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Ukraine Leads the Drone Revolution: A New Era of Battlefield Innovation
In a meeting between Keir Starmer and Volodymyr Zelenskyy today, Kyiv and London are set to expand defence cooperation with a strong emphasis on the joint production and supply of drones and advanced military technologies. This is not simply a…
“No Winston Churchill”: Keir Starmer’s Credibility Shrinks with the Royal Navy
For a man who has spent much of his premiership cultivating the image of sober competence, Sir Keir Starmer is discovering that global politics has little patience for managerial caution. His refusal to send Royal Navy warships to help secure…
From Guernica to Kyiv: How Strategic Bombing Doctrine Evolved from Hitler to Putin
From the shattered Basque town of Guernica to the pulverised apartment blocks of modern Ukraine, aerial bombardment has evolved from experimental terror tactic to grimly familiar feature of industrialised war. Yet the philosophy behind it has changed markedly since the…
From FPVs to ground robots: Ukrainian firms at BEDEX show how battlefield technology is evolving
From bomber drones and interceptors to ground robots and autonomous control, Ukrainian companies at BEDEX showed how wartime innovation is reshaping the future of combat At this week’s BEDEX exhibition in Brussels, Ukraine’s defence technology sector did not merely display…
The Cartridge Debate Revisited: How Modern Ammunition Is Reinventing the Infantry Soldier
It is easy to assume that the defining technologies of modern warfare are those that dominate the headlines: drones hovering silently above contested frontiers, satellites mapping every inch of terrain, or hypersonic missiles racing across continents. Yet the infantry soldier…
Leonardo’s Renaissance: Italy’s Defence Giant Soars on Global Spending Boom
Italy’s Leonardo, long respected within the aerospace and security sectors, is currently riding a wave of renewed global defence investment that is transforming both its fortunes and its strategic significance. The Rome-based group has unveiled a strikingly ambitious industrial plan,…
Europe’s Defence Industry Enters a New Age
Across the continent, defence companies are expanding production, unveiling new technologies, and attracting unprecedented levels of investment. What once seemed a slow and fragmented sector is now transforming into a dynamic engine of security, innovation and economic growth. The developments…
The Cyprus Warning: Turkey’s military signalling may be probing Britain’s weakened posture in the region.
When reports emerged that Turkey had deployed additional General Dynamics F‑16 Fighting Falcon aircraft to the territory it occupies in Northern Cyprus, the development might at first glance appear routine: another incremental military adjustment in one of Europe’s most frozen…
Steel in the Rotor Wash: Two Decades of the Modern Battlefield Helicopter
For much of the twentieth century the battlefield helicopter symbolised mobility and immediacy. From the jungles of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, the image of rotor blades beating the air above advancing troops became inseparable from modern warfare. Yet…
A Tale of Two Navies: France sends a Flotilla to Hormuz while Britain struggles to deploy a single warship.
When the government of France announced that it would dispatch a naval task force to safeguard shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the move carried a familiar echo of Gaullist strategic instinct: protect trade routes, demonstrate resolve, and signal that…