Land

MARTE has moved into Europe’s next tank architecture phase. The programme now turns collaborative ambition into subsystem decisions, interface rules, and the industrial logic needed for a buildable land platform.

Osnabrück could yet become an air-defence production node. Talks with Rafael point to support equipment manufacturing that sits between automotive restructuring and Europe’s wider missile-defence expansion.

Defence electrification increasingly turns on packaging, cooling, and assembly. RML Group’s DPRTE line-up shows how batteries and harnesses are moving into the military engineering mainstream.

Mobile counter-drone systems increasingly hinge on manufacturable integration architectures. Leonidas AGV blends microwaves, autonomy, and vehicle engineering into a package aimed at scalable defence deployment.

Phoenix 3 turns fleet support into a deeper logistics contract. Babcock’s new MOD award covers procurement, maintenance, accident management, and a bespoke digital fleet platform, underlining how support vehicles remain an industrial readiness issue rather than an administrative afterthought.

Hanwha’s Poland push is becoming a fast munitions manufacturing programme. A newly disclosed follow-up agreement for the Homar-K effort points to a longer industrial runway for licensed production, parts supply, and technology transfer inside Poland’s defence base.

A Sheffield titanium specialist is moving deeper into defence production. New contract wins tied to large structural castings add momentum to a broader reshoring push in high-integrity titanium manufacture.

Leonardo expands Europe’s land defence manufacturing footprint with Iveco. The €1.6 billion acquisition of Iveco Group’s defence business gives Leonardo direct control of vehicle manufacturing capacity alongside its electronics, turret, and systems integration strengths.

KNDS and EOS are widening the remote weapons supply chain. Their teaming deal points to fresh integration work around exportable, ITAR-free lethality packages.