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The British government has secured a major GBP 4 billion (EUR 4.56 billion) maritime deal with Indonesia, asserting that the deal will secure 1,000 jobs in the UK. The deal was announced on 22 November 2025 by UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who called Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto from the G20 Summit in Johannesburg. […]

Saab has received an order from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) in relation to sensors and command-and-control (C2) systems for a brigade-level ground-based air defence system solution, Saab announced on 15 November 2025. The order value is valued at approximately SEK 2.1 billion (EUR 0.19 billion), with deliveries set to take place in the […]

A fourth defence and intervention frigate (FDI) has been ordered for the Hellenic Navy from French shipyard Naval Group. A contract for the ship was signed on 14 November 2025 by Major General Ioannis Bouras, general director of the Hellenic General Directorate of Defense Investments and Armaments (GDDIA), and Pierre Éric Pommellet, chairman and CEO […]

Following a policy directive by Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz, the director general of the Israel Ministry of Defense (IMOD), Major General (Res) Amir Baram, has approved the implementation of recommendations from an expert committee established to boost Israeli defence exports, the IMOD announced on 18 November 2025. The Committee for Strengthening and Expanding Defense […]

Rheinmetall and Finnish military-grade mixed reality specialist Varjo announced a strategic collaboration on 25 November 2025 to integrate Varjo’s technology into Rheinmetall’s deployable virtual land training systems, addressing the urgent need to scale training capacity across Europe and NATO. The partnership will entail equipping Rheinmetall’s modular driving and weapon simulation systems with Varjo XR-4 Series […]

Modern composite armour has transformed protection for helicopters by slashing weight and minimising risks from ricochets compared to older heavy steel plates. The CH-47 Chinook’s upgraded kit proves that modern materials boost survivability without endangering performance. Commanders still face trade-offs though: more armour means reduced payload and impacts manoeuvrability, especially in hot, high-altitude zones. Ultimately, […]

The UK has seen a 30% increase in Russian vessels threatening UK waters in the past two years, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on 24 November 2025. The announcement follows UK Defence Secretary John Healey stating at a press conference in Downing Street on 19 November that the Russian intelligence ship Yantar had […]

MBDA has signed its first export contract, with a Middle Eastern country, to provide its Sky Warden counter-unmanned aerial vehicle (C-UAV) solution, the company announced on 21 November 2025. The customer country has not been named, but Lorenzo Mariani, MBDA’s executive group director for sales and business development, was quoted by the company as stating, […]

US AI-enabled radar specialist MatrixSpace announced on 24 November 2025 that it has won the US Army’s xTechCounter Strike competition, part of the army’s Operation Flytrap 4.5 initiative to accelerate innovative, scalable counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) technologies through live soldier experimentation, rapid acquisition pathways and transition to operational units. For the contest MatrixSpace showcased its […]

Emirati defence technology house EDGE Group announced on 24 November 2025, following the closing of the 2025 Dubai Airshow, that it had firmed up an order from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government for 50 Omen hover-to-cruise unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The Omen UAV, which will be produced in the UAE by the EDGE-Anduril Production […]

Embraer delivered the second of two C-390 Millennium multi-mission aircraft ordered by the Hungarian Air Force on 21 November 2025. The aircraft was handed over in a ceremony at Kecskemét Air Base in central Hungary attended by Hungarian Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky along with other officials and Embraer executives. The first Hungarian Millennium was delivered […]

NATO’s European members are set to receive much-needed muscle in kinetic anti-radar capabilities thanks to a new continental missile programme. European suppression of enemy air defence (SEAD) is back in business. The post-Cold War years, and global counter-insurgency operations witnessed in the 2000s and 2010s, made the SEAD mission set airpower’s unloved stepchild. What was […]

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has contracted MBDA UK to fit its DragonFire laser-based directed energy weapon (DEW) onto two Royal Navy (RN) Type 45 air-defence destroyers, in a capability development offering the navy a new deterrence and defence option against a new threat in the modern battlespace. The GBP 316 million (EUR 360 […]

BAE Systems has been contracted by the Danish Ministry of Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (DALO) to deliver 44 additional CV90MkIIIC infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), the company announced on 21 November 2025. The contract, which includes spares, support, logistics and training, is valued at approximately USD 450 million (EUR 391 million). DALO previously ordered 115 […]

The second S-80-class submarine being built for the Spanish Navy is now afloat in Navantia’s shipyard in Cartagena as it prepares for the final stages of its construction and commissioning, including harbour and sea trials, Navantia reported on 17 November 2025. Narciso Monturiol (S-82) “sits in the water after a long and delicate manoeuvre, carried […]

An Indian Air Force (IAF) Tejas Mk1 crashed while performing an aerobatic display at the Dubai Airshow on 21 November 2025. The pilot did not eject. Following the crash, which happened around 14.10 local time at Al Maktoum International Airport, the IAF published a statement in its X social media ccount that read, “An IAF […]

Emirati defence technology house EDGE Group and Italy-based aviation component specialist Magnaghi Aerospace Group (MA Group) have agreed to explore co-operation that would enable EDGE to significantly expand and diversify its advanced unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and other aerial solutions, EDGE announced on 20 November 2025. The agreement, signed at the 2025 Dubai Airshow by […]

As unmanned aerial vehicles proliferate across the conflict spectrum, identification friend or foe (IFF) solutions needs to be continually refined. The numbers speak for themselves: As of July 2025, the United States’ Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that 822,039 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were registered with the agency to fly in American skies. Of these […]

The undersecretary of war for research and engineering has identified six technology focus areas – applied artificial intelligence (AI), biomanufacturing, contested logistics technology, quantum battlefield information dominance, scaled directed energy and scaled hypersonics – for the US Department of War (DoW) to ensure that US warfighters can prevail in the future battlespace. Quoted in an […]

General Kenneth Wilsbach was formally installed as 24th US Air Force Chief of Staff on 18 November 2025 during a ceremony at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland presided over by Department of the Air Force Secretary Troy Meink and attended by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Dan Caine and various elected officials and senior […]

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, working with industry partners and the US Air Force, has controlled an uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) from the cockpit of a fifth-generation fighter while in flight, Lockheed Martin announced on 19 November 2025. The test flight, which took place out of Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, involved an unspecified UAV and an F-22 […]