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Continuous Composites is now testing additive production for missile structures. The US Army effort targets throughput, yield, producibility, and resilient supply for precision-strike components.
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Germany is rebuilding recovery capacity behind its heavy armour fleet. Rheinmetall’s Büffel order reinforces the industrial value of support platforms, obsolescence clearance, and armoured sustainment.
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Ball bearings have now entered Britain’s defence supply-chain debate sharply. Their production links steel policy to missiles, aircraft, naval gearboxes, armoured vehicles, radar systems, and turret stabilisation.
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Northrop Grumman will produce programmable ammunition for US Abrams tanks. The five-year M1147 contract supports a US Army shift toward a multi-purpose 120mm round, concentrating production demands around fuze electronics, energetic materials, qualification, quality assurance, and ammunition supply-chain reliability.
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Estonia has received its first IRIS-T SLM fire unit now. The delivery adds a medium-range air-defence layer to NATO’s north-eastern flank while increasing pressure on European launcher, radar, missile, command-post, training, maintenance, and stockpile production capacity.
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Rheinmetall and Lockheed Martin have armed Fuchs with JAGM missiles. The missile-carrier concept brings dense precision fires onto a 6×6 vehicle, creating an integration challenge across launcher safety, reloadability, digital architecture, missile supply, field maintenance, and vehicle survivability.
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MBDA’s CROSSBOW has completed firing trials after rapid development work. The ground-launched weapon is being shaped around range, payload, modularity, and production speed as Europe looks for deep-fires systems that can be manufactured in useful quantities.
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Thales and Hanwha are aligning Chunmoo munitions with X-Fire launchers. The work gives Europe another route into mobile precision fires, where launcher integration, missile stockpiles, reload systems, and production speed are becoming central to NATO’s long-range strike capacity.
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China has shown fresh missile configurations during a Rocket Force drill. Footage of a DF-17 launch and a possible upgraded DF-26 points to continued work on mobile launchers, guidance packages, terminal control, and strike systems designed for contested operating environments.
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Allison will supply transmissions for CV90 MkIV armoured vehicle production. The $250m order highlights how drivetrains shape Europe’s armoured-vehicle manufacturing capacity.