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Anduril will soon start making its robot drone wingman offering for the Air Force at its new Ohio factory months ahead of schedule, a company official told Defense One in an exclusive interview. The private defense contractor announced last year that it would build its manufacturing facility, dubbed Arsenal-1, in Columbus, Ohio, and “the first products will be manufactured beginning in July 2026.” But Jason Levin, the company’s senior vice president of engineering for air dominance & strike, said on Wednesday that production was imminent. The first product made at the facility will be the YFQ-44A Fury, the drone that the…

The Hunter-class is based on the UK’s Type 26 Global Combat Ship. Credit: BAE Systems Maritime Australia. Anschütz has completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) for its Warship Integrated Navigation and Bridge Systems (WINBSs), which will be supplied to the Royal Australian Navy’s Hunter-class frigate programme.  In late 2023, the German navigation technology company was selected to provide the Synapsis WINBS for the programme. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more The successful CDR signals that the system design is mature and ready to…

Long-term semiconductor agreement signed with United Monolithic Semiconductors (UMS) Ulm, Germany, 18 March 2026 – The sensor system house HENSOLDT has signed a long-term supply agreement with United Monolithic Semiconductors (UMS). By 2030, UMS will supply a total of 900,000 gallium nitride semiconductor components for HENSOLDT radars.  The agreement strengthens supply chain resilience and supports the expansion of production capacity in light of the sharp rise in global demand for sensor solutions. The GaN semiconductors are used in the transmit and receive modules of modern HENSOLDT radar systems and enable particularly powerful high-frequency amplifiers. They make a decisive contribution to…

Terry Gerton I know you’ve been tracking how the new limits on executive pay and dividends and other financial levers are landing across the defense sector. Now that we’re a little bit removed from that announcement, what, if anything, are you seeing in defense stock performance? Paul Murphy Well, Terry, let’s back up a second and just refresh people’s memory. We’re talking about this executive order that hit back in January, right before earnings season, as it turns out. Prioritizing the warfighter in defense contracting. And it allows Secretary Hegseth to restrict stock buybacks, dividends, certain types of executive compensation…

UFC middleweight star Shara ‘Bullet’ Magomedov will look to move one step closer to a spot in the rankings on June 27th. After suffering his first career loss against Michael ‘Venom’ Page last year, Shara ‘Bullet’ Magomedov bounced back with a dominant win over Marc-Andre Barriault at UFC Abu Dhabi by unanimous decision. The talented middleweight is one of the UFC’s most unique fighters and possesses elite striking. Magomedov’s recent setback against Page left some wondering if the UFC matchmakers had pushed the Russian star too fast in the middleweight division. The UFC is known for attempting to push popular…

The aircraft have moved from the Amarillo Assembly Center to NAS Patuxent River for further flight testing. Credit: Bell Textron Inc. Bell Textron, a subsidiary of Textron, has completed the first AH-1Z and UH-1Y helicopters fully upgraded under the US Marine Corps’ (USMC) Structural and Power Improvements for NextGen Effects (SPINE) programme. According to an announcement on 17 March 2025, the aircraft have left the Amarillo Assembly Centre and are now undergoing further flight tests at Naval Air Station Patuxent River. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media…

NATO allies Finland, the Netherlands, and the UK plan new joint defence mechanism by 2027. Credit: Alexandros Michailidis/Shutterstock.com. Finland, the Netherlands, and the UK have announced that they are considering the establishment of a new mechanism for defence financing and procurement by 2027. The objective is to aggregate demand, facilitate joint purchasing, speed up defence investments, and improve access to critical capabilities such as munitions. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more The joint statement follows a rise in global security concerns due to…

Swarm technology represents a paradigm shift in computational intelligence. Rooted in the shared behaviour of elements within dispersed, dynamic, and self-organised systems, swarm intelligence addresses complex problem-solving through the collective action of local populations. By mimicking biological systems found in nature, these technologies allow individual agents to follow straightforward rules without the requirement for a rigid, central command structure. The result is a system defined by its agility. As modern combat environments become increasingly complex, the inherent advantages of swarm technology-specifically its adaptability, robustness, and scalability-have moved from theoretical research to the forefront of national defence strategies. The newly released…

French President Emmanuel Macron today unveiled the official name of France’s next-generation nuclear-powered aircraft carrier (CVN) during a ceremony at a Naval Group site near Nantes. The vessel, until now designated under the program title Porte-Avions de Nouvelle Génération (PANG), will henceforth bear the name France Libre. After the fall of France in June 1940, Free France (France Libre) became the government-in-exile and the resistance movement that refused to accept the armistice with Nazi Germany. Led by Brigadier General Charles de Gaulle, it transformed from a small group of “rebels” in London into the legitimate provisional government that led France…