


The United States has taken a decisive step towards reshaping the future of missile defence, awarding contracts worth up to $3.2 billion to a dozen firms under its ambitious “Golden Dome” programme—a project that aspires to shift warfare’s frontier decisively…

Russia launched 47 missiles and 619 drones against Ukraine overnight, according to Ukraine’s air force, in one of the heaviest recent combined attacks. The strike renewed attention on Ukraine’s need for layered air defence, interceptor stocks and European support. Russia…

Denmark has moved ahead with the SAMP/T NG air-defence system, giving the Franco-Italian programme its first export success and reinforcing a wider European push to strengthen high-end air and missile defence capacity. Denmark has confirmed its move to acquire the…

Nine people were killed and 23 injured in a Russian missile-and-drone attack on Odesa on Wednesday, in a strike that again exposed the limits of Ukraine’s overstretched air defences and renewed pressure on European allies to accelerate promised deliveries of…

Finland will apply for €35 million in EU funding to procure drone detection and counter-drone systems for its eastern border and the Gulf of Finland, in a move linking national border security more directly to the EU’s wider response to…

Ukraine’s latest strikes on oil-dispatch infrastructure in Krasnodar Krai and on the last Russian rail ferry in the Kerch Strait appear aimed at one objective: to narrow Moscow’s logistical options for sustaining Crimea and the southern front. Neither blow is…

Reports from Kaliningrad that this year’s Victory Day parade may be cancelled have fuelled wider speculation about security concerns surrounding Russia’s 9 May celebrations. While there is no official confirmation that the main Red Square event will be called off…

A Ukrainian missile producer says it is working with European partners on a new air-defence system intended to provide a cheaper response to one of the most difficult problems in the current war: the cost and scarcity of intercepting ballistic…

Ukraine’s armed forces said they struck Russian positions on the Syvash drilling platform in the Black Sea during the night of 6 April, in what Kyiv described as a coordinated operation involving the Ukrainian Navy and the Unmanned Systems Forces.…

Sweden is accelerating its military modernisation with a fresh multi-billion-krona investment in air defence, underlining how profoundly Europe’s security landscape has shifted since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Stockholm announced on Thursday that it will procure air defence and anti-drone systems…