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Polish plant to build Anduril’s Barracuda cruise missiles
A Polish aircraft repair plant that has spent decades overhauling aging Soviet-era jets is about to start building brand-new American cruise missiles instead. Wojskowe Zakłady Lotnicze Nr 2, a Bydgoszcz-based facility that operates under Poland’s state-owned defense conglomerate Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa, known as PGZ, signed an agreement paving the way for the assembly and production []
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Intel Slava
· Jul 6, 2026
🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Russian Iskander-M ballistic missiles and Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles struck U [...]
— Russian Iskander-M ballistic missiles and Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles struck Ukraine's Zhulyany Machine-Building Plant Vizar in Vyshneve, Kyiv Oblast.The plant is responsible for manufacturing components for the R-360 Neptune cruise missile, as well as missiles from the 5V55 and 48N6 families used by the S-300 air defense system.@IntelSlava
Lawyers, Guns & Money
· Jun 22, 2026
A Possible Design for Burevestnik
Ever since Vladimir Putin announced a nuclear-powered cruise missile, some of us have been trying to figure out how that might work. I drew on my experience* with people working on the Rover reactor for exoatmospheric rocket propulsion to suggest that a direct drive, in which gas flows through the reactor to be heated for [] The post A Possible Design for Burevestnik appeared first on Lawyers, Guns Money.
Defence Blog
· Jun 22, 2026
Ukraine hits the factory inside Russia’s missile supply chain
Ukraine appears to have struck one of the more obscure but consequential nodes in Russia’s weapons manufacturing chain, hitting the Sborka plant in Voronezh, a facility that Ukrainian military intelligence identifies as a supplier of specialized semiconductor components to three of Russia’s most operationally significant weapons programs: the Kh-101 cruise missile, the Iskander-K ballistic missile []
NK News
· Jul 10, 2026
Spain rejects claims Russian freighter carried nuclear sub parts to North Korea
The Spanish military has pushed back against claims that a sunken Russian freighter carried nuclear submarine parts bound for North Korea, shedding new light on the Ursa Major’s mysterious cargo while finding no evidence that a military attack caused its sinking. The Ursa Major’s cargo was for a Russian nuclear icebreaker, not Pyongyang’s submarine program, []
ABC News
· Jul 9, 2026
Germany reaches deal with US to buy long-range Tomahawk missiles, Merz says
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has announced a deal with the United States to buy American-made Tomahawk cruise missiles and station them in Germany
Splash247
· Jun 23, 2026
Transpetro inks $427m MR1 tanker order
Petrobras logistics arm Transpetro has signed a 427m contract with Estaleiro Rio Grande for the construction of four MR1 tankers. The 40,000 dwt vessels will be used to transport oil and petroleum products along the Brazilian coast. The order is part of Petrobras’ Mar Aberto programme, which is aimed at renewing and expanding the state-controlled
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