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Britain Scrambles to Secure Strategic Space Assets from Enemy Strikes
In quietly unveiling a new programme to harden its defence of space assets, the United Kingdom is implicitly acknowledging a new frontier of confrontation. The modest £500,000 earmarked to develop sensors capable of countering laser attacks on satellites is, on…
Russia’s Aging Nuclear Arsenal: A Significant Threat to the World
Amid the constant chatter of global crises, a quieter but far more insidious danger is growing: the state of Russia’s nuclear weapons, largely inherited from the Soviet era, aging, overworked, and increasingly unreliable. Russia boasts the world’s largest nuclear stockpile, with…
The Silent Revolution Beneath the Waves: How Submarine Warfare Is Being Transformed
Few areas of military technology have been cloaked in such secrecy, myth and awe as submarine warfare. For much of the twentieth century, the ocean’s depths offered an almost impenetrable sanctuary for nuclear submarines, diesel-electric boats and the handful of…
Orbital Arms Race: The Emerging Reality of Space-Based Weapons
The militarisation of space, long a topic of speculative fiction, has become an increasingly tangible reality. In the coming years, the heavens may not be the serene domain once envisaged by early space explorers, but rather a contested frontier where…
The Role of Innovation as the Foundation of a Strategy of Sustained Resistance in Depriving Russia of the Ability to Impose Its Terms Through War
EU Today presents an English translation of an opinion essay by General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, a Ukrainian four-star general, former Commander-in-Chief (2021–2024), and since July 2024 Ukraine’s Ambassador to the UK. Writing in the context of DSEI 2025, he analyses the…
Poland moves to let its forces shoot down Russian drones over Ukraine without NATO sign-off
Poland is advancing legislative changes that would allow its armed forces to intercept Russian drones and missiles over Ukrainian territory without prior approval from NATO or the European Union. The proposal, first drafted by the Ministry of National Defence in…
Drones circle 4 more Danish airports as Kremlin accused of targeting NATO airfields
Earlier this week, Copenhagen Airport was paralysed for hours after two or three unidentified drones hovered nearby, forcing flight diversions and delays. Authorities described those drones as operated by a “capable actor” — one adept enough to show control, deliberate…
Manufacturing of first F-47 next-generation fighter underway; first flight targeted for 2028
The US Air Force has started building the first F-47, the service’s sixth-generation stealth fighter, with a maiden flight targeted for 2028, according to Chief of Staff Gen David Allvin. He disclosed the milestone during a keynote at the Air…
Silent Depths, Growing Threat: Why China-Russia Joint Submarine Patrols Must Wake the West
The revelation that Chinese and Russian submarines have conducted joint patrols in Pacific waters is not merely another footnote in geopolitical rivalry. It is a trumpet sounding at great volume — warning that the U.S. and its allies may be…
Ukraine unveils Toloka underwater drone family with long-range strike capability
Ukrainian defence firms have publicly presented the Toloka family of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), including a large-diameter model said to be capable of carrying a five-tonne payload over a distance of up to 2,000 kilometres. The systems were shown at…