There’s only one F-35 factory in Europe, in northern Italy, and it builds stealth jets for Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Switzerland. Now it’s getting $9.4 million in upgrades to the stations where the jets are put together. defence-blog.com/lockheed-to…

NATO wants to buy six portable jammers so it can knock out GPS and drone signals during training on purpose. The idea is to let ships, aircrews and drone operators practice working through the kind of interference they’d face in a real fight. defence-blog.com/nato-plans-…

The U.S. Air Force wants to fly an engine powered by a nonstop explosion spinning around a ring. The goal is cheap, fast weapons that can be built in big numbers, and the first flight is about three to four years out. defence-blog.com/u-s-air-for…

A U.S. company launched two jet-powered drones from the back of an off-road vehicle, and one person controlled both from a single handheld screen. Each drone is about the size of a baseball bat and can hit 384 mph. defence-blog.com/u-s-firm-fi…

One soldier, under two minutes from setup to launch: the U.S. Army just ordered more FD-1 drone interceptors from a Florida company. It’s the second order this year, and the system is already in soldiers’ hands. defence-blog.com/u-s-army-or…

France is buying hundreds more of its own kamikaze drones, small quadcopters that carry a 550 g warhead and can call off an attack mid-dive. The makers say they can now build 100 a day. defence-blog.com/france-doub…

Ukraine’s Humvee-sized ground drones haul supplies to the front so soldiers don’t have to. Russia is hunting them with FPV drones. In new footage, one hits a load of logs, but a cage on the front seems to have protected the vehicle’s controls. defence-blog.com/russian-dro…

Russia’s state arms company is now marketing one of its tanks as an “assassin” that can sneak around enemy lines. Open-source trackers have counted 264 of that same tank lost in Ukraine. defence-blog.com/russia-call…

A wounded Ukrainian soldier was stuck at a position surrounded by mines and Russian drones, so his comrades flew him out with a heavy drone normally used to drop bombs. He survived and is now recovering. defence-blog.com/ukraine-use…

A European country is spending about $235 million on Israeli rocket launchers and guided rockets that can hit targets 80 km away. Elbit, the company selling them, isn’t saying who the buyer is. defence-blog.com/mystery-eur…

U.S. soldiers in Germany are training with a reconnaissance drone that grew out of Ukraine’s war. The Stork is now built in the Czech Republic by a company founded by Ukrainian drone makers. defence-blog.com/u-s-soldier…

Ukraine has taken a jet drone it uses to strike Russian refineries and turned it into an interceptor. New video shows it launching from the ground and destroying one of Russia’s fastest attack drones. defence-blog.com/ukraine-tur…

Ukraine is getting about 12 Patriot missiles a month from the U.S., Zelenskyy says. That’s around a quarter of what it got under Biden, and those missiles are among the few things that can stop Russian ballistic missiles. defence-blog.com/ukraine-now…

Denmark is buying more Norwegian anti-ship missiles for the truck launchers guarding its coast, about $42 million worth. The Danish straits are the only sea route between Russia’s Baltic bases and the Atlantic. defence-blog.com/denmark-ord…

Saudi Arabia says a helicopter crashed near the Yemen border because of a mechanical problem, killing both pilots. The Houthis have now released video that appears to show it being hit by a drone. defence-blog.com/houthis-rel…

A Slovenian company is taking the three-barrel Gatling gun from U.S. Marine Corps attack helicopters and putting it on a truck to shoot down drones. Laser-guided rockets cover the targets that are farther out. defence-blog.com/slovenian-f…

The drone boats Ukraine uses to hit Russian warships just showed up on a lake exercise in Michigan. U.S. Army soldiers used them as small floating launch pads, with aerial drones taking off from the front of the boat. defence-blog.com/u-s-army-te…

A Russian military satellite has pulled up alongside a commercial radar satellite and is staying about 5 km away. Trackers say this kind of approach, without the other owner’s OK, hasn’t been seen before in low orbit. defence-blog.com/russian-sat…

A Latvian ground drone that’s already hauled supplies and wounded troops in Ukraine just drove through Finnish forest for the country’s military, border guard and police. Latvia’s own army bought it this spring. defence-blog.com/latvias-com…

A British company has shown off a driverless ground vehicle concept meant to travel with frontline troops. It can carry different gear for scouting, hauling supplies or fighting drones, and it’s designed to find its way without GPS. defence-blog.com/british-sta…