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Marcus Schuler edits BattlePolicy, a daily defense-technology brief connecting the companies and capabilities behind modern war to the contest among Europe, the US, Russia, and China.
The order expands a drone Greece already uses to watch its Aegean islands, and brings Shield AI's Hivemind autonomy business to Athens.
Ukrainian long-range drones set the St. Petersburg oil terminal ablaze and struck the corvette Boikiy at a Baltic Fleet base, hours before Putin's economic forum opened in the city.
STARK Defence, founded 18 months ago, is scaling into a core Bundeswehr loitering-munition supplier, and says a European NATO buyer just quadrupled its Virtus order.
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one at a time while Ukraine runs ten to fifteen design cycles in the same window, leaving the Bundeswehr's drones outdated on arrival.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Germany has sent Ukraine another IRIS-T, a useful addition if missile stocks keep pace with Russia's drone and cruise-missile volume.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.