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Home › Europe › European Defence News › Nordic Air Defence Demonstrates Radio-Silent K100XR Drone Interceptor European Defence News Sweden’s Nordic Air Defence ran the first public demonstration of its K100XR counter-drone interceptor, a half-kilogram round that treats autonomy as the default and the datalink as optional. Nordic Air Defence, a Stockholm startup, held the first public demonstration of its K100XR counter-drone interceptor, with press observing a live engagement against target drones in reporting that appeared on 5 July 2026. The company said on its own account that the system detected and engaged target drones during the event, with journalists…

Home › Europe › European Defence News › Hensoldt Doubles Order Intake as Backlog Passes €10 Billion, But Middle East Business Stays Marginal European Defence News Hensoldt’s H1 2026 order intake doubled to €2.81 billion and backlog passed €10 billion, but Middle East revenue held at 2.1 per cent and the shares fell 5 per cent. Hensoldt reported half-year results on 31 July 2026 showing order intake doubling to €2.81 billion and an order backlog of €10.36 billion, the first time the German sensor house has carried more than €10 billion of work. Revenue rose 23.6 per cent to €1.17…

The Indian Air Force’s Sureshastra Mk1 loitering munition, built by Delhi-area startup Veda Aeronautics, has become the reference product behind the company’s push into a much larger Indian defence procurement pipeline. The IAF signed a US$31 million (₹300 crore) contract for 200 units in August 2023 through its Mehar Baba Swarm Drone Competition, a deal reported at the time as the largest order any Indian startup had received from the government for unmanned systems. Deliveries were reported underway from May 2025, following earlier user trials in the Thar desert. The baseline Sureshastra Mk1 is a 3.5-metre, roughly 90-kilogram jet-powered fixed-wing…

The future of AI will be driven in significant part by startups and small players using open-source software to make their own, cheaper, more efficient versions of Claude or ChatGPT, tech leaders finally admitted this week. For companies like AWS, the challenge now is protecting those public tools from increasingly sophisticated attacks from China, Russia, North Korea, or other players.“Open-weight models—AI models that anyone can download, inspect, modify, and run on their own infrastructure—are an important part of that foundation because they make advanced AI more accessible, adaptable, and widely available,” reads a July 24 statement by Nvidia CEO Jensen…

Rob Maness, Daily Caller I have served alongside government civilian employees for more than 40 years in varying capacities and watched too many good people in uniform and the civil service… Source link

WSJ U.S. officials say the offensive could begin as soon as this weekend Source link

The Times Of Israel Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, head of the US military’s European Command, has sent the Pentagon a written warning that if he doesn’t receive another Navy destroyer, he will… Source link

Mark W. Castillon, RealClearDefense How Institutionally Tolerated Boundary Failures Become Procedural Leverage – The Pattern Everyone Knows But No One Stops Source link

Stephen D. Cook, RealClearDefense The United States has relied overwhelmingly on air and naval power, with only limited ground forces present in the broader CENTCOM area of… Source link

MC Compass Points What is the Marine Corps’ CCDR score? Source link