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WASHINGTON — Maritime defense tech firm Saronic broke ground today on its new shipyard in Brownville, Texas, known as Port Alpha.  The company revealed in July plans for Port Alpha — an entirely new shipyard being built from scratch in Texas — and shared that the shipyard will initially occupy roughly 800 acres, with the possibility to expand to a total of 4,000 acres. Saronic has boasted that the yard aims to hire roughly 10,000 direct workers for roles like welding, machining, and will also hire for positions for robotics, software engineering, and naval architecture. “Port Alpha is designed from…

Russia has finally filled the ambassadorial post in Pyongyang, which had sat vacant for nearly eight months. Under a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin on July 28, career diplomat Andrei Podelyshev – at the time, Russia’s ambassador to Nigeria, a post he had held since December 2024 – was named the new ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. A companion decree released him from his Nigerian posting the same day. Podelyshev arrived in Pyongyang nearly two months later, on September 26, together with his wife, aboard a direct Nordwind flight from Moscow. According to…

WASHINGTON — The Army has selected five companies to develop prototypes for the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) Increment 4 program, restarting the competition for the service’s next long-range strike weapon. Anduril, Castelion, Lockheed Martin, RTX and Mach Industries each received Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreements to build prototype missiles, the service announced Tuesday. The Increment 4 missile is intended to hit moving maritime and land targets at ranges of at least 1,000 km (621 miles) — roughly double the range of the Army’s PrSM baseline. The announcement did not disclose the value of the OTAs and a spokesperson from Program…

After underestimating Ukraine’s forces, the Defense Intelligence Agency adopted a new analytical framework to try and quantify the unquantifiable. Source link

CIT helps distinguish allied forces from potential threats in contested environments. Credit: BAE Systems. BAE Systems has received AIMS certification for its AN/APX-127(V)1 Combined Interrogator Transponder (CIT) for use on the US Air Force’s F-16 Fighting Falcon. The certification, issued by the US Department of War, confirms compliance with a US and Nato interoperable identification-friend-or-foe (IFF) standard and marks the system as “ready for use”. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more BAE Systems expects to begin deliveries from an initial 90-unit production lot…

English (Original) Spanish – Español French – Français German – Deutsch Arabic – العربية Chinese – 中文 Japanese – 日本語 Russian – Русский Portuguese – Português Italian – Italiano Korean – 한국어 Dutch – Nederlands Turkish – Türkçe Polish – Polski Hindi – हिन्दी 🤖 Hi! I’m here to help you understand this article. Ask me anything about the content! Send Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to use nuclear weapons against the West if NATO attempts to isolate the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad. Russia set out the warning in an informal diplomatic document sent to NATO as tensions rise…

Officials at the groundbreaking of Avio USA manufacturing facility. Credit: Lockheed Martin. Avio USA has broken ground on a roughly 900,000ft2 solid rocket motor plant in Hurt, Virginia, its first manufacturing facility in the US. Located at Southern Virginia Multimodal Park, the facility will substantially increase US-based production capacity for missiles and munitions, the company stated in a 29 September release. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more The site will supply thousands of solid rocket motors annually for tactical missile programmes, meeting the…

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English (Original) Spanish – Español French – Français German – Deutsch Arabic – العربية Chinese – 中文 Japanese – 日本語 Russian – Русский Portuguese – Português Italian – Italiano Korean – 한국어 Dutch – Nederlands Turkish – Türkçe Polish – Polski Hindi – हिन्दी 🤖 Hi! I’m here to help you understand this article. Ask me anything about the content! Send A Flydubai co-pilot stabbed the captain of an Israel-bound passenger jet and “apparently tried to crash the plane with everyone on board”, Benjamin Netanyahu has said. The Israeli prime minister said passengers and crew intervened to overpower the alleged…

On 28 September 2026, Pakistan’s federal government issued the Public Procurement Rules 2026 through a Gazette notification, replacing the framework that had governed procurement since 2004. The new rules entered into force immediately, but procurement cases already initiated will remain subject to the 2004 rules. The government issued the notification two days before an International Monetary Fund (IMF) deadline and on the opening day of talks over a US$1.2 billion disbursement, while an IMF mission carries out the fourth review of Pakistan’s loan program. The official account links the rules to the Prime Minister’s Digital Pakistan vision. The Public Procurement…