Keyword: Mark Cazalet
![IRIS-T SLM key system components viewed from above, consisting of the command post (left), transporter, erector, launcher (TEL; middle), and radar (right). This system forms the MRAD component of ESSI. [Diehl Defence]](https://euro-sd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IRIS-T-SLM-system-components_Diehl-Defence-Kopie-324x160.jpg "Desolate skies: Why GBAD matters")
Desolate skies: Why GBAD matters
While drones, tanks, and artillery have grabbed headlines, Ukraine's ground-based air defence (GBAD) has...
![[Photo © Office of the President of Ukraine]](https://euro-sd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Trump-and-Zelenskyy_Office-of-the-President-of-Ukraine-Kopie-324x160.jpg "Russia-Ukraine: Is a diplomatic solution on the horizon?")
Russia-Ukraine: Is a diplomatic solution on the...
Following the 15 August 2025 Alaska meeting between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump,...
![Ahmet Akyol, Aselsan’s President and CEO. [Aselsan]](https://euro-sd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/AhmetAkyol_Aselsan-Kopie-2-324x160.jpg "No single solution to the threat: ESD interviews Ahmet Akyol, Aselsan President and CEO")
No single solution to the threat: ESD...
In June 2025, ESD interviewed Ahmet Akyol, the President and CEO of Aselsan to...
![Secretary-General António Guterres speaks to the press at the UN Headquarters, New York [UN;Eskinder Debebe]](https://euro-sd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Secretary-General-Antonio-Guterres-speaks-to-the-press-at-the-UN-Headquarters-New-York_UNEskinder-Debebe-Kopie-324x160.jpg "A new era of ‘might makes right’")
A new era of ‘might makes right’
International law – does it matter anymore? The more cynical among us might well...
![A typical RF controlled FPV drone, shown during take-off. These little platforms have already reshaped the battlefield significantly, but in many ways have not yet reached their full potential. [Armyinform]](https://euro-sd.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/RF-FPV-Drone-Takeoff_Armyinform-Kopie2-324x160.jpg "Beyond the drone line: Lessons from the drone war in Ukraine")
Beyond the drone line: Lessons from the...
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the nature of the...
Ukraine’s shifting battlefield
If there has been one constant in the War in Ukraine, it is that...
First IRIS-T-SLM Battery Delivered to Ukraine
Ukraine’s Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov announced yesterday that the first of four batteries of...
SMARTSHOOTER Awarded US Army Contract
SMARTSHOOTER announced yesterday that its US subsidiary SMARTSHOOTER Inc. has been awarded a contract...
SASEMAR Awards Schiebel SAR Contract
Schiebel today announced that they have been awarded a “multi-million” Euro contract for the...
GA-ASI Delivers First PROTECTOR UAV to the...
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) announced today that they have handed over the first...