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MELBOURNE — It may be more well known as a multinational high-end warfighting exercise, but this year’s Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise was also expected to serve as a vast, complex test bed for cutting edge American military tech. Approximately 40 experimentation initiatives were expected to be completed by the time RIMPAC came to an end last month, all part of the Fleet Experimentation (FLEX) program, with each having a sponsor from the Department of War or Department of the Navy. These experiments were to include “the largest advanced manufacturing demonstration ever conducted by the U.S. Department of War”…

Prototype uncrewed military ground vehicle for American Rheinmetall, built on Harbinger’s dual-use hybrid chassis. Credit: Harbinger/PRNewswire. American Rheinmetall has secured a contract to deliver new autonomous ground vehicle technologies for the US Army under Project Sustainment.   The 18-month agreement, awarded via the National Advanced Mobility Consortium (NAMC), tasks the firm and its partners with developing hybrid-powered, uncrewed ground vehicles (UGVs) designed to bolster tactical sustainment missions.  Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more The project calls for UGVs that can autonomously transport supplies and…

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

WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman will become a second supplier of rocket motors for the in-demand PAC-3 interceptor while also increasing motor production for THAAD missiles, under a new pair of multiyear deals worth a combined $3 billion. The deals, announced today, mark the first time Northrop has entered into a framework agreement with the Pentagon since the department began a push to use multiyear agreements to entice defense firms to invest their own capital to help scale munitions production. Both agreements span a total of seven years, with the PAC-3 deal valued at $2 billion and the THAAD deal valued…

Home › North America › Anduril Rolls First Ohio-Built FQ-44A Fury Off the Arsenal-1 Line North America Anduril rolled the first Ohio-built FQ-44A Fury off the Arsenal-1 line on 27 July 2026, as the US Air Force ran collaborative combat aircraft tactics trials at Creech Air Force Base. Anduril Industries rolled the first Ohio-built FQ-44A Fury off the assembly line at its Arsenal-1 plant in Pickaway County on Monday, 27 July 2026, the first complete aircraft to emerge from a facility that only began production in March. The company built its messaging around the pace of the build-out, stating that…

RCD Lawmakers must address permanent magnet manufacturing challenges with equal importance as rare earth supply chain challenges. Source link

Home › North America › Canadian Defence News › North Vector Dynamics Pushes ITAR-Free CM-70 Counter-Drone Missile as Ottawa Builds Out Export Financing Canadian Defence News Calgary’s North Vector Dynamics revised the specifications of its CM-70 counter-UAS missile, pitching ITAR-free export as Ottawa builds out defence financing through the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank and EU SAFE access. North Vector Dynamics, a Calgary-based startup, published a revised specification set for its CM-70 counter-unmanned aerial system missile in a social media post on 27 July 2026, the first substantive change to the design’s public figures since the spring. The weapon itself…

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

In the late 2000s, Pakistan shifted its long-term drone development and procurement strategy away from the budding private sector – where companies like Integrated Dynamics and Satuma led the field – and towards its stronger, much better-provisioned state-owned enterprises (SOEs), specifically the National Engineering and Scientific Commission (NESCOM). That decision undoubtedly chilled the private sector’s ability to develop, a problem this author discussed in an analysis (available for free). It also explains why Pakistan is only now turning to private firms to build its drones. However, that same decision – taken independently of other factors – did elevate Pakistan’s drone…

The resignation of India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on July 25 was the first real concession Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has made to street protesters in several years. The protests were spearheaded by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), an online satirical initiative of Abhijeet Dipke. It was a response to a comment by Chief Justice Surya Kant, who described unemployed youth who “attack everyone” online as cockroaches. The CJP attracted a million sign-ups online and went on to draw youth to Jantar Mantar. But the movement it spurred was not about Dipke. What galvanized the sit-in was the corruption…