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BEIRUT — Turkish Aerospace (TA) is developing a maritime version of its light attack and trainer aircraft Hurjet, as the company eyes increased exports to NATO countries.  “We have recently started work on a navalized version of HÜRJET,” TA CEO Mehmet Demiroglu said at a Turkish naval expo today, according to a transcript the firm provided to Breaking Defense. “It is still too early to define exactly what the aircraft will look like. Maritime operating conditions are significantly more demanding than land-based operations, and the aircraft will also need a more powerful engine.” He added that TA has been in…

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon wants more transparency from defense primes and their supply chains on the cost of building weapons and is considering the use of software that would pull data directly from companies’ financial systems to get it, according to memo reviewed by Breaking Defense. The memo, signed off by Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg on Tuesday, is meant to “reset” the Pentagon’s expectations for supplier cost and pricing information, with the department seeking to use that data to ensure that contractors’ profit margins don’t get out of control. “Full transparency throughout all tiers of the supply chain applies…

Rheinmetall and Hensoldt successfully integrated the Twinvis radar into a modern air defence system. Photo: Hensoldt. Rheinmetall Air Defence and Hensoldt have succeeded in integrating the latter’s Twinvis passive radar into the former’s Skymaster command and weapon engagement system. The development was demonstrated during the German Air Force’s Timber Express 2026 exercise in Manching, where the combined system operated under realistic Nato networking conditions and controlled the Skynex Air Defence battery. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more In a joint statement, the companies…

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Army Cyber Command is training AI agents in various “work roles” to serve alongside humans to operate at machine speed, according to its commander. “Every agent we create is trained in a work role inside the cyber force,” Lt. Gen. Christopher Eubank, commander of ARCYBER, said on Tuesday at the TechNet Augusta conference. “We’ve created developers, data engineers, host analysts, exploitation analysts. You name the work role, we’re creating those. And then we’re training them to the same standard that humans get trained to. So agents have a work role; they’re JQR [Job Qualification Readiness-approved]. They get…

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…