Military & Defense News Coverage of military and defense robotics, including unmanned ground vehicles, aerial and maritime drones, autonomous weapons systems, and AI-enabled command and control. The Robotics Media reports on defense contracts, procurement programs, field deployments, and R&D from contractors, startups, and agencies such as DARPA and NATO members. Readers also find analysis of counter-drone technology, human-machine teaming, and policy debates around autonomy in warfare.
Manchester Airports Group Cyberattack Exposes Data Of 8.7M Customers — Aug 28, 2026 — Manchester Airports Group said an unauthorized third party accessed customer records tied to car park, lounge, Fast Track and Wi-Fi bookings at Manche...U.S. Army Awards Heaviside Industries $99M For MOTH Drone-Detection Sensor — Aug 28, 2026 — The U.S. Army has awarded Marina del Rey defense startup Heaviside Industries a five-year contract worth up to $99 million to field the MOTH handheld...Australian Police Arrest Alleged TeamPCP Hackers Behind Shai-Hulud Worm — Aug 28, 2026 — The Australian Federal Police have arrested two men accused of participating in TeamPCP, the hacking group tied to a supply-chain campaign that compro...Palladyne AI Teams With NORDA Dynamics To Fuse SwarmOS And Ukraine-Proven Terminal Guidance — Aug 28, 2026 — Palladyne AI and Ukrainian-Estonian drone specialist NORDA Dynamics are integrating SwarmOS with NORDA's combat-proven Underdog Autonomy Module to let...Korean Air Partners With Archer Aviation On Militarized Midnight eVTOL For South Korea — Aug 28, 2026 — Korean Air has struck a partnership with Archer Aviation to adapt the Midnight eVTOL for the South Korean military, with the flag carrier handling air...CISA Warns Citrix NetScaler CVE-2026-8452 Is Under Active Attack — Aug 28, 2026 — CISA has added a previously patched Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway flaw, CVE-2026-8452, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after attacke...ArcSpace Raises Over €2M To Weld And Repair Satellites In Orbit — Aug 28, 2026 — Paris-based ArcSpace has raised over €2 million led by DEPO Ventures to scale its electron-beam tools that can cut, weld and repair satellites — inclu...Amazon Kiro Flaw Turns Poisoned Repos Into Silent Data Exfiltration — Aug 27, 2026 — Mindgard says a prompt-injection flaw in Amazon Kiro let attacker-controlled repos coerce the agentic IDE into leaking local secrets - fixed in 0.8.14...SpaceX Launches Starlink 15-22 From Vandenberg After Florida Falcon 9 Sunset — Aug 26, 2026 — SpaceX lofted 27 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg early August 26, 2026 on booster B1082's 24th flight, one day after the company's last planned Fa...SpaceX Ends Falcon 9 Starlink Launches From Florida, Hands Baton To Starship — Aug 26, 2026 — SpaceX's Tuesday Starlink 10-49 mission from Cape Canaveral was the last planned Falcon 9 launch of Starlink from Florida, VP Kiko Dontchev said, with...Critical GitLab GraphQL Flaw CVE-2026-19478 Under Active Exploit Within Days Of Disclosure — Aug 26, 2026 — A newly patched code-injection flaw in GitLab's GraphQL API tracked as CVE-2026-19478 (CVSS 9.4) came under active exploitation within days of public...Ukraine's DETECT GROUP Puts A Direction Finder Onto Attack Drones — Aug 25, 2026 — Kyiv-based DETECT GROUP has unveiled SeekLevel, a 200-gram airborne direction-finder that lets FPV drone crews locate Russian electronic-warfare emitt...SpaceX Booster B1067 Sets 37-Flight Reuse Record On Starlink 10-49 Cape Canaveral Launch — Aug 25, 2026 — SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral early Tuesday carrying 29 Starlink 10-49 satellites, powered by fleet-leading first-stage booster B1067...Saildrone Fires First Missiles From A Wind-Powered Robot Ship At RIMPAC — Aug 24, 2026 — Saildrone's Surveyor USV fired two Lockheed Martin JAGM missiles off Hawaii during RIMPAC 2026, the first live launch from one of the company's wind-p...CISA, NSA And FBI Warn Of AI-Generated Attacks On Siemens S7 PLCs — Aug 24, 2026 — Five U.S. agencies issued a joint advisory warning that threat actors are using AI-generated scripts to target internet-exposed Siemens S7 programmabl...FCC Adds Chinese Humanoid And Quadruped Robots To Covered List — Aug 24, 2026 — The Federal Communications Commission has moved to block new equipment authorizations for foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots, citing supply-ch...Iran-Linked Hackers Shut Down UK Power Plant For Four Days, Report Says — Aug 24, 2026 — A suspected Iranian intrusion knocked a small British power-generating facility offline for four days, the first known cyberattack to bring a UK plant...SpaceX Hits 100 Falcon Missions For 2026 With Vandenberg Starlink Launch — Aug 24, 2026 — A pre-dawn Falcon 9 from Vandenberg carried 27 Starlink satellites to orbit, giving SpaceX its 100th Falcon-family flight of 2026, with the Starlink f...NORINCO Debuts Fuxi Humanoid For Remote Reconnaissance And Hazard Ops — Aug 23, 2026 — China's state-owned defense conglomerate NORINCO Group unveiled Fuxi, a 90 kg full-size humanoid that mirrors human operators in real time via a domes...Raytheon And CET's HADALUS UUV Launches From Underwater For The First Time — Aug 23, 2026 — Raytheon and Portsmouth-based Composite Energy Technologies demonstrated the first submerged launch of HADALUS, a 34-foot, 2,000+ nautical mile unmann...