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Europe’s Defence Future and the Rise of Wingman Aircraft
Europe’s rearmament drive is increasingly being defined not by traditional images of tanks and troop deployments, but by a quieter revolution taking place in the skies above the continent. At the recent Berlin Air Show, the spotlight fell on a…
Ukraine’s Mid-Range Drones Show How Cheap Strike Systems Are Taking Over Scarce Missile Missions
Ukraine’s expanding fleet of mid-range strike drones is changing the economics of deep fires, taking on some missions that scarce missiles and rocket artillery cannot sustain at scale. Ukraine’s newest mid-range attack drones are beginning to fill a battlefield role…
SBU Says Russian Geran-2 Drone Hit Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra
Ukraine’s Security Service says debris found at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra confirms that the historic monastery complex was struck by a Russian Geran-2 attack drone, contradicting Moscow’s claim that the damage was caused by a Ukrainian air-defence missile. Ukraine’s Security Service…
France Picks MBDA and Safran as Europe’s Deep-Strike Gap Moves Into Procurement
France’s move to enter exclusive negotiations with MBDA and Safran for a successor to its long-range rocket system signals that Europe’s deep-strike debate is moving from capability papers into procurement decisions.
Russia’s Latest Mass Strike Puts NATO Border Air Defence Back Under Pressure
Russia’s latest missile and drone attack on Ukraine again forced Poland to activate aircraft, underlining the recurring air-defence burden carried by NATO states on the Alliance’s eastern border.
NATO Homeland Defence Warning Shows Rear Areas Are No Longer Safe Assumptions
A senior NATO commander's warning that Western homelands can no longer be treated as safe rear areas points to a hard lesson from Ukraine: logistics, factories, ports, bases and civilian infrastructure are now part of the battlefield.
Ukraine Strike on Crimea Titan Points to Industrial Targeting of Russia’s War Supply Chain
The reported strike on the Crimea Titan plant in Armyansk matters less as a symbolic Crimea attack than as part of Ukraine's expanding campaign against industrial inputs behind Russia's war machine.
Ukraine’s Distributed Defence Production Model Challenges Europe’s Factory Assumptions
Ukraine's wartime defence industry is forcing Europe to ask whether rearmament should be measured only by output, or also by whether factories can survive missile and drone attack.
France May Quit Franco-German Tank Project as Europe’s Defence Cooperation Strains Further
Rheinmetall's warning over a possible French exit from MGCS points to a wider problem: Europe's flagship defence projects are being weakened by industrial rivalry, budget pressure and national control disputes.
UK Defence Spending Row Exposes NATO Readiness Gap Before Ankara Summit
John Healey’s resignation has turned Britain’s Defence Investment Plan from a budget timetable into a test of NATO readiness, industrial capacity and homeland defence.