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The Dutch Navy is adding interceptor drones to ship defences. The land-derived kinetic C-UAS system will be adapted through testing for operational maritime deployment alongside existing weapons.
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Norway has ordered an initial twenty Patria 6×6 command-and-control vehicles. The package includes Kongsberg RS4 remote weapon stations, support, training, spares, and options for another forty vehicles.
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Patria plans Finnish drone production with Ukraine’s General Cherry partnership. The letter of intent covers several uncrewed aircraft classes while leaving production volumes, site details, and customer orders to later agreements.
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MSI Defence Systems has secured a NATO naval counter-UAS contract. Worth €19.4 million, the three-system package combines 30mm guns, radar, optical detection, and MSI fire control.
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Britain and Ukraine have signed a new defence AI partnership. The arrangement opens Avengers battlefield data to British developers while supporting low-power chips and a separate SCALP assembly initiative.
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Australia has laid the keel of its first Hunter frigate. The Osborne milestone moves the six-ship anti-submarine warfare programme deeper into serial construction and its domestic industrial build-up.
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The Army is bringing FedEx logistics expertise into depot modernisation. FedEx Dataworks, Google Cloud, and Army teams will develop a predictive supply network covering forecasting, materiel management, routing, legacy data, and physical logistics infrastructure.
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Epsilon C5I has secured further Navy funding for VISION technology. The $9.33 million order continues multi-source intelligence, full-motion video, geospatial exploitation, and data-fusion development through February 2027.
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Riptide has secured Naval Research Laboratory C4ISR research and development. The $27.74 million contract can rise to $148.3 million if all options are exercised, supporting integrated operational space and ground systems through 2031.
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USTRANSCOM has awarded seven companies a new strategic sealift contract. The $1.2 billion programme gives military logisticians faster access to commercial roll-on/roll-off, multipurpose, and vehicle-carrier capacity for worldwide movements.