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  1. The Army's $4.15 Billion Counter-Drone Buy Is Built for U.S. Bases, Not Russia's Jet DronesPro The Army's $4.15 billion Domestic Shield counter-drone vehicle fits the small drone over a U.S. base. Only $50 million is funded, and its one Ukraine-tested interceptor flies at about half the speed of Russia's Geran-4. USA · Ukraine · Russia
  2. U.S. Shuts Britain, France and the Baltics Out of Pentagon-Led NATO Talks The Trump administration's hand-picked NATO working group leaves out Europe's two nuclear powers and the three allies that spend the largest share of GDP on defense. Europe · USA · Policy
  3. T-16 Armata recovery vehiclePro T-16 Armata recovery vehicle: the 2021 test-institute visit, Army-2023 display, recovery equipment, conflicting crane figures and unresolved delivery record. Russia · Land
  4. Aeon Plans to Build Destinus' Hornet Interceptor in Texas as the Pair Reach the Army's Cheap-Interceptor Finals Aeon says it will license-build Destinus' Hornet Block 2 interceptor in Texas from 2027, and the pair's joint proposal is a Topic 1 finalist in the Army's xTech|Apex Intercept competition. USA · Europe · air defense
  5. Sotnik soldier equipment programPro Sotnik: Russia's proposed Ratnik successor, the missing development milestone, actual component demonstrations and the later Legionnaire research program. Russia · Land
  6. T-15 ArmataPro T-15 Armata: the heavy infantry-carrier layout, 30 mm and 57 mm configurations, documented trial activity and the actual scope of its procurement announcements. Russia · Land
  7. Bumerang (K-16 / K-17)Pro Bumerang K-16 and K-17: different weapons, a redesigned hull, the trial chronology, export plans and the unresolved claim of deployment to Ukraine. Russia · Land
  8. BMPT TerminatorPro BMPT Terminator: the five- and three-person configurations, documented operators, losses in Ukraine, 2025 protection changes and the Spiridon name. Russia · Land
  9. Navy Orders 30 Drone Ships From Saronic, HII and Galliano at About $40 Million Each A Navy buying model that made vendors fund their own sea trials has produced its first production orders, and the service is already loosening the rules to bring in more builders. USA · Naval · Saronic
  10. Helsing Says Its Centaur AI Pilot Beat Two Human Pilots in Simulated Dogfights Helsing is pitching software-flown combat jets to a Europe without a joint fighter program, but its evidence so far is a simulator result, two prototypes under construction and no announced order. Europe · Autonomy · Helsing
  11. Occam Raises €3.8M for Autonomous Guidance on Ukraine's Mass-Produced FPVs Occam's software keeps mass-produced FPVs tracking a target after jamming cuts the operator link, and the new money is meant to carry it from 12 Ukrainian units into European and NATO markets. Ukraine · Europe · Autonomy
  12. Russia Lifts Its 2027 War Budget 27% to a Record $202 Billion and Cuts Welfare to Pay Moscow's draft raises 2027 defense spending to 17.1 trillion rubles, about 35% of federal outlays, paid for with welfare cuts, new taxes and 43% more borrowing. Russia · Policy · Russian Ministry of Finance
  13. Raytheon's Record AMRAAM Deal Names 16 Buyers. Ukraine, Which Fires the Missile Daily, Is Not OnePro The Pentagon's up-to-$20.7 billion AMRAAM contract refills U.S. and allied magazines through 2033. Ukraine, where F-16s and NASAMS fire the missile at Russian cruise missiles and jet drones, is not a named buyer. Ukraine · USA · air defense
  14. UVision Adds Estonian Autonomy Software to Its Loitering Munitions for an Unnamed NATO Buyer Israeli loitering-munition maker UVision will integrate Estonian startup Lendurai's Neocortex autonomy stack for a NATO customer, aimed at strikes that hold up when GPS and the datalink fail. Israel · Europe · Autonomy
  15. STARK Pairs Its Vanta-12 Drone Boat With MBDA's Sea Venom as MBDA Adapts the Missile for Surface Launch STARK unveiled its Vanta-12 drone boat with four MBDA Sea Venom missiles, which MBDA is adapting for surface launch. Integration is early, and no navy has ordered the boat. Europe · Naval · Partner Signal
  16. DOD Solution Raises $2.1M to Put Autonomy on Drones That Lose GPS and Their Link The Estonian-Ukrainian startup sells onboard autonomy as a layer for other makers' FPV, interceptor and fixed-wing drones, and it now has seed money and a drone-maker investor to scale it. Ukraine · Autonomy · DOD Solution
  17. Saronic Breaks Ground on Port Alpha, and Its First Build Is a Crewed Navy Landing Craft The Navy is buying the autonomy startup as a second-source shipbuilder, and Saronic has to deliver crewed landing craft from its new Texas yard before its autonomous fleet arrives. USA · Naval · Saronic
  18. Ukraine Says Driverless BTR-60 Bombs Helped Take Nove and 250 Prisoners A roughly $4,000 conversion turns Soviet-era armor into driverless bombs with the speed and payload to breach fortified positions, and its maker expects demand to rise as winter mud stalls smaller ground robots. Ukraine · Autonomy · Operation Vivaldi
  19. Ukraine’s Missile Leverage Depends on Sustained ProductionPro Fire Point’s FP-7 tests and delayed Danish propellant plant show how technology access, procurement and factory output condition Kyiv’s negotiating leverage. Ukraine · Russia · Europe
  20. BattlePolicy Brief No. 40: The Magazine WarPro Russia fires training missiles and $10,000 drones at the defense. The West's answers arrive in 2028.
  21. Origin Will Test Its BLAZE Interceptor on Anduril's Lattice Network in Latvia Origin Robotics and Anduril will test the BLAZE drone interceptor on Anduril's Lattice software in Latvia. The work is self-funded, and no date is set. Latvia already buys BLAZE under a multi-year framework. Europe · air defense · Partner Signal
  22. Zelensky's Patriot License Points to a 2028 Raytheon GEM-T LinePro The likely PAC-2 route avoids PAC-3's seeker constraint, but offers weaker ballistic defense from a European production base Germany hosts and Poland wants. Ukraine · Europe · USA
  23. Fedorov's Army of Robots Sets a Six-Month Clock for a Humanoid Kill Ukraine's former defense minister wants private capital to push ground robotics past the remote-controlled supply runs that dominate the front today. Ukraine · Autonomy · Mykhailo Fedorov
  24. US and Russia Cut Human Review of AI Targets From Draft UN Weapons Text The deleted clause would have required a person to check an AI-generated target before a strike, weeks before states decide whether to open treaty talks. Russia · USA · Autonomy
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