Defence Matters https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html EU Weighs Hormuz Mine-Clearing Role as Maritime Crisis Tests European Naval Capacity Russian Missile Corvette Boikiy Reportedly Hit in Ukrainian Drone Attack Poland Proposes New Permanent US Military Base Amid Uncertainty Over American Troop Posture Russia’s Assault Arithmetic Points to a Growing Manpower Problem Ukraine Expands Drone Campaign Against Russian Naval and Logistics Assets Near Crimea Ukraine’s St Petersburg strike extends long-range campaign deeper into Russia Maritime Drone Explosion at Constanța Port Raises New Security Concerns on Romania’s Black Sea Coast Ukraine Says Drone Forces Struck Five Russian Logistics Vessels in the Sea of Azov US House Ukraine Bill Exposes Widening Split Over Support for Kyiv Taipei and Beijing Test Boundaries Again at Pratas as South China Sea Tensions Deepen Zelenskyy’s Direct Letter to Putin Tests Whether Diplomacy Can Move Without Washington Gripen: The Fighter Built To Take On Russia Finally Meets Its Intended Adversary EU’s €100m Lebanon Army Package Places Brussels Inside Hezbollah Disarmament Dispute Greece Lodges Protest with Ukraine Over Maritime Drone Found off Lefkada Ukraine’s Fire Point Tests FP-7 Missile as Kyiv Seeks Domestic Ballistic and Air Defence Capability NATO’s Kyiv Council Sends a Signal, but Ukraine Still Needs Capabilities US troop uncertainty in Lithuania exposes eastern-flank dependence on Washington Scaled-back BALTOPS drill highlights NATO’s maritime stretch in the Baltic US Pressure on NATO Exposes Europe’s Air and Naval Capability Gap The Mathematics of War: Why Ukraine’s Air Defence Battle Is Becoming an Industrial Equation Northrop Grumman Tests AI-Guided Jackal Precision Strike Missile Ukraine’s Taganrog Strike Highlights Russia’s Exposure to Long-Range Drone Warfare South Korea Charts Nuclear Submarine Course in Strategic Shift France-Israel Defence Show Dispute Turns Eurosatory Into Diplomatic Test Ukraine’s Defence Start-Ups Show How Battlefield Procurement Is Changing US Nuclear Talks Put Europe’s Deterrence Problem Back on NATO Agenda Russia’s Mass Strike on Ukraine Renews Questions Over NATO Border Air Defence Ukraine Says Drone Units Have Reached Russian Logistics Routes Deep Inside Occupied Luhansk Belarusian railway activists trace possible Oreshnik deployment to former Soviet airfield near Russian border Thales Wins Key Role in Canada’s Next-Generation Naval Fleet AUKUS undersea drone project exposes Europe’s gap in autonomous maritime warfare China’s desert missile build-up raises new questions for Europe’s Indo-Pacific posture Ukraine’s strike on Kirov oil station exposes vulnerability in Russia’s crude export network Europe’s Army Dream Faces a Reality Check Israel’s Beaufort Castle advance raises pressure on Lebanon ceasefire Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant claim shows information-war risk around Europe’s largest nuclear site Ukraine widens drone campaign against Russian energy and industrial targets Czech defence shortfall exposes NATO’s spending problem before Ankara summit 101 years of age today, and still going strong… that’s Henri, a brave Belgian warrior Russia’s drone training drive in Crimea raises legal risks over militarisation of children Zaluzhnyi says Black Sea control is central to Ukraine’s survival and Europe’s security Russian intelligence drive exposes weak points in Europe’s technology defences Ukraine’s drone campaign puts renewed pressure on Russian oil infrastructure Ukraine’s reported balloon-borne drones point to another shift in the war of adaptation Operation Interflex: Britain Refocuses Ukraine Training Mission as War Enters New Phase Russian drone strike in Romania exposes NATO’s unresolved air-defence dilemma Three Shadow Fleet Tankers Hit in Black Sea Drone Attacks Russia Installs Air Defence Systems on Moscow Rooftops as Drone Threat Reaches Capital Sweden Expected to Announce Gripen Fighter Transfer to Ukraine Home