles and air defense, and they are already selling the idea to Europe. Ukraine · BlueBird Tech · Fire Point
  8. Italy's Ariete Replacement Surfaces as a KF-51 Panther, Built by Leonardo and Rheinmetall Leonardo Rheinmetall Military Vehicles showed Italy's New Main Battle Tank at Eurosatory 2026, a KF-51 Panther derivative meant to replace the Ariete. Both firms told Janes it stays in development; no order is signed. Europe · Rheinmetall · Leonardo
  9. Ukraine's Avarid unveils MOBIDIK naval drone in six combat variants Ukrainian startup Avarid revealed MOBIDIK, a modular naval drone in six combat variants from air defense to a 300kg assault warhead, with serial production next. Ukraine · Naval · MOBIDIK
  10. Royal Navy drops Type 83 destroyer for drone-control Common Combat Vessels Britain will scrap the planned Type 83 destroyer and buy at least six Common Combat Vessels to control air, surface and underwater drones, the MoD said, reshaping the Royal Navy's surface fleet around uncrewed systems. Europe · Naval · Royal Navy
  11. Ukraine's new Defense AI Center is putting AI inside the kill chain, steering drones onto target in the final seconds Ukraine's Defense AI Center A1 is embedding AI across the kill chain, including last-second drone guidance that survives Russian jamming, while a separate reform hands AI the call on which drones to buy. Ukraine · Autonomy · Defense AI Center A1
  12. Ukraine's Flamingo missiles hit the Volgograd plant that builds Russia's missile launchers Kyiv's homegrown FP-5 Flamingo reached 400 kilometers to strike Titan-Barrikady, the factory that builds the launchers for Russia's Iskander, Yars and Topol-M missiles. Ukraine · Russia · drones
  13. Ukraine priced its weapons by battlefield results, and the West can't copy the receipt Ukrainian units have ordered more than 500,000 drones and robots by spending combat points earned for verified kills, recon and evacuations. It is the first arms market priced by battlefield results, and the West's contract model cannot run it. Ukraine · drones · procurement
  14. ICEYE aims for two radar satellites a week as Europe buys SAR and Russia shadows its orbit The Finnish startup is doubling output to feed European military demand for all-weather radar imagery, the same data Ukraine uses for strike planning and that Russia is now chasing in orbit. Europe · Space · ICEYE
  15. Europe puts €343 million into Ukraine's drone and counter-drone factories The EU is now financing the production lines behind Ukraine's combat-tested unmanned systems, and folding those firms into its own defense base. Ukraine · Europe · Funding
  16. Ukraine's drone war stopped being about cheap. It became about how many.Pro Russia says it stopped 660 Ukrainian drones in one night. The number, not the price tag, is the new weapon, and the damage has now crossed into Kazakhstan. Ukraine · Russia · drones
  17. The Pentagon Just Wrote AI Into the Targeting Doctrine. The Drone Budget Was Already There. The Pentagon quietly rewrote how it picks targets to let AI initiate actions under human watch, codifying a kill-chain shift already worth billions in drone and software contracts. USA · Policy · Pentagon
  18. Ukraine's DART rides the wind into Russia, built to fly through jamming A Ukrainian startup's balloon-launched missile turns off its own navigation to beat Russian jammers, and the balloons themselves drain million-dollar interceptors. Ukraine · electronic warfare · Center of Innovative Technologies Program
  19. Ukraine destroys Russian sea drones running on smuggled Starlink off Odesa Russia is copying the naval-drone war Ukraine invented, and the smuggled Starlink terminals on its destroyed attack boats show it still has no control link of its own. Ukraine · Russia · Naval
  20. PinakaPro India's rocket artillery — the Pinaka fires a salvo of twelve rockets in under a minute, saturating targets out to 40 km and, in guided versions, 75–120 km. Battle-proven since Kargil in 1999 and used again in 2025, it is now exported to Armenia. Land · mlrs · rocket-artillery
  21. AkashPro India's home-built air shield — the Akash is an indigenous medium-range surface-to-air missile that guards against jets, drones and cruise missiles out to ~25 km. It performed well in India's 2025 clash with Pakistan and won its first export, to Armenia. air defense · sam · surface-to-air-missile
  22. Challenger 3Pro Britain's tank gets a new gun at last — the Challenger 3 rebuilds the Challenger 2 with an all-new turret and a NATO-standard 120mm smoothbore cannon, ending decades of Britain going its own way with a rifled gun. A modest 148-tank fleet, with first deliveries due in 2027. Europe · Land · main-battle-tank
  23. HyunmooPro South Korea's strike arsenal — the Hyunmoo family runs from Tomahawk-like cruise missiles to the Hyunmoo-5 "monster missile," a conventional ballistic weapon with an 8-tonne bunker-buster warhead built to smash North Korea's deepest command bunkers. The non-nuclear backbone of Seoul's deterrence. missiles · ballistic-missile · cruise-missile
  24. Type 212 / 214 SubmarinePro The submarine that "disappears" — Germany's Type 212/214 pioneered near-silent hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion, letting a non-nuclear boat stay submerged for weeks and slip past sonar so well it has "sunk" carriers in NATO war games. The world's benchmark export AIP submarine. Europe · Sea · submarine
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