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5 days ago | 
breakingdefense.com | Andrew White
SOF WEEK — Less than a week after AeroVironment closed its deal to purchase Blue Halo and create a defense firm called simply AV, the new firm’s CEO told Breaking Defense the combined enterprise is pursuing defense programs on a number of fronts — including future collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) competitions.
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1 week ago | 
breakingdefense.com | Andrew White
SOF WEEK — The US military is facing an evolved threat in the form of a “fusion” of different adversaries, but with that danger comes a potential “renaissance” for special operations forces (SOF), two senior-most special ops leaders told the SOF Week conference today. “A SOF renaissance is now upon us.
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3 weeks ago | 
armadainternational.com | Andrew White
Augmented reality and artificial intelligence are beginning to have their impact on military optical systems for land forces. Armed forces around the world are witnessing a rapid evolution in modern warfare as the war continues to rage in Ukraine and Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) continue their offensive against Hamas in Gaza.
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1 month ago | 
janes.com | Andrew White
A concept map showing near total Baltic coverage from coastal countries with anti-ship coastal launchers. (Diehl Defence)For decades the Baltic Sea has served as a delicate buffer zone between a growing number of NATO members and Russia, more recently becoming a new front line for symmetric and asymmetric threats underwater, on the surface, and in the air.
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2 months ago | 
janes.com | Andrew White
KNDS France's Mataris family of loitering munitions. (KNDS France)KNDS France announced a new member of its growing family of loitering munitions at the International Defence Exhibition & Conference (IDEX) 2025 held in Abu Dhabi from 17 to 21 February. The MX-10 is a quadcopter with a range of 10 km, a fragmentation warhead of 550 g, an endurance of 40 minutes, and a jam-resistant datalink, according to KNDS France.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
breakingdefense.com | Andrew White |Aaron Mehta
LONDON — Cummings Aerospacehas has signed a new agreement with propulsion specialist ATRX to rapidly design and develop affordable supersonic and hypersonic unmanned systems, company executives told Breaking Defense ahead of this week’s announcement. The deal will see Cummings build out large-scale versions of its Hellhound UAS, equipped with ATRX’s Air Turbo Rocket (ATR) to undertake subsonic, supersonic and ultimately hypersonic flight tests.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
janes.com | Andrew White
The Cummings Hellhound S3. (Cummings Aerospace)Cummings Aerospace has unveiled a 3D-printed, turbojet-powered loitering munition, which the company calls the Hellhound S3. CEO Sheila Cummings confirmed to Janes on 29 January that the craft had completed flight tests in the last week of January, reaching a top speed of 384 mph (618 km/h) to provide a “sprint to loiter” capability.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
breakingdefense.com | Andrew White |Valerie Insinna |Tim Martin |Ashley Roque
Defense industry news, analysis and commentary Featured: West 2025 » Year in Review » The Weekly Break Out » Moving masses of military materiel requires managing masses of data, from automated Pentagon logistics feeds to late-night Signal chats with Ukrainian officers. Army Materiel Command’s latest digital tracking tool: blockchain. A December operation exclusively featured weaponized uncrewed ground vehicles and FPV attack drones and did not feature any crewed platforms or boots on the...
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
breakingdefense.com | Andrew White |Aaron Mehta
FARNBOROUGH, England — Ukraine successfully pulled off an all-drone, multi-domain attack on Russian positions near Kharkiv in December, an official speaking at the International Armoured Vehicle (IAV) conference disclosed this week, in what they are calling the first-ever such operation.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
breakingdefense.com | Andrew White |Tim Martin
IAV 2025 — The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) unveiled the first British-manufactured 8×8 Boxer armoured vehicle at Defence iQ’s International Armoured Vehicle (IAV) conference in Farnborough this week, the first time in over a decade the UK has locally produced an armored vehicle.
