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GCAP has entered its next major engineering phase under contract. The £4.6bn Edgewing contract will sharpen aircraft definition, testing, digital engineering, manufacturing readiness, and supply-chain structures for the UK, Japan, and Italy’s sixth-generation fighter.
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Poland’s first customised K9PL howitzers have left South Korea today. The shipment moves the programme beyond urgent artillery replenishment and into a fleet-integration phase shaped by Polish command, communications, protection, and sustainment requirements.
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China’s Fujian appears to carry a hard-kill torpedo-defence system onboard. The reported fit points to a more mature carrier architecture, where underwater protection, ship integration, and defensive systems engineering sit alongside launch performance and aviation capacity.
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Pacific Defense will develop the Army’s Block 2 APNT card. The SOSA and CMOSS-aligned 3U VPX design supports resilient navigation and timing when GPS is degraded, disrupted, or denied.
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F-35 sustainment is now a sharper industrial capacity problem worldwide. Mission capable rates have declined since 2021, while the programme’s readiness plan depends on additional parts, supplier capacity, and better-aligned contractor incentives.
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AEVEX has secured US Air Force backing for strike drones. The $50m award advances production of a long-range platform built for contested, GPS-denied environments and rapid payload reconfiguration.
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Xiphera will develop high-speed security IP for ESA satellite links. The project targets secure optical satellite links of up to 100Gbit/s, tying space communications resilience to hardware-based cryptography.
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Kongsberg has secured overseas work protecting critical infrastructure below water. The project focuses on underwater surveillance and protection, linking naval sensors, cyber-physical resilience, subsea monitoring, and time-critical decision support.
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KNDS has now converted Görlitz into a defence manufacturing site. The former Alstom rail plant adds capacity for armoured vehicle systems as Europe works to rebuild land-systems output.
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Kongsberg has secured another major order for Joint Strike Missile. The sixth customer adds fresh pressure to a guided-weapons production chain already serving F-35 operators across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the US.