Embraer KC-390 under the spotlight with Asian and Central Asian breakthroughs 03/02/2026 | Editorial Team Embraer reveals Uzbekistan as KC-390 customer while South Korea's first aircraft reaches final assembly. Asian breakthrough signals mounting pressure on C-130 dominance in tactical airlift… [read more]

Belgium and Luxembourg expand SCORPION fleet: modest gains amid European fragmentation 03/02/2026 | Braid Archer Belgium and Luxembourg strengthen NATO capabilities with 269-vehicle SCORPION order. The acquisition expands KNDS' European footprint amid intensifying competition with emerging Czech defence industrial challenger CSG.

Lighter, more mobile: Northrop Grumman charts IBCS evolution 03/02/2026 | Marco Giulio Barone Exclusive: Northrop Grumman unveils adaptive framework concept as over 20 nations express interest in IBCS.

Taiwan's HIMARS gambit: forward deployment to China’s doorstep 02/02/2026 | Editorial Team Taiwan Security Monitor's open-source analysis reveals how forward HIMARS deployment on outlying islands forces Beijing into a pre-emptive dilemma - but Taiwan's opposition-controlled legislature, not Washington, poses the real brake to the strategy's implementation. 

The US Navy quest for an air-launched hypersonic weapon is still ongoing 02/02/2026 | Gabriele Molinelli Industry signals that the cancellation of Hypersonic Air Launched Offensive (HALO) has not ended the whole effort

New M-1E3 ABRAMS prototype presented 02/02/2026 | Fabio Di Felice The US Army unveiled the first M-1E3 Abrams “early prototype” at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The showed Army-led design, produced in collaboration with Roush – an American automotive company - incorporates lessons learned from recent conflicts and it comes out by earlier risk mitigation activities. 

Romania: EU loans are reshaping the Black Sea's strategic landscape 02/02/2026 | Marco Giulio Barone Romania channels €16.6 billion in EU loans to modernise its military, replacing Soviet-era equipment while anchoring NATO's eastern flank and building sovereign defence industrial capacity through strategic partnerships.

Norway expands U-212CD fleet to 6 submarines in strategic arctic deterrence move 30/01/2026 | Braid Archer Arctic-focused, German-built and digitally reimagined, Norway’s expanded Type 212CD submarine fleet cements a shared undersea deterrent while reshaping NATO’s conventional submarine market for the coming decades.

Modular sonar architectures: DSIT charts new path for scalable UUV deployment 30/01/2026 | Marco Giulio Barone Israeli defence firm DSIT Solutions launches GHOSTFIN, a submarine-grade multi-mission sonar suite for autonomous underwater vehicles, threatening to democratise anti-submarine warfare beyond traditional naval powers.

From Italy, an insight into the costs of the ambitious GCAP 29/01/2026 | Gabriele Molinelli The true costs of the program are becoming clearer, but not via UK, where paralysis over the Defence Investment Program drags on