Unmanned
France Turns Auto Factories Into Drone Production Lines
France is moving its military-drone strategy from policy to production as Renault, Valeo, Forvia and Schaeffler join defence companies to build scalable manufac…
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Industry
Türkiye Defence Exports Reach $1.12B in July
Türkiye’s defence and aerospace sector exported $1.12 billion in July 2026, marking a 14.4% increase from the same month last year.
Aerospace
KAAN P1 Begins Taxi Trials Ahead of First Flight
Turkish Aerospace has started taxi trials with the first fully representative KAAN prototype, marking a major ground-test milestone before the aircraft’s planne…
Land
Chinese Military Researchers Distil US AI Models
A Reuters review of more than 80 Chinese papers and patents found that military-linked researchers used outputs from OpenAI and Anthropic models to train smalle…
Aerospace
F-47 Test Aircraft Enter Production for 2028 Flight
The US Air Force says Boeing is producing a small number of F-47 test aircraft as the sixth-generation fighter programme advances through engineering and manufa…
Aerospace
Airbus Keeps Production Ramp-Up Targets Unchanged
Airbus has kept its production ramp-up schedule unchanged across the A220, A320, A330 and A350 programmes after delivering 351 commercial aircraft in the first…
Unmanned
KIZILELMA Fires From Internal Weapons Bay
Bayraktar KIZILELMA S2 has completed its first live-fire tests from the internal weapons bay, releasing TEBER-82 and TOLUN-P precision munitions against designa…
Unmanned
First Anduril YFQ-44A Leaves Ohio Production Line
Anduril has completed the first YFQ-44A at its Arsenal-1 manufacturing facility in Ohio, advancing the US Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft programme from…
Naval
Pentagon Seeks Drone-Launching Robot Boats
The Pentagon’s SWAP-USV challenge seeks autonomous boats carrying multiple reconnaissance and attack drones, while the US Navy’s GARC reaches a first live-fire…
Naval
Taiwan Commissions Batch 2 Tuo Chiang Corvette
Taiwan has commissioned ROCS Tan Chiang, the first Batch 2 Tuo Chiang-class catamaran missile corvette and the eighth vessel in the indigenous high-speed combat…
Naval
LIG D&A Starts KSAM-II Prototype Assembly
LIG Defense & Aerospace has begun assembling prototype KSAM-II flight-test missiles for the ROK Navy’s future KDDX destroyer, with development scheduled to cont…
Unmanned
UK Selects Tekever AR5 to Replace Watchkeeper
The British Army has selected the Tekever AR5 under Project Corvus, with an initial six surveillance drones and up to 24 planned by 2029 under a potential £400…
Unmanned
Airbus MARS Autonomy Networks UAV Missions
Airbus demonstrated MARS Autonomy with two Primoco UAVs at ILA 2026, showing collaborative surveillance, dynamic task allocation and meaningful human control.
Aerospace
ANKA III Payload Rises Ahead of 2027 Deliveries
TUSAŞ is preparing an upgraded ANKA III configuration with a 1.7-tonne payload, improved low observability and expanded air-to-air and air-to-ground roles ahead…
Aerospace
HÜRKUŞ 2 Export Nears Azerbaijan Deal
HÜRKUŞ 2 export talks with Azerbaijan have reached the final stage, while TUSAŞ reports growing demand for training and armed variants across multiple regions.