The Defense Post

Gaza’s civil defense agency and a hospital said an Israeli airstrike on Friday killed eight people near a market, while the military reported it had struck a “terrorist cell.” A ceasefire remains in place between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas, but it has not halted violence in Gaza, and efforts to secure a lasting agreement to end the war have stalled.

Drone and rocket strikes killed nine members of an Iranian Kurdish armed opposition group in Iraq’s Kurdistan region on Friday, the exiled party said, blaming the attack on Iran. In Erbil, the capital of Kurdistan, the US-led anti-jihadist coalition shot down several drones, and AFP journalists heard loud explosions in the city.

More than 370 drones were launched toward the Moscow region overnight, the Russian capital’s mayor said on Saturday, adding that most of them had been shot down. “Since 8:30 pm (1730 GMT), more than 370 drones were flying in the direction of the Moscow region. Most were neutralized by air defense forces at distant approaches. 64 enemy unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed on approach to Moscow,” Sergei Sobyanin wrote on the state-backed MAX platform.

Two former heads of government from the Elders group of international figures founded by Nelson Mandela on Friday warned of the potential disappearance of the Palestinian territories and called for an end to what they called Israeli “impunity”. The call from former Irish president Mary Robinson and ex-New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark comes after they visited Israel, the occupied Palestinian territories, Jordan and Lebanon.

Tehran is ready to resume “full-scale offensive operations” if US strikes against it continue for another two or three days, a senior military advisor to Iran’s supreme leader warned Friday. “Iran will no longer limit itself to retaliatory, like-for-like responses … and no political border will be safe,” Major General Mohsen Rezaei said, according to the Iranian news agency IRIB.

In an era dominated by stealth jets and high-end airpower, a propeller-driven aircraft might seem out of place. Yet across conflict zones, from dense jungles to arid deserts, the A-29 Super Tucano continues to prove its worth. Built for persistence rather than speed, it fills a critical gap between helicopters and fighter jets. Read on to learn how the Super Tucano became one of the most widely adopted light attack and training aircraft.

Asylon has secured a contract from the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex to further develop and demonstrate an autonomous aircraft inspection system designed to support US Air Force maintenance operations. Known as Multi-modal Autonomous Robotics for Inspection of Aircraft (MARIA), the system combines aerial and ground robots to perform general visual inspections of military aircraft with limited human intervention.

RTX’s Raytheon has brought the Stinger’s successor one step closer to reality, successfully demonstrating its Next Generation Short Range Interceptor (NGSRI) in a milestone test against simulated aerial threats. During the trial, multiple NGSRI missiles detected, tracked, and intercepted their targets, validating the system’s integrated guidance and engagement capabilities.

Syria has established a new National University for Defense Sciences, a centralized institution for higher military education, state-run news agency SANA reported. The university, announced by Syrian officials during a press conference, will bring together military education under a single structure comprising four colleges and a higher institute focused on defense technology and military leadership.

An Israeli startup is taking a clean-sheet approach to countering drone swarms, designing a next-gen air defense system purpose-built to defeat large-scale attacks. Skapion said its technology is designed to engage entire drone swarms as a whole rather than one drone at a time, reducing the cost per intercept while addressing the growing scale of aerial threats.