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ARX and Roboneers form a venture to mass-produce ground robots across Germany and Ukraine
A joint venture, ARX Industries, will build Roboneers' battle-tested Rys Pro ground robot across plants in Germany and Ukraine, feeding Kyiv's push for 50,000 unmanned ground systems this year.
Ukraine · Europe · Autonomy
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Romania orders 24 Skyranger 35 and 7 Skynex air-defense systems from Rheinmetall
Romania has awarded Rheinmetall a contract for 24 Skyranger 35 guns on the Lynx KF41 chassis and seven Skynex systems, the air-defense slice of a EUR 5.7 billion package and another NATO border state buying gun-and-airburst counter-drone cover at scale.
Europe · air defense · Rheinmetall
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China builds a full-scale Arleigh Burke destroyer replica at its desert missile range
Satellite imagery shows the PLA built a full-scale replica of a US Navy Arleigh Burke destroyer at a desert missile range, with the backbone of US surface power as the target.
China · Naval · pla
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Ukrainian drones hit a helium plant and Russia's top satellite-comms node, 1,200km deep
Kyiv's cheap long-range drones are now reaching the inputs to Russian missile production and military space links, not just refineries and Crimea.
Ukraine · Russia · drones
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Autonomous targeting for Shahed-class strike drones enters combat testing, Ukraine's drone analyst says
The one job still left to a human, choosing the target and deciding to strike, is the part both sides are now racing to automate, which would strip electronic warfare of its main defense.
Ukraine · Russia · Autonomy
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Bukovel-ADPro
Ukraine's home-grown drone-killer EW — a Proximus-built system that passively detects UAVs out to ~100 km, then jams their control links and satellite navigation (GPS/GLONASS/Galileo/BeiDou) inside ~20 km. Built specifically to counter Russia's Orlan-10, and now a Ukrainian export.
Ukraine · Space · electronic-warfare
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Leer-3Pro
Russia's flying cell-tower attacker — a command truck plus Orlan-10 drones carrying a payload that mimics a GSM base station to locate phones, jam cellular networks and blast fake SMS at enemy troops and civilians. Electronic warfare and psychological warfare in one airborne package.
Russia · Space · electronic-warfare
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PeresvetPro
Russia's mobile laser — unveiled in Putin's 2018 "super-weapons" speech, named for a warrior-monk — built to dazzle reconnaissance-satellite sensors and hide mobile ICBMs from orbit. Fielded since 2019, but almost everything about it is a Russian claim experts treat with caution.
Russia · Space · directed-energy
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Borisoglebsk-2Pro
Russia's tracked tactical jamming complex — nine MT-LB vehicles that fuse four jamming-station types under one console to detect, locate and suppress enemy radio, GSM, satellite comms and GPS. A constant Ukraine-front presence, and a prized target: captured in 2022, hunted by FPV drones since.
Russia · Space · electronic-warfare
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Murmansk-BNPro
Russia's strategic shortwave jammer — a truck-borne complex with 32-metre antenna masts built to detect and suppress NATO's long-haul HF radio at ranges Russian sources claim reach 5,000–8,000 km. Fielded in Kaliningrad, Crimea and the Arctic; reportedly sold to Iran.
Russia · Space · electronic-warfare
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ATAK / TAKPro
The US military's soldier-level map app — a phone-based geospatial situational-awareness and C2 kit built by the Air Force Research Laboratory, now 250,000+ users across the US military, allies and first responders. The Western benchmark Ukraine's and Russia's apps get measured against.
USA · Europe · software
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StreletsPro
Russia's soldier-portable "find" half of the reconnaissance-fire loop — the KRUS Strelets links scouts, drone operators and artillery spotters to the guns. Capable on paper and improved in Syria, but Ukrainian accounts say its centralised, EW-fragile design lags Ukraine's apps.
Russia · software · c2
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KropyvaPro
"Nettle" — the volunteer-built Ukrainian app that turns a $150 Android tablet into an artillery fire-control computer, replacing 15-minute Soviet hand-calculation with a coordinate, a tap and rounds on target in seconds. Built by the NGO Army SOS.
Ukraine · software · c2
- GIS ArtaPro Ukraine's "Uber for artillery" — software that matches a target to the best available gun and cuts the call-to-trigger time from ~20 minutes to one or two, letting a smaller, dispersed force out-shoot a numerically superior one. Ukraine · software · c2
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Anduril is in talks to turn a Nissan car plant near Tokyo into a drone factory
The US autonomy maker wants to build military drones in a shuttered Nissan plant near a major US-Japan naval base, as Tokyo rearms against a Taiwan crisis.
USA · drones · Anduril
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Lockheed lands up to $35 billion to quadruple THAAD output as the Iran war drains US interceptors
An Iran war that burned through American missile-defense stockpiles is reshaping Pentagon procurement, starting with a contract to quadruple THAAD interceptor production.
USA · Iran · air defense
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Ukraine codifies Wild Hornets' remote drone control, its first to clear NATO standards
Codification turns a battlefield-proven interceptor link into procurement-ready kit and lets crews fly the kill from hundreds of kilometers behind the line.
Ukraine · drones · Wild Hornets
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British Army says its ASGARD AI cut a corps planning cycle from 72 hours to one
An agentic-AI targeting web modeled on Ukraine's tempo now plans in an hour what took three days, leaving munitions, not decisions, as the British Army's constraint.
Europe · Autonomy · Project ASGARD
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Ukraine Turned the Russian Arsenal Into a Catalog for Its Allies
Ukraine's new TrophyLab portal hands vetted allies the blueprints, teardowns, and physical samples of captured Russian weapons. The real export is the time an ally saves building what defeats it.
Ukraine · Russia · Policy
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Germany scraps its F126 frigates, stranding Rheinmetall's naval bet
Berlin killed its largest warship program since World War II over cost and delay, choosing eight smaller TKMS frigates for NATO submarine-hunting and repricing the naval premium Rheinmetall paid €1.5 billion to build.
Europe · Naval · Rheinmetall
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Poland's navy buys Shield AI's V-BAT, the drone that held up under jamming in Ukraine
A US autonomy startup turns front-line performance in Ukraine into a European naval contract, as Poland fields a shipboard ISR drone built to fly through GPS denial.
Europe · USA · Naval
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Stark closes €500M as Sequoia and Thiel price a European drone maker at €3.5B
A two-year-old Berlin loitering-munition maker is now one of Europe's best-funded defense startups, with US capital and the NATO Innovation Fund underwriting factories over software.
Europe · Funding · Stark
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Divergent's New Printer Targets the Tomahawk BottleneckPro
Divergent says a fleet of in-house metal printers can turn out tens of thousands of missile airframes a year, and Breaking Defense reports it is already a second source for the Tomahawk. Whether that reaches the fleet depends on numbers the company has not shown.
USA · China · Divergent Technologies
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Defense Tech's Valuations Keep Climbing. The Battlefield's Verdict Is Still Cheap.Pro
UVision wants up to $4 billion on Nasdaq, Shield AI just closed a deal at a $12.7 billion valuation, and Stark's round swelled to €500 million, even as public defense stocks fall and the war the money keeps citing is being won by $500 drones.
USA · Funding · analysis