France is tightening its deep-fire agenda with work on a new rocket-artillery path and studies on a conventional ballistic missile, widening the industrial challenge from launcher selection to munitions, propulsion, and sovereign strike architecture.
Babcock has secured a two-year extension to its Royal Navy surface-ship support work, preserving engineering activity across Devonport and Rosyth as the UK continues to rely on dockyard capacity and through-life fleet sustainment.
NIOA has widened its guided-weapons push with renewed work on rocket motors and warheads, alongside a new loitering-munitions partnership that extends Australia’s sovereign production ambitions across propulsion, energetics, and launch systems.
Counter-drone spending is moving beyond militaries and toward infrastructure owners. Recent incidents are widening the addressable market for protection, sensing, and site-resilience systems.
Volklec’s latest backing extends Britain’s battery build-out beyond prototypes quickly. The work is aimed at moving UK cell production from early capacity toward gigafactory scale.
Dynetics’ latest IFPC award pushes air-defence production into volume manufacture. The contract reaches well beyond launchers into training, sustainment, retrofit work, and engineering services.
TKMS and Navantia are shifting naval cooperation toward capacity sharing. The agreement points to a European shipbuilding market constrained by yards, skills, and delivery pressure.
Britain’s Ukraine drone package now carries serious manufacturing weight domestically. The order turns battlefield demand into a larger production challenge for Britain’s drone suppliers.
India’s Prahar programme is moving from symbolism into serial production. Fresh deliveries and follow-on volumes are turning licensed assembly into a longer-term small-arms industrialisation effort.
Randle has joined Certo’s CAPSTONE heavy-lift UAV development effort today.