First MK-48 torpedo launch from the EXCALIBUR XLUUV 30/09/2026 | Michele Cosentino On September 13, 2026, the Royal Navy's experimental Extra Large Uncrewed Underwater Vehicle (XLUUV) EXCALIBUR successfully launched a US Navy MK-48 MOD 7 Common Broadband… [read more]

Boeing wins the F/A-XX competition for the US Navy's next fighter 30/09/2026 | Pietro Batacchi This is a genuine political-industrial revolution: Boeing has secured a monopoly over the development and production of future US tactical fighters for the coming decades, leaving Lockheed Martin with only the F-35 and confining Northrop Grumman to specialized bomber production.

TKMS–EDGE MoU adds a German stakeholder to UAE’s naval ambitions - after Fincantieri and CMN 30/09/2026 | Marco Giulio Barone TKMS and EDGE’s underwater-security MoU may strengthen the UAE’s maritime surveillance ambitions, complementing MAESTRAL’s industrial role while raising questions over future German-Italian competition in undersea systems.

The new Greenland Agreement and what it guarantees the United States 29/09/2026 | Gabriele Molinelli Between the tired argument that “the 1951 agreement already covered everything” and the new, crucial provisions that also bind a potentially independent Greenland. 

Boeing and US Navy sign first MQ-25A STINGRAY production contract 29/09/2026 | Fabio Di Felice The US Navy awarded Boeing a $562 million fixed-price incentive contract to start Lot 1 Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) of the MQ-25A STINGRAY unmanned tanker. The award follows the Milestone C approval announced in May by the Acting Secretary of the Navy, Hung Cao, during a US Senate Armed… [read more]

EU: Brussels discusses mechanism to counter hybrid threats 28/09/2026 | Caterina Tani (reporting from Brussels) The discussion comes as European concerns grow over hybrid operations attributed to Moscow. On the same day, the EU foreign policy chief pointed to Russia’s sustained campaign of sabotage, arson and airspace violations.

Indonesia commissions former Italian aircraft carrier into service as KRI SRIWIJAYA-100 28/09/2026 | Atul Chandra The Indonesian Navy (TNI-AL) has commissioned the former Italian light aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi, into service as the KRI SRIWIJAYA-100.

GA-ASI’s MOJAVE proves its STOL credentials in a demanding field exercise in South Korea 27/09/2026 | Gabriele Molinelli General Atomics and Hanwha are working together on the STOL UAS for Korea’s needs

Lockheed Martin UK presents its crewed turret on a Hanwha REDBACK hull at DVD 2026 27/09/2026 | Gabriele Molinelli Armed with a 40 mm CTA gun, fully integrated within SKYKEEPER, the turret doubles as a C-UAS low level anti-air solution

General Dynamics Land Systems UK and ARX Robotics UK together to give AJAX a “wingman” UGV 25/09/2026 | Gabriele Molinelli ARX’s uncrewed ground vehicles as supporting capability to AJAX in the field