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  • British Army pushes AI mine-detection drones toward field use

    British Army pushes AI mine-detection drones toward field use

    The British Army is pushing AI into battlefield explosive-threat detection. Trials in Essex suggest small uncrewed systems could shorten search cycles and reduce risk for combat engineers and bomb-disposal teams.

  • Svaayatt pushes SGV-500 combat UGV toward demonstrations

    Svaayatt pushes SGV-500 combat UGV toward demonstrations

    India’s Svaayatt Systems has developed the SGV-500 combat UGV and is preparing it for armed-forces demonstrations, putting a domestically developed, modular land robotics platform into the pre-production spotlight.

  • Japan confirms first Tomahawk-capable Kongo-class destroyer

    Japan confirms first Tomahawk-capable Kongo-class destroyer

    Japan has confirmed that JMSDF destroyer JS Chokai has gained Tomahawk launch capability, marking a new stage in the country’s stand-off missile build-up and putting ship modification, training, and integration work into sharper focus.

  • Pilatus lands Indonesian PC-24 order for transport and training support

    Pilatus lands Indonesian PC-24 order for transport and training support

    Pilatus has secured an Indonesian contract for 12 PC-24 aircraft, giving the Swiss manufacturer a stronger Southeast Asian military foothold while opening a broader sustainment, training, and support workload around short-field transport operations.

  • Hardiman takes DAF CIO role as cyber modernisation pressure grows

    Hardiman takes DAF CIO role as cyber modernisation pressure grows

    Keith Hardiman has been approved as chief information officer for the Department of the Air Force, putting a permanent leader over enterprise IT, cybersecurity, data, and AI at a point when digital resilience is feeding directly into force design and programme execution.

  • HII scales Romulus line with automated USV production model

    HII scales Romulus line with automated USV production model

    HII is expanding its Romulus unmanned surface vessel assembly capability in Louisiana and pairing it with a new robotics-led manufacturing initiative, underlining the industry’s shift from prototype builds toward higher-rate autonomous vessel production.

  • US Navy pushes MUSV toward trials and early fielding

    US Navy pushes MUSV toward trials and early fielding

    The US Navy has opened its new MUSV pathway with on-water testing due this year and fielding targeted for FY2027, signalling a stronger preference for mature, production-ready autonomous vessels over prolonged developmental prototyping.

  • Kongsberg and Salt land Norway standardised vessel design work

    Kongsberg and Salt land Norway standardised vessel design work

    Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace and Salt Ship Design have won the contract to design Norway’s new standardised naval vessels, pushing a modular, common-design approach that could reshape how support and patrol-type fleets are built and sustained.

  • Italy opens carrier path for TB3 naval UCAV

    Italy opens carrier path for TB3 naval UCAV

    Italy’s navy has pointed toward a TB3 carrier option for ITS Cavour, linking its future unmanned air wing more closely to the Leonardo-Baykar industrial partnership and opening a new European route into fixed-wing naval UCAV integration.

  • Airbus Bird of Prey scores first live counter-UAS engagement

    Airbus Bird of Prey scores first live counter-UAS engagement

    Airbus has completed the first demonstration flight of its Bird of Prey interceptor, with the uncrewed system autonomously detecting and engaging a one-way attack drone in a test that points toward a more manufacturable counter-UAS cost curve.