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🇺🇸 SAS 2026: LEONIDAS HPM C-UxS system has successful tests

🔎 Epirus, the producer of LEONIDAS, a high-power microwave (HPM) counter-uncrewed system (C-UxS) platform, is advancing across multiple fronts in 2026. Besides integrating its LEONIDAS HPM system with GDLS & Kodiak AI and seeking to break into the Latin America market, the company is also working on a maritime version: enter LEONIDAS H2O ⬇ ⬇ ⬇

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🇺🇸 SAS 2026: BlackSea Tech unveils new COMET USV

🔎 At the Sea Air Space expo in Washington, D.C., BlackSea Technologies unveiled its new COMET Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV). Additionally, the company showcased Gen II of its Global Reconnaissance Craft (GARC) called the CHASER, a small USV (sUSV). BlackSea spokesperson Jason Salata spoke with FW MAG at SAS about how modularity makes both systems ideal for a variety of missions, as many of their systems are already field- and combat-tested 👇

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🇺🇸 ⚓ Sea-Air-Space 2026 opens at National Harbor at a moment when maritime power politics are hardening and the US Navy is under mounting pressure to do more with finite platforms, people and budgets. The Navy League’s flagship exhibition has a real-time barometer of how Washington and its allies intend to contest an increasingly crowded sea, air and space domain ⬇

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🇺🇸 SAS 2026: New technologies to support the fleet

✍️ Wilder Alejandro Sanchez (reporting from Maryland, US)

➡ The development of major naval technologies, such as warships and submarines, tends to dominate the news cycle. However, niche technologies are just as important for helping the fleet operate effectively. FW MAG spoke with several defense companies prior to and during the recent Sea Air Space (SAS) summit outside Washington, DC, about new systems and contracts for high-tech technology to support the US Navy.

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🇺🇸 MDM 2026: Teledyne FLIR Defense and Emesent team up

✍️ Wilder Alejandro Sanchez (Reporting from Washington, DC)

🤖 Teledyne FLIR Defense and Emesent are unveiling a new integrated uncrewed solution at the Modern Day Marine 2026 (MDM) expo in Washington, DC, for troops to safely inspect contested and sensitive locations, even in GPS-denied environments. FW MAG spoke with Stefan Hrabar, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Emesent, and Chris Brown, Director of Strategic Initiatives for Teledyne FLIR Defense Unmanned Systems-North America, about what this partnership means and why the US Marines Corps and other services should be interested in it.

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🇲🇾 DSA 2026: WASS showcases BLACK ARROW Mod.4 lightweight torpedo in Southeast Asia debut

➡ WASS Submarine Systems is presenting its BLACK ARROW A244/S Mod.4 lightweight torpedo in Southeast Asia for the first time, marking its regional debut at the ongoing Defence Services Asia (DSA) exhibition.

🔎 The company is positioning the Mod.4 as its latest lightweight torpedo, targeting upgrade and replacement requirements among existing A244/S operators, while also targeting new lightweight torpedo programmes across Southeast Asia. The debut comes as regional navies continue to prioritise anti-submarine warfare capabilities amid increasing underwater activity and submarine acquisitions.

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🇲🇾 At DSA 2026, tech, tensions and trade merge amid ASEAN rearm

➡ DSA & NatSec Asia 2026 open in Kuala Lumpur as the largest iteration to date, with 1,456 exhibitors from 63 countries and a show floor that has become a proxy for how Indo Pacific defence and security are evolving under sustained geopolitical pressure. This year’s edition is not only bigger but qualitatively different, with a denser concentration of unmanned systems, networked land platforms and integrated security solutions than previous years

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🇺🇸 Northrop Grumman's CIRCM and the evolution of IR countermeasures

🚀 The infrared threat to military aviation has never been static, and the systems designed to defeat it have had to evolve in lockstep. From the first generation of uncooled, tail-chase-only seekers fitted to the FIM-43 REDEYE and SA-7 GRAIL (STRELA) in the 1960s, through the cooled, all-aspect rosette-scanning heads of third-generation weapons like the FIM-92 STINGER and SA-18 GROUSE (IGLA-M), to today's imaging-infrared focal-plane-array seekers capable of discriminating an airframe's thermal silhouette from any decoy, the progression has been relentless 👇

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🇺🇸 ⚓ SAS 2026: Saildrone unveils new SPECTRE USV

➡ At the Sea Air Space (SAS) expo outside Washington, DC, Saildrone unveiled the design of its brand-new SPECTRE uncrewed surface vessel (USV). FW MAG attended a media briefing with Saildrone at SAS on Monday, 20 April, to learn more about SPECTRE 👇

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💥 🇲🇱 Mali - Jihadists and Tuareg on the offensive. Russian forces leave the North of the country

➡ In the early hours of 25 April 2026, the Tuareg forces of the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), in coordination with al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadists (Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wa'l Muslimin, JNIM), launched a series of joint attacks against the Malian Government - backed by the Russian Africa Corps - seizing numerous checkpoints, bases, and populated centres and capturing large quantities of military equipment across several areas of the country 👇

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