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AM General and Kalyani are targeting mobile artillery export markets. Their partnership combines US vehicle experience with Indian gun-system engineering as armies seek more survivable fires.
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US Marines have deployed new missile systems into Japan’s Okinawa. NMESIS and MADIS reinforce demand for mobile, networked equipment built for distributed Indo-Pacific operations.
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Australia is exporting long-range radar capability into Canada’s Arctic region. The agreement turns sovereign surveillance expertise into a major Five Eyes industrial programme focused on remote air and maritime monitoring.
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South Korea has delivered another advanced frigate into naval service. The Gyeongbuk handover reinforces the country’s ability to move complex surface combatants through build, trials, and acceptance at a tempo increasingly relevant to export buyers.
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HII has delivered the first REMUS 130 underwater vehicle system. The portable UUV adds modernised electronics, open architecture, field-swappable batteries, and common control software to a widely used autonomous undersea family.
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Boeing is extending JDAM into a longer-range precision strike role. JDAM LR combines modular air-breathing propulsion, open-system interfaces, and existing aircraft integration logic, aiming to close the gap between guided bombs and high-cost standoff missiles.
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Austria has received approval for a potential Black Hawk purchase. The 12-aircraft UH-60M package would extend European demand for rotary-wing air mobility, with production value spread across airframes, engines, mission equipment, training, spares, and sustainment.
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Leonardo has introduced a Cyber Defence Suite for military systems. The architecture links strategic awareness, tactical coordination, and onboard cyber protection, supporting connected vehicles, naval platforms, avionics mission systems, space infrastructure, and ground control segments.
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Renault and Thales are industrialising France’s Toutatis loitering munition programme. Production could reach 1,000 units per month from 2027, bringing automotive manufacturing methods into a defence market shaped by drones, stockpile pressure, and high-intensity conflict.
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Rolls-Royce is taking hybrid propulsion into heavy armour design planning. The mtu PowerPack Xelerate combines a 10V 199 engine with ZF’s electrified gearbox, giving future tracked vehicles higher electrical power, drive-by-wire readiness, and a route toward unmanned operation.