Tag: DefenseIndustry
U.S. Locks In Massive Patriot Production Expansion
The U.S. government has awarded Lockheed Martin a seven-year contract modification worth up to $53.86 billion for Patriot PAC-3 MSE interceptors, bringing the total multiyear program to $58.62 billion after an initial $4.7 billion award in April.The money buys time, not missiles. Lockheed delivered 620 PAC-3 MSE interceptors in 2025…
Anduril Rolls Out First Ohio-Built Fury
Defense technology company Anduril has completed the first YFQ-44A Fury built at its Arsenal-1 factory in Ohio, moving the U.S. Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft program from prototype testing toward repeatable factory production.The Air Force awarded production contracts to Anduril's FQ-44 and General Atomics' FQ-42 on June 17, declaring both…
Taiwan Expands China War Drills Beyond Battlefield
Taiwan is expanding its annual war games to test whether the island's factories, supply routes and communications networks can keep functioning during a Chinese attack, adding new industrial and civilian resilience measures to next month's Han Kuang exercises.The August 5–14 drills will simulate Beijing using what appears to be a…
Britain Gives Ukraine Its Stone Cloak Technology
Britain will hand Ukraine the intellectual property behind its Stone Cloak electronic-warfare system, moving their defense partnership beyond supplying weapons toward sharing the technology needed to produce them at scale.Prime Minister Andy Burnham is set to announce the transfer during President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's visit to a British naval base on…
U.S. Starts Rationing Air Defenses Against Iranian Strikes
U.S. commanders are deliberately allowing some Iranian missiles and attack drones through their air defenses, accepting damage to military installations rather than expend interceptors that are growing harder to replace, according to NBC News.Two senior U.S. officials told NBC News that commanders have been choosing which incoming weapons to intercept…
Russian Missile Kills 10 at Ukraine Defense Expo
A Russian ballistic missile struck a defense-industry gathering in Ukraine's Bucha district on Friday, killing 10 people and injuring nearly 100 in one of the deadliest attacks this year on the country's rapidly expanding defense sector. The strike has also revived debate over how Ukraine can protect a decentralized wartime…
Ukraine Hits Wildberries Hub, Targets Defense Plant
Ukraine struck a Wildberries logistics hub in Russia's Leningrad region on Friday, according to Reuters, which reported that Governor Alexander Drozdenko confirmed the warehouse caught fire and that three people were wounded. Wildberries said operations at two logistics sites in the region were suspended.The strike is the fifth reported attack…
Lockheed Unveils Lower-Cost Patriot Interceptor
Lockheed Martin unveiled the PAC-3 Adapted Capability Effector (ACE) at the Farnborough International Airshow on Monday, introducing a lower-cost interceptor for the Patriot air-defense system that the company says will cost less than half as much as the current PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE), estimated at about $4 million per…
France to Let Ukraine Produce Missiles Under New Defense Deal
France will license Ukraine to produce SCALP long-range cruise missiles, AASM Hammer precision-guided bombs and Aster-30 interceptor missiles, President Emmanuel Macron announced after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris on July 13. The agreement marks the first time France has authorized production of its own weapons systems on Ukrainian…
