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Airbus said on Sept. 24 it plans an unsolicited Eurofighter Typhoon proposal to Lisbon in late October or early November, a day after Dassault disclosed a July French government Rafale submission, while Portugal has yet to open a formal tender to replace its upgraded F-16s.
Saab and Canada's Defence Investment Agency signed a non-binding term sheet on September 25, 2026, setting the framework for negotiations on six GlobalEye airborne early warning aircraft for the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Taiwan's army fired six 105 mm rounds from the production-standard Cheetah 8x8 gun vehicle at its southern training center in Tainan on September 23, in a media demonstration held before a 178-vehicle production run scheduled to start in 2027.
Orizzonte Sistemi Navali, the Fincantieri-Leonardo joint venture, signed a contract worth about €3.7 billion with OCCAR on September 24 for two DDX air and missile defense destroyers for the Italian Navy, with deliveries due in 2033 and 2035.
Britain announced on September 22, 2026 that it will send a Voyager tanker to Saudi Arabia, but its hose-and-drogue pods can serve only the Typhoons and Tornados, not the 232 F-15s that make up 60 percent of the Saudi combat fleet.
Guatemala's army formally took delivery on 21 September 2026 of a first lot of more than 2,000 US-made M4A1 carbines at La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City, the opening tranche of a US$5 million Foreign Military Sales order for a new jungle brigade in Petén.
Naval Group's modular Rampart close-in weapon system was spotted aboard a French Navy Mistral-class amphibious assault ship in Toulon, according to reports of September 22, 2026, ahead of a first at-sea firing campaign scheduled for October during the counter-drone exercise WildFire.
Sixty years after the Vought A-7 Corsair II prototype first flew on September 26, 1965, the single-engine light attack aircraft that served US carrier decks from the Vietnam War to the 1991 Gulf War marks its anniversary this week.
Argentina's draft 2027 national budget, submitted to Congress on September 15, 2026, authorizes up to $2.3 billion in financing for three conventional submarines and $1.2 billion for two multimission frigates, Naval News and MercoPress reported.
General Atomics delivered one FQ-42 Vengeance uncrewed fighter to Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, on September 18, as the company says it is on track to build six a month and the Secretary of the Air Force expects at least 500 autonomous aircraft in service by 2032.
The US Air Force inactivated four A-10 units at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, on September 18, 2026, ending the type's presence at the base while the FY2026 defense authorization act holds the fleet at no fewer than 103 aircraft through fiscal 2026.
North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles from the Wonsan area toward the East Sea on September 20, 2026, one flying about 450 km and the other more than 600 km, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said; Japan said neither landed in its territorial waters.
After Japan's defense minister declined on September 11, 2026 to rule out nuclear-powered submarines, a technical explainer on how a reactor, a Stirling engine, a fuel cell and a lithium-ion battery each keep a boat under water, and what each one buys.
Latvia's Cabinet of Ministers decided on September 15, 2026 to procure Excalibur Army's Morana 155 mm wheeled howitzers, setting aside a June 2025 letter of intent with Sweden for 18 BAE Systems Bofors Archer systems, the Ministry of Defence said.
Air Force Global Strike Command said on 17 September 2026 that the B-1 Lancer and B-2 Spirit will fly beyond their planned retirements, keeping a US bomber force built on 1955, 1986 and 1993 designs in service while the B-21 Raider arrives at three aircraft.
Japan's defense minister said on 11 September 2026 that nuclear-powered submarines "will not be ruled out" in the year-end revision of the country's security documents, an option that would put the JMSDF alongside the six navies operating 140 nuclear boats today.
The Indonesian Navy said on 17 September 2026 that the former Italian carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi, to be renamed KRI Sriwijaya, had entered Indonesian waters and was due at Tanjung Priok in Jakarta on 18 September, ahead of a formal transfer whose date is reported differently by outlets.
The U.S. State Department on 17 September 2026 approved a possible Foreign Military Sale of 48 F-35 Lightning II fighters and 49 F135 engines to Saudi Arabia, a package estimated at $24.3 billion that now goes to Congress for review.
A Japan Air Self-Defense Force RQ-4B Global Hawk went down over international waters north of Tottori prefecture on 15 September 2026, the first loss of a Japanese Global Hawk and one of only 39 high-altitude surveillance drones GlobalMilitary.net records in service worldwide.
The UK government's Defence Nuclear Enterprise annual update, published September 15, 2026, says steel will be cut on the first SSN-AUKUS attack submarine in 2027 and confirms £15bn for the warhead program and £6bn for submarine infrastructure at Barrow-in-Furness and Raynesway.
A Department of Defense inspector general report on Operation Epic Fury, made public September 15, lists four F-15Es, one A-10, six helicopters, an MQ-4C and as many as 30 MQ-9 Reapers destroyed between February 28 and June 30, 2026, in an operation costed at $33.4 billion.