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Posted on Jul 28, 2025

Some units within the U.S. Air Force's Air Combat Command (ACC) have now restricted the use of Sig Sauer M18 in the wake of a recent fatal incident.

Sig M18 Pistol Restrictions Expand To USAF Air Combat Command Units

Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD)

Posted on Jul 28, 2025

150 THAAD Ballistic Missile Interceptors Fired By U.S. During Iran’s Barrages On Israel: Report

Posted on Jul 25, 2025

NASAMS

Egypt Finally Cleared To Buy AIM-120 AMRAAMs

Updated on Jul 25, 2025

With the U.S. Air Force's Global Strike Command (AFGSC) having instituted an indefinite “pause” on the use of Sig Sauer M18 pistols in the wake of a deadly incident at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming, a question has emerged: what will the command's aircrews carry for self-defense in the meantime?

What Gun Will Bomber Crews Fly With Now That The Sig M18 Is Pulled From Use?

Updated on Jul 24, 2025

U.S. Air Force's Global Strike Command (AFGSC) has ordered an indefinite "pause" in the use of M18 pistols following a recent fatal incident at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming.

Sig M18 Pistols Pulled From Use By Air Force Global Strike Command (Updated)

Posted on Jul 22, 2025

Northrop Grumman is conducting ground-based testing related to space-based interceptors as part of a competition for that segment of the Trump administration's Golden Dome missile defense initiative.

Land Based Hypersonic Missile Defense

Space-Based Missile Interceptors For Golden Dome Being Tested By Northrop

Posted on Jul 22, 2025

Army Touting Grenade Dropping Drone Shows Just How Alarmingly Behind The Curve It Still Is

Posted on Jul 21, 2025

Leonidas HPM systems are now in there second generation.

Army Puts $43M Bet On Next Gen Leonidas High Power Microwave Counter Drone Tech

By Eric Tegler

Posted on Jul 17, 2025

While the U.S. and allies are ramping up deliveries of Patriot air defense batteries to Ukraine, Switzerland will have to wait for theirs.

Patriot Deliveries To Ukraine Ramping Up, Others Being Delayed

Posted on Jul 17, 2025

Army’s Sig P320 Derived Pistols Will Remain Unchanged After Concerning FBI Report

Updated on Jul 17, 2025

NORTHERN TERRITORY, Australia — 3rd Multi-Domain Task Force (3MDTF) conducts the first Mid-Range Capability live fire exercise outside of the continental United States successfully sinking a maritime target with a Standard Missile-6 Force during Exercise Talisman Sabre 25 on July 16, 2025. The successful strike validated combined joint targeting and command-and-control interoperability between 3MDTF and the combined-joint force. The demonstration highlights the strength of the Australia–U.S. Alliance and the rapidly advancing capability and capacity of 3MDTF and the 10th Australian Brigade to deploy advanced, land-based maritime strike capabilities in support of regional security and stability. Talisman Sabre is a bilateral exercise that reflects the close military relationship between Australia and the United States, with multinational participation.

SM-6 Fired At Target Ship Down Under By U.S. Army’s Typhon Launcher

Posted on Jul 16, 2025

Ukraine will receive additional Patriot batteries, U.S. President Donald Trump announced Monday.

Trump Announces Deal To Send More Patriot Air Defense Batteries To Ukraine

Posted on Jul 14, 2025

The U.S. Army plans to stand up four new Patriot surface-to-air missile system battalions in the coming years to help ease strain on what it says is its "most stressed force element."

Overstretched U.S. Army Patriot Air Defense Force To Grow By A Quarter

Updated on Jul 14, 2025

A column of mysterious vehicles, each of them covered by a notably large, box-like structure, passing through the Chinese capital recently, poses something of a mystery. At this stage, we know next to nothing about what kinds of vehicles are concealed beneath these bizarre carapaces, although it’s more than conceivable that they have some military or military-related purpose.

People's Liberation Army (China)

Mysterious Vehicles Rolling Through Beijing Spur Speculation Of New Chinese Tank

Updated on Jul 10, 2025

Machine Guns

M240 Medium Machine Gun Successor Now Being Sought By U.S. Army

Posted on Jul 10, 2025

Drone strikes across Ukraine in largest Russian barrage ever.

Russian Army

Largest Russian Long-Range Drone Onslaught Of The War Rains Down On Ukraine

Posted on Jul 9, 2025

The Pentagon is brushing off concerns that it is running low on Patriot interceptors.

Patriot Missile Stockpile Concerns Grow, Pentagon Claims It Has Enough

MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS)

Updated on Jul 8, 2025

An unknown containerized launcher able to fire the same suite of artillery rockets and ballistic missiles as the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) and M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) seen at the U.S. Army’s Fort Bragg earlier this year has been identified.

Mysterious Guided Rocket Launcher Disguised In A Shipping Container At Fort Bragg Identified

Posted on Jul 8, 2025

The U.S. Marine Corps' plans to sling Tomahawk cruise missiles from remotely operated 4x4 launcher vehicles have come to an end.

Marines Axe Adoption Of Ground-Launched Tomahawk Cruise Missile

Posted on Jul 3, 2025

US is halting some deliveries of weapons to ukraine

Fears Of Disaster Brewing For Ukraine As U.S. Halts Weapons Shipments Over Stockpile Concerns

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Jul 2, 2025

The U.S. Army wants its armored vehicles to begin sporting top attack armor protection by 2027.

M1 Abrams

Army Wants Cope Cage-Like Armor To Protect From Drone Attacks On Its Tanks

Updated on Jul 1, 2025

The U.S. Army wants to see if a startup founded three years ago by former SpaceX employees can deliver a lower-cost ground-launched missile, dubbed Blackbeard, capable of engaging targets hundreds of miles away at hypersonic speeds.

Precision Strike Missile (PrSM)

Blackbeard ‘Cheap’ Hypersonic Strike Missile Being Developed For U.S. Army (Updated)

Posted on Jul 1, 2025

An intriguing photo has emerged of an M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) captured by Russia and fitted with a Russian-made 30mm cannon in place of the vehicle’s original Bushmaster M242 25mm automatic cannon. Whether the installation is intended for operational use, or for trials, or for some other purpose, is unclear, but it is the latest in a long line of unorthodox modifications to armored vehicles that have appeared since the start of the war in Ukraine.

M2/3 Bradley

M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle Appears In Russia With Locally Made 30mm Cannon

Posted on Jun 28, 2025

The defense of Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar against Iranian ballistic missiles included the largest volley of Patriot air defense interceptors in U.S. military history, the Pentagon's top general told reporters.

Largest Patriot Missile Salvo In U.S. Military History Launched Defending Al Udeid Air Base Against Iranian Attack

Updated on Jun 26, 2025

US base in qatar attacked by iranian ballistic missiles

Iran Launches Ballistic Missile Revenge Strike On Al Udeid Air Base In Qatar (Updated)

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jun 23, 2025

Iran fired at least one ballistic missile with a warhead containing multiple submunitions as part of a particularly destructive barrage on Israel earlier today.

Iran Just Used Ballistic Missiles With Cluster Warheads To Strike Israel

Posted on Jun 19, 2025

As Israel's campaign of strikes on Iran continues, a question emerges about whether some level of additional action may be required on the ground to meet the stated goal of preventing the regime in Tehran from being able to acquire nuclear weapons.

Green Berets

Loose Nukes In Iran Is A Scenario U.S. Special Operators Have Been Training For

Posted on Jun 18, 2025

The U.S. Navy is sending the supercarrier USS Nimitz and the rest of its strike group to the Middle East amid a new buildup of forces in the region ostensibly for defensive purposes, U.S. officials have told TWZ.

Major U.S. Middle East-Focused Buildup Confirmed (Updated)

Posted on Jun 16, 2025

Israel is now attacking Iranian energy facilities after warning it would if Iran didn't stop hitting Israeli urban areas.

Israel Escalates To Attacking Iranian Energy Targets After Ballistic Missiles Hit Tel Aviv (Updated)

Updated on Jun 15, 2025

Dramatic footage is emerging online as Iran has begun launching a huge ballistic missile barrage against Israel as part of its retaliatory strikes.

Iran Strikes Back (Updated)

MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS)

Updated on Jun 13, 2025

A containerized launcher designed to fire the same suite of artillery rockets and ballistic missiles as the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) and M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) has appeared at the U.S. Army's Fort Bragg in North Carolina.

Mysterious Shipping Container Rocket Launcher Spotted At Trump’s Visit To Fort Bragg

Posted on Jun 11, 2025

Claims Swirl Around Russian Su-35S Flanker Shootdown

Posted on Jun 9, 2025

Open feuding between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, until recently close friends and political allies, has shone a particular light on how heavily reliant the U.S. government, and America's armed forces especially, has become on SpaceX.

This Is How U.S. National Security Has Become Dependent On SpaceX

By Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jun 6, 2025

Hardened aircraft shelters are up for debate as Russia experienced a major attack from Ukrainian drones.

Mass Drone Attack On Exposed Russian Bombers Puts Spotlight On Hardened Aircraft Shelter Debate

Updated on Jun 3, 2025

Army To Retire All Of Its Turboprop Surveillance Planes By The End Of The Year

Posted on May 29, 2025

Lockheed Martin has shared new details about its QuadStar surface-to-air missile, which is taking part in the U.S. Army competition to replace the venerable Stinger.

FIM-92 Stinger

Everything We Learned About Lockheed’s QuadStar Missile Aimed At Replacing FIM-92 Stingers

Posted on May 28, 2025

In January, the U.S. military moved to halt work on the new AN/TPY-6 radar, one of seven key elements of the huge new air and missile defense architecture taking shape on Guam, and its current status is now unclear.

Uncertainty Over AN/TPY-6 Guam Missile Defense Radar Emerges

Posted on May 27, 2025

These Heavily Armored Helicopters Were Pitched To The Army During The Cold War

Posted on May 24, 2025

The Army has signed off on the XM7 as the official replacement for the M4A1 Carbine.

M16/AR15/M4 Pattern

Sig Sauer’s XM7 Rifle Gets Army’s Seal Of Approval Despite Controversy (Updated)

Updated on May 22, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 20: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House on May 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Trump announced his plans for the "Golden Dome," a national ballistic and cruise missile defense system. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Land Based Hypersonic Missile Defense

Trump’s Golden Dome Missile Shield: What We Just Learned And Its Implications

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Updated on May 21, 2025

Surface-To-Air Missile Systems

Long-Range ‘Deep Precision Strike’ Missile To Be Developed By UK And Germany

Posted on May 16, 2025

Northrop Grumman has released a brief video clip showing an individual shooting a new futuristic 25mm precision grenade launcher it has been working on together with gunmaker Colt.

Rocket And Grenade Launchers

Futuristic Grenade Launcher From Colt And Northrop Grumman Seen Being Fired For First Time

Posted on May 16, 2025

MV-75 Official Designation Given To Future U.S. Army Tiltrotor Assault Aircraft (Updated)

Posted on May 14, 2025

Ukraine has, apparently for the first time, released a video showing its use of the Soviet-era S-200 (SA-5 Gammon) long-range surface-to-air missile, a weapon that was apparently reinstated to service only after the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022.

Land Warfare History

Our Best Look At Ukraine’s Reactivated S-200 Long-Range Surface-To-Air Missiles In Action

Updated on May 13, 2025

TOPSHOT - An employee handles 155 mm caliber shells after the manufacturing process at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant (SCAAP) in Scranton, Pennsylvania on April 16, 2024. In brick buildings that are more than a century old, nearly in the heart of Joe Biden's Rust Belt hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, dated machinery churns artillery for modern conflicts, especially the war in Ukraine. The Scranton Army Ammunition Plant (SCAAP) is making steel tubes for 155 mm caliber shells, which are crucial to Kyiv's efforts to face down Moscow's invasion. (Photo by Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP) (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

Cannons

Shell Game: Inside The Worldwide TNT Shortage

Updated on May 12, 2025

Army’s Future Tiltrotor Gets Heavier So It Can Rapidly Convert Into Special Ops Variant

Posted on May 9, 2025

We Talk About The U.S. Army’s New Black Widow Short-Range Recon Drone With Red Cat

By Jamie Hunter, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on May 8, 2025

The Black Arrow, which is intended to carry a range of different payloads and not just a kinetic warhead, arrives at a time when the Pentagon is looking at harnessing the potential of lower-cost weapons that can be readily produced at scale to meet the likely demands of future conflicts.

Special Operations

AC-130 Gunship-Launched Black Arrow Small Cruise Missile Has A 400-Mile Range

By Thomas Newdick, Howard Altman

Posted on May 6, 2025

Assault Rifles

Army Captain Slams New XM7 Rifle As “Unfit,” Sig Sauer Says Otherwise (Updated)

Posted on May 2, 2025

Stop Buying MQ-1C Gray Eagle Drones Army’s Top Leadership Decrees

Posted on May 2, 2025

PrSM Ballistic Missiles Loaded With Coyote Drones, Hatchet Mini Smart Bombs Eyed By Army

Posted on May 1, 2025

The U.S. Marine Corps has received an Expeditionary Directed Energy Counter-Swarm (ExDECS) weapon in order to facilitate experimentation with the use of high-power microwave (HPM) technology in the increasingly volatile low altitude air defense (LAAD) role. This kind of counter-drone system is increasingly seen as a critical layer in force protection and urgently needed to enhance current and future ground-based air defense (GBAD) capabilities.

Marines Get Their First High Power Microwave Weapon For Taking On Drone Swarms

Posted on Apr 29, 2025

Bringing Back Medium Range Ballistic Missiles Fast Tracked Under Proposed $150B Defense Boost

Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS)

Posted on Apr 28, 2025

What actually are the Houthis' air defense capabilities? That's a clear question with at best a murky answer, but here is what we know.

What Air Defenses Do The Houthis In Yemen Actually Have?

Posted on Apr 23, 2025

An example of the Ukrainian BMP-55 heavy infantry fighting vehicle, a radically reworked T-55 tank converted to transport soldiers across the battlefield, has appeared somewhere in Ukraine. While it’s unclear when or where the imagery was taken, this seems to be the first time a BMP-55 has been sighted in an apparently operational context, with suggestions that only one example of these vehicles was ever completed making its appearance all the more remarkable.

Ukrainian Army

Extremely Rare Ukrainian Heavy Infantry Fighting Vehicle Appears On Battlefield

Posted on Apr 22, 2025

The MQ-1C Gray Eagle Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) addresses the need for a long-endurance, armed (up to four HELLFIRE missiles), UAS that offers greater range, altitude, and payload flexibility.

MQ-1C Gray Eagle Is Shooting Down Drones With Hellfire Missiles In Tests

Posted on Apr 18, 2025

The British Army has, for the first time, used a directed-energy weapon to bring down a swarm of drones during trials. The Radiofrequency Directed Energy Weapon demonstrator, or RF DEW, reflects a fast-growing trend to harness news ways of neutralizing the drone threat, both on the battlefield and for homeland defense.

British High-Power Microwave Weapon Successfully Tested Against Drone Swarms

Posted on Apr 17, 2025

Lockheed Pitches Containerized Launchers To Help Close Australia’s Air And Missile Defense Gaps

Posted on Apr 17, 2025

The U.S. will reduce by half its 2,000-troop presence in Syria.

U.S. Cutting Forces In Syria By Half, Possible Ripple Effects In Region

Posted on Apr 16, 2025

FAA Testing Drone Detection Systems In New Jersey

Updated on Apr 16, 2025

USMC’s Tomahawk Cruise Missile Launching Drone Truck Eyed By Army

Posted on Apr 15, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump derided Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's offer to buy 10 Patriot air defense systems.

Trump Derides Zelensky’s Request To Buy $15B Worth Of Patriot Air Defense Systems