Defence Matters https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Taiwan Will Rehearse Moving Arms Factories Under Chinese Attack Austria’s Nine-Month Conscription Deal Turns Neutrality Into a Readiness Test Pentagon Says US Drone Industry Remains Years Behind Ukraine Washington’s Defence-Minerals Ban Is Five Months Away Finland Closes Airspace Near Russia Over Stray-Drone Risk Pentagon Opens Europe Force Review as Burden Shift Reaches the Bases Farnborough 2026 Marks Britain’s Industrial Defence Reset Home Russia’s Gulf intelligence gamble could test Trump’s apparent reluctance to confront Putin China’s Rheinmetall Restrictions Expose a Defence Supply-Chain Vulnerability Stone Cloak Transfer Moves British Support for Ukraine from Supply to Sovereign Production European Buyers Demand Technology Control as US Arms Companies Localise Production Why Slotless Motor Technology Could Transform the Next Generation of UAVs Ukrainian Caspian strikes put Russia–Iran military supply route under pressure Russia’s Reported Plan for 30,000 North Korean Troops Points to a Larger Manpower Exchange France’s A400M Firefighting Debut Tests Europe’s Dual-Use Airlift Model Romania’s Third Drone Shootdown Turns an Airspace Breach into a NATO Readiness Test Europe’s Cyber Front: How the EU Is Responding to Russia’s FSB 16th Centre US Drone Factory Would Turn Ukrainian Battlefield Technology Into Pentagon Production Romania’s Second Drone Shootdown Marks a New Phase in NATO Airspace Defence £2.4bn Skynet Contest Pits British Satellite Sovereignty Against US Integration US Warning Tests Ukraine’s Targeting Strategy in the Black Sea Belgian authorities investigate alleged foreign intelligence operation inside NATO HQ Irish Police Intercept Suspected Bomb Near Northern Ireland Border US–Iran Bombing Pause Reveals the Price of Preserving Military Options China Answers US–Japan–Philippines Drills with South China Sea Patrol Defence Primes Put Record Capital into Start-ups — and Buy an Option on Disruption Temasek’s Defence Shift Brings Sovereign Capital into European Rearmament Europe and the Philippines Build a Strategic Partnership for an Uncertain Indo-Pacific Russian Strike on Kyiv Defence Gathering Exposes Wartime Security Risks Su-57 Crash Near Moscow Puts Russia’s Scarce Stealth Fighter Under Scrutiny Guarding the Knowledge Frontier: Five Eyes Warn of China’s Expanding Human Intelligence Campaign MFU: Britain Takes the Helm in Planning Ukraine’s Future Security US military action in Mali would open a new front against jihadists — and place American forces close to Russia’s Africa Corps Ukraine’s Strike on Kirov Extends Campaign Against Russia’s Missile Supply Chain Ukraine broadens drone campaign against Russian shipping and Crimea’s power grid Ukrainian Combat Drones Move From NATO Partnerships Into Pentagon Procurement BAE Pitches Low-Cost Brontanax as Britain Enters Autonomous Fighter Race Indra’s Defence Revenue Doubles as FCAS Business Contracts Iranian Warning Over US Bombers Exposes Britain’s Air-Defence and Basing Risk RTX Backlog Reaches 289bn as Missile and Aircraft Demand Converge Greece Poised to Approve 3.5bn Israeli Air-Defence Shield Ukraine’s New Army Chief Orders More Offensive Action Behind Russian Lines Germany Moves From Defence Grants to Direct State Stakes in Start-Ups Project Bowline: Britain Orders Hypersonic Target to Test Next-Generation Missile Defences BAE’s Brontanax Enters Crowded Race to Build Britain’s Uncrewed Fighter Thales Order Surge Shows Rearmament Reaching Defence Balance Sheets Iranian Personnel Sent to Houthis Point to Direct Escalation Risk Raytheon Interest in Ukrainian Patriot Production Could Shift Air Defence From Aid to Industry Autonomous Fighter Race Raises Questions Over Europe’s Next Combat-Air Dependency