Military & Defense

View of the Strait of Magellan at the Primera Angostura narrows, the proposed site for a subsea tunnel connecting mainland Chile to Tierra del Fuego.

A South American nation is quietly planning an underwater tunnel that could reconnect a region cut off for centuries

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July 18, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A Boeing C-17 Globemaster III performing a low-altitude landing with its externally blown flaps and engine exhaust streams clearly visible.

The C-17 Globemaster can land on a tiny runway thanks to a system no other transport uses, and it comes at a price

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July 18, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Industrial heavy forging machinery at a Bharat Forge facility used to manufacture large-caliber artillery components.

An Indian company just partnered with NAMMO to arm Nordic nations — and it signals a major defense shift

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July 18, 2026 at 6:00 AM
South Korea’s solid-fuel space launch vehicle preparing for a test flight from a sea barge off the coast of Jeju Island.

South Korea’s military built a solid-fuel rocket to launch spy satellites over North Korea on short notice, and the full version is about to fly

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July 17, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Tytan Technologies' autonomous interceptor drone designed for neutralizing small unmanned aerial systems in defense networks.

Germany’s Tytan built interceptor drones to hunt other drones in Ukraine, and the results pushed it to scale up fast

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July 17, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Russian S-400 and S-500 air defense launchers positioned for the protection of key government infrastructure near Moscow.

Zelensky says Russia is turning Moscow into a fortress with S-400, S-500 and Pantsir, and stripping its own regions bare

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July 17, 2026 at 6:00 AM
An Elbit Systems C-MUSIC DIRCM pod mounted on the underside of an aircraft, similar to those reported on Gulf royal fleets.

Documents reveal Israel quietly sold missile-defense systems and jet parts to Saudi Arabia and Qatar worth hundreds of millions

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July 16, 2026 at 3:45 PM
A wide view of a modern automotive assembly line that could potentially be repurposed for defense manufacturing.

Trump says Ford and GM are in talks to repurpose U.S. plants for weapons, and Detroit may never look the same

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July 16, 2026 at 10:35 AM
A rendered concept of the Lockheed Martin NXGB hypersonic glide body designed for rapid, scalable manufacturing.

Goodbye to slow, hand-built hypersonics: Lockheed Martin unveiled a glide body designed to be mass-produced cheaply at scale

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July 16, 2026 at 7:45 AM
A Lockheed Martin THAAD interceptor launch vehicle on display, representing the primary hardware covered under the recent production expansion contract.

The U.S. just signed its biggest interceptor deal ever: $35 billion to Lockheed Martin to quadruple THAAD missile output

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July 15, 2026 at 6:45 PM
A soldier carrying the backpack-sized Lijian III portable anti-drone laser system at a defense exhibition.

China just unveiled a laser weapon small enough to fit in a backpack, and where it is already deployed is the unsettling part

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July 15, 2026 at 12:30 PM
South Korean Air Force Vulcan air-defense guns engaging a drone swarm during a live-fire training exercise.

South Korea fired eight cannons at 50 cheap drones at $18,336 a second, but six survived and the math is brutal

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July 15, 2026 at 9:30 AM
A directed-energy laser system undergoing a live-fire test as part of the U.S. Golden Dome missile defense program.

The U.S. just ran the first test of its Golden Dome shield, and one autonomous laser did something no operator ordered

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July 15, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Construction site of the ARMMO Defense Technologies industrial hub in Zafra, Spain, designed for the manufacturing of autonomous defense systems.

While the world watched the US, a quiet town in Extremadura became Europe’s biggest drone factory amid the rearmament

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July 14, 2026 at 3:45 PM
The high-speed custom "Blackbird" quadcopter featuring sawtooth-edged carbon fiber propellers designed for extreme aerodynamic performance.

A single propeller tweak pushed this consumer-style drone to near 435 mph, dragging quadcopters into jet territory

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July 14, 2026 at 10:35 AM
The R6000 autonomous tiltrotor drone performing a transition from hover to forward flight during untethered testing.

China test-flew a 6-ton autonomous tiltrotor drone: why this aircraft could change how remote islands are supplied

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July 14, 2026 at 7:45 AM
A technician reviewing digital diagnostic data on a laptop while working on an F119 turbofan engine of an F-22 Raptor.

A single software update to the F-22’s engine is quietly keeping America’s stealth fighter combat-ready into the 2040s, and almost no one noticed

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July 13, 2026 at 3:45 PM
A wide-angle view of the newly constructed low-observable restoration facility at Ellsworth Air Force Base, purpose-built for B-21 Raider maintenance.

A $4 billion project is quietly turning one remote US Air Force base into America’s primary stealth bomber hub, and the reason is the future B-21

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July 13, 2026 at 9:30 AM

Two Air Force specialists 3D-printed a $100 attachment that could protect F-35s from $20 million in engine damage, and it’s almost absurdly simple

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July 13, 2026 at 6:00 AM
A Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II stealth fighter performing a high-speed flyby, marking the transition to fifth-generation air superiority.

Goodbye to the F-16 Falcon: the light fighter chosen to inherit its mantle isn’t the one most pilots expected

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July 12, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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