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Home › Europe › European Defence News › Rheinmetall Unveils GMF 140 Frigate for a North American Campaign European Defence News Rheinmetall unveiled the GMF 140, a 140-metre guided missile frigate with 64 strike-length VLS cells, AEGIS and CMS 330, aimed at an unnamed North American procurement project. Rheinmetall unveiled the GMF 140 on 3 August 2026, a 140-metre guided missile frigate displacing approximately 6,000 tonnes that the company intends to offer initially as part of a procurement project in North America. The company did not name the project. Rheinmetall shares rose 2% on the announcement. The press contact on…

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ended his fifth State of the Nation Address on July 27 by making veiled remarks directed at China as he enjoined Filipinos to unite and defend the country’s honor. Marcos mentioned China only once in his speech when he enumerated the countries that provided oil supply after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz in March and April. But the last part of his speech alluded to the country’s defensive posture in the West Philippine Sea, even if he did not directly name China. Marcos addressed both “friends” and “detractors” when he called Filipinos a…

Federal employees and contractors whose sensitive personal data was stolen in the massive Office of Personnel Management breaches disclosed a decade ago would receive identity protection for the rest of their lives under new bicameral legislation.Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Mark Warner, D-Va., and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., plan to introduce the RECOVER PII Act on Monday, aiming to prevent the federal government’s identity-protection program for victims from expiring Sept. 30, according to bill text first seen by Nextgov/FCW. Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va.; Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md.; and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., are also Senate cosponsors.Just over 10 years after…

WASHINGTON — Maritime drone manufacturer Saildrone has received a new task order from the Navy worth $16.3 million to continue their operations in the US Southern Command region into next year, firm representatives told Breaking Defense today.  Saildrone has deployed its Voyager unmanned surface vessels (USVs) to SOUTHCOM dating back to 2023 to support the command’s Joint Interagency Task Force South, which helps detect and monitor narco-traffickers in the region. For example, a Voyager was the type of USV cited in a US Navy press release as having played a pivotal role tracking and identifying a suspicious vessel in the…

Home › Turkey › Turkish Defence News › Baykar Doubles K2 Kamikaze Drone Swarm to Ten Aircraft in Autonomous Formation Test Turkish Defence News Baykar flew ten K2 Kamikaze UAVs as one autonomous swarm on 1 August 2026, doubling the five-aircraft formation shown in March. What the test actually proved. Baykar flew ten K2 Kamikaze unmanned aerial vehicles as a single autonomous swarm on 1 August 2026, doubling the five-aircraft formation the Turkish manufacturer demonstrated when it unveiled the loitering munition in March. Selçuk Bayraktar, chairman of the board at Baykar, released footage of the sortie captioned “10 x #K2…

Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi met yesterday with a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), as coup leader-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing prepares to visit Thailand. The military-backed government yesterday released four photos of the 81-year-old meeting with an ICRC official, whom a government spokesperson identified as Arnaud de Baecque, the ICRC’s resident representative in Myanmar. The ICRC confirmed the meeting, stating that the visit was carried out in accordance with the organization’s standards and procedures for visiting people deprived of liberty. This “included the opportunity to speak with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi…

Home › Turkey › Turkish Defence News › Aselsan’s GÖKSUR 100-N Turret Appears on the Production Line Turkish Defence News Aselsan has shown the GÖKSUR 100-N point defence missile system turret in production hardware form, a 20-round, 15 km naval air defence system built to replace the US RIM-116 RAM. Aselsan chief executive Ahmet Akyol published images on 3 August 2026 showing a GÖKSUR 100-N point defence missile system turret on the production line, released during a visit to an Aselsan production facility by Turkish Coast Guard Commander Rear Admiral Ahmet Kendir. It is the first time the system has…

Home › Turkey › Turkish Defence News › Paramount Integrates ASELSAN’s ASELFLIR-500 Targeting Turret onto the Mwari Light Attack Aircraft Turkish Defence News Paramount has integrated ASELSAN’s ASELFLIR-500 electro-optical turret onto the Mwari. Both firms frame it as market access rather than a customer requirement. Paramount Group has integrated ASELSAN’s ASELFLIR-500 electro-optical targeting system onto the Mwari, the South African light multi-role aircraft built at the company’s Wonderboom campus north of Pretoria. Paramount announced the integration on 27 July 2026, with ASELSAN confirming it the following day. Neither company has stated that the aircraft has flown with the turret fitted.…

Last year, the United States imposed sweeping tariffs on its trade partners worldwide, including those in Southeast Asia. The tariffs, which went as high as 49 percent, were based largely on the size of each country’s bilateral trade surplus with the United States. Really big exporters, like Thailand and Vietnam, faced stiff tariffs. Indonesia and Malaysia quickly agreed to lopsided reciprocal trade agreements with the U.S. to get the tariffs lowered to under 20 percent. That may have been hasty as the deals contain numerous provisions that are seemingly impossible to enforce.  In any case, the U.S. Supreme Court struck…