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    - Dylan Malyasov

    Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, the Navyโ€™s primary in-house science and technology arm, confirmed they successfully demonstrated a laser system that does both jobs without missing a beat, wirelessly transmitting power across long distances and then shifting into a defensive posture against drones, a dual-use capability the lab says could reshape how troops [โ€ฆ]

    - Dylan Malyasov

    Finlandโ€™s Minister of Defence, Antti Hรคkkรคnen, authorized the Finnish Defence Forces Logistics Command on June 18 to purchase additional GBU-53 Small Diameter Bomb II glide bombs from the United States, adding to a stockpile that will arm the countryโ€™s incoming fleet of F-35A stealth fighters with a weapon few air forces in the world currently [โ€ฆ]

    - Dylan Malyasov

    DroneShield and Defenture have signed a memorandum of understanding to combine the Australian companyโ€™s counter-drone hardware, software, command-and-control, and operational support with Defentureโ€™s tactical vehicle platforms, including the GRF and Mammoth, betting that the pairing will give NATO armies the kind of mobile drone defense they have been scrambling to buy as cheap unmanned aircraft [โ€ฆ]

    - Colton Jones

    Top Flight Aerostructures, a Georgia parts manufacturer, won two indefinite-delivery contracts from the Defense Logistics Agency to build wing components for the B-1 bomber fleet. One contract has a maximum value of $53.1 million for trailing edges, the other up to $23.4 million for wing tips, with completion dates in mid-June 2029. Both awards came [โ€ฆ]

    - Colton Jones

    A Maryland company wants to build something nobodyโ€™s ever actually flown: a working gas station in orbit, and the Department of War is now paying for it. Quantum Space announced a contract through the Pentagonโ€™s Operational Energy Capability Improvement Fund to demonstrate a fuel depot spacecraft, built on its Ranger platform, that can refuel other [โ€ฆ]

    - Colton Jones

    Somewhere beneath the oceanโ€™s surface, a submarine the U.S. Navy canโ€™t see is the threat that keeps American admirals awake at night, and the weapon built to find it just received continued funding to keep its sensors sharp. According to a June 17 contract notice, the Navy awarded General Dynamics Mission Systems a $116.6 million [โ€ฆ]

    - Dylan Malyasov

    Ukraineโ€™s most demanding combat laboratory just produced two more weapons that a Greek defense company wants to sell to the rest of the world. Paramount Industries Innovation Systems Greece and Ukrainian defense technology firm MAC HUB announced an expansion of their strategic partnership at the Eurosatory defense exhibition in Paris, extending a relationship that previously [โ€ฆ]

    - Dylan Malyasov

    The U.S. Army ordered 8,936 DAGIR-V1 laser systems to support the M7 rifleโ€™s fire-control program, and the company building them happens to be a family-owned business that got its start making night vision gear five decades ago. B.E. Meyers & Co., a Redmond, Washington manufacturer, announced it has been awarded a contract to deliver the [โ€ฆ]

    - Dylan Malyasov

    A Russian drone struck an apartment building in Galaศ›i, Romania, in May 2026, and the incident has become a flashpoint in a broader story about a vulnerability the European defense industry has been racing to address. Separate reporting has linked some stray-drone incidents across the region to heavy electronic warfare, including GPS spoofing and jamming, [โ€ฆ]

    - Dylan Malyasov

    A Czech jet trainer that traces its lineage back to the Cold War just broke into two new continents in the same week, and the company behind it says its factory floor is now booked solid into 2027. AERO Vodochody AEROSPACE signed two new contracts for its L-39 Skyfox aircraft, one with a customer in [โ€ฆ]

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