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Estonia is shelving a major new CV90 buy and redirecting funding into air defence, drones, firepower, mobility, and situational awareness while extending the life of its existing vehicle fleet.

Australia has fired its first domestically produced GMLRS round, turning sovereign missile production from industrial promise into live capability and giving the Army’s HIMARS programme a clearer local sustainment path.

France is studying an interim tank to bridge the gap between Leclerc retirement and the delayed MGCS, bringing a new heavy-land decision into the updated defence programme and raising fresh questions over workshare, platform architecture, and the near-term shape of French armoured production.

The US Army has handed management of the Quad Cities Cartridge Case Facility to Global Military Products under a four-year deal that expands cartridge-case output and adds a mortar-barrel production role. The decision brings another dormant industrial asset back into harder use.

Poland’s drive to expand ammunition output is taking firmer industrial shape, as Niewiadów-PGM builds out 155 mm and 40 mm partnerships with Northrop Grumman and ST Engineering. The programme points to a more ambitious attempt to anchor ammunition production inside Europe.

China’s decision to fit Type 96A tanks with GL-6 protection systems points to a familiar battlefield lesson. Armour now needs active defence against drones and missiles, and retrofits may be the fastest route to scale.

EOS has added new remote-weapon-system work in the U.S. while continuing discussions around a South Korean laser deal. Together, the moves underline how counter-drone demand is spreading across gun and directed-energy production lines.

Britain has pushed Rapid Sentry into Kuwait amid regional tension. The move highlights not only force protection requirements, but the industrial burden behind keeping short-range counter-drone systems and missile stocks ready.

The British Army is pushing AI into battlefield explosive-threat detection. Trials in Essex suggest small uncrewed systems could shorten search cycles and reduce risk for combat engineers and bomb-disposal teams.

India’s Svaayatt Systems has developed the SGV-500 combat UGV and is preparing it for armed-forces demonstrations, putting a domestically developed, modular land robotics platform into the pre-production spotlight.