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DefScoop The Marine Corps received its 359th MV-22B Osprey on Tuesday, marking the completion of the tiltrotor’s program of record Source link

MELBOURNE — A Leidos subsidiary has been selected to design the dry dock for Australia’s future nuclear-powered submarines. Leidos Gibbs and Cox, a US-based company with Australian offices, will lead the preliminary design of a contingency dry dock for critical repairs and maintenance on the submarines Australia will operate under AUKUS Pillar 1, according to an announcement from Australia’s defense department today. “This contingency dry dock capability is a critical pre-condition of Australia receiving its first Virginia class submarine and will provide a critical contingency capability for Australia and its partners,” the Australian Department of Defence said in a news…

Days after Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev publicly suggested to Russian President Vladimir Putin that he freeze the conflict with Ukraine and return to the negotiating table, Putin signed a pair of executive orders paving the way to begin talks with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to update their existing military-technical cooperation agreements. These two events are not necessarily connected, but viewed together they serve to highlight the multidimensional relationships between the Central Asian states and Russia. Tokayev met Putin in the Siberian city of Omsk for the Russia-Kazakhstan Forum of Interregional Cooperation on July 24-25. Speaking alongside Putin at the forum, Tokayev…

Aviation Week The Pentagon on July 27 announced another new agreement with key companies to expand munition production Source link

MILAN — Ukraine’s defense technology cluster Brave1 and NATO have launched a joint innovation program that will fund defense companies, with the first call focused on counter-drone systems against FPV and Shahed-type drones. Applications for the project, described as the “first joint innovation grant program,” are intended for companies from Ukraine and NATO member states. The program opened on Tuesday. Funding of up to €500 million ($569.6 million) per partner is available for joint ventures between one Ukrainian firm and another from a NATO member state.  Five areas were listed by Brave1 as of high interest: active protection systems against…

The Southeast Asian region is experiencing an unprecedented economic and industrial boom as a result of rising consumer demand, government decarbonization mandates as well as diversification priorities under the so-called “China Plus One” shift. The rapid expansion of electric vehicle (EV) adoption, battery manufacturing, logistics and consumer services is attracting a growing number of investors to growth opportunities across the member states of ASEAN. The automotive and two-wheeler EV sector in Thailand, Indonesia’s battery cathode precursor manufacturing, Vietnam’s lithium-ion cell assembly, and the regionally booming sectors of third-party logistics (3PL) and digital consumer services have seen an uptick in investment from private…

Seeking Alpha The approval comes even as the Virginia-class program continues to struggle with production bottlenecks Source link

DAYTON, Ohio — The Air Force plans to winnow a pool of nine vendors down to as many as six next year for a second round of its drone wingman program, according to a top service official. An ongoing “concept refinement” stage is slated to last “another approximately 10 months,” Col. Timothy Helfrich, the Air Force’s program acquisition executive for fighters and advanced aircraft, said Tuesday during a media roundtable with reporters here at the Life Cycle Industry Days conference.  At the end of that concept refinement stage, the Air Force expects to get up to “six closed conceptual designs,”…

Hours after Dharmendra Pradhan, education minister in the Narendra Modi government, stepped down on July 25 under pressure from massive Gen Z protests in New Delhi and other Indian cities, Rahul Gandhi, Congress Party leader and leader of the opposition in the lower house of parliament, sent a letter to Home Minister Amit Shah, seeking accountability for the “barbaric assault on students who were peacefully protesting in Delhi on July 20, 2026.“ Gandhi was referring to the Narendra Modi government’s use of brutal force against unarmed students marching toward the parliament building in New Delhi on July 20. The leak…

Jon Deacon Panamaroff & Haven Harris, RCDefense 250 Years of Answering the Call to Defend America Source link