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Naval News reported on Nov. 9, 2026, that the U. K. Ministry of Defence awarded MBDA a US$2. 49 million (GBP 1. 86 million) contract to study whether the Aster 30 missile can be fired from the MK 41 vertical launching system. The report further stated that ...

Army Recognition reported on Nov. 9, 2026, that Portugal’s government will spend up to US$92. 1 million (EUR 82. 35 million) to upgrade the army’s Leopard 2A6 main battle tanks, a plan it announced on Nov. 2. The funding, approved on Oct. 22 under Council of ...

BAE Systems announced on Nov. 6, 2026, that the U. K. Royal Navy had flown the Nyan One-Way Effector from the deck of the aircraft carrier HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH for the first time. During Exercise Neptune Reach B in the North Atlantic, the carrier launched four ...

On Oct. 29, 2026, Shield announced an agreement with Leonardo to use its Hivemind software to advance autonomy for Proteus, Leonardo’s uncrewed rotorcraft. Using the Hivemind Software Development Kit, Leonardo engineers will develop autonomy for rotary-wing ...

On Oct. 30, 2026, Amentum announced it had expanded its Colorado Springs operations to the Catalyst Campus for Technology and Innovation to accelerate defense and space innovation. Mark Walter, president of Amentum’s Engineering and Technology business, said ...

On Oct. 30, 2026, the Finnish Ministry of Defense announced the creation of a space operations center within the Air Force Command Finland in Tikkakoski, Central Finland. The center is also one of the first steps under Finland’s nearly finished defense space ...

On Oct. 25, 2026, German military AI company Helsing unveiled Contra, an autonomous air defense system, along with two new interceptor missiles, AD-1 Inferno and AD-2 Ambush. Contra uses AI to combine sensor and weapon data into a single view, allowing it to ...

On Oct. 26, 2026, Lockheed Martin finalized its purchase of Ultra Maritime, an international defense firm specializing in undersea and anti-submarine warfare. Company leadership described the deal as a way to combine both organizations’ people and technology ...

On Oct. 23, 2026, the U. S. Army awarded L3Harris Technologies a contract of up to US$60 million over three years to build an extended-range missile for its Xtended Range Counter-sUAS Missile program. In the second stage of the program, L3Harris will have the ...

On Oct. 19, 2026, Finnish Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen approved the deployment of a U. S. Marine Corps unit to work with the Finnish Navy on improving maritime domain awareness in the Gulf of Finland. The mission is part of Baltic Sentry, the North ...

On Oct. 12, 2026, Anduril unveiled Steelfin, a family of mass-producible surface-to-air interceptors intended to counter large numbers of low-cost threats without depleting inventories of expensive legacy missiles. The company plans to start flight testing ...

On Oct. 12, 2026, Raytheon said it had carried out three developmental tests of its Coyote Block 2C+RM interceptor upgrades, just 15 months after the program began as a concept. The Block 2C+RM adds a rocket motor for faster launch and a new seeker and ...