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RÁBA will build up to 2,000 Tatra 8×8 trucks domestically. A wider framework with 4iG, CSG, Nurol Makina, and Lockheed Martin spans more than 10,000 vehicles, plus a HUF 100bn plant modernisation plan.
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Neros is investing £10m to build drones in Swindon locally. The company has incorporated Neros Technologies UK Ltd and plans onshore production of FPV uncrewed aerial systems for UK forces and European allies.
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General Atomics is expanding Do228 NXT production through European partners. At Oelsnitz, GA PrecisionTech Europe makes about 450 machined parts for the airframe and landing gear, backed by metrology and material testing. Composite suppliers and in-house wing work in Oberpfaffenhofen are shaping the ramp to series build.
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The UK has placed a £1bn AW149 order with Leonardo. Yeovil will build 23 New Medium Helicopters, supporting 3,300 jobs and a supply chain of nearly 70 UK companies. The deal also backs Proteus, Leonardo’s autonomous demonstrator, as government looks at optionally crewed rotorcraft.
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DARPA has awarded RTX BBN a XENA program contract. The work targets kilometre-range transmission X-ray analysis, using new mathematical modelling and image-processing methods to infer the hidden geometry of man-made objects when close access is unsafe, impractical, or denied.
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NATO Innovation Fund co-led TYTAN’s €30m Series A financing round. The Munich company will scale AI-guided interceptor drones and an integration software layer across Germany, Ukraine, and other allied markets as demand grows for mass-producible, cost-controlled air-defence effects.
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Germany has taken delivery of the BlueWhale autonomous underwater vehicle. TKMS and Israel Aerospace Industries handed over the large AUV at Eckernförde, integrating a towed sonar package aimed at unmanned anti-submarine warfare, reconnaissance, and mine detection missions.
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EDGE and Safran signed an MoU on smart weapons development. The partners will explore joint development, production, and commercialisation of long-range air-to-ground weapons, with scope to expand into surface-to-air missile work and broader next-generation guidance-focused systems.
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BAE Systems has won a new Paladin howitzer production deal. The award, valued at more than $500 million, covers additional M109A7 self-propelled howitzers and M992A3 ammunition carriers for the US Army’s Armored Brigade Combat Teams.
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Pratt & Whitney will add a seventh isothermal forging press. The $200 million Columbus, Georgia, expansion targets a 30% lift in rotating compressor and turbine disk output to support GTF commercial engines and military programmes including the F135.