Russia’s Lancet kamikaze drone used to be one of its most dangerous weapons. Now a pro-Russian militant says one unit fired about 100 of them in three months and hit just three targets, one of them a roadside shop.

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The British military wants to buy American-made Skydio X10D drones, the same small reconnaissance quadcopter the U.S. Army ordered by the thousands this year.

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A 22-year-old U.S. Navy destroyer is heading into a two-year overhaul to become the first warship fitted with Raytheon’s SPY-6(V)4 radar, which can track far more targets than the system it replaces.

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Four driverless military vehicles worked together at Fort Knox to find a mock enemy position and call in a simulated strike. They drive and search on their own, but a human has to approve before anything fires.

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Russia has launched a new stealth corvette for its Pacific Fleet. The Grozny went into the water at a shipyard in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, five years after work on it began. It still needs outfitting and sea trials.

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Drones have been hitting cargo ships off Romania and Bulgaria all month. Now a French patrol plane is helping search for survivors, and a U.S. Navy submarine hunter is patrolling the Black Sea after Bulgaria asked for help.

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A startup that began in a college dorm building landmine-detecting vehicles is now one of nine finalists in a U.S. Army competition for autonomous resupply. Its small unmanned ground vehicle, PIT VIPER, is headed to Hawaii for testing.

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Elon Musk accused Ukraine of using civilian Starlink to fly attack drones. Ukraine says it couldn’t have: Starlink terminals there stop working above 90 km/h, and the service is off over Russia.

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Four days, five intel flights near Japan: Chinese Y-9s crossed the Okinawa-Miyako gap to off Amami Oshima on Oct. 20 and 21, then Russian IL-20s flew the Sea of Japan to off Shimane on Oct. 22 and 23.

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Starting Monday, no BYD car gets through the gates at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan. Not personal cars, not taxis, not delivery vans. The concern: cameras and sensors in modern EVs could collect data on the base.

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Japan’s defense minister says the country’s rules for military AI, written just two years ago, can’t keep up with how fast the technology is moving. He told lawmakers the policy needs to be reviewed.

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Chinese and South Korean patrol ships spent 10 days together in the Yellow Sea checking fishing boats from both countries. They tracked 123 boats, warned 74 and boarded three.

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Chinese escort rotations keep getting longer: 339 days for the 46th task force, 368 for the 47th, 378 for the 48th. The last one also fit in exercises with South Africa and Pakistan and port calls in Bangladesh, Myanmar and Malaysia.

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Türkiye’s navy is training with an unmanned ground vehicle in landing operations. During an exercise off Antalya, HAVELSAN’s Barkan moved with troops in raid and urban combat scenarios and carried simulated wounded to the rear.

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U.S. Army soldiers in Germany are training with robotic wheels that carry wounded troops and heavy weapons.

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Türkiye’s Aksungur drone can stay in the air for more than 50 hours. Now it has been paired with Aselsan sonobuoys, small devices dropped into the sea to listen for submarines, during a Turkish naval exercise in the Mediterranean.

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Poland ordered 360 tanks from South Korea and has received more than 200. About 30 are now sitting in repair shops, some with engine problems. The defense ministry says that’s normal.

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Spain’s military tested how to stop drones at a firing range in Huelva this week. A Spanish company brought gun-armed trucks, an armored vehicle and a small robot that jams a drone’s radio link, and says they brought down several targets.

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Finland’s newest F-35 has a bison painted on its tail, the emblem of the squadron that has guarded the Arctic north from Rovaniemi for decades. Two more jets landed there this week, with pilot training at home set to begin in January.

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The U.S. Army wants a drone-killing missile that reaches farther than the Stinger. L3Harris just got up to $60 million to flight-test one, using a ramjet engine that breathes air instead of carrying its own oxidizer, leaving more room for fuel.

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