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The US Army converted a one-year PAC-3 order into a seven-year agreement worth up to $58.6 billion on July 29, 2026, the largest Patriot interceptor contract ever placed, as the wars with Iran and in Ukraine drain American missile stocks.
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force fired its first Tomahawk cruise missile from the Aegis destroyer JS Chokai in the Pacific on July 29, 2026, making Japan the third country outside the United States to launch the weapon from a surface warship.
South Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration declared the KF-21 Boramae fighter program complete at a ceremony in Sacheon on July 29, 2026, ten years and seven months after system development began, with the first production aircraft due in September.
The US Navy awarded General Dynamics Electric Boat and HII's Newport News Shipbuilding a combined $76.6 billion on July 29, 2026 for nine Block VI Virginia-class attack submarines and five Build II Columbia-class ballistic missile boats.
The Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Georgia returned to Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay on July 27, 2026 from the last operational deployment of her career. The Navy has since deferred her inactivation to July 2027 at Norfolk. Her three sister SSGNs follow by fiscal 2029.
Bell-Boeing handed over the 359th and last MV-22B to the US Marine Corps at Amarillo, Texas, on July 28, 2026, ending two decades of production for the service. The Osprey will now be modernized rather than replaced, with the fleet expected to fly into the 2050s.
An uncrewed Global Autonomous Reconnaissance Craft detonated against the hull of the decommissioned amphibious assault ship ex-USS Peleliu on 17 July, the first live-fire use of a US Navy attack drone boat against a large warship, during the RIMPAC 2026 sinking exercise north of Kauai.
A bipartisan House bill introduced on July 21, 2026 would set a floor of 126 A-10 Thunderbolt IIs through fiscal 2033 and bar further retirements until a certified close air support replacement is flying.
Ukraine's Security Service says long-range drones hit a Project 12418 missile boat, the sanctioned freighters Port Olya 2 and Begey and a Lukoil oil platform on the night of July 25, 2026. Iran says one of its sailors was killed.
Greece's KYSEA national security council cleared the purchase of three C-390 Millennium transports on July 23, in a government-to-government deal with Portugal that hands the Hellenic Air Force Lisbon's Embraer production slots.
BAE Systems revealed Brontanax at the Farnborough International Airshow on July 22, an uncrewed autonomous jet roughly the size of a Hawk trainer, designed to fly alongside RAF Typhoons and targeting a first flight in 2027.
Jakarta firmed a February letter of intent at the Farnborough airshow on 21 July, becoming the M-346's 23rd operator and the first in Asia to take the radar-equipped Block 20 standard.
Berlin confirmed on 23 July that the minehunter Fulda and the tender Mosel are leaving Djibouti for the eastern Mediterranean, with no prospect of a European mine-clearing mission in the Strait of Hormuz.
A Czech Air Force UH-1Y Venom crashed on 23 July at the 22nd Helicopter Air Base in Náměšť nad Oslavou, killing one soldier and injuring four. All H-1 helicopters have been grounded pending the investigation.
Twenty countries have 2,402 F-35 Lightning IIs on order against 1,041 already delivered to 13 operators, an order book more than ten times the size of the next-largest fighter program.
Greece's top security council approved contracts on July 23 for a multi-layer Israeli air defense network combining David's Sling, Barak MX and Spyder systems, due to be fully operational within 35 months.
A Su-57 fifth-generation fighter crashed in the Odintsovo district west of Moscow on July 23 shortly after taking off from Kubinka Air Base, Russian media reported; the pilot ejected safely.
The first Polish Air Force F-35A built at the Cameri final assembly line in northern Italy flew on July 22, 2026, opening the Italian-assembled half of Poland's 32-aircraft Husarz program.
Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine told the Senate Appropriations Committee on July 21, 2026 that a Ukrainian F-16 had shot down a Russian fighter, the first air-to-air kill for the type in Ukrainian service.
Portugal signed an agreement with Italy in Rome on July 20 to acquire three Fincantieri-built FREMM EVO multi-role frigates for about €3.9 billion under the EU's SAFE instrument, with deliveries planned between 2029 and 2030.
Germany's Bundestag Budget Committee cleared roughly €6.3 billion on July 8, 2026 to buy four TKMS MEKO A-200 frigates, designated the F128 class, restoring anti-submarine capability after the cancelled F126 program.