Missiles / Drones / Directed Energy

How Revolver MP Stacks a Dozen Mark 58 CRAW Torpedoes in a Single Tube

How Revolver MP Stacks a Dozen Mark 58 CRAW Torpedoes in a Single Tube

Project Revolver has moved from lab study to fleet priority in less than three years. Senior officers at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) now describe the program as “an essential magazine-depth booster for fast-attack boats operating west of Guam.” Defense officials confirm that the latest engineering assessment, completed on July 6, cleared Revolver’s Multi-Vehicle Torpedo Tube Defense System (MVTTDS) for first-of-class sea trials with a Virginia-class submarine before the end of this quarter.

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European Defence Agency Pushes Drone-UGV Supply Missions Adopted from Ukraine

European Defence Agency Pushes Drone-UGV Supply Missions Adopted from Ukraine

European armies just wrapped up three weeks of hands-on trials that pushed small drones and ground robots through the same last-mile supply missions now common on Ukrainian front lines. Engineers and soldiers moved ammunition, water, and medical kits without a single crewed truck entering the danger zone, then logged every fault, delay, and workaround for a rapid-fire lessons-learned cycle that ends later this month at Nettuno.

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 Million Set Aside as Army Plans 2026 Tests of Blackbeard Hypersonic Round on Autonomous Launchers

$25 Million Set Aside as Army Plans 2026 Tests of Blackbeard Hypersonic Round on Autonomous Launchers

The Army is moving fast to fold a new hypersonic strike option into its tactical fires family. Budget lines for fiscal year 2026 outline Project HX3, a pathway that funnels $25 million toward Castelion’s Blackbeard Ground Launch missile and an autonomous launcher called Common Autonomous Multi-Domain Launcher. Defense officials confirm the objective: prove a mature design in the first calendar quarter of 2026 and push ten flight-test rounds through a HIMARS rail before the fiscal year ends.

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U.S. Navy’s SM-6 Missile Line at Risk Without Reconciliation Bill Funding

U.S. Navy’s SM-6 Missile Line at Risk Without Reconciliation Bill Funding

The U.S. Navy built its Fiscal Year 2026 weapons plan around one assumption. Congress will pass a one-time reconciliation bill that adds billions to the base defense budget. Inside that bill sits most of the money for 139 Standard Missile-6 interceptors. The service’s own accounts cover only ten rounds. Navy comptrollers describe those ten as “placeholders,” not a viable production lot.

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China’s Expanding Drone Arsenal Reveals Strength of Civil-Military Integration

China’s Expanding Drone Arsenal Reveals Strength of Civil-Military Integration

The first taxi runs of Jiutian’s SS-UAV “drone mothership” at a private airfield in Sichuan on 16 June reflect how far China’s unmanned programs have moved in a single decade. According to industry sources, technicians completed telemetry checks in less than six weeks, after the 15-ton airframe left the final assembly hangar in early May.

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One-Way Drone from MBDA Targets Enemy Defenses with Sheer Volume

One-Way Drone from MBDA Targets Enemy Defenses with Sheer Volume

PARIS — MBDA, Europe’s largest missile maker, has shown a new low‑cost drone called the One‑Way Effector (OWE). The idea is simple: send many cheap drones first, force the enemy to shoot them down, then fire expensive cruise missiles through the gaps. Company engineers began work only six months ago, a pace that matches the urgent need for mass seen during two years of drone‑heavy fighting in Ukraine.

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ISRO's Scramjet Engine Technology Demonstrator

Successful Flight Testing of ISRO’s Scramjet Engine Technology Demonstrator

The Indian Space Research Organisation marked a decisive step toward air-breathing launch systems with the first flight of its Scramjet Engine Technology Demonstrator from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, at 06:00 IST on 28 August 2016. A twelve-hour countdown ended with a clean lift-off of the Advanced Technology Vehicle-D02, a two-stage RH-560 solid booster adapted to carry twin hydrogen-fuelled scramjet modules on the back of its second stage.

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