Ukraine Says Russia Could Order 230 Naval Drones Despite Electronics Shortages
As many as 230 naval drones could be included in Russia’s 2026 government procurement order, according to an assessment from…
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Russia Approves 500-Ton Carbon-Fiber Line to Expand Drone Production
Russia has approved a Rosatom project to add a capable of making up to 500 tons annually at the Alabuga-Volokno…
Modeled Analysis Puts Russia’s July Strike-Drone Activity at 5,700-5,858
That range, calculated in an updated Institute for Science and International Security analysis, is not an observed total, an official…
Pentagon Seeks 3,203 Patriot and 857 High-Altitude Defense Interceptors, Timetable Unclear
The Pentagon’s fiscal 2027 budget requests 3,203 Patriot PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement interceptors, up from 341 in fiscal 2026, and…
Pentagon Seeks 4,060 Patriot and THAAD Interceptors Despite Long Lead Times
The Pentagon’s fiscal 2027 budget request seeks 3,203 Patriot PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement interceptors and 857 Terminal High Altitude Area…
GM Defense Delivers First Patriot Parts as Pentagon Targets Triple Output
GM Defense delivered its first batch of housing components for Lockheed Martin’s Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement interceptor on…
Pentagon Awards X-Bow $11 Million for Sub-$750,000 Interceptor Test by 2027
The Pentagon has awarded X-Bow Systems nearly $11 million to develop a modular anti-ballistic interceptor designed to cost less than…
Lockheed, Pentagon Target 400 High-Altitude Defense Interceptors a Year
A production target is not the same as production, but the scale of the proposed increase is substantial. Lockheed Martin…
L3Harris Gets $4.7 Billion Award to Expand Patriot Propulsion Production
L3Harris Technologies has received a seven-year, $4.7 billion undefinitized award from Lockheed Martin to produce propulsion systems for the Patriot…
Pentagon Signs Deals to Triple Patriot, Quadruple THAAD Interceptor Production
Three times as many Patriot interceptors and four times as many Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, interceptors: those…
Rheinmetall Adds F-35 and Missile Factories as €80.4 Billion Backlog Ties Up Cash
Rheinmetall’s €80.4 billion order backlog is driving a factory expansion that reaches from F-35 aircraft structures to rocket motors, drones,…
Ukraine’s Patriot Missile Push Stalls as Allies Guard Limited Supplies
Ukraine needs more missiles for its Patriot air-defense systems, but the governments holding compatible interceptors are reluctant to reduce their…
CSIS Estimates Patriot Inventory Fell From 2,330 to 759, Recovery by 2030
Money can authorize more missile interceptors, but it cannot make qualified factories, specialized machinery and trained workers appear on the…
Patriot and THAAD Missile-Defense Deals Target Threefold, Fourfold Output
A seven-year production commitment can give a missile supplier enough confidence to hire workers, order materials and expand a factory….
General Dynamics’ $533 Million Army Factory Reportedly Produced No Usable Shells
The U.S. Army paid General Dynamics $533 million for an automated artillery factory in Texas that reportedly failed to produce…
Lockheed’s $58.6 Billion Patriot Expansion Cannot Quickly Refill Inventories
The central problem in the reported $58.6 billion Patriot production framework is time. U.S. inventories have reportedly fallen to 25%…
U.S. Patriot, High-Altitude Defense and Tomahawk Supplies May Lag Until 2030
The United States can authorize more missiles much faster than its industrial base can manufacture them. Reported shortages of Patriot…
Officials Say Iran War Left U.S. Patriot Inventories in Europe Critically Low
About 2,050 major U.S. missile interceptors had been expended in the Iran war by mid-July, according to officials: roughly 1,700…
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