August 2026

Shortly before midnight on August 4, 2026, an unidentified drone was spotted near the southern runway at Leipzig/Halle Airport in eastern Germany. …

Britain’s combat air fleet spent much of 2025 defined by delay and uncertainty — a slipping F-35B delivery schedule, an unresolved Typhoon …

Executive Summary: The U.S. Missile Defense Agency is making affordability a central requirement as it seeks to expand interceptor inventories and sustain …

Executive Summary: Lockheed Martin plans to increase annual THAAD interceptor production from 96 to 400 missiles under a seven-year U.S. procurement agreement …

Executive Summary: Yemen’s Mocha port has suspended commercial and maritime activity after a series of Houthi missile attacks caused approximately $16 million …

Denmark has moved its F-35 program another step toward dispersed operations by making a deployable command and mission-support facility fully operational after …

On August 7, 2026, Lockheed Martin outlined a missile-defense architecture that reframes one of its own flagship products. The F-35 Lightning II, …

The U.S. Army is closing in on a contract that would move high-energy laser weapons out of the testing phase and into …

For years, drone warfare was something Europe watched from a distance — a defining feature of the Russia-Ukraine front line, thousands of …

Executive Summary: The future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), the second Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, departed Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport …