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Boeing Orca is the US Navy's diesel-electric extra-large uncrewed undersea vehicle, developed for mine warfare and modular undersea missions.
Boeing Orca is the US Navy's diesel-electric extra-large uncrewed undersea vehicle, developed for mine warfare and modular undersea missions.
LOCUST is AeroVironment's high-energy laser counter-drone weapon family, developed by BlueHalo and deployed by the US Army in palletized and vehicle-mounted configurations.
The Space-Based Interceptor program develops orbital kinetic interceptors for Golden Dome, with a planned constellation intended to engage missiles during boost, midcourse and glide phases.
FireAnt is Swarmbotics AI's small autonomous ground vehicle for networked reconnaissance, electronic warfare and mission payloads, undergoing US Army experimentation with the 1st Cavalry Division.
The Glide Phase Interceptor is a US-Japan missile-development program intended to give Aegis ships and Aegis Ashore a hit-to-kill defense against hypersonic glide vehicles during atmospheric glide.
The award backs interceptor replenishment after combat use against Iran, but the missile count is undisclosed and industry warns funding gaps could delay investment.
Two awards in three days give the Navy two companies developing a motor for the medium-range variant of its planned Standard Missile successor, a four-per-cell interceptor.
The company-funded YFQ-48A cut parts and weight to get Northrop back into an Air Force drone-wingman plan that already has two airframes in production.
An outcome-paid Navy contract moves a drone and software company into the Virginia-class supply chain, but the Maryland yard does not open until 2030.
The Army awarded Anduril a five-year contract worth up to $1.8 billion to field NGC2's common data layer, starting with I Corps, the company said Oct. 5.
The five-year order backs a production target above 500 SM-6s a year, but the Pentagon has not said how many missiles it buys and Congress has not yet funded it.
The G7 will release up to 100 million barrels as Ukraine's drones keep hitting Russian refineries. Putin put the campaign's cost at 1% of GDP and said a strike pause would not return Russian diesel while sanctions stand.
Blackstone has combined TSC and ASEI into Falcata, a company built to expand output of the seekers, guidance electronics and navigation systems inside the cheaper interceptors needed against mass drone and missile threats.
Lockheed Martin led Fortem's $50 million Series B to expand DroneHunter production in Utah and tie Fortem's radars and interceptors into its Sanctum counter-drone software. The Army's new counter-drone IDIQ does not name Fortem.
Shield AI has fixed the factory and flight-test sites for its runway-independent AI-piloted fighter, which has yet to fly and whose production dates do not yet line up.
The Pentagon wants a 12th combatant command for drones and robotics by Oct. 1, 2027, and until Congress agrees, the work runs through the office already buying them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fury and Vengeance have moved from company demonstrations to Air Force operator-led testing, while both manufacturers build production jets ahead of new federal funding.
The acquisitions add acoustic drone detection, resilient teleoperation and GPS-independent navigation for unmanned systems operating under jamming.
At Scarlet Dragon 26-3 the XVIII Airborne Corps found no single sensor can stop a 100-drone swarm, while the Pentagon is already ordering attack swarms by the thousand.
Finland has signed and a US framework is ready. The Iran war showed why Ukrainian interceptors have to travel with Ukrainian components, software and operators.
The Army picked Vulcan Elements to supply rare-earth magnets for the brushless drone motors it builds at Tobyhanna Army Depot. The award notice shows $1.2 million; no order quantity or delivery date is public.
A Gray Flag 2026 test sent a human-built mission plan to an autonomous MQ-20 Avenger, giving the Navy a platform-agnostic planning layer for combat drones it has not yet bought.
At least 20 counter-drone vendors at NORTHCOM's border-focused Falcon Peak 26.2 had to feed their tracks into Anduril's Lattice, including interceptors Ukraine already flies against Russian drones.
The EA-37B Compass Call is a US Air Force airborne electronic-attack aircraft that transfers the Compass Call mission from the EC-130H to a modified Gulfstream G550.
The $2.68 billion proposal lists S-300 Clone and GAM-67 missiles, but the State Department gives no quantities or delivery schedule.
Surveyor is Saildrone's 20-meter uncrewed vessel for ocean mapping and surveillance; a 2026 exercise tested a JAGM launcher on one hull.
Swarmer Platform is Ukrainian-developed software for coordinating groups of drones through onboard autonomy and a ground control interface.
ALTIUS-600M and 700M are Anduril one-way attack drones, with 600M delivered to Taiwan and both models contracted for Ukraine.
The Army Applications Laboratory gave Rune Technologies $4.1 million to take TyrOS across the 1st Cavalry Division and let it task drones and ground robots with resupply. The only disclosed live mission so far was one August drone run.
The AUKUS trial moved undersea autonomy into weapons carriage, but it proved the interfaces rather than an operational strike capability.
A new seeker turns existing HIMARS units into land-based anti-ship forces, but the open-quantity $1.2 billion award arrives with baseline PrSM stocks still depleted.
Kyiv's strike ledger overstates the Russian refining capacity offline at one time. The harder metric is whether repeat strikes keep plants broken faster than Moscow can repair them, and that is the leverage Trump wants frozen.
An AI-assisted report falsely tied a Chinese ship's cargo to a nuclear program during the Iran war. Senators now want inspectors general to examine how the Pentagon checks machine-made intelligence.
Hanwha Defense USA and Magnet Defense start building the 38-meter H38 unmanned vessel in October and test it in January. The Navy's first MUSV trial round is running without them.
The next funding phase moves Avalon Holographics toward an OLED flat panel, the cost cut that decides whether its mission-planning display ever leaves the operations center.
The Gauntlet II leaderboard picks the vendors in line for a 60,000-drone Pentagon order, but the program still calls them finalists and says awards are not guaranteed.
Pratt & Whitney licensed Hermeus on Sept. 15 to build F100-PW-229 fighter engines. Hermeus must first get its builds accepted by Pratt, and no rate or delivery date was disclosed.
The Pentagon inspector general made the munitions shortfall official and named industrial bottlenecks as the constraint. Ukraine's winter air defense now rests on allied stock swaps and its own cheap interceptors.
Fire Point makes 300 to 400 long-range attack drones a day. Washington is asking Kyiv to curb their refinery mission while the Gulf drives the larger diesel shock.
The MQ-1C Gray Eagle is the US Army's armed medium-altitude, long-endurance uncrewed aircraft, combining persistent surveillance, targeting, electronic warfare and Hellfire strike capabilities.
The V-22 Osprey is a twin-engine military tiltrotor combining helicopter-like vertical takeoff and landing with the speed and range of a turboprop transport.
A compact US-German ship-defense missile that combines passive radio-frequency and infrared homing to intercept anti-ship missiles and other close-range threats.
The M113 is a lightweight American tracked armored personnel carrier whose simple construction, extensive variant family and large surviving inventory have sustained its use from Vietnam to Ukraine.
The BGM-71 TOW is a long-serving American heavy anti-tank guided missile family, launched from tripods, vehicles and helicopters and fielded in wire-guided and radio-frequency variants.
Paveway is a US-origin family of guidance kits that converts general-purpose and penetrator bombs into laser-guided or dual-mode laser/GPS precision weapons.
The AGM-65 Maverick is a modular US air-to-surface missile family combining television, imaging-infrared or laser guidance with anti-armour and penetrating warheads.
The A-10 Thunderbolt II is an armored US close-air-support aircraft built around a 30 mm cannon, valued for persistence and low operating cost but vulnerable in contested airspace.
Anduril Dive-LD is a US large autonomous underwater vehicle designed for long-endurance undersea surveillance, mine countermeasures, seabed mapping and modular payload delivery.
LUCAS is a US long-range one-way attack drone derived from the Iranian Shahed-136 and designed to deliver affordable mass through coordinated, expendable strike formations.
The RGM-84 Harpoon is a US surface-launched, sea-skimming anti-ship cruise missile used from warships and coastal batteries, including Ukraine's Black Sea defenses.
The LGM-30G Minuteman III is the United States' three-stage, solid-propellant, silo-based intercontinental ballistic missile and the sole land-based component of the US nuclear triad.
The UGM-133A Trident II D5 is the submarine-launched ballistic missile at the core of the United States and United Kingdom sea-based nuclear deterrents.
The AGM-179 Joint Air-to-Ground Missile is Lockheed Martin's dual-mode successor to Hellfire, combining laser and millimetre-wave guidance for precision strikes in obscured and adverse-weather conditions.
The C-130J Super Hercules is the current-production version of the long-running Hercules family, combining four turboprop engines, short-field tactical airlift performance and a global support base.
The Boeing P-8 Poseidon is a 737-derived maritime patrol aircraft combining anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface strike and long-range intelligence collection for the US Navy and allied fleets.
The EA-18G Growler is a carrier-based airborne electronic-attack aircraft that detects, locates and jams hostile emitters while supporting strike aircraft with anti-radiation missiles and air-to-air weapons.
Boeing's modular GPS/INS guidance family for converting conventional bombs into all-weather precision weapons, including the winged JDAM-ER and turbojet-powered JDAM-LR.
The AGM-88 HARM is a U.S. supersonic anti-radiation missile designed to suppress or destroy radar-guided air defenses, with later AARGM variants adding multi-mode guidance against emitters that shut down.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries signed a 2026-2028 teaming agreement worth several million dollars with EdgeCortix, giving the Japanese chip startup an aerospace prime to carry its onboard AI. No aircraft or customer was named.
Boeing brings the seeker and the airframe. Anduril brings the solid rocket motor, from a Mississippi plant it built because US motor supply had narrowed to two vendors.
The service says industry has solved basic swarm autonomy, narrowing its $2 million competition to vendors with systems already validated outside the laboratory.
The vehicle Iran recovered near the Strait of Hormuz cost about as much as one Tomahawk. Its intact, mass-produced hull may be worth more to an adversary than the secrets it was not carrying.
Anthem pairs a heavy payload with commercial parts, four-deep supplier lines and three factories, a manufacturing answer to thin Western missile stocks.
Rolls-Royce won US Navy certification for two mtu engine families in autonomous vessels, clearing the unglamorous gate that decides how long a crewless warship can actually stay out.
The award puts Overland AI's autonomy software into a four-company contest to move combat engineers farther from obstacles and minefields.
More than 400 pages released under a FOIA lawsuit show the Pentagon bought strategy advice and adversary briefings with the models, and OpenAI staff inside its commands.
L3Harris licensed Shield AI's Tracker counter-drone software onto VAMPIRE, putting the startup's detection stack on a launcher the US Army has already ordered up to $106 million of.
European financing and Ukrainian arms production constrain Washington’s ability to impose a bargain, while US weapons, intelligence and commercial services preserve US leverage.
Hermeus picked Anduril's Lattice to fly its Mach 3 Quarterhorse, the first time Anduril has put its mission autonomy on a large third-party airframe under a commercial deal.
GARC is a compact American uncrewed surface vessel developed by BlackSea Technologies for modular reconnaissance, sensing and strike missions, and first used in a US Navy live-fire exercise at RIMPAC 2026.
Anduril Pulsar is a family of software-defined electromagnetic warfare systems intended to detect, classify and counter changing radio-frequency threats across fixed-site, vehicle, airborne and portable configurations.
Anduril Omen is a runway-independent Group 3 autonomous aircraft co-developed with EDGE Group, combining vertical launch and recovery with wing-borne cruise and a hybrid-electric powertrain.
Anduril Copperhead is a family of compact autonomous underwater vehicles and expendable armed variants designed to extend uncrewed sensing and strike networks into the undersea domain.
The AIM-9X Sidewinder is a current-generation infrared-guided short-range missile used by combat aircraft and, through NASAMS, as a surface-launched interceptor against airborne threats.
The AIM-424 Malice is a Raytheon-built US Navy very-long-range air-to-air missile intended to engage aircraft beyond 463 km while fitting inside the F-35C's weapons bay.
The AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile is a classified US long-range air-to-air weapon designed to replace the AIM-120 AMRAAM while retaining a form factor compatible with internal fighter weapon bays.
Tiberius Invictus is an experimental ramjet-powered precision-strike family intended to deliver missile-like range from existing artillery and other launch domains, with the Invictus-200 claimed to reach 200 km at up to Mach 3.
Neros Archer is a US-made attritable FPV attack drone developed with Ukrainian and American military partners, selected by the US Army under its Purpose-Built Attritable Systems programme.
The AGM-158C LRASM is a low-observable, air-launched anti-ship cruise missile designed to identify and attack warships autonomously in contested electronic environments.
GMLRS is the 227 mm precision-guided rocket fired by HIMARS and M270 launchers, combining GPS-aided inertial guidance with ranges from 70 km to more than 150 km.
The M982 Excalibur is a GPS- and inertially guided 155 mm artillery projectile that gives compatible howitzers precision-strike capability at extended range, but its performance in Ukraine has exposed the vulnerability of satellite-guided ammunition to electronic warfare.
The XM30 is the US Army's competition for a hybrid-electric, heavily armed successor to the M2 Bradley, contested by American Rheinmetall's Lynx XM30 and General Dynamics Land Systems' Wolf.
TITAN is the US Army's mobile, AI-enabled intelligence and targeting ground station, built to fuse data from distributed sensors and accelerate target nomination for long-range fires.
Hermeus Quarterhorse is an American series of uncrewed high-Mach demonstrator aircraft intended to validate propulsion, inlet, airframe and mission-autonomy technologies for the planned Darkhorse military aircraft.
Raid Hunter is Northrop Grumman's developmental 50 mm gun-based air-defense system, combining precision-guided ammunition, a Bushmaster Chain Gun and networked fire control against massed drones and cruise missiles.
Phalanx CIWS is a self-contained, radar-guided 20 mm naval gun system designed to provide warships with a final defensive layer against missiles, aircraft, drones and surface threats.
A US programme to develop tactical, containerised 500 kW laser weapons for defeating cruise missiles and uncrewed aerial systems.
The RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile is a medium-range naval air-defence weapon whose four-round Mk 41 cell packing gives Western warships substantial self-defence magazine depth.
Epirus Leonidas is a short-range, solid-state high-power microwave weapon designed to disable groups and swarms of uncrewed aircraft through one-to-many electronic attack.
Taiwan's indigenous high-altitude anti-ballistic missile system, designed to provide the upper interception tier of the planned T-Dome air and missile defense network.
The ousted defense minister has found American capital for his procurement-and-data model while Kyiv's own export channel has issued no permits and charges 20% to 30% up front.
The Army's first production contract for a laser weapon puts a 30-kilowatt drone killer on tactical vehicles while the Iran war drains Patriot and THAAD stocks.