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Spanish Air Force F-18 Hornet fighter jet. Credit: AlfonsoSM/Shutterstock.com. An uncrewed aerial system entered Romanian airspace and crashed in an uninhabited area of Tulcea county early Thursday morning, according to a statement from the country’s Defence Ministry. The incident, which occurred northeast of the village of Grindu near the border with Ukraine, resulted in a small fire but caused no injuries or material damage. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more Military radar first detected a group of aerial targets north of Tulcea at…

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MILAN — A Pentagon questionnaire sent to NATO allies to assess their support for the US administration has ruffled some feathers in Europe, with a senior Estonian lawmaker telling Breaking Defense it’s a “novel” but flawed strategy that could divide the alliance and give adversaries an opening to exploit. Bloomberg first reported on the document on Aug. 14, saying that it included questions about governments’ public support for US policy, their level of engagement with US defense contractors and their position on the use of US military bases in-country, including whether use of the bases was allowed for Iran conflict…

WASHIINGTON — A new science and technology strategy [PDF] released this week by the White House outlines a comprehensive, four-tiered priority scheme for military tech, from AI to quantum. The National Security Science & Technology Strategy, as the 24-page document is titled, also takes a balanced approach to acquisition. While the NSSTS endorses the new wave of high-speed, low-cost innovations the Pentagon is pursuing, especially in expendable drones, it also emphasizes the continued importance of traditional high-cost, “exquisite” mega-programs — even when the threat they’re countering is relatively cheap. “We will seek optimal combinations of lower-cost (and sometimes lower-tech or…

View of Blackbeard at Castelion headquarters. Credit: Castelion Corporation. Defence tech company Castelion has secured $1bn in Series C funding to ramp up production of its Blackbeard hypersonic missile and further develop advanced weapons technology. The investment, which comprises $800m in equity alongside a $250m revolving credit facility, raises the company’s valuation to $13bn. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more The equity portion was jointly led by investment funds including JPMorganChase’s Strategic Investment Group, Andreessen Horowitz, and Carlyle. Other participants in the round…

Peraton has won a potential 10-year, $953 million contract to continue providing communication infrastructure services to the Defense Information Systems Agency for data centers and hybrid cloud computing environments.DISA received three proposals for this third iteration of its Capacity Services Communications contract, the agency said in an award notice first posted Friday.CSC III emphasizes on-demand communications capabilities as the agency adjusts its requirements based on mission needs instead of a fixed equipment set, according to solicitation documents from February.Peraton is tasked with providing hardware, operating software, storage, network management tools and software, automation tools and software and technical services across DISA and…

President Donald Trump’s new plan to enlist private companies to help disrupt cybercriminals abroad may face a fundamental problem when it comes to Russia: distinguishing criminal hackers and state-backed operatives.Russian intelligence services have long tolerated, protected or intermittently recruited financially-motivated hackers without exercising full control over them. That dynamic gives Moscow easier access to hacking talent, and it complicates a major carveout in Trump’s new directive that excludes groups part of or directed by a foreign government, experts and former U.S. officials say.“The line between government control, government-affiliated and government-acknowledged is certainly blurry in Russia,” said Michael Daniel, president and…

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—There are less than four months left in the year, but defense and aerospace company Arcfield’s plans seem to just be getting started, as they prepare for an upcoming satellite launch and explore manufacturing a highly specialized component key for optical sensors and laser communications.“There’s a lot going on at Arcfield. And what we’re really focused on is bringing the government a fully-baked solution,” Dan Knight, Arcfield’s vice president for Golden Dome initiatives and strategy, told Defense One at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Ala., last week. “Instead of saying, ‘Hey, I’m the one-trick wonder that…

In recent years, Pakistan’s private sector has shown a capacity to design original solutions, especially in the domain of unmanned aerial systems (UAS). In fact, at least one such company is working on the sensor-to-effector networking and automation layer that programmes like Heavy Industries Taxila’s (HIT) P-905 counter-drone system depend on. Likewise, at least one company is developing its own interceptor drone stack, i.e., from both automated lightweight and heavyweight effectors to a network-enabled system integrating sensors and providing additional automation elements in the process. Gradient Aerospace, which revealed its ‘Atlas’ perception stack alongside the Swift and Shark interceptors at…

When the United States sanctioned International Criminal Court (ICC) President Akane Tomoko on August 18, Tokyo’s response was swift – and carefully calibrated. The next day, Foreign Ministry Press Secretary Kitamura Toshihiro called the move “very unfortunate,” reaffirming Japan’s consistent support for the ICC and the rule of law. Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae commented publicly on the same day, telling reporters that she considered the sanctions “very unfortunate” and would continue communicating with the United States and other relevant countries. She did not, however, say whether Tokyo would ask Washington to withdraw the sanctions. It was a statement of principle,…