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Taiwan’s Narwhal submarine has completed its first torpedo launch verification. The milestone moves the indigenous submarine programme further through sea acceptance testing, validating combat system, fire-control, launch, recovery, and integration work central to Taiwan’s long-term undersea production ambitions.
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SEA has won the King’s Award for export growth today. The recognition follows overseas contracts for torpedo launch systems, KraitSense anti-submarine warfare equipment, naval communications upgrades, and fleet protection capability, supporting expanded manufacturing capacity in Barnstaple and Ottawa, workforce growth, and a wider international maritime systems footprint for SEA’s exports.
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GDOTS and Firehawk will develop 155mm base bleed motors together. The partnership combines General Dynamics munitions integration with Firehawk thermoplastic propellant and moulding processes, targeting extended-range artillery demand while addressing production bottlenecks around energetics, lot consistency, casing tolerances, safety, qualification, and repeatable manufacture for allied 155mm ammunition supply programmes globally.
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Army AI cyber work compresses acquisition cycles for defensive tools. The exercise points toward faster pilots for military cyber systems, where vendors must prove secure deployment, realistic testing, auditability, operator control, legacy integration, and support models before autonomous tools move into operational use.
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Anduril will lead a space interceptor team for Golden Dome. The Space-Based Interceptor effort brings together Impulse Space, Inversion, K2 Space, Sandia, and Voyager, aiming to develop an orbital missile-defence layer that demands scalable spacecraft production, guidance hardware, propulsion, communications, autonomy, and repeated test infrastructure before any operational constellation deployment.
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The B-52J engine upgrade has cleared critical design review successfully. The milestone allows Boeing to begin modifying the first two aircraft with Rolls-Royce F130 engines, new generators, updated interfaces, and supporting systems, creating production work across propulsion integration, electrical power, tooling, software, testing, and depot processes for long-range bomber sustainment.
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L3Harris will equip Poland’s Miecznik frigates with platform management systems. The Integrated Platform Management System will support automation, safety, machinery monitoring, alarms, and ship efficiency, while adding integration work across cabling, software configuration, acceptance testing, training, and in-service support for PGZ Stocznia Wojenna’s Arrowhead 140-based build of new naval vessels.
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LRSO development keeps strategic standoff missile production under scrutiny again. The AGM-181 programme links bomber modernisation to low observable missile manufacturing, with performance dependent on shaping, coatings, propulsion integration, nuclear certification, software assurance, warhead interfaces, and long cycle sustainment.
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RENK has launched ESM 280 for wheeled armoured vehicles today. The transmission targets medium and heavy military platforms up to 620kW, bringing tracked-vehicle drivetrain experience into wheeled programmes where weight growth, cooling, reliability, lifecycle support, and future upgrade margins increasingly shape production decisions for international vehicle primes and armies alike.
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Aselsan has unveiled new counter-drone and electronic warfare systems today. The SAHA 2026 launches include radar jamming, communications attack, high-power microwave, laser, kinetic interception, and vehicle self-protection equipment, expanding Türkiye’s Steel Dome architecture while increasing demand for rugged electronics, power systems, sensors, and integration capacity across layered air defence production.