Ballistic Missile
Turkiye unveils Yildirimhan intercontinental ballistic missile at SAHA 2026.
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Anti-drone System
Lithuania is buying the American-made Merops counter-drone system.
Lithuania said Wednesday that it is buying the American-made Merops counter-drone system. Merops has been battle-tested in Ukraine and was also recently deployed to the Middle East. Another NATO ally is acquiring an American-made interceptor […]
Air-Launched Weapons
Elbit Systems Awarded $200 Million Contract to Produce Ammo for Israeli Air Force.
Israel orders $200 million in airborne munitions from Elbit as defense spending accelerates. Latest procurement adds to a series of wartime contracts aimed at reducing reliance on foreign suppliers. Less than a month after Elbit […]
Anti-air Missiles
China blames Russia’s S-300PMU2 and S-400 missiles for the reverse-engineered HQ-9B missile failure in Pakistan and Iran.
China has imported S-300, S-300PMU2 and S-400 air defence systems from Russia to study and reverse-engineer its own HQ-9B missile system, as the two militaries continue to step up cooperation. Russian media reported that China’s […]
Air Platform
Saudi and Emirati fighter jets joined the U.S. and Israeli forces in airstrikes in Iran during operation ‘Epic Fury’: Reuters.
Long at odds, Iran, a Shiite country, Saudi Arabia and the UAE — the two Sunni Muslim powers in the Middle East have backed opposing groups in conflicts across the region. Saudi Arabia launched numerous, […]
Air Platform
Pratt & Whitney hits a key milestone on the next-generation fighter engine.
Pratt & Whitney has completed a fully digital assembly readiness review for its XA103 adaptive engine, clearing the last major design-phase hurdle before the company begins procuring physical hardware for the first test build of […]
East Asia and Pacific Region
Indonesia to receive up to 60 Kizilelma unmanned fighters from Turkiye.
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Anti-ship Missile
Japan fires a Type 88 anti-ship missile during the Balikatan 2026 exercise in the Philippines.
Japan crossed a major postwar threshold during Balikatan 2026 by firing Type 88 anti-ship missiles from Philippine territory into the Luzon Strait battlespace, signaling that Tokyo is now preparing to fight alongside allies inside the […]
Middle East
Pakistan and Afghanistan allowed Iranian aircraft parked on their airfields shielded them from American airstrikes.
As Pakistan positioned itself as a diplomatic conduit between Tehran and Washington, it quietly allowed Iranian military aircraft to park on its airfields, potentially shielding them from American airstrikes, according to U.S. officials with knowledge […]
Air Platform
South Korea’s new KF-21 Boramae fighter jet cleared for active combat.
South Korea’s KF-21 Boramae fighter jet has received final combat suitability approval from the Ministry of National Defense, clearing the indigenous aircraft for operational deployment after more than a decade of development and over 1,600 […]