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Home › Turkey › Turkish Defence News › Turkish Air Force Inducts Roketsan’s SOM-B1T: 250 km Cruise Missile Sheds Its French Engine Turkish Defence News Türkiye’s SOM-B1T enters Turkish Air Force service with Kale’s KTJ-3200 turbojet, ending the cruise missile’s dependence on a French engine. Türkiye’s Ministry of National Defence announced that acceptance activities for a quantity of SOM-B1T cruise missiles will run at Roketsan from 13 to 17 July, ahead of delivery to the Turkish Air Force. It is the first entry into the inventory of the SOM-B1T, the configuration of the SOM-B1 fitted with Kale’s indigenous KTJ-3200 turbojet.…

A Greenjets drone. Credit: Greenjets via LinkedIn. The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded £3.16m ($4.23m) in contracts to three British small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to develop and trial new low-cost interceptors. The contracts are part of a five‑nation European effort to counter large‑scale drone and missile threats, with UK being the first nation to make such awards. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more Companies selected for this funding Frankenberg Technologies, Greenjets, and Cambridge Aerospace, will each work on designs to tackle drone threats that…

On 13 July 2026, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that three Saronic Corsair unmanned surface vessels (USVs) had struck submarine and ship-maintenance facilities at Iran’s Bandar Abbas Naval Base. It was the first acknowledged American combat use of a one-way attack (OWA) sea drone. The attack formed part of a wider wave involving combat aircraft, surface ships, and aerial OWA drones against Iranian air-defence, radar, missile, drone, and naval assets. The Saronic Corsair is a 24-foot USV with a payload capacity of 1,000 lb, a range exceeding 1,000 nautical miles, and a top speed of over 35 knots. Saronic…

Jen Sovada, Federal News Network Expanding the speed of decision-making Source link

Connor Pfeiffer, RCDefense By putting additional focus on national security threats in Latin America, the Senate version of the NDAA would deliver long-overdue congressional defense… Source link

At any moment in the middle of the South China Sea, a literal war could break out. High-pressure water cannons, naval ramming, and high-seas brawls have already become common — and a much bigger conflict is just one mistake away. But it didn’t have to be this way.  A decade ago, in July 2016, an arbitral tribunal in The Hague issued a ruling in a landmark case pitting the Philippines against China over their competing claims to the South China Sea. The verdict was a bombshell. Under the United Nations’ Law of the Sea, five judges found that most of…

Sean Andrews, The Strategist (ASPI) At sea, drones are disruptive, but they are not decisive. They complicate the maritime fight, but they do not replace the enduring strategic logic of sea… Source link

South Korea’s President Lee Jae-myung paid a state visit to Mongolia from July 9-11, following his attendance at the NATO Summit in Turkiye. Lee’s trip marked the first visit to Mongolia by a South Korean head of state in 15 years, and underscored a major boost in the two countries’ strategic partnership, particularly cooperation in critical minerals, health, education, and Northeast Asia’s peace and security environment. Lee’s visit emphasized a new level of Mongolia-South Korea partnership in a changing regional geopolitical environment. Ahead of the state visit, in an interview with Mongolia’s state news agency, Montsame, Lee stated: “I hope…

A&SF Mag. Boeing’s MQ-28 Collaborative Combat Aircraft flew with multiple F-35 variants as well as battle management aircraft Source link