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Trump Administration Warns EU Over ‘Buy European’ Defence Procurement Plans
Europe’s accelerating rearmament has opened a new line of tension with Washington: not over whether European states should spend more on defence, but over where that money should go. Reports this week indicate that the Trump administration warned the European…
France-Germany rift over FCAS fighter jet raises new doubts over Europe’s flagship air combat project
A public dispute between France and Germany over the next generation of European fighter aircraft has renewed uncertainty around the Future Combat Air System (FCAS), one of the continent’s most expensive and politically significant defence programmes. The disagreement centres on…
LEAP Forward: The New Defence Blueprint from Europe’s Military Leaders
In Krakow this week, defence ministers from Europe’s most powerful military states convened under the shadow of a new strategic imperative — the airborne battlefield. France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom, traditionally cautious in their collective defence responses,…
BAE’s Surging Profits Reflect Europe’s New Reality
Britain’s largest defence contractor, BAE Systems, has announced a 12 per cent rise in full-year operating profit and a record order book worth £83.6 billion — numbers impressive in themselves, but far more revealing for what they say about the…
The Sound of War: British Troops Gain Instant Fire Detection Capability
War, for all its technological flourish, still hinges on a primitive human limitation: you cannot react to what you cannot find. For centuries soldiers have fought enemies they could hear but not see — the crack of a rifle, the…
The infantry rifle is changing — and so is war: what modern assault-weapon design tells us about the battlefields of the 21st century
For most of the Cold War the infantry rifle was, in strategic terms, almost a settled question. You could walk into a Warsaw Pact armoury and find a Kalashnikov; into a NATO one and find some variant of the AR-15…
“Sunray” prototype: Ukraine’s laser option for cheaper drone interception
Ukraine has tested a low-cost laser air-defence system designed to destroy small drones at close range, according to a report published by The Atlantic on 10 February 2026. In the article, staff writer Simon Shuster describes a field demonstration of…
New Era Munitions: Rostec Debuts Smart 30 mm Shrapnel Round at World Defence Show
Russia’s state technology corporation Rostec has unveiled what it describes as a potent new response: a remotely detonated 30 mm shrapnel round designed to maximise the hit probability against small drones and loitering threats. The ammunition is slated to make…
Greece: A New Ammunition Hub Emerges in Lavrio
The Czechoslovak Group (CSG) and state-owned Hellenic Defence Systems (HDS) have signed the foundational agreements to establish a joint venture for large-calibre ammunition production in Greece. The move, formalised in Athens on 30th January 2026, marks a concerted attempt to…
New EU funding and procurement architecture for Ukraine shifts towards arms contracts
The European Commission has put forward a new two-year financial package designed to cover a large share of Ukraine’s forecast needs in 2026 and 2027, while tying a substantial portion of EU-level support more directly to defence procurement. The proposals,…