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At DALO Industry Days 2026, Navantia unveiled a scale model of the F-110 Flight II / IAMD, an enhanced evolution of the F-110 design featuring significantly increased air-defense capabilities and optimized for high-intensity naval warfare. Spanish shipbuilder Navantia revealed in Denmark a scale model of the F-110 Flight II frigate for the first time. Designated the F-110 Flight II for the domestic market and Integrated Air and Missile Defence (IAMD) for export, the enhanced variant builds on the baseline F-110 (Bonifaz-class of Spanish Navy) design with significantly increased anti-air warfare capabilities. Navantia is set deliver two F-110 Flight II frigates…

The Middle East is no stranger to conflict. But even by its standards, the last six months have been extraordinarily chaotic. Ever since the United States and Israel went to war against Iran on February 28, countries in the region have faced cycles of drone and missile strikes against their military bases, energy infrastructure, and water desalination plants. Their airports and oil refineries have repeatedly needed to pause operations. And their regular ports have at times sat idle, thanks to Iranian attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz.Despite months of negotiations, Tehran and Washington seem poised to keep fighting…

The Chinese Wing Loong II drone during an air show in Zhuhai in 2022. (Getty Images)Nabil Al Ajl is a Saudi specialist in strategic communications, defence and security affairs, and defence media. He is also a contributor to Defence-Arab, with experience supporting major defence exhibitions across the Middle East.A previous article published by Al-Araby on China’s Wing Loong II UAV began with a straightforward question: what have the battlefields revealed about the aircraft’s capabilities and limitations? Yet the same record lends itself to a slightly different interpretation. The issue is not whether the aircraft is simply ‘good’ or ‘poor’ in…

News August 26, 2026 Dan Taylor Technology Editor Military Embedded Systems Thermal imaging tech demo via Teledyne FLIR GOLETA, California. Teledyne FLIR OEM was selected to support the U.S. Army’s Delivering Unmatched Thermal Capability Hastened (DUTCH) initiative to develop uncooled thermal infrared sensing technology for defense applications, the company announced in a statement. The DUTCH program is focused on improving the performance of uncooled thermal sensors while reducing size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C), the statement reads. The effort also includes work to increase production capacity for thermal sensing components intended for future defense systems. Uncooled thermal sensors are used…

The Army is moving forward with its plan to use nuclear microreactors to power major bases, hoping the technology can safeguard the service from potential threats to U.S. infrastructure. Five companies will design and build reactors under a set of contracts collectively worth up to $2.2 billion, the service said Wednesday. The initiative, dubbed Project Janus, looks to achieve greater energy independence so critical military missions can continue if the commercial electrical grid fails. “Everything that we do, from communications to radar, just requires constant energy,” Jeff Waksman, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Army for installations, energy and environment,…

Posted by Justin AdaptiveTrigger Gordon • August 26, 2026 at 11:44 a.m. PDT • Comments: 1 Yasmine and the Season 4 balance patch are now available in Street Fighter 6. Many players are already trying to uncover just how viable a character that Yasmine is in this new meta. As such, The FGC Place has uploaded a bunch of videos featuring top players using Yasmine in ranked matches. This provides us with some early impressions on the character’s…

HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. — The 31st Air Task Force sharpened and refined a layered counter-small unmanned aerial system defense capability, culminating in a kinetic “final denial” live-fire demonstration, August 3-7, 2026. The week-long training event built on counter-sUAS initiatives first employed during the ATF’s February field exercise and increased knowledge among Airmen from Hurlburt Field and Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, assigned to the 31st ATF. “Through a crawl, walk, run approach, Airmen gained practical knowledge of a full spectrum of layered counter-sUAS capabilities,” said the 31st ATF’s force protection superintendent. “The ATF is posturing to provide tiered defense through…

The Marine Corps just released its plan to fight against adversaries on land, and Ryan had the two architects of the plan, Ground Combat Element 2040, on the show to talk about it. They discuss drones, resilience, long-range fires, logistics, and what marines will need to survive and fight on an increasingly transparent battlefield while still preserving the critical human element.Image: Khalil Brown via DVIDS

Within the Defense Department’s ongoing efforts to revitalize the industrial supply chain across the military branches, the U.S. Navy announced it is standing up a new defense industrial base office to “expand the domestic manufacturing ecosystem, mitigate supply chain vulnerabilities, and integrate dual-use commercial technologies to enhance the lethality of the Navy-Marine Corps team,” according to a Monday release. Andrew Magliochetti, who previously served as the director of the Navy’s Office of Small Business Programs, was tapped by Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao to become the first deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for the defense industrial base.As…

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.org The Department of the Air Force is giving Airman and Guardians until the end of the year to meet new requirements for ensuring they achieve a proper protective mask seal, part of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s crackdown on unauthorized facial hair. The Department of the Air Force released instructions for Air Force and Space Force squadron-level unit commanders to appoint “mask fit validation monitors” that are trained to oversee protective mask…