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Navy Awards $282.9M FF(X) Frigate Contract to HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding

The Navy issued HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding a $282.9 million contract award Tuesday to do lead yard work for the new…

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Pentagon’s FY27 budget seeks 85 F-35s, but most ride on reconciliation

The Pentagon’s fiscal 2027 budget request seeks 85 F-35 Lightning II fighters across the joint force, up from 47 in fiscal 2026.…

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Global military spending surges and reaches record high

VIENNA — Global military spending reached a new record of almost $2.9 trillion in 2025 − the 11th consecutive year…

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ArianeGroup studying ballistic-missile production in Germany: Les Echos

Model rocket held by man in suit, with people in background PARIS — ArianeGroup, the French maker of the Ariane…

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Budget Calls for More Airmen, More Guardians in 2027

The Air Force and Space Force would both expand their ranks next year under the Pentagon’s proposed $1.5 trillion 2027…

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Denmark to receive first SAMP/T NG air-defense system in 2028

PARIS — Denmark will receive the French-Italian SAMP/T NG air-defense system starting in 2028 after orders were signed in the…

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Air Force unit executes test of Anduril’s semiautonomous combat drone

U.S. Air Force airmen operated a semiautonomous jet-powered combat drone in a series of sorties recently, boosting the service’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft program. The…

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Polish firm teams with Northrop, ST Engineering to tap Poland’s massive ammo spending

WARSAW, Poland — Privately-owned Niewiadów Polish Military Group has teamed up with Northrop Grumman and Singapore’s ST Engineering to launch…

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Ukraine missile maker targets ‘game changer’ air defense system by 2027

Fire Point, maker of Ukraine’s Flamingo cruise missile, is in talks with European companies to launch a new air defense system by next year,…

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Swedish arms maker to set up major ammunition plant in Estonia

BERLIN — A Swedish defense company is set to build a major 155-millimeter artillery shell factory in northeastern Estonia, a…

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