Three automotive teams enter America’s heavy infantry vehicle prototype contest. Exportable power and drive by wire controls reshape the vehicle requirement.
Northrop’s missile growth depends on resolving shared engineering bottlenecks quickly. AARGM-ER, SiAW, and PAC-3 work will compete for laboratories, suppliers, and skilled labour.
ASL GRP expands commercial leadership around growing global protection demand. Two appointments strengthen its support for aerospace, vehicle, and maritime customers.
European trials compare five loitering munition developers under common conditions. Portugal will test mission performance, resilience, operator burden, and production maturity.
Italy advances sixty systems for mobile, long range artillery production. The programme would combine automated guns, wheeled chassis, ammunition support, and domestic production.
NATO names five suppliers for accelerated allied counter drone procurement. Framework contracts will shorten acquisition while preserving national configuration choices.
New Zealand opens a domestic route into loitering munition procurement. Local integration could unite airframes, software, communications, testing, and energetic systems.
Australia has connected Aegis software, radar, and launch hardware ashore. The prototype joins sovereign sensors with an established combat system architecture.
Lithuania is building domestic Leopard assembly and maintenance capacity rapidly. YIT will deliver a €30 million facility in Kaunas for Lithuania Defence Services, with completion planned during November 2027.
Frankenburg selects British warhead and propulsion partners for Mark I. BAE Systems and Roxel UK will provide two tightly controlled elements within the compact counter-drone interceptor as it moves towards qualification and production.