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Thick smoke was still rising over Volgograd’s Krasnooktyabrsky District on the morning of June 27 when open-source analysts began piecing together what had just happened to one of Russia’s most critical defense manufacturing sites. According to the monitoring Telegram channel Exilenova+, FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles struck the Titan-Barrikady plant at least three ti...

DARPA, the Pentagon’s advanced research agency responsible for some of the most consequential technological breakthroughs in American military history, has issued a request for information targeting metals producers, ceramics manufacturers, and composites makers with an unusual proposition: share your production data, and we will give you AI tools that make your factory pe...

The U.S. Air Force is preparing to sole-source a contract to Lockheed Martin Space Systems to integrate America’s nuclear warhead reentry vehicle into the new Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile, a critical step in transferring the country’s ground-based nuclear deterrent from the aging Minuteman III system that has stood watch since the 1970s to the weapon [...

America’s missile defense testing program has a logistics problem, and the Pentagon wants industry to solve it: the Missile Defense Agency, the organization responsible for developing and testing America’s shield against ballistic missile attack, has issued a formal solicitation seeking mobile launch platforms that can fire test missiles from virtually anywhere on ea...

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a contract worth up to $95 million to study how laser weapons affect their targets and how to analyze that data more effectively, accelerating a research effort that sits at the foundation of America’s push to field directed energy weapons as a primary defense against the drone and missile […]