News
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Romania is advancing SPYDER defences on its Black Sea flank. The programme links interceptors, launchers, radars, logistics, training, and industrial cooperation as NATO rebuilds layered air defence.
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Sweden has received its first upgraded Strv 123A tank system. The REMO programme brings new firepower, protection, digital workstations, sensors, connectivity, and NATO interoperability into a 110-tank modernisation line.
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QinetiQ has brought Type 31 radar integration ashore at Portsdown. The work reduces first-of-class risk and puts land-based test infrastructure inside the frigate production system.
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BAE Systems is preparing an updated Herne XLAUV for trials. The new build puts modular payloads, aluminium structures, underwater autonomy, and naval production repeatability into focus.
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The Royal Navy has tested one-way effectors from Patrick Blackett. The work brings shipboard launch, autonomy control, counter-UAV experimentation, and low-cost naval effectors into a practical maritime trial environment.
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Britain will pursue Common Combat Vessels for future naval air-defence. The shift puts uncrewed-system control, UK shipbuilding capacity, combat-system integration, and fleet design at the centre of the Royal Navy’s next surface combatant.
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Japan has now commissioned JS Nagara, the tenth Mogami-class frigate. The ship underlines MHI’s production tempo, automation-led design, lean crewing, and Japan’s growing naval export credibility.
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Australia’s MC-55A Peregrine has begun test flights from northern Darwin. The deployment links Gulfstream conversion, L3Harris mission systems, electronic warfare payloads, and northern sustainment infrastructure.
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Anduril is exploring Nissan’s Oppama plant for Japanese drone production. The talks bring automotive capacity, workforce conversion, autonomous systems, and local defence manufacturing into the same industrial frame.
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Japan has fielded Type 25 HVGP for long-range counterstrike operations. The programme pulls propulsion, thermal protection, guidance electronics, canister launchers, and dispersed support into Japan’s defence-industrial base.