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Overland AI has moved ground autonomy into production contract territory. The Marine Corps award will test whether autonomous vehicles can support MADIS through rugged hardware, trusted software, and fieldable sustainment.
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Skyryse and Robinson are adapting the R66 for defence autonomy. The partnership combines SkyOS software with an established rotorcraft production base for a Group 4 uncrewed aircraft system.
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Finland is putting counter-drone networking onto mobile frontline border platforms. Nokia Defense will support secure connectivity across patrol vehicles, boats, sensors, command systems, and real-time response workflows.
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Britain’s CETUS underwater vehicle is now entering deeper trials work. The XV Excalibur programme will now test autonomy, payload integration, support procedures, and the industrial path toward larger undersea robotic systems.
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Kuwait is adding NASAMS to its national layered air-defence architecture. The KONGSBERG-Raytheon route reinforces demand for modular sensors, launchers, command systems, interceptor integration, and long-term sustainment.
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MBDA has compressed cruise-missile planning into a sharper software contest. FastTrack links AI-assisted routing, terrain data, radar modelling, weather inputs, and operator workflows to the strike-weapons chain.
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Unimech has moved deeper into Europe’s aerospace manufacturing supply chain. Its FACC agreement now shifts into qualification, process validation, first-article approvals, and production-readiness work before serial output can begin.
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China has given its next fighter a controlled public glimpse. The aircraft linked to the J-36 effort reinforces a deeper industrial race in stealth shaping, engines, software, thermal management, sensors, and combat-air production readiness.
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South Korea’s Cheonryong missile has cleared a critical flight milestone. The powered FA-50 test moves the indigenous deep-strike weapon closer to KF-21 integration, serial production, and a more self-reliant Korean precision-weapons supply chain.
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Raytheon has won a $1.1bn AIM-9X Block II production contract. The order reinforces pressure across short-range missile assembly, seekers, propulsion, energetics, software, and allied stockpile demand.