Filling Europe’s C2 void: Northrop Grumman’s IBCS secures strategic role 02/12/2025 | Marco Giulio Barone Germany’s air defence landscape could shift as MBDA and Northrop Grumman partner to explore integrating IBCS, promising increased NATO interoperability, layered protection, and a transformative… [read more]

Jihadists in Mali and the fuel war 02/12/2025 | Francesca Genovese For the past two and a half months, a blockade on the “strategic” roads linking Mali to Senegal and Mauritania—imposed by al-Qaeda–affiliated jihadists (Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wa’l Muslimin, JNIM)—has been paralysing Bamako, the Malian capital and a city of over three million inhabitants.

Sweden orders more IRIS-T SLS to give Brigades their air defences 02/12/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli Contracts worth a combined 3.5 billion SEK will deliver improved Air Defences to all Army brigades by 2028

Poland announces the Saab A-26 submarine as the preferred solution for Project ORKA 02/12/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli There has not yet been a formal contract signature, rather the launch of final negotiations  

Lockheed Martin and Diehl to work together on bringing IRIS-T SLM into AEGIS 28/11/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli Helmut Rauch, CEO of Diehl Defence, and Chandra Marshall, Vice President at Lockheed Martin, signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the Berlin Security Conference, agreeing to work together on the possibility of integrating the IRIS-T SLM missile family into the AEGIS weapon system and the MK41 vertical launch system.

Leonardo unveils MICHELANGELO DOME, its new integrated defence system 28/11/2025 | Andrea Mottola Yesterday in Rome, Leonardo presented its new integrated defence system: MICHELANGELO DOME. Designed to counter emerging threats in an increasingly complex global environment, the project stems from the need to protect critical infrastructure, sensitive urban areas, national and European territories, and high-value assets through a modular, open, scalable and multi-domain… [read more]

HORNET AIR GUARD: Arquus pushes SCORPION towards counter UAS protection 27/11/2025 | Marco Giulio Barone Arquus’ new Hornet Air Guard turret turns France’s SCORPION combat vehicles into agile drone-hunters, blending proven remote weapon technology with sovereign sensors, effectors and rapid DGA Army experimentation to deliver layered counter UAS protection for frontline units.

Belgium prepares the return to 2 combat brigades 27/11/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli Belgium’s current single, large Motorised Brigade will formally split into 2 on 3 February 2026, confirming plans formulated earlier in 2025 as Defence spending increases and investments begin to rebuild military capability and meet the new NATO obligations.

General Atomics and Saab to test the AEW solution for the MQ-9B already in the summer 26/11/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli After announcing their teaming up earlier this year, GA-ASI and Saab have now announced an ambitious target to conduct flight operations with their AEW (Airborne Early Warning) solution for the MQ-9B already in the summer of 2026. The trials will be carried out at GA-ASI’s Desert Horizon flight operations facility… [read more]

The US Navy cancels the CONSTELLATION program, with no one to blame but itself 26/11/2025 | Pietro Batacchi After delays and cost increases, the US Navy has finally announced the cancellation of the CONSTELLATION-class frigate program, based on the Italian FREMM design.