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… [read more]

Japan to deploy Type 03 CHU SAM air defence systems 70 miles from Taiwan 25/11/2025 | Editorial Team Japan’s new Defence Minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, has announced plans to deploy an unspecified number of Type 03 CHU SAM medium-range air and missile defence systems… [read more]

Roll-out of the first German and Norwegian LEOPARD 2A8 Main Battle Tanks 20/11/2025 | Eugenio Po Yesterday, 19 November, in Munich, and in the presence of German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius, the official presentation ceremony was held for the first units… [read more]

Germany picks the C-UAV ENFORCER missile by MBDA for its SKYRANGER 19/11/2025 | Fabio Di Felice Following a Letter of Intent (LOI) signed by Rheinmetall Electronics and MBDA Deutschland at ILA last year, German lawmakers approved a funding proposal to develop… [read more]

Italian Army modernisation: Armor, Unmanned Systems and digital networks 30/10/2025 | Tommaso Massa The Italian Defence Multi-Year Planning Document 2025–2027 (DPP 2025–2027), published in October, presents several procurement programmes related to the Italian Army’s ambitious transformation, which rests… [read more]

Lockheed Martin tests vertically launched JAGM missile for C-UAV applications 24/10/2025 | Fabio Di Felice Lockheed Martin has announced that it has conducted the first launch test of the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) from a new quad launcher (JQL –… [read more]

Rafael unveils the L-SPIKE 4X at AUSA 20/10/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli At AUSA 2025, Israel’s Rafael presented its L-SPIKE 4X, the newest member of the SPIKE family, a 6th Generation development evolving the mission profile of SPIKE… [read more]

BAE and FORTERRA team to work on autonomous vehicles for the US Army 09/10/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli BAE Systems and Forterra have joined forces to rapidly prototype an autonomous variant of the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) that BAE is producing as the… [read more]

India tested ballistic missile launch from a train 08/10/2025 | Fabio Di Felice India’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) has tested a rail-mobile version of its nuclear-capable AGNI-PRIME Medium-Range Ballistic Missile (MRBM). The announcement has been done… [read more]

US Army announces that the XM204 interim top-attack munition is headed for Europe 02/10/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli The Factory Acceptance Trials (FAT) were conducted at Yuma Proving Ground and “validated the performance, reliability, and integrated safety features of the XM204”, the new… [read more]

DSEI: UK and Norway officially join the Common Armoured Vehicle System (CAVS), the Patria 6×6 APC programme 18/09/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli At DSEI, both the United Kingdom and Norway formalized their entry into the Common Armoured Vehicle System (CAVS) multi-national project centred on the Patria 6x6… [read more]

DSEI: Moog offering solutions for the UK SHORAD and Mounted Close Combat Overwatch needs 18/09/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli Moog continues to believe they have the right solution to multiple British Army requirements which are known, urgent and yet not moving. The Company has… [read more]

DSEI: Rheinmetall and Lockheed Martin presented a FUCHS 6x6 equipped with VLS for JAGM missiles 17/09/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli Working with the British DSTL(Defence Science and Technology Laboratory) and with MBDA, Lockheed Martin had already presented a Vertical Launch approach for the long range… [read more]

US Army awards Lockheed Martin a $9.8 billion contract for 2,000 PAC-3 MSE missiles 17/09/2025 | Fabio Di Felice According to a company press release, the US Army awarded Lockheed Martin a remarkable $9.8 billion contract to produce 1,970 PATRIOT Advanced Capability – 3… [read more]

ASRAAM Surface Launch: an MBDA proposal for GBAD solutions using the AAM 16/09/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli At DSEI 2025, MBDA quietly pushed a proposal for additional and enhanced solutions to launch the AIM-132 ASRAAM from the ground, aimed at rapidly bolstering… [read more]

DSEI: Pearson Engineering supplying engineering and counter-mine solutions to Ukraine, the UK and beyond 15/09/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli At DSEI 2025, the British firm Pearson Engineering has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ukrainian defence company Ukrainska Bavovna, with the… [read more]

DSEI 2025: General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin UK launch a new IFV based on the AJAX family 11/09/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli (Reporting from London) The unveiling of the new "AJAX IFV" has been an highlight moment of the opening morning of DSEI. For both General Dynamics (GD) and Lockheed… [read more]

DSEI 2025: General Dynamics UK presents BLACKJAX, an upgrade path for AJAX 11/09/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli (Reporting from London) At DSEI, General Dynamics UK has deliberately decided to focus on the future, not on what is already in delivery. The BLACKJAX demonstrator, in its… [read more]

Rheinmetall inaugurates Europe's largest ammunition production facility 08/09/2025 | Carolina Paizs Rheinmetall has officially inaugurated what is currently Europe's largest facility for the production of 155 mm artillery ammunition in Unterluess, Lower Saxony (Germany). With an… [read more]

First ARIETE C-2 MBT delivered to the Italian Army 21/07/2025 | Eugenio Po In the morning of July 18, a handover ceremony was held at the Cecchignola base in Rome to mark the official delivery of the first… [read more]