Alta Ares is France's big-funded counter-drone startup — two years old, it raised a €50M Series A on AI guidance "combat-proven over Ukraine." It builds the anti-Shahed X-Lock and turbojet Black Bird interceptors; its Pixel Lock software is the claimed edge, though its record is self-reported.
France's "digital-native" frigate — a 4,500-tonne multi-mission warship with a fixed four-panel AESA radar, Aster air-defence and Exocet anti-ship missiles, and a cyber-hardened combat system designed from the keel up. Built for France and Greece, where it has already fought drones in the Red Sea.
France's networked 6×6 cavalry vehicle — the Scorpion-program Jaguar that replaces three older recon and fire-support types with one, mounting a 40mm cased-telescoped cannon and Akeron anti-tank missiles. The digital, missile-armed successor to the AMX-10RC.
After 1,000 Sonora drones proved out in France's largest exercise since the Cold War, the DGA quintupled the order to 5,000, scaling its Dassault-backed national drone champion.
Berlin will take 40% of the Leopard 2 maker KNDS, matching France and clearing a €15-18 billion IPO. The deal shows Europe paying for rearmament two ways at once: the state buying back legacy primes, and venture capital flooding the startups.
Lockheed Martin is promising France HIMARS launchers in 2028, ahead of the country's own long-range fires candidates, weeks before Paris picks its LRU replacement.
France's omnirole 4.5-generation twin-engine fighter — operational from land and carrier decks, nuclear-capable, and a mainstay of French and several export air forces.