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Germany's 18-month drone certification fields obsolete kit, a CDU lawmaker warns
Roderich Kiesewetter says Berlin certifies weapons one at a time while Ukraine runs ten to fifteen design cycles in the same window, leaving the Bundeswehr's drones outdated on arrival.
Europe · Policy · Germany
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Washington reviews its Lithuania tripwire as Europe rushes to replace it
Lithuania says the next US troop rotation is "under review," leaving it without an American armored battalion for the first time since 2020, and pushing the Baltic deterrence burden, and the money, onto Europe.
Europe · Policy · Lithuania
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Rheinmetall lands €5.7 billion Romania deal as NATO's eastern flank keeps buying
Romania's €5.7 billion order for 298 Lynx vehicles, Skyranger air defense and four ships, financed by the EU's SAFE program, makes it the second-largest SAFE buyer after Poland.
Europe · air defense · Rheinmetall
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Anduril joins Elbit's bid for the Army's next howitzer
Elbit America has pulled Anduril onto its SIGMA bid for the U.S. Army's self-propelled howitzer contest, a sign the program could turn on autonomy and networking as much as on the cannon.
USA · Autonomy · Anduril
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Mach Industries raises $300M as drone-makers race to scale factories
Mach Industries raised a $300M Series C at a $1.8B valuation to expand its Forge factory network, the latest sign that defense-tech money is moving from prototypes to mass production.
USA · Funding · Mach Industries
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Boeing says chamber tests validate the MQ-28 Ghost Bat's low radar signature
Boeing says anechoic-chamber testing confirms a low radar cross-section for its uncrewed MQ-28 Ghost Bat, a survivability claim that feeds straight into the contested race to field cheap loyal-wingman jets.
USA · Air · stealth
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GDIT and AWS Use a Desert E-Bike Race to Pressure-Test Battlefield Logistics AI
GDIT and AWS are testing battlefield logistics AI on a Baja 1000 race bike, treating the thousand-mile desert course as a proxy for the comms-denied terrain the software is meant to run on.
USA · Autonomy · GDIT
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Sybiha turns Russia's 729-weapon strike into a financing demand for Patriots
Ukraine's foreign minister told partners to "act, not only condemn" after a 729-weapon overnight strike, naming a specific funding route to buy more Patriots.
Ukraine · air defense · patriot
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Ukraine stopped 642 of 729 Russian weapons on June 2. It could not stop the ballistic missiles.
Russia's June 2 barrage on Kyiv and Dnipro confirmed an air war split into two tiers with opposite economics, and Russia is firing into the one Ukraine cannot defend.
Ukraine · air defense · missiles
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Russia took 14 km² in Ukraine in May, its worst month since 2023
Russia captured just 14 km² of Ukraine in May, its lowest monthly total since 2023, and DeepState says the net change went negative as Ukraine clawed back more than Russia took.
Ukraine · Russia · Autonomy
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France boards a sanctioned Russian shadow-fleet tanker 400 miles off Brittany
French commandos rappelled onto the sanctioned tanker Tagor in the Atlantic, the fourth such boarding since September, as Western navies move shadow-fleet enforcement from paperwork to physical interdiction.
Europe · Russia · Naval
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Uvision's CORTEX puts one operator over many loitering munitions
Uvision's new CORTEX software puts one operator in charge of many loitering munitions at once, a bid to own the command layer over the swarm rather than just the munition.
Israel · Autonomy · loitering-munitions
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Motorola buys Israel's D-Fend for $1.5 billion, a bet on drone-hijacking tech
Motorola is paying $1.5 billion for a counter-drone firm whose RF takeover seizes a drone's control link, the same link Ukraine's fiber-optic drones are built to fly without.
Israel · USA · drones
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Germany Sends New IRIS-T as Ukraine Flags Missile Shortage
Germany has sent Ukraine another IRIS-T, a useful addition if missile stocks keep pace with Russia's drone and cruise-missile volume.
Ukraine · Europe · air defense
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Poland Signs 62 Defense Contracts Worth €28 Billion Under the EU's SAFE Loan Program
Warsaw signed the deals between May 28 and 30 to beat an EU deadline, with about 89% of the money going to domestic firms led by state group PGZ.
Europe · Funding · poland
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Chinese firm Star-Navi sells a spray-on radar coating for drones by the kilogram
Shenzhen-based Star-Navi sells the sprayable XRAM-C coatings in 1, 5 and 10 kilogram containers, Defence Blog reported, putting a modest radar-evasion gain with
drones · China · stealth
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Switzerland Evaluates More Than Four Patriot Alternatives Amid US Delivery Delays
Multi-year delays to its US Patriot order have pushed Switzerland to gather information on European, Israeli and South Korean systems, with a Federal Council decision expected this summer, hartpunkt reported.
Europe · air defense
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AVILUS completes first flight of its Wespe cargo and medevac helicopter drone
AVILUS's new coaxial-rotor drone is built to carry up to 200 kg of cargo or casualties as far as 300 km with no crew aboard.
Air · AVILUS · Bundeswehr
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Helsing unveils a walking robot and a research arm it has no plans to sell
Helsing showed the RX-1 quadruped and its Area 9 research unit in Paris on June 1 and said it will give the robot to universities rather than sell it, as Ukraine fields tens of thousands of ground robots and China's Unitree dominates the quadruped market.
Europe · Autonomy · robotics
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Ukraine commits $113 million to scale 'logistics lockdown' drone strikes on Russia's rear
Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has put about $113 million behind a campaign of mid-range drone strikes on Russian supply lines. ISW links the pressure to Russia's first monthly territorial loss since 2024.
drones · Ukraine · Russia